The new North Loop vegan coffeeshop and taco spot also has a full bar, including two rotating frozen cocktails (currently a paloma and a tropical drink). Double Trouble opened in June with indoor and outdoor dining services, including an ample patio.

This tiny trailer behind Progress Coffee + Beer opened in May. Visitant serves only four cocktails a night, and guests can reserve for an hour at a time by DMing the bar. Visitant is open for indoor drinking.

Cherrywood Mexican seafood restaurant Este expanded with an intimate indoor-outdoor bar next door in April. Drinks-wise, this means Mexican cocktails like margaritas and carajillos, alongside aperitivos.

Sign Bar opened in June with cocktails served with a big helping of Austin nostalgia. The main attraction is the various signs from Austin businesses, although cocktails include drinks like a spicy margarita and a blackberry mule. There are indoor and outdoor seating areas.

The new very large downtown lounge (in the former original Truluck’s space) offers a cocktail menu inspired by its on-site flower shop since opening in May. This means drinks making use of fruits and floral ingredients like the Pastel made with hibiscus or the matcha martini with dragonfruit. There are indoor dine-in services.

This small cocktail bar at Inn Cahoots has a loungey vibe and cocktails from beverage director Jorge Viana, like a curried milk punch.

The third bar at Inn Cahoots has indoor/outdoor seating with cabanas, a stage, and lounge seating. All three bars opened in July.

The Govalle bar opened in March, where co-owner Erin Ashford’s bar genius is clearly evident through the cocktail menu. The delightful drinks include fancies such as the savory-ish Virgo’s Groove with a bell pepper-infused sotol or the frozen Mexican martini. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The creative cocktails at Elementary make use of surprising food combinations, much like the food. There’s an Eggo-spresso martini made with Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal milk and a cosmopolitan made with fermented Kool-Aid. It opened in July.

This campus-adjacent sports bar, which opened in September, comes from fast-growing hospitality group NoCo, who also own retro bar Skinny’s Off-Track Lounge and bar/flower shop Estelle’s. Victory Lap serves cold beers and spicy margaritas indoors or on the turf-covered patio — which has fans and big screen TVs.