Sports, Beer & Movies

Meeting men, watching sports, drinking beer, and quoting the occasional movie line, oddly enough, go together very well. I suppose it’s quite obvious that men gathering to drink beer and watch a football game has been the great American pastime for years, but it is also quickly becoming the twenty-to-thirty something single girl’s dream at Logan’s on Sixth.

The dark wood bar top paired with the brass rails around the multilevel (though still single-story) barroom give the place an atmosphere of a slightly more sophisticated sports bar than the average one on Sixth Street. Dark colored carpeted floors and tiled walkways throughout the bar also add to the classier aspects of the establishment. The clientele also don’t appear to be the average downtown bar-crawlers. Most of the men are dressed in slacks and a polo or button-down shirt, appearing as if they recently left the office, and the women dress nice but casual in dresses, skirts, or jeans and a tastefully sexy top. Everyone mingles with each other over the music, which ranges from 80s, 90s, and today, as the place gets packed by 10:30 pm, mostly with a “Big Beer” in hand (probably around 32 ounces).

And if rubbing elbows with other people won’t get you a conversation started, the movie clips that interrupt commercials from different sports games displayed on the giant flat screen televisions will do the trick. Last week when I was there, the music was paused and the showing of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” was replaced by a Dennis Leary acoustic music video of his famous song comparing people to a certain bodily orifice. There’s nothing quite like a crowded bar full of mostly well-dressed frat boys and stylish young businessmen belting out that song in unison. I met the group of five guys standing next to me at the bar immediately following this occurrence because they were shocked that “Chicks know this song?!”

The bartenders themselves keep the patrons coming back every week (or every night, in several cases) because of their die hard service. The men and women behind the bar are always busy hustling from one end to the other with multiple “Big Beers” in each hand, which is pretty amazing considering even the most willing and able double-fister can only hold up to two. The average drinker requests beer from this bar, although I must say that I have had a dirty martini from a bartender named Sean that was to die for. The always smiling wait staff and bartenders are more than willing to bend over backwards to make sure that each customer is having a great time and never thirsty. The bar top and stools around the bar are surprisingly clean, as well as the restroom facilities, and the tables and chairs throughout the bar. Like I said, the wait staff hustles not just to grab drinks for customers but also in keeping the place clean, which is a huge plus.

Whether people are downtown for dancing or drinking, Logan’s is the perfect place for a pit stop drink or for camping out for the night for the ladies and the fellas.

200 E 6th St # A
Austin, TX 78701-3648
Phone: 512-236-0300