Fearless Critic restaurant review
East Side Showroom
A crafty, cute space with excellent drinks, good food, and quite a bit of hipster ’tude
Modern
Upmarket restaurant
Hours
Sun–Fri 5:00pm–midnight
Sat 5:00pm–1:00am
Features Date-friendly, outdoor dining, veg-friendly, Wi-Fi
Bar Beer, wine, liquorCredit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Not accepted
www.eastsideshowroom.com
East Austin
1100 E. 6th St.
Austin, TX
(512) 467-4280
East Side Showroom is the posterchild for the East Sixth wave of twee fetishism and geeked-out rusticity. Its handmade details are breathtaking, beginning with the front-and-center bar, a simple shelving unit filled with backlit bottles of colorful liquid that reminds us of a fin de siècle apothecary. A looming brass…
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