Cheers Shot Bar

This is the worst place that I’ve came to on 6^th Street bartenders are rude drinks are like watered-​down Place smells like s*** and piss everywhere yeah that place I will ever come to on 6^th Street there’s a lot more places was better than coming to don’t waste your money or time and they’re expensive

Probably the worst bar on sixth. Drinks were mediocre at best. Terrible bartenders. Awful service. Disrespectful to me and my friends. Only concerned with getting underage kids in the bar to exploit. Avoid this place at all costs!

Not the stiffest shots around, but they are putting a lot of different things in each shot. Shots are about $ 8 each. A mellow spot if the mélange and crowd of 6^th street is bringing you down.
They have a photo booth, which for me was the highlight, along with the service.

Loved this place! The atmosphere was great and the music was good. An excellent turn-​up! The bartender, Diesel, was great at suggesting interesting shots. After a series of shots, ranging from Bend Me Over to Diesel Fuel — I was feeling great!
Adding this to the list of places I MUST visit every time I am in Austin!

When my boyfriend and I stumbled across Cheers, not going to lie, we were very skeptical at first. Just based on appearance of the bar, I could see somebody who prefers the fancier side of bars (like the ones on West sixth) to turn around and walk out. like the interior, decorations or lack there of, etc. it definitely looks like a cheap, old, worn down bar.
That being said we LOVE the shot selections, the bartenders are super fun and talk to you, they play a good selection of music, it’s just all around always a great experience for us.

Kaitlin was absolutely amazing definitely recommend this place her knowledge of bar tending and shots is incredible!

Walking by with my girlfriend while on our trip to Austin and we were intrigued by the doorman telling us they had $ 2 beers and shots and wells. We went in (about 2pm on a Saturday) and it was dead. The bartenders were super nice and took care of us immediately. They were taking turns playing music and singing along. It was a lot of fun. We ended up leaving to go eat dinner and after dinner decided to come back. It was packed and saw there was no room at the bar so we didnt stay. To the people complaining about the place being dirty or smelly, go to a nice hotel bar or swanky steakhouse bar if that is what you are expecting when you come to 6^th St.
Will definitely be back to Cheers.

Grimy, smelly (like urine in most parts of the bar) and the floors are sticky.
We went with a group of our friends to celebrate someone’s 30^th birthday. We were ushered to the back when we said we wanted the Flaming Dr. Peppers.
It was interesting to watch the bartenders make it in the back. The drink itself was okay. There was a decent crowd on a Friday night and the service was prompt.
It is what it is. A dive bar on Dirty Sixth.

dive bar-​ish but they did offer a lottttttt of different shots (hence, shot bar) and offer drink/​shot specials. There were some kids playing giant jenga and the music was pretty good. Its a nice pit spot, but i wouldn’t make a night out of it.

This was one of our stops during our barhopping adventure — quick service, cheap drinks and GREAT bartenders. If you are new to town, nothing says welcome to Austin like the blue wave shot (unless you’re a nitpicky complaining partypooper)

I had an incredibly fun time here, but I realize that $ 1 drinks aren’t actually that uncommon on 6^th (which I still can’t get over). So why only 3 stars, you might ask? Well, like a lot of the bars on 6^th, it’s basically a dive that draws people in with these insane drink offers. So, since it’s pretty much the norm on this street, I’m giving it a completely average review. Nothing here really set it apart from the other bars we went to along the street, except maybe for the rooftop bar (which I mean, is a second-​story deck, so it’s not so much a rooftop view as a view of the bar across the way). But hey, I like drinking outdoors. The cheap well drinks are pretty watered down… had about six and was barely buzzed. So keep that in mind. But it’s a great way to chill with people on the cheap.

Nice rooftop view. That said, management has changed and thus the drinks are much weaker and taste like ass. You used to be able to get a couple of $ 1 wells and get a good buzz on before heading on to other bars. Now you get a cup of coke (is it really coke? Pretty sure it’s not) with a hint of alcohol. Wells are sickeningly sweet and their «whiskey» is T.W. Samuels (a neutral grain spirit with whiskey flavoring). This wouldn’t be so bad if you actually got some in your drink though. Good service is hard to get unless you’re a regular or an attractive female. It’s not the Cheers I used to know.

A pregame bar if I’ve ever seen one. $ 2 Kamikazes on the weekends (or something like that), which isn’t bad considering I’m a huge lightweight. I don’t like to hang out here because it quickly fills up with bro-​type guys and old drunk couples, but if you’re looking to get tipsy before heading out somewhere else you’ve found it.

