East Side Show Room

Vintage Cocktails, Farm to Table Local Food, Silent Movies.

Check the schedule to see which instrumental, turn-of-the-century jazz combo is playing next. Happy hour specials (between 5pm and 7pm) offer thrifty, right-on-time types $2 cheap beers, or $1 off premium drafts and specialty cocktails and wines by the glass.

Art shows--local, of course--change monthly. A brass vintage porthole offers a glimpse into the house taps, full of home-brewed beer. Worked iron also frames the lit-from-within bar. Look up at the iron beam which spans the wall dividing the bar from the dining room to see the daily specials; they're written up there.

Nourishment is not exclusive to gastronomic intake. Appropriately, East Side ShowRoom caters to all of your senses with verve. The exposed brick of the 1901 structure holds an eclectic and ever-changing art collection; in fact, the skillful craft of the co-owner/metal sculptor, Mickie Danae Spencer, is evident everywhere. Gypsy jazz bands play while black-and-white silent movies cement the...

This "vigorously peculiar" East Austin "steampunk" hangout features decor "trapped somewhere between burlesque house, silent-film house and roadhouse"; the "phenomenal cocktails" are a standout, although the "locally sourced" New American menu can be "hit-or-miss" and many complain about "persnickety", "hipster service."

This place is fabulous! Hand crafted cocktails in a chill setting that will take you back on time to the speakeasies of yesteryear.

This is a carnival. Not a cafe. Musicians interpret bygone songs, painters with mustaches rhapsodize on their works, performance-art comedy troupes rehearse. The furniture, lighting, and decor is part design, part retail showroom. Everything here is meant to be creative and to inspire, as it were a pre-war Parisian salon. But you can still come here if you just want steak and potatoes and a...

The East Side Showroom is a portal to an era before World War II. Celebrating the concept of the European Cabaret, it resonates it spirit, with vintage cocktails, red stage curtains and candlelit tables. The food served here is local American cuisine, which highlights the local produce of the region. They often host events to showcase talents of local artists and musicians as well as...