o LGBT Guide ienna.inf .v BT LG The Vienna city guide for LGBT visitors LGBT Vienna online LGBT.vienna.info europride2019.vienna.info www.facebook.com/LGBTVienna Credits Publisher: Vienna Tourist Board, A-1030 Vienna Edited by: Robert Seydel. Designed by: seite zwei Layout by: Christian Eckart Cover: Vienna Tourist Board/Paul Bauer Maps: © Freytag-Berndt & Artaria No liability accepted for errors or omissions. Subject to change. Printed in Austria by Paul Gerin GmbH & Co. KG Copy deadline: October 2018 The Vienna Tourist Board strongly believes in promoting diversity and equality. However, in the interests of readability either the feminine or masculine forms of words have been chosen – something that particularly applies to the Ger- man text. This is in no way intended to signal a gender bias. Thank you for your understanding. Printed in accordance with the Austrian Ecolabel guidelines for environmentally compatible printed materials, UW No. 756. Contents Cafés, bars, restaurants Parties and clubs Unique events for LGBT visitors Shopping Sport and wellness Saunas and beaches Weddings in Vienna Info for LGBT visitors Vienna City Card Adresses City Map Cafés, bars, restaurants There’s nowhere better to enjoy a cup of coffee than in one of Vienna’s world-famous coffeehouses. But not everyone knows that Café Savoy there are numerous excellent locations 6., Linke Wienzeile 36 exclusively for LGBTs and their friends to www.savoy.at enjoy – in addition to the traditional cafés Fett+Zucker such as Landtmann, Prückel, Schwarzenberg 2., Hollandstrasse 16 and Sperl. Café Savoy, the pick of the bunch, www.fettundzucker.at stands out for its excellent location right on Frauencafé the world-famous Naschmarkt, with its 8., Lange Gasse 11 www.frauencafe.com ostentatiously ornate baroque interior. Dur- ing summer you can enjoy a coffee outside Sixta 5., Schönbrunner on the sidewalk as you indulge in a spot of Strasse 21 people watching. Inside a pair of gigantic www.sixta-restaurant.at single-plate mirrors provide a focal point – Café Willendorf you won’t find any bigger anywhere except 6., Linke Wienzeile 102 in the Palace of Versailles www.cafe-willendorf.at Rigaud eter /P ourismus enT Wi © Café Savoy: outrageously plush. 4 Rigaud eter /P hringer ourismus Fe enT Wi /Rainer © ourismus enT Wi © Conchita Wurst at Motto am Fluss. Santo Spirito Delicious cakes – including vegan, gluten 1., Kumpfgasse 7 www.santospirito.at and lactose-free creations – are the order of the day at Fett+Zucker in the second district. Motto 5., Schönbrunner Frauencafé is a popular lesbian hangout. Strasse 30 www.motto.at Vienna’s excellent restaurant scene is right Motto am Fluss up there at the top of the list of the world’s 1., Schwedenplatz 2 worst kept secrets. After all, Viennese Cui- www.mottoamfluss.at sine is the only cuisine in the world to be Halle named after a city. Culinary flights of fancy 7., Museumsplatz 1 await diners at Sixta. Traditional Austrian MuseumsQuartier www.diehalle.at dishes with a contemporary twist are served by good-looking, easygoing waiters at this Labstelle 1., Lugeck 6 old school Viennese Gasthaus. Café Willen- www.labstelle.at dorf at the Türkis Rosa Lila Villa lesbian and Felixx gay center has a lot of vegetarian options on 6., Gumpendorfer the menu and an enchanting little outdoor Strasse 5 seating area in the courtyard. At Santo www.felixx-bar.at Spirito foodies are treated to Mediterranean Village Bar specialties and classical music. Motto, 6., Stiegengasse 8 www.village-bar.at which once counted none other Helmut Lang on its waiting staff, is the restaurant of Mango Bar 6., Laimgruben- choice for the Viennese It girls and It boys: gasse 3 the food is fantastic and the waiters aren’t bad either. And exactly the same goes for its Red Carpet 6., Magdalenen- sister restaurants Motto am Fluss and Halle strasse 2 on both counts. Labstelle is the restaurant of www.redcarpet.co.at choice for lots of gay men in the city – not Augenblick just due to the excellent food: the eyecatch- 7., Schottenfeld- gasse 92 ing interior also has a charm all of its own. www.augenblick-1070.at 5 .net .auner www / ner Au vid Da © Where the chic and beautiful come to play: Village Bar. Once night falls in Vienna, the capital’s bars slowly start to come to life. Felixx’s spectac- ular chandeliers and delicious cocktails have Kisss Bar Vienna 6., Luftbadgasse 19 earned it a loyal following, while the smart www.kisssbarvienna.at gay set get together at Village Bar. Mango City Bar Bar and Red Carpet, on the other hand, are 1., Tiefer Graben 19 popular among a younger clientele. Café bar www.citybar.at Augenblick in the seventh district is the ideal Café Rifugio place to savor a drink after a shopping trip. 5., Schönbrunner Across the road from the Apollo cinema Strasse 10 www.cafe-rifugio.at Kisss Bar Vienna awaits. And you can get the night off to the perfect start at City Bar Café Rüdiger 5., Rüdigergasse 14 http://caferüdiger.at Das Gugg 4., Heumühlgasse 14 www.hosiwien.at/gugg Marea Alta 6., Gumpendorfer Strasse 28 http://mareaalta. bplaced.net/ FZ Frauenzentrum Bar 9., Währinger Strasse 59/6 ant http://www.frauen ur ta lesbenzentrum-wien.at/ es FZBar.html a-R Sixt © Restaurant Sixta. 