The shiny downtown restaurant makes use of Japanese ingredients in its cocktails, like the rum-based Wabi Sabi with wasabi, the tequila Yuzu Picante cocktail, and the negroni made with Japanese fruit ume.

The Emmer & Rye team opened up a pintxos bar next-door to its latest restaurant Hestia in downtown Austin. There’s a frozen version of the namesake drink, a mixture of red wine and cola, but you can also ask the bartenders to whip up a non-frozen version of the cocktail.

The first of the many restaurants slated for the Austin Proper hotel and condo building is the Mediterranean Peacock. On deck are house and classic cocktails found at the bar and the restaurant proper, spanning the refreshing strawberry rose shrub to the boozy Crave the Date mixed with date syrup to the martini (gin or vodka) to bloody marys.

Okay, this is cheating and, yes, yes, it’s a wine bar, but it’s a really smart wine bar focused on natural wines right in East Austin with a great patio space.

Eater Dallas named Tipsy Alchemist the city’s bar of the year in 2016, and it decided to expand onto Rainey Street last month. The showy bar mixes up interesting cocktails including, yes, one served in a lightbulb-shaped glass and another that is actually transported via a pneumatic tube.

Instead of using spirits, the new South Congress cafe makes mixed drinks using fortified wines for refreshing libations, like the Chain Lube with gentiane quina and a yuzu umami shrub or the Maglia Rosa with cocchi rosa, prosecco, and orange juice.