Downtown Austin, Austin ยท bar
A retro-leaning cocktail bar where leather chairs, velvet banquettes, and warm lighting soften the building's industrial bones. The cocktail list favors inventive riffs on classics (a pandan painkiller here, a split-spirit tea martini there) while the Waller Creek setting gives it a little more breathing room than most downtown bars. One of the few places where the downtown prices feel largely justified.