Kula serves conveyor belt sushi in North Loop. The fish won’t be outstanding, but your meal will be fun.

You’re in Austin for the first time ever. You’ve got 72 hours and an appetite for drinking. Where do you start? Here’s the answer.

These two East Side dive bars always have live music, and share one enormous backyard filled with picnic tables and cheap drinks.

Spider House is many things (bar, coffee shop, music venue, beer garden) all in one place, and one of the greatest places to kill time in Austin.

Part music venue, part beer garden, and part dive bar, Stay Gold is basically Austin in a nutshell.

When you just need to dance downtown, you go to Barbarella’s.

Drink.Well. is an excellent bar in North Loop, and it’s even greater during happy hour.

Backbeat is a classy, grown-up choice if you’re looking for cocktails around South Lamar.

Austin is home to a lot of dive bars - Native is not one of them. Head here if you’re looking for something trendy.

The Townsend is an easy option for drinks around South Congress.

Despite being located in a unimpressive office building, Small Victory is actually a very cool, very reliable bar for your downtown drinking needs.

Roosevelt Room is where you go for excellent, low-key cocktails downtown.