Bar & Nightlife
Three ways to run a night. The Spiral is a downtown radar of every saved bar, wound into one inward coil. Playbooks are ready-made district crawls — venue by venue, in walking order, with the timing worked out. By category starts from the mood instead — cocktails, speakeasies, live music, rooftops and more — and lists the matches nearest downtown first. This Week and Events refresh daily with openings, comedy, live music, trivia and bar nights. Tap any venue name to open its site.
This week
Center is downtown (Congress at the lake). Stops are wound by a spiral key — sweeping through the compass while the radius steps down — so you start at the farthest bar and coil inward, ending in the core. Direction and mileage are real; only the ring spacing is compressed.
Tap a number on the map to pull up its card; tap a venue name to open its site. Unconfirmed venues are tagged on their card. District crawls live under the Playbooks tab, not as pins.
Each card is a walking-order crawl with worked-out timing; tap a venue to open its site. Full details, addresses & happy hours live in the matching Linear ticket (Playbook label).
Refreshed daily. ★ marks events at venues on the Spiral; within each group, the best fits come first.
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Every venue on the Spiral and in the Playbooks is checked weekly; closures in the news are applied the same day.
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The last 14 days. Full history and daily snapshots live in the project's austin-spiral folder.
Numbers match the pins on the Spiral. A venue can sit in more than one category.