Nights out
Three ways to run a night. The Spiral winds every saved spot (bars, music rooms, arcades, duckpins, rooftops) into one inward night crawl, from the far edges of town to the core (flip to Map for real directions). 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 collects the best one-off nights, grouped by type, and Events lists everything day by day; both refresh daily. Tap any venue name to open its site.
Stops are wound by a spiral key, sweeping through the compass while the distance from downtown steps down, so you start at the farthest spot and coil inward to the core. Spiral lays that order out evenly along one coil; Map shows the real direction from downtown with distance compressed. The list gives true direction and miles either way.
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).
This week in Austin
Picked daily from Do512, the Chronicle calendar, local food and drink news and venue Instagram. For every listing day by day, see Events.
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.
The Austin Spiral is a guide to bars and nights out. You must be of legal drinking age to enter.