Matiki hides in a cellar on Gardegasse 2 in the Spittelberg quarter, and bills itself as Vienna's first and only tiki bar. Vienna Würstelstand calls it exactly that, a rum den tucked below street level where the drinks arrive in mugs shaped like totem poles.
The room is small and dark in the tiki tradition, carved decor and low light rather than a bright cocktail counter, which suits a bar built around rum and ritual. The descent into the cellar is part of the act, since the street above gives no hint of the Pacific theme below.
The list is rum-led and built on the classics done properly, with a Mai Tai mixed from rhum agricole and Jamaican rum that the specialist site Ultimate Mai Tai singled out on a 2025 visit. Around it sit the house creations, drinks like the petite colada variant and a passion fruit number that lean on fresh fruit rather than sweet mixers.
Prices sit at the higher end for Vienna, which is the going rate for a bar mixing labour-intensive tiki drinks with good rum rather than pouring from a gun. The carved mugs some drinks arrive in are part of the draw, and the bar runs a shop selling them for anyone who wants to take the format home.
The bar opens in the evening and runs late, Monday through Thursday until two and Friday and Saturday until three, with a Sunday closure worth noting before a trip across town. Those late hours make it a second-half-of-the-night room rather than an early stop.
The crowd is a cocktail-curious set that comes for the theme and the rum range, a mix of locals and visitors who have heard there is one tiki bar in the city. Reviews flag the seriousness of the drinks behind the kitsch decor, which is the balance a good tiki bar needs to strike.
Best time to go is later in the evening, when the cellar fills and the bar staff have the room to talk through the rum list. The space is small, so a weekend peak can mean a wait, and arriving before the late rush is the way to claim a seat at the bar.
It works for a date that wants somewhere with a hook, a small group after a proper cocktail rather than a beer, or a rum drinker who wants range. It is less suited to a large party or anyone after a quick round, since the cellar is intimate and the drinks take time to build.
Matiki holds a singular spot among Vienna's cocktail bars as the city's lone tiki room, and sits on a wider tour of the inner districts' cocktail bars. The Vienna bar guide maps the Spittelberg and seventh-district options around it.
The Spittelberg setting puts it among the cobbled lanes of the seventh district, a short walk from the MuseumsQuartier and the Volkstheater stop. That location keeps it central while tucking it into one of the quieter, more atmospheric pockets of the city.
The bar leans into the tiki tradition of treating each drink as a small production, with garnishes, mugs and a measure of theatre that slows the service in the way the format intends. Regulars treat that pace as the point rather than a fault, since a Mai Tai built properly is worth the wait the small cellar imposes on a busy night.
For a first visit, take a seat at the bar, order the Mai Tai to judge the kitchen against the classic and then let the staff steer toward a house creation. A weekday evening is the calmer read on the cellar and the easier seat, with the weekend bringing the full crowd the small room can hold.
Sources: Vienna Würstelstand; Ultimate Mai Tai (2025); Yelp reviews; Tripadvisor; TikiEurope.
