No bookings for small parties; the room is compact, so arrive early on weekends or expect to wait for a stool.
Dino's sits at Salzgries 19, on the quiet edge of Vienna's first district near the Donaukanal. It reopened in December 2019 under a new name and a clear idea: apothecary knowledge meets cocktail creation. The bar has been named among the best in Austria more than once, and Falstaff lists it as a fixture of the city's serious drinking scene.
Heinz Kaiser runs the room with the bearing of a chemist, and the menu reads like a dispensary. This is a bar for people who treat the cocktail as a discipline rather than a backdrop.
The room
The format is small and focused, the kind of room where the back bar does the talking. Bottles, tinctures and house infusions line the shelves, and the apothecary framing is more than a theme: the team builds with bitters, syrups and macerations made in-house. It rewards sitting at the bar, where Kaiser and his bartenders walk you through the options rather than handing over a laminate and walking away. The space is small enough that the whole room feels like one conversation, and the lighting stays low through the night, so even a busy weekend keeps the focus on the glass in front of you rather than the volume around it. This is a sit-down bar, not a stand-and-shout one, and the seating is limited, which is why the early hours matter.
What to order
The menu carries over 120 of the bar's own creations alongside "The Archive," a reference list of roughly 350 classics, so indecision is the only real risk. The team is known for rum, and the signature Kaiserin leans on it; ask for it by name. If you would rather be led, name a spirit and a mood and let the bartender prescribe. Prices sit at the upper end for Vienna, which tracks for a bar working at this level of detail. The house infusions and tinctures show up across the list, so even a familiar order tends to arrive with a twist you have not met before. There is no kitchen to speak of, so this is a destination for drinks, not dinner; eat first in the surrounding first-district streets and come for the back bar.
Who it is for
It is for cocktail obsessives, visiting bartenders and anyone who wants a guided tasting rather than a quick round. It is less suited to large groups or a loud night out; the room is too small and too serious for that. For more of the city's specialists, see our Vienna cocktail bar guide and the wider cocktail bar collection.
The crowd
Expect a knowledgeable, mixed-age crowd: locals who follow the awards, industry people on their night off, and travellers who have done their homework. The energy is conversational and unhurried, closer to a tasting counter than a party, and the bartenders set that tone from the first drink.
Best time to go
It opens at 5pm Tuesday through Saturday and at 8pm on Sunday, closing at 2am midweek and 3am at the weekend. A weeknight early slot is best for the full attention of the bar; weekends fill fast given the size. Arrive close to opening and you can claim a bar stool and let the team build a flight around a single spirit, which is the way to use a room of this calibre. For more of the city, start with our Vienna bar guide.
Sources: Dino's official site (dinos.at, 2026); Falstaff bar guide; Vienna Wurstelstand bar guide; Yelp reviews.
