Greetings fellow AustinMegaDoers!
To help ensure that noone ends up too sober this weekend, I plan on leading some adult beverage excursions during the Friday and Saturday "Choose Your Own Adventure" timeslots. The idea is to show off opposite ends of the downtown drinking spectrum.
On Friday, starting right after Z'Tejas, we'll explore some of the excellent upscale cocktail bars Austin has to offer. These are places where the cocktail is not just a drink, it's an art-form. Don't expect to get a rum & coke, but do expect some top-notch concoctions that you may have never heard of. Stops will include the following, though we will adapt based on crowds/group size:
- Townhouse
- Bar Congress
- Driskill Bar
- Péché
On Saturday, after Esther's Follies, we'll go for the other extreme. When you hear Austin, you think 6th Street and the center of it all is lovingly called "Dirty 6th", an endless lineup of shot bars, dive bars and live music. Definitely not classy, but a hell of a lot of fun. If you join this crawl, a "Heldorado" or a "Flaming Dr. Pepper" will likely be in your future. And yes, that involves fire. Some sample stops:
- Cheers Shot Bar
- The Jackalope
- Buckshots
- Maggie Mae's
- and more...
So what do you need to do to tag along? Just find me after Z'Tejas or Esther's Follies. This is completely open and optional, but so that I can get an approximate count, I ask that you send an email to
[email protected] and give me your name or handle and an optional phone number. We'll (a) try to make sure we don't leave without you and (b) maybe even send updates as we hop from one venue to the next.
See you all in Austin...