6 opposite gay club Why Not. Café Rifugio, Café Rüdiger and Das Gugg are the key play- ers in a Bermuda triangle of bars linking the fourth and fifth districts. Lesbians set the tone at Marea Alta and Frauenzentrum Bar. And in Burggasse in the seventh district the Lazy Life 7., Burggasse 44 Lazy Life café and bar offers a queer-feminist www.lazylife.at program including performances, screenings and readings. Hard On 5., Hamburger- strasse 4 Fetish and cruising fans will be in their ele- wwwwww..lmc-lmc-vienna.com/ ment at Hard On, F56, Eagle Bar Vienna and hard-on/ Sling, where a variety of themed evenings Eagle Bar Vienna always help to keep things fresh. 6., Blümelgasse 1 wwwwww..eeaagle-gle-vienna.com Sling 4., Kettenbrücken- gasse 4 www.sling.at F56 8., Florianigasse 56 www.f56.at The crystal chandelier at Felixx is a real head-turner. .net .auner www / ner Au vid Da © 7 Parties and Clubs There’s nothing to stop you partying right Heaven Vienna through the night in Vienna, with countless www.heaven.at clubs and parties to keep you going until the Why Not sun comes up. In fact, three of the capital’s www.why-not.at most popular nights are older than the Wiener Freiheit majority of their guests: Heaven Vienna has www.wienerfreiheit.at been around for more than a quarter of a BallCanCan century now. Its host, Miss Candy, who also www.facebook.com/ organizes the Rosenball, has the very best BallCanCan house music in store for her guests. Open on Pitbull Vienna Fridays and Saturdays and the nights before www.pitbull-clubbing.at public holidays, it’s now more than 30 years queer:beat since Why Not first opened its doors to revel- www.queerbeat.at ers, who stay to dance deep into the early Ken Club hours at this three floor venue in the first www.facebook.com/ district. Meanwhile, Wiener Freiheit has been ken.club.vienna a permanent fixture on the scene since 1995. Kibbutz Klub www.facebook.com/ There are also countless returning parties KibbutzKlub held at irregular intervals for clubbers to enjoy. Visitors to the capital don’t have to Party atmosphere at Why Not. Zanella . Fa © 8 Miss Candy organizes Heaven and the Rosenball. a Morianz us Mark © worry about missing a particular club night as there are always plenty of alternatives. Balkan pop and turbo folk are on the set list at the BallCanCan club night, while Pitbull Porntrash Vienna is a bear lover’s paradise. At www.facebook.com/ queer:beat and Ken Club younger clubbers Porntrash dance to the latest chart hits and pop, while Replay Israeli music and Eurotrash fill the air at www.facebook.com/ Kibbutz Klub. Some of the best looking men replay.party.vienna can be found among Porntrash’s, Replay’s OMG Society and OMG Society’s patrons. www.facebook.com/ omgsociety Hip scenesters flock to Rhinoplasty and Male�iz www.facebook.com/ Malefiz. Meat Market and F*CKEN PLUS are male�izclub the places for techno and house. And The Meat Market, Circus is simply the city’s biggest LGBT party: F*CKEN PLUS two to four times a year things go off in style www.facebook.com/ at Arena, a former abattoir. Top international ClubMeatMarket DJs, spectacular light shows and sexy young The Circus men will soon make you forget your worries. www.thecircus.at Hosted at different venues across town, g.spot g.spot always delivers a great night out for www.gspot.at its loyal lesbian following. Electronic, house, Las Chicas, G-mix tribal and techno music provide the acoustic www.pinked.at backdrop. Las Chicas is the second major night to regularly transform Vienna into a hotspot for party girls. And G-Mix turns night into day. 9 Unique events for LGBT visitors 200,000 people can’t be wrong! Every June this many people head for town when the Rainbow Parade (known as the CSD parade in other cities) makes its way along the Ring- strasse. The backdrop provided by the most beautiful boulevard in the world is unique and the message unambiguous: equality for LGBTs. The Rainbow Parade marks the cli- max of Vienna Pride. Vienna Pride brings Rainbow Parade with it a tent city – usually on Rathausplatz – (Regenbogenparade) brimming with information, fine food and an www.regenbogenparade.at incredible party atmosphere.