Stompin Grounds Lounge

Pretty cool place. Good place to see musicians. Bathroom is usually fine. Service is good.
What would I improve? Parking can be an issue… and the live sound can be a muddy. This isnt really a coffee joint, dont let the name fool you!

More of a dive bar than a coffee shop. Not good to find a table and sit for a while. When we went there was only one bar tender and he was on break. We waited 10 minutes and finally left. We didn’t like the vibe or the wait.

A coffee bar without actual coffee. Went in here to chill out on a Monday and get some work done, hoping for a good cup of coffee. Bartender informed me they don’t actually have coffee, only espresso. I settled for a mediocre cappuccino.
They place which was mostly empty at the time did have a nice feel to it, so I’ll have to go back for the booze, but I don’t think I’d call this a coffee bar. It’s more like a cocktail lounge with an espresso machine.

We didn’t make the event in its entirety, but from the 30 – 45 minutes we DID get to spend in here, I LOVED it.
Small, on a «club-​y» side, but much larger than coffee house size. Great spot for open mic night, poetry night, a birthday party with a bomb dj. Cute décor, very warm feeling, and smoking is right out the door if you smoke.
Parking kind of sucks, but the location is what it is.

It’s a shame this place is so over priced for drinks the 04 lounge is just across the street. They should really do some price checks when you can get s nice buzz at one for under 15 and you can’t even get a decent cocktail at the other for under 10 management should really think about a few things

Definitely more of a dive bar than a coffee lounge like I walked in expecting from the name. I Would return for drinks and the live music.

We had arrived a little after the live band had performed (darn!!) so the place was still lively but not super packed. The bartenders were attentive and helpful, but they didn’t have a ton of variety in terms of beer or drink specials. I am sure if I had come during happy hour, I would have been a lot happier with the selection, but what they had available for the evening wasn’t anything special. There is definitely nice outdoor seating and a cool stage area for live performances. Definitely want to check this place out when more stuff is going on!

Nice enough place. I was here with my dad for a filmmakers mixer.
The alcohol was reasonably priced, and there’s plenty of seating inside and out. Except the interior was kinda small.
There’s also a side room with a stage for open mic nights.

Monday is open mic night and it’s pretty awesome if you wanna see some live, raw, and local talent

Cool lil neighborhood bar. Great place to pregame while waiting for the cab to go downtown. :)

I first visited here as a pregame to expose. I had just ended a relationship, it was tax refund day, and i wanted a few strong drinks. The prices were very reasonable. The music I believe was open mic. Terrible. But my bartender was cool. I wish I remember her name. Tipped her well, even bought her a couple drinks, after asking her manager if I could. The atmosphere was relaxed at 5pm. The people started flowing in around 7. As I was leaving. I’ve been back a few times, always a great rendezvous before heading across the street for some quality entertainment.

I would return for booze but not coffee. The bartender was really nice and helpful, but the environment wasn’t conducive for work or just chillin with a cup of joe.
They have wifi but it doesn’t extend very far so you have to sit closer to congress (very loud with all the traffic) or inside (louder music than preferred and the seating an wall outlets were sparse).
Id agree with previous reviews that its more divey and less coffee-​shopish than the name implies.

Although the food is soso but see Shannon and Vince at the bar ! They rock ! Great selection of cheap drinks

I work very close to this place and have been for the past year. I never really thought to go in because I don’t really like coffee and when I’m done with work, this never really struck me as a good HH spot. Decided to swing by on my lunch break to check it out.
I think the words lounge need to be removed from the name of this place. There is nothing loungy about it. It has the atmosphere of a bar on dirty 6^th. There are no couches or anything just high and regular height tables. I’d more say Stompin Grounds Dive Bar. It really doesn’t seem like a coffee shop at all and the name of the place suggests that it is even though alcohol is the main attraction.
Also might want to stop attempting food at all and remove the words Hand Tossed from your pizza sign on the outside of the door. I’m not sure how heating up a frozen pizza, makes anything hand tossed.
Not a fan and won’t be back.

This place is my jam. Close to home, friendly bartenders and an awesome karaōke host on Tuesdays. Live music most other nights.

