Backroom Bar at TPC — Restaurant in San Antonio

This place is nestled between S Presa and S Alamo Streets. You can actually enter from two places...either through the courtyard for the Pipe Corner at S Alamo or via the red door with the neon lit "COCKTAILS" sign and a bull wall mural at S Presa. This would be the true backdoor backroom bar entrance...not well trafficked and saves you a walk around the block of it is cold outside!

The cocktails are well made and the bar staff is always nice and sociable. Beer is also at an affordable price at under $5 and there are also some craft beers on the menu too. Usually it is staffed by one bartender throughout the week, but they have a couple more on the weekends. Ive found the busyness of the patio crowd usually indicates how crowded it is inside the backroom bar. I have never had a problem getting a drink and I prefer the low-key setting. Typically there is not a cover charge compared to the more hyped up Bar America just a few doors away.

It is a great place to bring friends outside the downtown touristy area. You can also buy and enjoy a smoke bought from the Pipe Corner locates up the stairs. Occasionally there is live music featuring some jazz or rock band out on the patio, so it really has a...

So honestly it’s a little pretentious for the quality of drinks we got…

I mean, came to the bar last time could just walk right in the side gate, headed to the back and the drinks were good. But this time, the doors were locked we had to wait to enter and then walked back to the bar which wasn’t that busy and sat at a bar table… Then had our order taken (no prices listed on the menu, so it was $17 of course… anyways that would have been fine except the drink was just not that good and missing ingredients from the description… Pretty disappointing for all the hoopla to get a drink… 🙄🙄🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

So this was from 11 months agai down below and a 5-star at the time (I was forced to edit my original rating to update… ) Honestly, it’s cool here… Drinks are really good. Price is super fair for quality mixology. The infused shots are worth it… And cigars upstairs makes your buzz...

I'm not sure what happened the night I went but they would not let anyone in. They gave us time(s) and multiple people waited for the bar to open and it never did. I think it's weird to want to make people wait for the bar to open by giving varying times. Everyone just ended up going to Bar America. I ended up going to the coffee Co. around the corner that had a cool...