We ended up arriving to 6^th street exxxtremeeely late so we had to really knuckle down for POWER HOUR so us girls decided to come here since they’re known for their ridiculously cheap and interesting named shots. We got a spot at the bar and I made a friend with the guy next to us who apparently knew the bartender so we were getting dibs on all the shots without wait :) Our bartender was really friendly and hospitable too, which is rare to find at bars. I can’t quite remember what we ordered but to name a few: flaming dr. pepper, blow job, buttery nipple, panty dropper, and sex on the beach. All of them were kind of sweet tasting, but whatevs, it got the job done haha. Other than the bar is dirty and super sticky. i can live with it. I’ll def visit again when I’m in town.

«Ooh, that smell. Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell. The smell of death surrounds you» (Lynyrd Skynyrd). Okay, LS lyrics are admittedly about something much more serious and obviously I survived to write this review, but yowza! When I walked into Cheers Shot Bar I was immediately slapped into the face (not by «Norm!») by the overwhelming, unpleasant smell of ‘piss pucks’ that permeated the entire joint.
After leaving a very large party (~800) peeps at a venue next door, a small group of us went in for what was supposed to be a cheap ($ 1) drink as promised by the door guy — ended up being a bit more because we had never even heard of the «wells» they stock so we ordered something else –AND I desperately needed to use the ladies; otherwise we would have probably turned around and walked back out.
I hightailed it to the restroom, relief (what, TMI?), then doused my hands with antibacterial soap before realizing both handles on both sinks (to turn the water on/​off) had been ripped off. Literally, like perhaps stolen? Lol! So, had to venture my way into the men’s to wash and rinse while holding my breath until my face turned blue.
Any of you who have ever read my reviews about places to booze, know I loooove a good dive bar. But, there is a difference between dive and just disgust. Dirty 6^th just keep getting dirtier. Hmm… Yuck! The staff were all surprisingly nice, so I feel I must give two stars instead of one… if not for anything more than I feel really bad they have to stay there for hours and work (nose blind).
Won’t be returning. :/​
[147 in 2015]

«$ 1 well drinks for Unilocalers!» he yelled, as we left The Vulcan Gas Co after the Summer Stunner. We were on our way to the Jackalope, so figured, why not?
Well, maybe cause it smells like bleach and urinal cakes in there. Needless to say we did not order well and did not stay long.
They were friendly enough, but not worth staying!

Walked in, slapped $ 20 on the bar and told the bar tender that I hate my life and want to drink shots until the pain goes away… and the money. Great success on all fronts. It’s not top shelf liquor, but my life is bottom shelf, so it all worked out in the end.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name…
This is not that place. It’s a loud shot bar. I couldn’t hear anyone’s name if they shouted it to me. We got a round of shots from the huge menu of shots. I don’t know how the bartender heard what we ordered. I suspect they just eyeballed us and thought, «yea– these guys could use some pineapple juice and tequila. The shots were cheap!
The restrooms were scary dirty. Ugh. Sticky floors. Bleh.
This place is among all the action on Sixth. Not a place to go relax and unwind. Kinda the opposite.

You have to pay this place a visit if you’re a first timer to Austin. Be sure to order the blue wave shot and consider it your Austin initiation to 6^th street!
Loved the friendly bartenders and the crowd was mixed and good spirited. Always love bringing new folks to Austin here!

me [on barstool, shaking head slowly, during daytime SXSW]: «So. It’s come to this.»
friend: «Well we’re here because you wanted to see Ian Moore.»
me: «I still don’t get why he is playing here. Maybe him and Bobby Bare Jr. are being punked?»
friend: «Maybe.»
Cheers is the worst of Austin. I’m glad this is a place where nobody knows my name. Everything that now-​Dirty 6^th has become is pretty much present here. Every surface you can touch in Cheers is drenched with the afterbirth of frat partiers and their acolytes. Wear gloves.
There is a sort of second story they built on the east side of the interior bar space to make more room for people, but beware of smacking your head when you try to walk beneath it.
They do have free wi-​fi, though. I tried to get the password from 2 out of 3 bartenders during a weird giant lull in SX traffic at 3:30pm. Bartender 1 said «We don’t have wifi, man» and bartender 2 said «Fuck if I know.» The guest-​sponsor-​beer-​only lady by the front entrance was 5000% more pleasant than the bar staff on this day. (Sadly she did not know the wifi password either). YES, it’s SX, but I’m pretty polite and respectful of busy bartenders, in general, so I don’t get the crap-​giving, especially if it’s not busy.
The only reason I gave them two stars is because their a/​c was measurable, and that is something when you’re trying to escape Austin heat. Do not expect the rooftop patio to provide relief when real summer begins, though.
When we left, I hoped for SX sponsor Purell to offer a Walkthrough Body Sanitizer, but no such luck.
Medic!