Loos American Bar

Don't worry about being called old-fashioned," says the architect Adolf Loos about this small, charming cocktail bar in the heart of Vienna. Since there's not much space inside, if you manage to snag a good spot early on, I think you'll have a great time. It's a place I'll definitely visit again when I return to Vienna, and I recommend it to everyone.

A tiny bar dating back to 1908 designed by an architect called Loos hence the name. About 6 x 4 m in size inside, the use of lighting and mirrors gives the impression that the bar is bigger. There are also seats outside. Cocktails in range of €12.50 to €16 or €17. We paid in cash though I think there is a minimum spend of €30 on cards.

Super tasty expensive cocktails and friendly staff. Inside is very very small but a must stop for architecture lovers.

Loos American Bar offers a fantastic cocktail experience, with friendly and attentive staff that make you feel right at home. The quality of the drinks is top-tier, and the ambiance is perfect for anyone looking to enjoy a classic cocktail in a stylish, yet welcoming environment. Highly recommended!

Hello, so we had three different cocktails. We do know how it’s supposed to taste, but it was almost all the same. I don’t know what they put inside but it wasn’t nice. We had two cocktails on a whiskey and one on a rom……….. Service wasn’t friendly, they didn’t even bring for us water till we asked. Sadly that for this prices, we got no service and no good cocktails. And at the end when we pointed it out to them, they just replied with(okay)🙃. So guys I don’t recommend it at all even if it’s historical bar it’s not worse it.

Amazing space. Great staff. Great cocktails. Great service. What more do you need? 🙂 The space is small and gets busy after 8:00 (20:00), but if you love the vibe (and I do) it is well worth the visit.

Good cocktails. Properly priced for what they are. The bartenders know their liquor.

Loos American Bar is the most beautiful bar I have ever been to. It was designed by acclaimed architect, Adolf Loos and is an art deco masterpiece. Bobby is a world-class bartender and the staff is excellent. You must stop here if you are in Vienna. It is an unforgettable experience. On my last visit, I was served delicious strawberries to accompany my champagne, what an elegant touch! A tip, because this bar is in Vienna's 1st district, they don't allow gentlemen to wear sandals. Please respect the rule.

Crap service. Dum. SLOW. Oversized & confusing menu. Nothing original to offer. No beer ( pretentious!) A little overpriced. REAL hot women, though. Overrated. Goto Josef- 100x better.

Excellent example of a pathetic attempt to be exclusive. For outdoor seating they allow women to wear anything but men need to have close toed shoes. I get having a dress code but the attitude and the manners of the staff are unacceptable for a high end bar. This also happened a while back when they were rude to my parents because I guess they were not shic enough. The location can only carry this place so far. I will make sure we never visit here when in Vienna. I'll make sure my network is aware too.

Drinks were okay. The description for the drinks were not spot on. I wanted more of tart and ordered one with that description, it sounded pretty good, but when the drink came out it was more sweet than tarty. It was okay. Coming from all the great cocktail bars in Prague, Loosbar didn't amaze us. It was nice to stop in for a cocktail but we probably could have skipped it. Another down side: the inside was extremely smokey. It was a smoke box. I felt like I was going to die of lung cancer when I walked in. A smokers paradise I imagine. Just not for everyone. So we sat outside. Service was friendly, he came out and took our orders. It was fast.

The only bad reviews are from people that don't realize this is a Cigar bar/lounge. GREAT atmosphere, bartenders are awesome and friendly, met some great people here. Highly recommend if youre just visiting. Miz of locals and tourists.

I had a really unpleasant experience here last night. I came solo to celebrate my birthday and sat at the bar. A few businessmen chatted me up, but after speaking with them for a few minutes, I disengaged from the conversation. After they left, the bartender - who had been chuckling at me all night - commented on the attention they had been paying me. I smiled and agreed that it was a lot. He then asked me "why are you so provocative?" I think this may have been a language barrier - perhaps he meant "flirtatious" - but implying that I had courted an inappropriate amount of attention was unacceptable. When I expressed my frustration later, he essentially told me that European women wouldn't have spoken to these men at all. I've traveled quite a bit to other bars at European cities and I've never had any staff at any bar feel as though it was acceptable to comment on my behavior in this way. I appreciate the attempt to apologize. The glass of birthday champagne was nice too, I guess. I would hope that in 2023, bartenders would feel more concerned about ensuring their women patrons feel comfortable than making jokes at their expense, but I guess we're not there yet, culturally.

