Nasty’s

Used to go all the time, now I rarely stop in. The place is okay. Lots of different beers and liquors. Plenty of room to smoke outside. Lots of cute young girls. If you like Hun’s rugby, thats cool too. I guess I need to visit this place again.

Such a dirty, divey, hipster bar! But cheap drinks for sure. People watching was the most entertainment we had all night

Great beer selection and good shows. ¹⁰⁄₁₀ would come again

Cheap drinks and they were pretty strong. They have a great beer selection. And, it’s great to watch ppl dance to the words and not the beat while you dance to the beat and not the words. Nasty’s believes in keeping it weird! I’ll be back again and again. My hometown favorite!

I want my dirty dead body buried under this amazing establishment. I have never felt so alive drinking in this shit hole

Nasty’s is not nasty at all, and, is infact quite a fun place, where you are guaranteed a good time! It’s got a neighbourhood dive bar feel to it with a nice juke box in the corner, some pool tables and a super awesome collection of beers on tap. It’s a friendly and comfortable place where you come to kick back and relax. It was our first time there and I already know I will be going back for more. The bartender was friendly and suggested some really good Austin local beers to try. We even had a quick who does the best bbq in Austin poll and got some pretty good leads to try! And I am also told that Monday nights are DJ nights with some fun retro and hiphop music.

This is the best dive bar I’ve ever been to, and I think it might have some cosmic thing going on with it because every time I go something miraculous and hilarious happens. Cheap drink specials, free darts and pool sometimes (forgot which nights, maybe Tuesday and Wednesday) easy going and friendly. Whose bras are those stapled to the ceiling I wonder?

Nasty’s is a traditional neighborhood/​dive bar, and a good one at that. We don’t go as often as we should, because of the closeness of and great pint night specials at Flying Saucer. Although Nasty’s can’t match the FS for draught variety and cheapness, it comes close. Nasty’s is also, thankfully, missing the truly atrocious service one routinely gets at FS. We’re thinking, in fact, of making it our new home base.
Nasty’s has all required toys for a place that’s there first and foremost for drinking: coin-​op pool tables, darts, an outside patio (enclosed, so that you’re sheltered from the street noise – two thumbs up), and a seriously nice spread of draught beers, heavy on crafts and locals. There are even only a couple of TVs, limiting the frat-​boy magnetism that marketing your place as a sports bar will normally accomplish.
Last time we were in, it also featured a nice fellow named Jack, the owner-​operator who regaled us with industry stories and generally helped the missus and I have a good time, turning us on to a bourbon-​barrel cask porter that rocked the universe. I’m always a sucker for beer nerd talk, and the guy knows his stuff. For those not into the brews, there’s a full bar available as well.
True to the dive bar ethos, the place looks like it was last remodeled around 1975, which is all good in my book, as unless you’re going for wine-​bar posh, I’d rather have you skip the equipment upgrades and give me a better price on the drinks. Nasty’s also has one of the few 2AM licenses in the otherwise-​conservative Hyde Park area, so head there to get your late-​night on.
The only major drawback last visit was the overwhelming smell of bleach in the place. Sanitation is cool and all, but a little of the chlorine goes a long way, hear me?
Bonus: you may bring Amy’s Ice Cream in from next door, either as an alternative to or in conjunction with the beer. There’s a coffee porter float waiting to happen next time I’m in the mood for dessert.

Wow hip hop night is hip hopping. But fair wArning the bodies become space heaters. The dance off is owned by the hot get down girls and the boys who can break dance. DJ MEL can win all the awards in my heart! Keep dancing. Don’t stop can’t stop won’t stop. Keep jigging.
Drinks are a bit pricey for this type place, but you don’t need alcohol on hip hop night because you will DEFINITELY GET CRUNK ON THE TUNES GETTING SPUN ON THE TURNTUPTABLe.

Above average draft beer selection and pitchers of flavored margaritas. I went on a first date here and ended up marrying her. What else do you need to know?

Monday nights. DJ Mel.
Bring your ass.

I used to live really close to Nasty’s and went several times. The best night is their Hip Hop Mondays. When it’s happening it can be very full and alot of fun. The dance floor is teeny tiny but people start to dance into the main area as well. It takes awhile for it to actually get full which can be rough for a Monday night.
It can be a nice neighborhood divey bar as well. Where you just go to hangout.

Great place check it out if you are in Austin on a Monday cheap drinks… o the admission is $ 4 weird…

