The Salzburg Whiskey Museum – Bar, Salzburg 🇦🇹

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Location: Lederergasse 6, 5020 Salzburg

Year of Inscription: 2024

Venue Type: Irish Pub / Whisky Specialists / Compact

EBG Rating:8/10
Choice/
Quality of Drinks
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 A good range of Irish and Scottish whiskies, a few beyond the norm of what you can find in central Europe, but isn’t obsessed to the detriment of other options such as beer, where the typical ex-pat range is complimented with some decent Austrian lagers too.
Style/
Décor
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A small venue set in historic cellars, fitted with wooden cabinets and pub ephemera. Some of the décor slides a little too much towards generica but the overall effect combining the natural space with the fittings is very, very good indeed.
Atmosphere/
Character
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Cosy, clandestine and immediately welcoming, a space which hosts real life with its trials and tribulations without social climbing, peacocking, and all of that.
Amenities/
Events
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Snacks, live music, events
Value For Money❤️❤️❤️
Though not cheap, reasonable given the location.
DescriptionOh, no, not an Irish bar! We don’t really do Irish bars outside Ireland as a general rule, but do make exceptions for venues that go beyond the norm – this is certainly one of them.

Irish owned and run, the venue already stood a better chance than some ersatz recreation.

What is intriguing about this is the blend of typical pubbiness with the historic cellar surroundings, arches and nooks. The combination of the two is where the magic comes from here.

The bar doesn’t let the side down with a good range of Irish and Scottish whiskies, a few beyond the norm of what you can find in central Europe, but isn’t obsessed to the detriment of other options such as beer, where the typical ex-pat range is complimented with some decent Austrian lagers too.

Live music events and other community activities help tie together Salzburg locals with Anglosphere ex-paths.

A reliable late bar (outside Sunday and Mondays of course) gives ever more reason to end up in here for a nightcap.

But it is really that lovely welcome, the golden glow and the sense of harmony to the place that pulls us back.