#52: Lit Lounge

The Bar

Lit Lounge. 215 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701

Visited 2/24/17 @ 9pm.

The Drink

Sex in your mouth shot. Blueberry and raspberry vodka, blue curaçao, sweet and sour, OJ, pineapple juice. $6.50.

Oh boy, blueberry and raspberry vodka - both kinds! Our bartender was hemming and hawwing at my prompt, unsure of what to serve me, until the guy next to her jumped in and recommended this shot, which, he proclaimed modestly, was invented by none other than himself. I'm a big fan of bartender-created drinks in basically any context, and indeed, for a drink you get in a lounge, it was a cut above the average Red-Headed Slut or whatever other scandalously-named overpriced shot you're likely to get. A veritable tropical whirlwind in a glass. Props on using curaçao as well, even though the blue version has a somewhat mystifying origin. Recommended for all the ballers on a budget out there.

The Crew

Travis, Aaron, Nick, Kathryn.

Notes

My notes for this place are a single word: UGH. Sometimes you can just feel that a place isn't for you. It could be the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, or a chill running down your spine, or the glint of the light reflecting off of hair with way too much product in it into your eye, but the body often knows on a subliminal level that it doesn't want to be there - maybe call it the Bud Lite or flight response. Lit Lounge is "Sixth Street's only high energy upscale nightclub", according to their website, and by now you don't need me to repeat my opinion of these places. Maybe I'm just stereotypical.

However, like I've said, I am firmly committed to trying out every bar and giving it a fair shake, and it would be stupid to write a bar off for no reason. Lit Lounge isn't even all that bad for what it is. I've talked about how important it is that there are different bars for different types of people. Whatever is it that makes someone a "club person" as opposed to any other type of person (since even people who go to clubs all the time don't really like them as a bar), it's indisputable that there's a market for them, and this is where those transactions happen. Not at the time though - there was only one cluster of girls during our visit, waiting for some aspiring players to enter and start making the moves on them. It's a really weird feeling to see some attractive girls in a club with no one else there and think to yourself "wait, I'm on a mission", but that's where I was. Good luck ladies!