The only night I ever go to Nasty’s is Monday night, for DJ Mel’s weekly hip hop dance party.
DJ Mel gets five stars. All day, every day. He never fails to rock the party, which he’s been doing there for seriously like 17 years, or something close to it.
Nasty’s, on the other hand, has it’s ups and downs.
On the positive tip, they have a great beer selection, effective but reasonable bouncers, and a decent patio to cool your heels on.
They also have a dancefloor /​stage, where MANY a booty has been shook.
(Booty Math — {avg. 20 – 30 booties every week x 52 weeks x 17 years = 22,100 booties!})
On the downside are the surly bartenders, who are efficient, but about as courteous as you’d expect for a dive bar. And the men’s bathroom.
This must be where Nasty’s gets its name. Down the end of a hallway, you’ll find a solitary toilet (no urinal) that is rarely flushed because the handle is hidden under a wooden tank cover. Then back through that hall you’ll see a sink that is only occasionally used as a rinsing station because there’s rarely any soap or paper towels. Keep that in mind when you’re handling that pool cue, no pun intended.
Nasty’s is also home to the Austin Huns rugby team. They generally stay away on Monday nights, but the team congregated on the patio one cool autumn’s eve a few years ago, while I was moppin the dance sweat from my brow.
They began to chant, «MONKEY BOY!!, MONKEY BOY!!, MONKEY BOY!!», and a guy separated himself from the group… then that guy began to strip all his clothes off.
When he was fully buck nekkid, (and I felt a little bad for him because the chilly air had caused significant shrinkage) the frenzied chanting group poured beer all over his back while he strutted around on all fours, lookin like an albino silverback gorilla.
Quite a sight, lemme tell ya. Ah, team sports.
Anyway, I’ll be back for many hip hop nights to come. It’s the only sure-​fire reliable place to dance on a weeknight. Long live Monkey Boy!

Big outdoor patio that is heated in the winter, lots of beers on tap, and a margarita machine.
I didn’t like this place at first. It’s dark. The undergarments stapled to the ceiling is weird. The bathroom doesn’t even have a toilet seat.
But I’ve grown to love this place. It’s the most low key place, even on a crowded night. You never know what the crowd is going to be. At first, it seemed like mostly rugby players. Sometimes it’s young hipsters, college kids, and sometimes they have a DJ playing techno or hip hop. Usually it’s a mix of people.
The tap beer is kind of expensive for a dive bar, but there’s usually some cheap tall boys. Huge selection of beers on tap, although I wish there were more local beers. There’s also darts and pool.
Best advice I have is to get a pitcher and enjoy a cool evening on the patio with some friends.

So the UT grads will know this place well, but since I went to SWT (yes, this was BEFORE they changed it to Texas State), Nasty’s was not a place I was familiar with. Only recently did I discover this near-​campus dive-​bar gem.
On the couple of occasions I’ve been to this place, Monday night are empty — but I can see why the kids rave about this place: Full bar, close to campus, a very nice selection of drafts — and reasonable pint prices ($ 4.25 and up). I’ll be back!

It’s 1 am and you’re leaving a bar with your girlfriend by your side and your heels in hand. That’s when you know you popped, bumped, grinded, locked and just about dropped it. Walking barefoot down the road to yer car you realize THIS AIN’T YO MAMA’S GHETTO!
~Drinks will be spilled on you by various Nasties — free alcohol, people.
~Snoop, Biggie and Tupac are overflowing in the spin — round up the gin and juice and back that ass up in the back seat, ho.
~Plenty of people are doin’ the humpty dance and the doin’ it doggie style dance, in total threesome form — do not join or you might disappear never to be seen again.
~No strobe, colored or even black lights are to be found around the dance floor — shut up and dance on that raised plywood dance floor, bitch.
~No windows and no ventilation other than a metal trailer park fan and a small outside area for smoking — shut up and like it bitch.
Unleash the booty here.

I was introduced to Nasty’s over 10 years ago (I’m old — there, I said it)… it was my cousin’s favorite bar. So whenever he went out, this is the place we would meet up. I went many times in my younger years… and then recently stepped through the door to find the EXACT SAME BAR. Not a thing has changed… and for that, I’m pretty glad. I always liked this place — it’s divey, friendly, and fun. The people are chill and the bartenders cool.
If you’re looking for a good place to relax and get your drink on… and like the dive bars — then this is your place. We went on a Friday at 8ish, and it was pretty empty. Of course there were the people in there that were already super drunk — but come on, that’s one of the characteristics of a dive bar, right? It would have been nicer if the most drunk guy in there hadn’t hit on me, but there are worse things in the world, I think.

I am giving five to the dive baby. How have I never been here? It’s just like the quintessential dive bar — strong drinks, dark as hell, dirty (literally, dust balls) halfhearted panties on the ceiling.
I had about 282 910 drinks for $ 19. Seriously. They’ve got an outside patio, darts, pool and lots of amazing beers on tap. My favorite was the tap that looked like a little boy peeing. He was peeing out some really great beer too.
Bottom line is I’ll be back to nastys for some of that naaaazty goodness. And maybe throw in a hip hop night for some street cred.

Monday is for DJ Mel to take your troubles away and mix the hip hop right, and Nasty’s is the place to be. Did your week already go by the wayside? Address the problem ASAP with some cheap drinking and dancing on the (smallish) floor at Nasty’s. The dancing usually gets started by 11, and you will find yourself singing along to songs you didn’t even know you knew, cringing at the 90s outfits that come screaming into your memory in vibrant color. And… doesn’t M.I.A. have another song besides Paper Planes? Well gee golly gosh she DOES — whole other albums even, and I was shocked when DJ Mel threw down Galang, a little Fire Fire, THEN a little Stevie Wonder (Sir Duke), then my favorite reggae song from when I was TWELVE!
I get mad hyper just thinking about it.