Good to know
Good to Know
- The bars St. Anton is world-famous for — Mooserwirt, Krazy Kanguruh, Taps, Heustadl — are all on the mountain, not in the village: you reach them by skiing down or riding a lift, not by walking from the town center, so they aren't included in this in-town venue list.
- Nearly all of these venues are seasonal, operating primarily during the winter ski season (roughly December through April); several close entirely or reduce hours in summer.
- St. Anton is one of the pricier Alps resorts for drinks, so budget accordingly if you're planning regular evenings out.
- Most of the in-town nightlife (Postkeller, Kandahar, Piccadilly) sits within a short walk of each other along or just off Dorfstraße, making a pub-crawl-style night out straightforward on foot.
- The Tanzcafé Arlberg festival concerts are genuinely free to attend, which is unusual for a festival of this scale — worth building an April trip around if you want live music plus spring skiing.
- St. Anton's music-festival calendar is heavily tilted toward winter/spring ski season (Dec–April); outside that window the main live-music event is the July/August village festival, which is folk/traditional rather than contemporary.
- Big-name concert nights (like the Fäaschtbänkler closing show at Ski Open) can require separate tickets even though the surrounding festival area is free — check the St. Anton Tourism Association site before assuming everything is free entry.
Wine Bars
Niki's Weinbar & Restaurant
- Address
- Dorfstraße 31
- Age Skew
- Skews older/more mixed than the nightclub scene, given its wine-and-dining focus
- Description
- Wine bar and restaurant in the village center offering a more sedate, food-and-wine-focused evening option away from the louder party bars.
Live Music Venues
Piccadilly
- Address
- Dorfstraße 13
- Age Skew
- Adult, mixed-age crowd
- Description
- Described by its own operator as the best live-music bar in St. Anton since 1981, with nightly performing musicians.
Murrmel
- Address
- Dorfstraße 64
- Age Skew
- Broad adult crowd of seasonnaires and tourists, not student-focused
- Description
- Village-center bar known for its resident performer's live sets bridging the après-ski hours into the evening, plus late-night burgers.
Dive Bars And Pubs
Alibi Bar
- Hours
- Approx. 4pm–1am
- Address
- Dorfstraße 78
- Age Skew
- Mixed local and visitor adult crowd
- Description
- Pub with a range of draft beers (Guinness, Wieselburger, Edelweiss) and a reputation as a meeting place for both locals and visitors.
Cuba Sports Bar (Bar Cuba)
- Hours
- Approx. 4pm–2am, happy hour Mon–Fri 4–6pm
- Address
- Dorfstraße 33
- Age Skew
- Mixed adult crowd, seasonnaire favourite
- Description
- Sports bar with multiple screens showing football, rugby and other live sport, plus pool and table football.
After Hours Late Night
Kandahar Bar
- Note
- Reported open until roughly 6am, the latest-running venue in the village center
- Food Note
- Serves Thai/Indian food into the small hours
Postkeller
- Note
- Basement nightclub reported to run into the early hours (roughly 4am) after opening around 9:30–10pm
Nightclubs
Postkeller
- Type
- Nightclub / basement disco
- Hours
- Opens around 9:30–10pm, busiest after midnight, open into the early hours (reported open to ~4am)
- Address
- Dorfstraße 13 (basement of Hotel Post)
- Age Skew
- Skews toward international 20s-30s ski-season crowd (seasonnaires, tourists); not a dedicated student/under-25 venue, but the late-night dancefloor crowd trends younger than the daytime après scene.
- Description
- St. Anton's main late-night dance club, part of the Hotel Post complex; runs from evening into the early hours with DJ sets.
- Verification Note
- Age-skew assessed from multiple independent ski-travel blog descriptions of clientele, not assumed from genre alone.
Kandahar Bar
- Type
- Nightclub / late-night disco with restaurant (Thai/Indian cuisine)
- Hours
- Stays open very late, reported open until around 6am
- Address
- Dorfstraße 50
- Age Skew
- Mixed adult crowd (20s–40s); attracts serious late-night clubbers and off-duty ski staff rather than a student demographic.
- Description
- Long-running St. Anton nightclub often described as the resort's premier late-night disco, sometimes booking international DJs.
Piccadilly
- Type
- Live-music bar / party venue
- Hours
- From around 9pm nightly
- Address
- Dorfstraße 13 (Hotel Post, adjoining Postkeller)
- Age Skew
- Broad adult crowd (20s to 50s); calmer and more conversational than the adjoining Postkeller nightclub.
- Description
- Long-running live-music venue that has operated since 1981, functioning as a bridge between dinner-hour drinks and the Postkeller dancefloor next door.