Great chill place after a long night at work. Very nice bartenders and they can actually keep a damn convo going

Came here for an ALS benefit show and had a great time! The stage area is cute and comfortable and the wine I got was good. Didn’t spend too too much time here, but solid venue for more intimate shows.

This is my spot if I want to avoid downtown and other pricey places elsewhere. It’s downstairs which is awesome and avoids me being behind a wheel.
I love all the bartenders, especially Jordan. She is awesome!

I have been to some bars that suffer from Schizophrenia but this place takes the cake!
After recently moving to Austin and more specifically to the apartments behind Stompin Grounds, I thought it would be interesting to check this place out. This was a moment of excitement for me. How great is this, a neighborhood bar that I can truly stumble home to with no worries just by walking up a hill. Unfortunately, my opinion quickly changed after recently meeting up with a girlfriend here for the first time.
While I’m not opposed to coffee shops serving booze, obviously this is a viable concept if the world’s biggest coffee shop (Starbucks) is pursuing this idea but this one falls flat. Coffee shops that want to disguise themselves as bars or vice versa is just a horrible idea.
We stopped in here on a Wednesday night, which was apparently open-​mic comedy night. The performance space was packed and was standing room only. The comics were a little loud but at least there was a curtain between the performance space and the bar side which sort of helped buffer the sound.
Speaking of décor, I don’t know if my words could give justice to this place. I can understand how difficult it might be to try to retrofit a space that was designed for retail into a space to occupied by a bar but this one truly missed the mark. The building is fairly new, having been completed in 2007 featuring nearly floor-​to-​ceiling windows. Do they make use of this architectural feature? No, instead they make a juvenile attempt to cover it with black sheets of poster board. The interior is so dark it looks like a bad Christian hell house.
Adding to the décor is the crowd. The customer base is a rather diverse group of folks which I think says more about activities going on that night more than anything. I think there’s a lot of cross-​pollination with the highly esteemed strip club, Exposé, across the street. Being a resident of the apartments behind this place; I can honestly say that most of the patrons here are not residents. Stick around long enough you’ll notice the pedestrian traffic between the two joints.
So, after giving a bit of a scathing review of this place, I am willing to give it another shot. I will say I don’t feel it has much promise though. In the days following this visit, I have walked the dog past Stompin Grounds several times and the music blaring from there has been rather horrible… indescribable a best but it has included such things as Peter Cetera.
Stay tuned.

My visit to Stompin Grounds was the coda to a busy day of hard work and hard drinking. Actually, for my friends opening a new business it was hard work; I, of course, only participated in the latter. Or as someone put it, «With hands as soft as yours, there’s no reason to start manual labor now.» Girl, I couldn’t agree more.
My friend Thad has a cutely decorated apartment in the SoCo Lofts, to which Stompin Grounds is attached. I had crashed there the night before along with several other people, including my friends D and SK. D and I woke up to discover in our very well-​appointed flop house that we were joined by a straight, 20-​year old Australian bartender we knew, and a pair of lesbians (?) who apparently used the walk-​in closet for fooling around when the couch became too… um…“ergonomically” uncomfortable. Thank God I’m a deep sleeper. Anyways, on our way out with Thad, it was clear he had a good rapport with whoever was working at Stompin Grounds, but we never stopped in to see it for ourselves during the day.
Cut to Thad, SK, and me: 12 hours later, we’re all out and all slightly tipsy (read: drunk) by the time we make it back to SoCo Lofts. I’ve had a very busy day of crazy, and I was quite ready to fall asleep before Thad had already walked into Stompin Grounds. SK and I followed. Truly, the buzzed leading the buzzed.
Even in my haze, I could tell it was actually a pretty cute neighborhood bar, although it seemed slightly small and crowded with the surprisingly busy Wednesday night crowd. It was clean, and comfortable, due in large part to its relative newness, I suppose. We ponied up to the bar where two very attractive and friendly waitresses poured up our drinks. My vodka tonic was perfectly mixed, and even though I was probably slurring borderline inappropriate things about «that guy» again to the always-​patient SK, we all had a fun time. At some point I felt the need to reassure the bartenders I was gay, although the reason for this escapes me. I pray there was one.
For this guy, on this day, Stompin Grounds ended up being the perfect nightcap. 4 stars.