The Long Goodbye — Restaurant in Austin

The Long Goodbye derives it's inspiration and motif from the 1973 film noir of the same name. Step into the cozy little MCM bar and you feel like the main character in your own movie with the dim lights and a full bar to drown your sorrows or celebrate your wins.

The bar is well equipped with everything a discerning bar patron could want as well as a few things you didn't know you needed. All this delivered with friendly service and maybe some classic country music playing or perhaps some 60s or 70s jazz. Every now and again you might hear some old school hip-hop and r&b if you're lucky, as well! Let's call that the late night vibes.

The bartenders are all sincere and friendly, knowledgable about their craft and quick with the drinks. If there isn't something on the menu that pleases you they are happy to concoct something to your liking or suggest something new- classic or otherwise. There are also non-alcoholic bevvys available for those of us looking to keep our wits about us but still enjoy a night out with friends.

The prices are fair with happy hour featuring $6 cocktails, Mondays offering $3.50 draft beers, Wednesdays are for wine with half off bottles and they take care of service industry workers with a generous discount!

It's a pretty new establishment (about 8 months old) so you can still catch a quiet corner or an off-hour where you get the whole place to yourself. That definitely won't be the case for long so I suggest you bring your bestie or your new softly-launched boo to come cuddle in this cute little bar. Great first date spot or good for a large gathering like a work happy hour or birthday get together due to the expansive and welcoming patio area. This is sure to be a neighborhood staple soon so get in before it's cool so you can say you were one of the original regulars

I reallly wanted to love this place as I live right down the street. I looked into the other reviews about poor service and was hoping to be surprised and unfortunately was not. I received some of the most rude and unwelcoming service for a bar that had maybe 12 people in it tops. I was asked what drink I wanted, and was given a drink that was already pre-made (he made the drink by accident for the person in front of me.) I told him I wasn’t feeling that and wanted another type of drink. The bartender gets upset with me and walks away so I walked out. I frequent and love supporting east side bars and have never been treated so rude for seemingly asking the bartender to make a cocktail.

The only thing that made my experience enjoyable was Omar. Omar was kind, well versed in y’all’s cocktails and cared about the customer. Other dude working inside with the mustache on 7/2 was unnecessarily rude, unwelcoming, and not what I would expect from a place im footing a $15...

As a neighbor I was super disappointed as to how unwelcome I felt..I wanted to support a local spot and have been wanting to check this place out but the bartenders inside were extremely unwelcoming. Two females, one had a buzz cut and knew we were waiting for a while and decided to go serve someone else, didn’t even acknowledge us or look up. As someone who had several service industry friends and family- if you don’t want to bartend you probably shouldn’t.. it’s not great feeling unwelcome and to be met with a miserable attitude at your neighborhood spot. I was hoping this would be a regular hang for me but I hate to say after the experience we had from both employees we will not be coming back…unfortunately this isn’t the first we have heard of this from friends but we wanted to give it the benefit...