Firewater Sports Bar Cafe — Restaurant in Cedar Park

UPDATE as of Sept 22nd

Firewater is back in business! They were never technically "out of business" but they were closed during a month long filing snafu with Williamson County. It's all behind them now.

They have several beers on tap although they're still dialing in the CO2 levels...beers have about 5 inches of head but do settle down a bit after a couple of minutes. They're able to eventually get you a glass of beer though. Watch and enjoy so to speak.

Full bar is now open too!

And now a crowd is starting to form...which is nice. Not so empty around the bar anymore.

Jay, the owner, is really committed to the place. He's very hands on with the team. His folks are friendly if not a bit absent minded and they all don't know the menu yet. Sandwiches for instance - the Roast Beef is served cold but the server didn't know that.

The quality and uniqueness of the food is still good. Pizza recipe was better under previous branding.

I still really want to like the place and support them.

1 Service Star. 1 Food Star.

UPDATE

Popped in for dinner at the bar after HH. They have their liquor license now but are waiting on equipment before servicing mixed drinks... probably a few days away. They now have several beers on tap... consider it a starter set of brands while they get set up and build up the business.

Three TVs have been added above the left side bar and several above the seats on the south end of the dining room.

They continue to serve chips and salsa when you sit down which is a nice touch.

Pizza Update: When we first went just after the branding change the pizza was spectacular, probably the best around but that was using the previous restaurant's recipe. The Firewater recipe is different - thinner, crispy, with a unique sauce. Frankly I prefer the old recipe and am a little disappointed. I really do like crispy dough but loved the fexture and airyness of the old one. Still on a quest for the ideal neighborhood pizza joint. None of the local usual suspects fit the bill.

We tried the Naan Butter Chicken Tacos and they were amazing. Naan bread is souch better than traditional flour tortillas. I love flour tortillas. Grew up on them. Part of my TexMex heritage but Naan "tortillas" are a needed break and nice touch. The chicken was tender and the flavors were unique but not strange. Delicious tacos.

Same great service from Megan and Vincent plus several new faces.

Still highly recommend Firewater. Looking forward to trying other menu items like the burgers. I get distracted by my stomach and often choose my cravings...I need to look for soup when it cools off.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:

Firewater is in the final stretch of its build out. New owner and rebranding from an Italian restaurant to a Sports Bar.

They are servicing bottled beer and wine. The beer taps are in but not hooked up yet. Should be ready to pour in a week. They just got their liquor license so cocktails are another week away as well. They are adding several big screen TVs soon which will indeed transform Firewater into a Sports Bar. The last step in their renovation is to expand into the business to the South which will bring more seating.

Overall the work looks great. I'm excited to see the finished product in a couple of weeks.

The menu is quite varied with a nice selection of apps, tacos, burgers, sub sandwiches, pasta, and pizza.

They serve chips and salsa...the salsa is excellent - unique, tasty but not spicy. Chips were fresh out of the fryer.

We enjoyed the Tikka Chicken Sub Sandwich with Fries and Chicken Tenders. The Tikka Chicken Sub was really tasty - unique with a great combination of flavors and crunchiness from the shredded cabbage with a hint of cilantro. The fries were great too - sounds mundane I know but they canale or break a sandwich.

Their Bread Pudding was a great finish to the meal. Well appointed and tasty.

Service was great and prices are as you'd expect.

Will be back and hope to make this an alternative to...

3rd Edit: 5 stars for catering! The Korean Chicken Rice Bowl, Stromboli and Fiesta Lime Chicken were a HUGE hit for our family Christmas gathering! This is the 3rd time we’ve been here. It became an instant favorite with the variety of foods and drinks. They have a special drink menu for each holiday. The winter one looked so good on our first visit but it was too early in the day and by the time we came back it was Valentine season so I got a yummy sparkly pink drink. Now St. Patty’s is coming up and I just ordered a Fuzzy Leprecaun! We also LOVED the mussels (who would’ve expected a sports bar to have fantastic lemon garlic butter mussels?) and my daughter got the Italian Twist pizza which was also very good. I had a Reuben and hubby had the Philly cheesesteak that first lunch here which brought us back for more. They also have a lot of Indian inspired items like butter chicken pizza or rice bowl, and chicken tikka masala pizza or bowl. Also 4 artisan vegetarian pizzas including butter paneer and Indian twist. Update: Another good experience here. I wanted to order a salad and I’m sure it would have been good, but I couldn’t resist the Italian twist pizza. The crust is soooooo good! Mia provided the best service we’ve had from a server in a long time. Professional yet friendly, always there when we needed anything but not intrusive. I would request her area if she’s there next time. I will say if they’re going to say they’re a sports bar, they need to fix the sound system. It was cutting out, too loud at one point then couldn’t hear it. As much as I love the large and varied menu, I worry about restaurants that try to have too many menu items. John Taff always has them cut it back to a few simple items on Bar Rescue. The kitchen was a little backed up tonight and my pizza came out a good 10 minutes before hubby’s chicken bowl but both were still delicious. This is our favorite go-to Friday...

Well well well, where do I begin. My girlfriend and I wanted a nice night out and thought “Hmmm where should we go?” I opened up the google maps and my little eye spotted “Firewater Sports Bar Cafe” (where I’m writing this review).

We decided to drive down the road and check it out! I recall an Italian restaurant here before, that was delicious; however, Firewater’s food was so bad it seemed malicious. (I don’t think there’s any truly bad intentions, I just wanted to rhyme with delicious.

I ordered a hamburger while my lovely girlfriend ordered brisket tacos. Her tacos were overloaded with barbecue sauce while my burger was just bland and overcooked.

Don’t even get me started on the fries!!!! Oh boy these fries were some of the most boring fries I ever had, and they had Parmesan on them.

As my readers know, I love Parmesan and I love fries. However, these were some of the most bland fries I’ve ever set on my tongue. My taste buds gave me a ring, and I picked up the call…

Me: “Hello” Taste buds; “Ermmm where’s the flavor?” Me: “Ummmm, I was gonna ask you the same 🤣🤣”

They then hung up because they were so pissed I put those fries in my mouth.

Services was nice, food was cheap though. However, the glass for my beautiful girlfriends cocktail was dirty 😖😖

Oh wait my girlfriend is getting a call. ring ring ring

Her stomach, “Hey ummm, we have a code red…. These tacos you just put in us, taste awful! Yeah, the BBQ isn’t the only problem, there’s no MEAT LOL”

Her: “Yeah, you’re gonna wanna see this…” she then pulls out a Polaroid camera and takes a photo of the taco, then proceeds to eat the Polaroid picture to show the stomach.

Her stomach: “Oh my god it’s even worse than I thought. There is meat, but we just can’t taste it over all this sauce 😳😳”

Overall tastes like grocery store frozen food put...