Flamingo Cantina

Love this bar! Great live music, chill atmosphere, good drinks, and cool people! If you love reggae, you need to check it out!

Reggae. I wish they would do some other world music but the reggae is solid. Also the monthly meet up spot for Texas NORML (first Wednesday of every month). Bar is essentially cash only. If you pay by card you have to close your tab after each order. Staff is nice and super patient. Love the upstairs patio.
As of the writing of this, 10/​22/​2015, local up and coming band Sip Sip is doing a weekly rotation here on Thursdays. They alone are worth seeing. They can have anywhere from 13 – 18 members on stage at one time and will play everything from Hip Hop to Reggae to House. Crazy stuff for sure.
Small bar on the end of 6^th and I hope it never leaves.

This place is the place to be on Tuesdays! Great music, and great people at the second-​floor balcony. I received a tip to come here from a bartender and this place does not disappoint. They have a decent dance floor on the first floor, with stadium bleacher-​type seating and a live band playing reggae and ska. The drinks here aren’t too bad either.

I love this place! On Wednesday nights this place host the NORML meetings and there is a live band playing reggae music. It’s on 6^th street but it feels like your somewhere tropical and like your about to walk out to a beach. Maybe I was drunk when I felt that but the upstairs is the place to be when looking to chill and enjoy the music.

This joint had everything I’ve ever wanted in a reggae bar:
–The Mau Mau Chaplains (a great band that floated between 6 – 19 members).
–A hippie hula-​hooping barefoot on the filthy dance floor.
–Reasonably priced drinks.
–No cover.
–Plenty of seating.
–Nice staff that tactfully escorted a kid passed out on the ground out of the bar.
And one thing I never want, ever:
–A homeless man that followed us inside and brought the lovely aroma of piss along with him.

This is my muthafucken church. My weekly dose of fuck it all, from the bullshit of the week.

Great venue and the Mau Mau Chaplains are awesome reggae band. Monthly meeting place for Texas Norml Open Monthly Meeting… each first Wednesday… no fooling!

Keep Austin weird! I had a blast last night :)
Bartender had a good attitude all the time.

Came back to Austin after 18 years in San Diego. Still happy to see the Flamingo is still opened. The place is just great. Back in the day it was fun to go upstairs to take a smoke break and not worry about the man. Haven’t been there since I got back but can’t see that it changed that much. Great live shows, dance floor butts right up against the stage. Can’t really complain about the drinks due to the fact that my one hitter gets me by.
Very cool vibe and a great place to dance. Can’t say enough about the place. See you there.

Went to a concert there & had to wait forever for them to come out! The drinks are pretty crappy but cheap. The place is very ‘rustic’ looking.

Make sure to hit up Reggae night on Wednesdays! The house band always gives some tasty jams to dance to.

I’ve played many times and seen many great shows at Flamingo. This venue has always treated me right, as a patron and as a performer. They always pay, even during free week, and the sound — despite the venue being a glorified alleyway– is always at the very least acceptable and sometimes great.
Even if you’re just starting out as a performer in Austin I highly recommend playing at Flamingo. It’s a great launching pad for a new band and a solid choice for an established one to have a fun show. The laid-​back environment will ensure a fun crowd, and the tropical mixed drinks will ensure the ladies are dancing. Next time you’re down on dirty Sixth, check out Flamingo and catch what is likely a reggae show.

This is a neat little place. Its definitely a hole in the wall but as a cool rooftop patio, great stage for live music and the bartenders pour some strong and cheap drinks.
My friends band was playing here so I stopped in to see them. Otherwise I would have never run across this place.
It was a sunday afternoon so it was pretry quiet crowd wise. Not sure how it is on other nights!

The greatest place for Reggae in Austin!
Good selection of alcohol, the bartenders and owner are stellar, love the vibe!
If you haven’t been, you have to go out back and have a jerk chicken burrito. 100% authentic and absolutely delicious!
I love nothing more than new experiences. This place deserves to be on your bucket list!

I’ve been in Austin for over 5 years and never found this diamond in the rough. Real roots riddims in a special environment. Take a break from the college hi jinx of 6^th Street to bless the spot. Good vibes with an island feel.
The bands play live and the stage has been greats by many reggae legends include Beenie Man, Luciano, and Yellowman. This the truth! Lik-​a-​shot!

Ive seen some of the craziest shows and the most chillest at this venue. Great place for Reggae bands. Dubtonic played here and it was awesome!

If you like good music this seems to be the place you wanna be! I saw the slackers and the toasters here! Great shows and Great drinks, they make a mean Hurricane! Check it out!

This place ain’t bad at all. Seating’s kinda limited on the floor near the stage, but if it’s a good band, you’ll be standing anyway. There’s also a rooftop patio where you can look down onto the stage.
The bar’s kinda nice, they serve Caribbean Hurricanes, which aren’t bad but WAY too damn strong lol. They’re about 4 bucks apiece. Plus, being as it’s a Jamaican themed place, they have big ass bottles of Red Stripe aplenty.
I went here a few nights back to see Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, and it was tight.

I can’t wait to come back here! I have no clue when that will be, but hopefully soon!
We came here to check out a great local reggae band, Axis Unity and they did not disappoint and neither did the Flamingo Cantina! Super nice and funny bartender, decent drink prices and strong enough drinks.
It’s not a huge place, but that’s OK. We went to a couple other places that night and I was worried I was going to lose track of my group. But this place was just big enough you didn’t feel crowded yet not so big you needed GPS to find your way around.
The stage is pretty tiny and there aren’t too many seats; like another reviewer said just some carpeted bleachers along the wall. But there is a roof top deck and that’s where we headed.
The sound system was really good as well. Sometimes the smaller places don’t have great sound but I was pleasantly impressed that night.
The only thing that was funny to me, and I’m not sure if it was on purpose or not, was that there were no lights in the girls bathroom. lol They must have known about it because there were candles on the sink and in each stall, but the candle in one of the stalls went out while my friend was in there. So, if the lights went out and they didn’t have time to replace them, great way to improvise. If they wanted to be cool and just didn’t fix them, not so fun.
But otherwise a really great place that I would not hesitate to come back to!

On the eve of the end of SXSW I found myself searching for $ 5 to get into this place. Not a bad cover price considering the other places we had tried to get into. Immediately when I walked in, I thought «Wow this place is small.» Turns out, its a lot bigger than I thought. The balcony hovers above the stage and behind it, with a great view still of all the action and people watching below. This was my favorite spot to hang out here. Mock carpeted bleachers downstairs on the side of the stage for those who are too lazy to stand the entire night. One very long bar downstairs that accepts credit cards, the bar upstairs is cash only as I found out the hard way.
Some of the best things about this place? Firstly, this is a «hipster free zone.» Which was definitely non-​existent during SXSW. The people who come here are quite the variety and thats a good thing in my opinion. Secondly, every Wednesday they have live reggage bands playing here FREE COVER. On the weekends there may be cover but its never more than $ 5. And thirdly and most importantly: RED STRIPE is a must. And the fact that they carry 24 oz. Red Stripes here is truly awesome. Its one of my favorite beers, if I’m drinking beer that night. And if you’re with a group of people, its still easy to converse over the music on the balcony above.
On a more random note, they have someone making jerk chicken plates and whatever else Jamaicans eat downstairs. And most importantly, don’t ever sit a full 24 oz. Red Stripe on the ledge that overlooks everything downstairs and not expect someone to accidentally knock it over and onto an unexpecting person below. Party foul!
Great bar with an awesome vibe, with live reggae music regularly!