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Best little bar in Austin.

Published by Chris | Filed under Austin, Food & Drink

Ginnyâ€™s Little Longhorn Saloon is slowly becoming my favorite bar in Austin. Iâ€™ve been going Ginnyâ€™s 2-3 times a month since living here in Austin. Ginnyâ€™s is one of those little places on the side of the road that you pass by and donâ€™t think much of it. The inside of the bar canâ€™t be any bigger than 1000sqf, with a pool table and tables covering most of the floor and a small stage in the corner. You get a pretty varied clientele there including the older daytime drunks, hipsters, cowboys, bikers and Greasers (The Fonz wana beâ€™s). Everyone gets along and strangley enough fits together somehow. Lately Iâ€™ve been go over there on Sundays for Dale Watson and $1.50 Lone Stars. If you go on Sundayâ€™s, the action starts around 4:00 and it gets packed. The parking lot turns into â€œsocial hourâ€ with everyone hanging out and drinking beers. Itâ€™s lots of fun and what I imagine is the epitome of Austin bars. Everytime Iâ€™ve been to Ginnyâ€™s, Iâ€™ve noticed they have a chicken coupe in the back parking lot. I havenâ€™t been able to figure out what the chickenâ€™s doing there. Is it for chicken stew Mondays or Fried Chicken Saturday? Nope. Turns out, the chicken is used for â€œChicken Shit Bingoâ€; yep you guessed it. They bring the chicken inside on Sundays and put him in a pen on top of the pool table that has a floor that has grid with numbers on it. How it works is you buy tickets with numbers on them and hope the chicken shits on your number. If it does, then you win cash. If thatâ€™s not a reason to go to Ginnyâ€™s on Sundays then I donâ€™t know what is. Oh yeah, they have free hotdogs as well. If you live in Austin or are visting Austin then make sure you check out Ginnyâ€™s Little Longhorn Saloon.