Downtown Austin, Austin · bar
A basement dive bar across from the Texas Capitol that’s been soaking up legislative gossip since 1979, with mahogany paneling, a Rowe AMI jukebox running four songs for a dollar, and a famously outdated “business casual” dress code that never quite got updated. It runs on Austin’s longest happy hour, no cocktail menu worth mentioning, and a steady crowd that shows up whether or not anything interesting is happening across Colorado Street.