
I’m not going to lie: I almost cried inside the Schokoladefest. Tears of joy. Yeah, I like chocolate.
- Numerous booths selling all forms of chocolate
- Full of variety and ingenuity
- Additional entertainments, too
- Next dates: TBA (was Jan 31 – Feb 2 in 2025)
- Book a chocolate workshop* in Vienna
- See also:
Lots. Of. Chocolate.

(Not your standard bars of milk chocolate; press photo courtesy of and © Schokoladefest)
Walking into the Schokoladefest felt like entering some Wonka-like world. A place where your chocolate dreams come true.
Think of it as a craft chocolate festival with dozens of stands occupied by chocolatiers and confectioners. Not a place for the standard snack bars you might find at the grocery store counter. Chocolate with finesse and imagination in a myriad of forms, colours and applications.
Bars, pralines, dragees and spreads. Fruit dipped in chocolate. Pyramids of pastries. Ice cream and chocolate drinks. Cocoa beans and powders. All for sale with occasional samples for tasting, too.

(We may have gone a little overboard on purchases)
You’d like Vermeer’s painting of a Girl with a Pearl Earring in chocolate form? This is the place. Chocolate-flavoured beer? Step this way.
A 16.5m2 300 kg bar of Belgian chocolate even put in an appearance to raise money for a cancer charity.
It’s not all chocolate, either.
A street food section offered nourishment of a more sustaining kind, as well as the occasional surprise: I found a rather nice mountain cheese with a hint of peppermint there.

(Be still my beating heart; press photo courtesy of and © Schokoladefest)
Entertainments through the day also rounded off the event. Bouncy castles and a disco for the kids, for example, and a stage with demonstrations, presentations and live music.
Willy Wonka would approve.
Dates, tickets & tips
I don’t have dates for a future chocolate festival at the time of writing. Watch this space or the official website.
For the record, the previous Schokoladefest (the second edition in Vienna) took place January 31st to February 2nd. Long enough for foolish and misplaced new year dietary resolutions to be a distant memory. Opening times were:
- Friday: midday to 6pm
- Saturday: 10am to 6pm
- Sunday: 10am to 5pm
Tickets were available online or at the door.
If you like chocolate, Vienna has more cocoa-filled delights for you.
Your first address should probably be to book a chocolate workshop, where you get to pour and decorate three bars, but also make an original Aztec chocolate drink. We had a lot of fun there.
A walk through the shopping streets of the old town should also turn up specialist chocolate shops along the way. Lindt has one opposite the opera house, for example.
Both Vienna’s coffee houses and Konditoreien offer chocolate in liquid and, particularly, cake form. The city is home to the Sachertorte, after all.
How to get there
Assuming a return to the same venue, check my Marx Halle overview for travel tips.
Address: Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Vienna (assuming a return to the Marx Halle)