Broken Spoke

Broken Spoke can be found at S Lamar Blvd 3201. The following is offered: Theater. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Austin there are 22 other Theater. An overview can be found here.

Through the years, Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, both crew cut-sport coat Willie and outlaw Willie, Kris Kristofferson, Kitty Wells, Doug Sahm, George Strait and many others have graced this stage.

The restaurant is open 10:30am-11:30pm Tue-Sat.

This is one of the great country music dance halls. It dates back to 1964, when people would come out here to two-step across the large wood-plank floor. It hasn't changed much, except for the occasional busload of tourists that stops by. It's a lot of fun and well worth the effort of dragging your potential dance partner out of the cozy hotel room. This is Austin, so you don't have to be all...

The tour bus left for dead in the front is perhaps second only to Ken Kesey’s Further in terms of folklore. Remembrances of things past extend inside this museum of honky-tonking. Bob Wills to Willie Nelson to anybody in that realm of twang and swing has induced a two-step or two here. It's a bona fide, warped-hardwoods Texas dancehall. Tight jeans, Stetsons, and boots aren’t required but are...

Don't come to the Broken Spoke looking for Kenny Chesney or Shania Twain. This is a gen-u-ine honky-tonk with low ceilings, longnecks, and two-steppers shuffling around the dance floor in tight-fittin' jeans and ten-gallon hats. C&W torchbearers like Bruce Robison, the Derailers, and Dale Watson keep the joint jumping. The restaurant serves burgers, enchiladas, and one of the best chicken-fried...

In Short
In a dance-hall-that-time-forgot manner, the Spoke sits virtually as it did in 1964. But these days, instead of Willie (who does actually still stop by), you're more apt to find...

The Broken Spoke is Texas' most definitive dance hall. It's not of those fly-by-night, trendy newcomers you see springing up in out-of-business lumber yards or feeds stores on every corner. You can't build a legend overnight. Owners James and Annetta White have been operating the Austin tradition since 1964 and its reputation for good country music and good Texas cooking has spread world-wide.