Shebeen is the Irish pub that has held a corner of Lerchenfelder Strasse since 2004, a Neubau room where football plays upstairs and a hidden garden waits out the back.
The address is Lerchenfelder Strasse 45, on the spine of the seventh district between the Ring and the Gürtel. The pub reopened after a thorough renovation that kept the warmth of the old room while tidying its edges, a refresh Tripadvisor reviewers and the venue's own channels both note. The layout runs over more than one level, which is what gives it range across an evening.
The room is the draw. Upstairs holds the bar and the screens, where major international football matches play to a pub crowd, while a spacious cellar downstairs hosts comedy nights and the occasional session. Behind the building sits a beer garden that most first-timers miss, a quiet courtyard that opens the pub up in warm weather. The design reads as a real Irish local rather than a themed import.
For sport, the upstairs screens carry the big football fixtures, and the pub keeps the easy, conversational feel that suits a match among friends rather than a wall of monitors. The drinks lean Irish, with Guinness and a beer list doing the heavy lifting over any cocktail programme. Anyone working through the best sports bars in Vienna should mark this as the pub-first, garden-and-comedy option.
What to order: a pint of Guinness is the natural choice in a room like this, poured for a football crowd that knows the difference. The pub serves food and runs a beer selection alongside live music on some nights, so a plate and a pint before kickoff sets up the evening. The cellar's comedy bills give the place a second life once the final whistle goes.
The crowd mixes Neubau locals, the international set drawn to an English-speaking pub and football fans in for a specific fixture. It is friendlier and more conversational than the big-screen sports bars, which is the point for anyone who wants the game without the volume.
Who it is for: football fans after a proper pub, groups who want a garden in summer or comedy in the cellar, and visitors looking for an Irish local with history. It is a weaker fit for anyone who needs every sport on at once or a quiet date. For more screens, Champions on the Ringstrasse runs the giant format, while Charlie P's is the other long-running Irish house for football and rugby.
Best time to go: warm evenings for the beer garden, weekend afternoons for the early football, and comedy nights for the downstairs cellar. The pub runs late into the night, which makes it a steady second stop after an earlier fixture elsewhere. Our guide to the best bars for watching the game sets the scene, and the Vienna city guide covers Neubau around it.
What regulars return to, in the reviews collected on Tripadvisor, is the staff and the range of the beer, the markers that separate a real Irish pub from an imitation. The seventh district around it runs from the museum quarter to the Gürtel, which gives Shebeen a mixed catchment of locals, students and visitors. The renovation kept the things that mattered, the warmth of the upstairs room and the surprise of the garden, while clearing the tired edges. For anyone learning the city, it works as an anchor, a pub that suits an early match, a late comedy set and a summer evening in the courtyard from one address.
Sources
Shebeen official site · Tripadvisor: Shebeen · Visiting Vienna: football pubs
