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It is in hopes of helping you avoid that fate that we present The 25 Douchiest Bars in Austin. With a rowable lake running through the city, bountiful hiking trails, and wonderful weather year round, Austin is also home to hoards of health-obsessed people doing cheerfully granola things.īut fear not, fans of the douche! Worming through the city is a thick artery of self-centered, entitled revelers, threatening to keep Austin more douchey than weird. Considered " The Live Music Capital of the World," Austin hosts diverse acts ranging from country to hip-hop seven nights a week, as well as the slurring groupies that faithfully follow them. One of the country’s largest universities provides a large youth population (read: amateurs) and a pulsing nightlife that rivals any city on either coast. The pop-up runs through the end of Hanukkah, which ends on Monday, December 30, and is open every night until 2 a.m.Austin is a liberal oasis in a Texas sea so red it would make Moses blush. The bar is located near the corner of Webberville and E. So in the words of Adam Sandler, "if you feel like you're the only kid in town without a Christmas tree," here's at least one pop-up bar now making Jews and non-Jews alike feel right at home during the holiday season. "So what we did was apply products and some creative energy, and that’s where the list came from.” “I don’t really like to rebrand the classics - I don’t know why anybody would do that to begin with," said Murray.

The play-on-word cocktails are simple, strong and refreshingly inexpensive compared to other holiday-themed bars. They've also got an Oy Fashioned, Maccabees Knees, and Bubbe's Hot Buttered Rum. From Latke Punch featuring potato vodka, apple cider, ginger liquor and bitters, to a Manischewitz Spritz which contains Prosecco, Peychaud's and that ever-so-familiar Concord grape wine. It's the specialty cocktails that are the main attraction of the pop-up. The exterior of Kitty Cohen's in Austin, Texas, appears in this image from December 2019. "In 15-plus years, I don’t think I’ve ever that kind of response online for any event I’ve ever been a part of," recalled Murray.

Murray said he was impressed with the initial buzz the idea of the bar generated on social media. "And we just started talking about Hanukkah, and as we just talked about it, it unfolded and just thought - why not?”īoth were unaware that they would inadvertently create Austin's first-ever Hanukkah pop-up bar. “He was talking about feeling a little absent from his community - he now lives in Dripping Springs," said Murray. Tots are more than welcome to dine with their parents at Weather Up.

But despite the Jewish sounding last name - Cohen wasn't Jewish and neither is Murray - however Murray's business partner is. Stop by Weather Up in Austin for flavorful fare and refreshments. Kitty Cohen's is named after Murray's grandmother, honing in on the sort of Boca Raton retirement community vibe. He and his business partner had been griping to each other over how over the top some of the other holiday pop-ups were - they didn't want to be that.Ĭleverly named - Get Lit - the Hanukkah pop-up bar takes place at Kitty Cohen's in East Austin, a bar that hosts several other pop-up bars throughout the year. The decor isn't over the top - some blue and white balloons, pin-up menorahs, and some blue and white lights - but that's the look bar co-owner Jeremy Murray was going for. Speciality cocktails the big attraction.Get Lit located near corner of Webberville and E.AUSTIN, Texas - While there are at least a half-dozen Christmas-themed pop-up bars scattered across Austin for the holidays, there hadn't been a Hanukkah-themed bar - until now.