The Lizard Pub is Vienna's darts and billiards room in Neubau, an English pub on Burggasse where the games on the tables matter as much as the games on the screens.
The address is Burggasse 28-32, on the corner of Kirchengasse in the seventh district, a short walk from the Volkstheater U-Bahn. The room is laid out for play rather than posing, with well-kept pool tables down one side and a dedicated darts area at the back. The pub keeps three competition dartboards with computer scoring, approved by the Vienna Darts Association, a detail the venue states on its own site (lizardpub.at).
That darts setup is the room's signature. Open tournaments run every Sunday from 18:00 with a ten-euro entry, and the board area fills with a regular, friendly circuit of players who treat the place as a club. The atmosphere is closer to a neighbourhood local than a high-gloss sports bar, all worn timber, low light and the steady click of pool balls under the screens.
The bar runs live Sports TV alongside the tables, so a football or rugby fixture plays while the darts and pool carry on around it. The drinks list keeps to pub form, a long beer selection and the standards rather than a cocktail programme. Anyone working through the best sports bars in Vienna should mark this as the games-room option, the one to choose when you want to play as well as watch.
What to order: a pint and a turn on the tables is the whole point here. The pub lists a wide drinks range, and the play is the draw, so a round of pool or a place on a Sunday darts card pairs naturally with a beer. The kitchen runs a short menu of pub plates for anyone settling in for the evening.
The crowd is local and game-minded, a mix of darts and pool regulars, after-work groups from Neubau and visitors who have read about the boards. Reviews aggregated on Wheree return to the same themes, friendly staff and a proper pub feel, which is the register the room trades on.
Who it is for: darts and pool players, groups who want something to do beyond watching a screen, and anyone after a relaxed local rather than a packed supporters bar. It is a weaker fit for a quiet date or a cocktail-led night. For pure match-watching, Champions on the Ringstrasse runs the giant screens, while Charlie P's is the long-running Irish option for football and rugby.
Best time to go: Sunday evenings for the darts tournament, weekday nights for a quieter table and a pint, and any major fixture for the Sports TV. The pub opens daily from 17:00 and runs to 02:00, which makes it one of the later games rooms in the seventh district. Our guide to the best bars for watching the game sets the scene, and the Vienna city guide covers Neubau around it.
What regulars flag, across the reviews gathered on Wheree, is the upkeep of the tables and the spread of the drinks list, the two markers a games pub is judged on. The seventh district around it is Vienna's design and shopping quarter, so the after-work crowd arrives early and the darts circuit takes over later. A Sunday tournament is the best window to see the room at its most characterful, with the boards busy and the ten-euro card drawing a regular field. The pub holds its English-pub identity without tipping into theme-bar pastiche, part of why it has kept its corner of Burggasse for years.
Sources
The Lizard Pub official site · Lizard Pub: Darts · Wheree: The Lizard Pub & Billiards
