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Your A-List: Best Dive Bar
Someone stumbled home to his computer from a long night of swillin’ beer and tellin’ lies just in time to put Lala’s over the edge in the Your A-List poll for Best Dive Bar. The North Austin bar with charm beat out the classic Deep Eddy Cabaret and Ginny’s Little Longhorn by four and five votes respectively. The close race proves that despite tapas bars, condos and nouvaue cuisine, many Austinites still hold the dive bar near and dear to their hearts, as well they should.
Just like any good dive bar, Lala’s, which is located on Justin Lane just off of Burnet Road, features a pool table, killer jukebox, septuagenarian bartender, confined space for drinking that instigates conversation between strangers, a host of colorful regulars and a full bar, naturally. And the pièce de résistance, year-round Christmas lights. You ain’t gonna find that at no yuppie bar on West Sixth Street.
Others receiving votes
- Hole in the Wall, 10 percent
- Horseshoe Lounge, 8 percent
- Poodle Dog Lounge, 7 percent
- The Jackalope, 6 percent
- G&S Lounge, 6 percent
- Carousel Lounge, 5 percent
- Baryfly’s, 4 percent
- Scoot Inn, 4 percent
- Trophy’s, 2 percent
Write-ins: C. Hunt’s Ice House, Donn’s Depot, Ego’s, The Ginger Man
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By Winchester
August 18, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
Scoot Inn only counts if they are talking about the original.
By rosina
August 4, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this
There is a typo in the second paragraph. Unless it’s an intentional play on the word and the 70s bartender has an illicit side job, it should read septuagenarian not seputagenarian.