Came to Vienna for work and stopped by this bar, despite the limited space(it is really very small), the ambience and music are both great, drinks are mediocre though.

Bartenders and drinks = 5 stars Atmosphere = 1, so I'm giving this place a 3. This review is geared toward Americans that appreciate non-smoking bars. (If you want to smoke or it doesn't bother you, then you'll love this little bar.) While we loved our cocktails and appreciated the friendly, talented bartenders we couldn't stay for more than one round because everyone around us was smoking (and on the pretentious side). Highly advise to avoid this place if you're like us and don't like smoking. It was just too much to be able to enjoy our time there.

Absolutely delicious craft cocktails! Wonderful bartenders and lovely old world ambiance. A absolute must try if you are in the mood for a tasty beverage...or two. Highly recommend!

They really know their stuff as far as making the right cocktail. Their menu is versatile and the cocktails are very smooth. I highly recommend however that you enjoy a drink outside; in they bar, the locals smoke indoors.

Much like everywhere I've been in Vienna the staff was very friendly. The bar however is Small, very smokey, and overpriced. Not sure how the price rating was established on here but it's not accurate. I'd recommend going to Dinos for better cheaper drinks and a better experience overall

Missing this place if you are in Vienna would be a mistake. Great patio to sit on and enjoy the wonderfully prepared cocktails! Face it, you can't drink beer all the time as you travel through central Europe, so when you are ready for a proper cocktail hit Loos!

Right off the Kärntnerstrasse is this great little cocktail bar. Small but cosy this is a good place to while away a few hours talking and drinking with a loved one or friends. Just make sure you get a table and don't move from it. With only two smallish table this may be a feat in itself. The bar menu is extensive but a little overpriced I feel. Everyone was very friendly and helpful but unfortunately my drink order got mixed up and I was given an incorrectly made cocktail, despite explaining EXACTLY what I wanted. Wasn't a huge issue but I expect more for these prices. Not a bad place but wouldn't be a regular hangout for me.

Definitely snooty like Agnes said. It was packed around 10pm on a Saturday night. But instead of offering you a seat outside or asking you to wait, they just tell you they are full and you can't come in. So we walked around and checked out some other places and thought we would check it out again around midnight. Well, there was room this time, but we walked in and walked right back out. It was gross. Small, dim, dingy, and completely filled with smoke! Probably the nastiest place you can go as a non-smoker. I don't care how good their expensive drinks could be, no thanks.

Not tourist friendly despite being advertised all over the place. The building itself is a delight but the service was slow and very impolite. It's pretty clear that the management do not want tourists coming to this bar - or if they do they only want them to buy some drinks, huddle quietly in a corner and do nothing that might disturb the regulars. The management have a choice. If the regular customers really matter so much that they are openly treated better than tourists then they should make the business a going concern without tourist money. So either raise prices or make it a members only club with membership fees or drop the stuffy attitude. If you're feeling naughty go inside, have a look around and then leave without buying anything or ask them if they changed its name from 1917 to 1918 and 1941 to 1945. if you do go make sure you tip like an American which in my case was quite cheap because the American rate for lousy service is 0%. I shall not be returning.

Snooty, overpriced and stuffy- not my kind of bar. The building's unique architecture is highlighted in travel guides, but it's only worth the visit if you have money to burn, are dressed to impress and are willing to hang around middle-aged people. The mirrored effects and luxe tile work create an illusion of making the interior bigger than it is, but the area still felt cramped with only a couple booths, a short bar and a couple patio tables. Tourists are discouraged from visiting - hence the "no photography" sign and servers vigilantly telling anyone with a camera phone to put it away. I can understand this level of exclusivity ... but then I overheard bartenders sharing some unnecessary comments with regular customers about experiences they have had in which tourists would walk into the bar to take a photo - and how annoying that was to them.