Cocktail And Lounge Bars
Bobos Bar-Restaurant
- Hours
- Daily 5pm–3am
- Address
- Dorfstraße 60
- Age Skew
- Mixed adult crowd
- Price Range
- €10
low end of drinks menu; upper end runs to about €31 (~$35)
- Description
- Mexican-American bar-restaurant in the pedestrian zone with cocktails and DJ nights.
Scotty's
- Hours
- Cocktail deal 10pm–midnight (Mondays)
- Address
- Arlbergstraße 63
- Age Skew
- Mixed adult crowd, popular with seasonnaires
- Description
- Bar known for its 2-for-1 cocktail deal and a late-evening crowd transitioning from dinner into the night.
Music Festivals
Tanzcafé Arlberg Music Festival
- Admission
- €0.00
- Attendance
- No official attendance figures published for the St. Anton stages specifically; the festival is described as drawing crowds across all five participating villages
- Running Since
- 2013
- Typical Period
- Late March to mid-April (spring ski season finale)
- Example Dates 2025
- March 30 – April 13, 2025
- Description
- A two-week, multi-genre music festival spread across concert stages, sun terraces, and hotel lounges in the linked Arlberg villages of St. Anton, St. Christoph, Lech, Zürs, and Stuben, combining spring skiing with live concerts.
- Admission Note
- Concerts are free to attend as a core festival feature
- St Anton Specific Venue Note
- St. Anton and St. Christoph joined as festival locations more recently than the original Lech/Zürs stages; St. Anton shows have been staged at spots like the Rendl Beach Bar and the village festival stage.
Genres
- pop
- jazz
- hip hop
- electronic/DJ sets
- ska
- rock 'n' roll
- brass
- swing
- singer-songwriter
- indie
- dialect pop
Stanton Ski Open (Season-opening Festival)
- Admission
- €0.00
- Attendance
- No official attendance figures published
- Dates 2025
- December 5–7, 2025 (ski area season kickoff December 3, 2025)
- Headline Act 2025
- Fäaschtbänkler (Swiss pop/brass/ska/folk act) closed the event on December 7, 2025
- Description
- A three-day festival marking the official start of St. Anton's winter season, with live music on three stages, free ski/snowboard testing, food trucks, and an avalanche-safety program.
- Admission Note
- Festival area entry is free; the closing concert has been ticketed separately in past editions
Genres
- mixed live bands
- pop/schlager
- DJ sets
Schlagerliebe Open Air (TV Concert Recording at MooserWirt)
- Attendance
- No official attendance figures published
- Dates 2025
- December 5–6, 2025
- Running Since
- 2001
- Description
- A long-running televised schlager/pop-hit concert recording filmed at the MooserWirt après-ski venue, part of the season-opening weekend.
Genres
- schlager
- pop hits
St. Anton Village Festival (Dorffest)
- Attendance
- No official attendance figures published
- Dates 2025
- July 18–20, 2025
- Dates 2026
- July 31 – August 2, 2026
- Description
- A traditional Tyrolean village festival mixing folk/brass music, a costumed parade, and folk dance performances in the village centre, rather than a contemporary music festival.
Genres
- traditional Tyrolean brass/folk music
- folk dance
Adult Entertainment
Skyline Night Club (Showclub Skyline)
- Format
- Licensed Austrian-style table dance / show-dance club — a stage-and-bar venue with resident dancers performing choreographed sets, distinct from a Western full-nude strip club
- Neighborhood
- Village center, Dorfstraße — St. Anton am Arlberg's main pedestrian strip
- Notes
- Described by its own booking agency as the only table dance club in St. Anton, with roughly 10 to 13 dancers performing topless-only stage sets. Open nightly during winter ski season (roughly 10pm to 5am), closed or scaled back in off-season months. Runs as a straightforward stage/bar format rather than a private-room hostess model.
St. Anton's nightlife is concentrated on the pedestrianised Dorfstraße and immediately adjacent streets in the village center. The town's global reputation for wild partying is built primarily on slope-side mountain huts (Mooserwirt, Krazy Kanguruh, Taps) that are NOT walkable from the village center — they sit on the piste itself and are reached by skiing down or riding a lift, so they are not listed here as in-town venues. Within the walkable village core, the scene is a mix of late-night pubs, one long-running nightclub complex, and a handful of cocktail/wine spots.
Rooftop Bars
- Note
- Could not find 3-4+ specific, well-documented rooftop bars for St. Anton — the town's 'terrace' culture is built around ground-level and slope-side sun terraces (e.g. at mountain huts), not urban rooftop bars, so this sub-field is left inapplicable rather than padded with a thin list.
General Price Context
- Sample Five Drinks Cost
- €40
- Note
- St. Anton is consistently cited as one of the most expensive Alpine resorts for drinks
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