Vienna does grand coffee houses and polished cocktail bars very well. This list is for the other kind of night out: a former brothel café that never redecorated, a speakeasy you enter through a vending machine, a church-themed bar behind a painting and a bar with a doorbell instead of a menu.
All seven are in Vienna’s 6th to 9th districts or the 15th, so you can easily string a few together in one night. They’re ranked by our completely unscientific weirdness rating.
1. Tanzcafé Jenseits: A former brothel café
Tanzcafé Jenseits started life as a brothel and contact café, and it never really redecorated: red lighting, brocade walls, plush booths, a tiny dance floor and a trashy, funky soundtrack. Even Vienna’s tourism board calls it particularly offbeat.
| Address | Nelkengasse 3, 1060 Vienna |
| District | Mariahilf (6th) |
| Opening hours | Wed–Sat: 9pm – 4am Sun–Tue: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 10/10 |
2. Fitzcarraldo Speakeasy: Enter through a vending machine
You get in through what looks like a drinks vending machine. Behind it is a tropical Art Deco bar, and some cocktails arrive in shells or matryoshka dolls.
| Address | Neubaugasse 38/1, 1070 Vienna |
| District | Neubau (7th) |
| Opening hours | Tue–Thu: 6pm – midnight Fri–Sat: 6pm – 2am Sun–Mon: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 9/10 |
3. The Chapel Bar: Behind a painting
Hidden inside another restaurant, The Chapel Bar sits behind an entrance disguised as a painting. The whole place is church-themed, from the biblically named drinks to the deliberately sacrilegious speakeasy styling.
| Address | Hildmannsgasse 8, 1150 Vienna |
| District | Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th) |
| Opening hours | Tue–Thu: 6pm – 1am Fri–Sat: 6pm – 3am Sun–Mon: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 9/10 |
4. Krypt: A cocktail bar in underground vaults
krypt. is a subterranean cocktail dungeon: you head underground into huge exposed-brick vaults with almost no natural light. It’s often described as somewhere between a bar and a club.
| Address | Wasagasse 17, 1090 Vienna |
| District | Alsergrund (9th) |
| Opening hours | Wed–Thu: 7pm – 1am Fri–Sat: 7pm – 2am Sun–Tue: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 9/10 |
5. Donautechno: Techno and an indoor sausage stand
One of Vienna’s strangest rooms. Behind an anonymous metal door is an enormous dark vaulted space with constantly changing giant projections, underground techno and, inexplicably, an indoor Würstelstand (sausage stand).
| Address | Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 10/A, 1070 Vienna |
| District | Neubau (7th) |
| Opening hours | Wed: 8pm – midnight Thu: 8pm – 2am Fri: 8pm – 3am Sat: 8pm – 6am Sun–Tue: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 9/10 |
6. Tür 7: Ring the doorbell, no menu
From the street, almost nothing tells you a bar exists here. You ring a doorbell and someone lets you in. There’s traditionally no regular cocktail menu: the bartenders make drinks around what you tell them you like. Some visitors even mention being asked to swap into slippers.
| Address | Buchfeldgasse 7, 1080 Vienna |
| District | Josefstadt (8th) |
| Opening hours | Mon–Sat: 7pm – 2am Sun: 10pm – 2am |
| Weirdness rating | 8.5/10 |
7. Puff: A bar in a former red-light venue
The name isn’t subtle: Puff is German slang for a brothel. The bar is in former red-light premises, and the design leans into that seedy past rather than hiding it. Very dark, strange and deliberately provocative.
| Address | Girardigasse 10, 1060 Vienna |
| District | Mariahilf (6th) |
| Opening hours | Tue–Sat: 7pm – 3am Sun–Mon: Closed |
| Weirdness rating | 8.5/10 |
Opening hours as of October 2026. Small bars change their hours often, so check before you go.
Weird bars in Vienna: quick answers
What is the weirdest bar in Vienna?
Our pick is Tanzcafé Jenseits, a former brothel café in Mariahilf that still has the red lights, brocade walls and plush booths.
Which of these bars are open on a Sunday?
Only Tür 7, from 10pm to 2am. The others are closed on Sundays.
Which one stays open latest?
Donautechno, which runs until 6am on Saturdays. Tanzcafé Jenseits is open until 4am Wednesday to Saturday.
Which Vienna bars have a secret entrance?
Fitzcarraldo (through a vending machine), The Chapel Bar (behind a painting) and Tür 7 (ring the doorbell).
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