🍺 Best Dive Bars Spots in Austin

Donn's Depot occupies a real retired train depot on West 5th and runs country music nightly with a bar staff and clientele who've collectively seen everything Austin has thrown at the city. Cheap drin...

The Guadalupe strip's most historically loaded dive bar, open since 1974 and still the first stage for half the acts that eventually graduate to bigger rooms. Fried Pickles, Chili Cheese Fries, and Fr...

Subterranean dive directly beneath the Capitol on Colorado Street — cash only, cheap beer, and the kind of clientele that has been hashing out state politics at these barstools for decades. There is n...

Deep Eddy Cabaret on Lake Austin Boulevard has been pouring Lone Stars by the mug and Tito's by the shot since 1951, named after the swimming hole down the road. Jukebox, pool tables, a veggie burger ...

The Grackle on East 6th holds the line against the neighborhood's ongoing makeover — $3 beers, a jukebox that earns its keep, pool tables, and darts in a room that predates the cocktail bars on either...

Hidden behind a gas station on South Congress since 1979, Ego's is Austin's least-pretentious room — underground, cheap, and loud with karaoke every single night. Real Ale and Lone Star on draft, chee...

Airport Boulevard dive with Barfly Wings, a burger worth ordering, and a patio that doesn't try too hard. Pool, foosball, a jukebox doing the heavy lifting — this is North Loop at its most neighborhoo...

The back patio at Volstead is the secret — a hidden outdoor room on E 6th where the drinks are cheap and the vibe holds the line against the street's ongoing upscaling. Old Fashioneds and frozen marga...

Original East 6th dive that helped define the East Side patio crawl — string-lit yard out back, frozen ShangRitas and Dmango Unchaineds out of the slushie machine, happy hour that drags well past suns...