Backspin Texas Sports Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Austin

Our waiter was excellent. However, management is another story. Management caters to u of Texas games and will turn other games off all the larger screens. Prices are high. Food is okay, but it is expensive. We had been watching our game for close to a hour when an older gentleman walked in wearing a U of Texas tee shirt. He loudly ordered a waitress to “turn this shit!”. She ran behind the bar, grabbed several remotes, and changed 10-12 televisions in the middle of all the games currently being played. She did this despite multiple groups of complaining customers, who also were wearing shirts representing other college teams than u of Texas, and were also obviously watching the games currently playing on the televisions that she switched. When our group and several other groups asked that the televisions be changed back, we all were told that the Texas game was about to start and that that game would be replacing all the current games being shown. We then asked why we couldn’t continue watching the game on the single television that our tables were set up to view since we, and quite a few other tables, had already ordered and had been watching on this screen. This was the Texas A&M vs. Arkansas game and there were tables full of both Aggie fans and Razorbacks fans who had already been served food and drinks. This game had been playing for 45-50 minutes. We were told that the general manager said only the U of Texas game would be showing on all the 10-15 televisions. He also said they wouldn’t leave our game on and would not move all of us to other tables so we could continue watching our game on a different television. When we told the manager that there were many other teams currently playing that were also from Texas schools, he walked away yelling that he was doing what the general manager told him to do. We went ahead and paid for our food & drinks, tipped our waiter (because he did an excellent job) and went to another local sports bar to watch the rest of our game. This is not a restaurant for anyone other than u of Texas fans on Saturdays apparently. Spend your money...

Make this 3.5 ☆ or even 4 as I wasn't in a great mood and my food was fine. I had beef, bean and cheese nachos with sour cream and salsa on the side and they were good. I had a beer, of course, and it was colder than I expected and I like that kind of surprise. I usually go to the Belterra location of Backspin and the atmosphere is very different than the Slaughter location which I learned is the original store. The music is up pretty loud and it's definitely not light rock. I usually like it when the rock 'n roll is cranked up but I went to watch sports. It's a much smaller space and it feels more like a neighborhood bar than Belterra. I'm sorry I'm not describing the food but you have two distinct choices between the two locations. If you're in the bar mood with loud music, plenty of TV's and no kids running around check out the Slaughter location. Make it...

Went there with friends - been there before. Probably for a younger crowd. Noisy, Friendly staff, menu is limited to "Bar & Grill", except there was a "prime rib" special available. My wife ordered that and she was quite pleased! But, I ordered a scotch on the rocks - got a scotch & COKE - WTH! After our orders were in - we got a new waitress - thought it was shift change - but, no, the other waitress kept serving others in the vicinity. Another surprise - I asked for mayo for my chicken sandwich - guess what - it's $.50 extra!! Another surprise - I was charged an extra $1 for the ice in my drink!!! When I questioned the waitress about these extraneous charges - She said - "I just follow the rules". Never before has that ever happened to me anywhere - What an insult!! Probably won't be back...