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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 11 bars and pubs
Best bars and pubs in Vienna
The 10 most notable bars and pubs in Vienna, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Giersterbräu
Gierstergasse 10
134 m from Längenfeldgasse, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.253, percentile 100 of 11
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2
Brandauer Bierbögen
Heiligenstädter Straße 31
133 m from Wien Spittelau railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.231, percentile 90 of 11
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3
Lokale im Schlossquadrat
Schlossgasse 21
394 m from Pilgramgasse, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.227, percentile 80 of 11
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4
Biergartl im Stadtpark
Johannesgasse 33
82 m from Stadtpark, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.224, percentile 70 of 11
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5
Schadekgasse 12
Schadekgasse 12
136 m from Neubaugasse, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.210, percentile 60 of 11
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6
Pizzeria Solo Pizza
Parkanlage Altes AKH, Alser Straße 4
210 m from Frankhplatz, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.815, percentile 50 of 11
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7
Hutschn Bräu
Laaer Wald 222
596 m from Wien Grillgasse railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.805, percentile 40 of 11
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8
Beisl am Eck
Jörgerstraße 28
337 m from Alser Straße, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.394, percentile 30 of 11
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9
Kleingarten Schmelz
Auf der Schmelz
459 m from Johnstraße, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.307, percentile 20 of 11
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10
BlueMoon
Blumenstockgasse 5
225 m from Stephansplatz, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.208, percentile 10 of 11
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).