Weinstube Josefstadt

Cute little hidden gem in Josefstadt/Piaristenviertel! The garden is lovely and the staff are very friendly. You can also get small snacks and tapas to enjoy with your wine, which makes it a great place to hang out and rest after a day of sightseeing 😉

Loved this secret wine garden! Cozy and easy to miss from the street. Adorable little hot air balloons hidden in the trees. Seemed full of locals. Cash only and a reservation is recommended.

Old fashioned hype. Not the real thing with no table service for food, which they could afford and the stick is worn. It works when there's obviously only family and no staff, somewhere at a real Heuriger. Cash only..

Nice and I would say very authentic wine bar. The waitress didn't seem to speak English that well but she managed to understand what we wanted. It seems to be a bar for locals but overall has friendly atmosphere. Wines are nice and prices are very good. I think there is an outdoor bar which might be very cool in the summer. Unfortunately weather was quite cold when we visited it.

Fun atmosphere to get a drink and some Austrian food that is typically in the wine fields in the summer.

Only had a couple of weisser spritz but very good atmosphere on a summer afternoon or evening.

Excelent wine, amazing surroundings love it. Good prices, it's for sure chill and friend talk friendly. But be aware of that they take only cash.

Very nice place in the center of Vienna where you can drink wines like you are in the countryside. This place reminds me a lot those places in the countryside where you can sit together with the locals or even the owners and drink their own wines. They have a nice garden for the summer and the wine was good, at a good price and you can have some food. Absolutely suggested for the summer days in the after work hours!

Great little heurigen tucked away inside the 8th district! Cute setting; you'd never know you were so close to the city center. This heurigen is not as large as those on the edge of town, so call ahead to make a reservation. Their wine is nice, but their food selection, while tasty, is not a huge list of options.

I discovered Weinstube Josefstadt while some friends from the U.S. were visiting and really wanted to visit a heuriger, but they weren't so keen on trekking outside the inner city. After asking a few friends for recommendations, we decided to try out Weinstube Josefstadt, and this place did NOT disappoint! Located in the 8th district down a quiet street, Weinstube Josefstadt is in a super convenient location, yet still offers the feeling of the authentic heuriger dining experience (particularly for tourists) - walking in off the street, you enter a courtyard filled with vines and creepers: it's super lush and green. You forget you're in the inner city, and there are trellises with vines everywhere (and plenty of seating, including outside). There's a wine menu, of course, and service for drinks, but meals are self-serve if you've come to eat as well as drink wine. Some of the fare we had included different cheeses, sausages, bread, pickles, Austrian potato salad, spinach strudel, and all different types of spreads to go with the bread. There were also a few other menu items that I forget now; I do remember the strudel being pretty tasty, and the spreads we tried were quite good, too. It was pretty interesting because you paid for the food based on weight, so you could order 10 deka (10 dekagrams (100 grams) = about 1/4 of a pound) of cheese - Austrians use dekagrams to measure food. If you're looking for this place, keep an eye out for the metallic wreath outside - wreaths are markers of open heurigers. Even though it's in the inner city, since it's kind of tucked away you'll miss it if you're not looking for it.

Two friends and I went for a late evening drink and were quite happy with place until towards the end of our visit. A shame because we had read such great reviews and decided to give it a go. We arrived late and were told that we would have to go inside at 21.45 to finish our drinks because of the neighboring houses and noise levels. As instructed we went inside and continued to finish our wine. We sat near the open windows because we wanted to have fresh air circulating around us during these times of the COVID virus. We noticed that there were still folks outside drinking even though we were asked to come inside. It annoyed us at first but we just let it slide. After the stale, warm air became unbearable one of my friends opened the window near our table again. We figured if people were still sitting outside, they couldn't be taking the "noise" issue too seriously. A young lady employed at the establishment immediately came to the window and closed it again. An argument ensued. She said that if we were not happy with the situation we could leave. We stated that we were asked to come inside and sit indoors with closed windows because the neighbors did not want to be bothered by noise. Things escalated quite quickly and at the end she threatened to call the police. Insanity!!! We were just attempting to voice our displeasure. First of all this employee was extremely rude to us but most importantly we had a problem with the fact that some individuals were allowed to sit outside while others, doing as asked, were forced to sit inside a room with closed windows on a hot evening. We were not talking loudly at all. It all made no sense to us. We were told: the people sitting outside are part of the staff, then she said that they were customers who had been coming to the place for thirty years, and on and on. The reasoning was just crazy. Either EVERYONE stays outside or NO ONE! I have never had anything happen like this before. What angered me the most was how quickly, aggressively and rudely this young woman and her colleague reacted to us. We were certainly not treated with respect as customers. Although it is really a nice place I will not ever recommend this to anyone ever! They should actually be ashamed of themselves for the way they acted.

Took my parents here for a nice time. Not too smoky, which was important. Loved the wine, food, and the low prices. Lovely garden so close to the city center. A bit hard to find, as others said. But the pictures here help.