Loosbar is a classic! It is a high class cocktails bar! Interior design is special and extremely small bar. It is usually full especially during the weekend! In the summer you can sit outside until 23.00 or so. I don't go there so often, just when I feel like having good cocktails and enjoy the bar. It has a different aura and I like it. Of course you can get cocktails for cheaper price in many places in Vienna but this place is just different.

Stop in here for a cocktail and read the history of the bar in their menu book. The place is definitely influential in Vienna and a historical site.

I'm an architect. It was made by Loos. It's small but quaint. It has a perfect old fashion. The luxurious interior is emphasized by its lovely wait staff and local plus tourist mingling in a trend contemporary fashion. Need I say more

If an antismoker like me rates a smoky place like Loosbar with 5 stars, then it must mean something. Maybe I was just lucky to get to know it through a friend who used to work there as a student. Maybe it helps that at least a couple of shots are usually on the house whenever we drop by. But I find Loosbar very special. Amazing architecture of this bar-museum is accompanied by great service of highly professional, charismatic bartenders, who mix excellent drinks and spread good mood. I could even say, Loosbar helped me rediscover cocktails. Obviously, I had had so many very average cocktails in my life, that I started to believe that cocktails can't get better than that. And it would be a pity to think so, because here you will definitely experience new levels of taste. Flying Kangaroo got to be my absolute favourite, because it is so perfectly balanced between sweet and sour and alcoholic and aromatic...none of it dominant, smooth as can get. You know immediately that the real pros are at work here. Because the other day I ordered an expensive cocktail again somewhere else - a well-rated restaurant with a bar - and guess what, it was average as ever. Not only mixed by a cool guy who thought smiling is not cool - it was just alcohol and syrup that never fully combined. So I decided, if I want a cocktail from now on, it can only come from the top-notch bartenders. And Loosbar is one perfect example of where they can easily be found.

Very very small and the drinks were overpriced. The bartenders were OK not really friendly but not rude. Did I mention it was small? Coming from NY with the smoking ban I forgot what it was like to be in a small room where people are smoking. It's unpleasant in case you didn't know.

Certainly, there are innumerable excellent reasons to visit Vienna: world class museums, stunning architecture, Sachertorte (http://www.qype.co.uk/place/255209-Hotel-Sacher-Wien) , prancing horses (http://www.qype.co.uk/place/130674-Spanische-Hofreitschule-Wien) , unrivalled performances of classical music But the one reason that's mostly likely to have me jetting back to this most elegant of capitals is the Loos American Bar (http://www.qype.co.uk/place/51967-Loos-American-Bar-Wien) and its top rate cocktails. Wedged between a children's clothing store and a strip club, the 101 year old Loos Bar is the inspired work of pioneering modern architect Adolf Loos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Loos) . Hardly larger than a music box, having a drink in this intimate bar feels as wonderful as if drinking in a walnut and amber inlaid jewellery box. Best seat in the house? Back of the room on the couch perpendicular to the bar: watch the world stroll in, marvel at the masterful bartenders crafting excellent cocktails and bask in the soft glow of the massive backlit amber front wall. I reeeeally loved this little bar and am dying to go back. Check my Qype does London post (http://london.blog.qype.com/?p=797) for more about the wonderful Loos American Bar!

An excellent spot for quality cocktails and lounge atmosphere. Every cocktail--seriously, every cocktail--is superb.

A very small bar in the center with apparently an interesting history matching its interior and frequented by famous Austrians. I heard rumours you could (in the past?) get to the strip club next door through the cellar. I visited this place with a couple of German colleagues and the waiter was actually friendly to us. For one, I asked whether he could recommend me a particular good Schnaps. He told me he could sell me something they have but recommended me to rather buy one of the brands he wrote down for me that they actually did not serve. I think this was very decent of him.

Great architecture, but drinks at a fairly poor level. Ice not crushed and fills more than 50% of the volume of your glass. Finally, you hardly find any other guests than tourists. A place you should have seen but not twice.