Big Star Bar

• Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining

Description

Big Star Bar is located about a mile from the bustling section of W. 19th St. in the northern reaches of the Heights, where the real estate teeters between housing and industrial buildings. This was owner Brad Moore's first bar baby, opening almost two years before his like-minded Grand Prize Bar on the Montrose/Museum District border. Big Star has settled delicately into its surroundings, offering a welcome respite from the faux-Austin digs of Cedar Creek around the corner. The décor is shabby chic, with couches and oddly-shaped loungers throughout, and every now and then you can catch a free indie or blues show inside. The bartenders are old hands at the strong pour, and the music is always on point, be it from the juke or the satellite-radio system. Big Star is a good place to hang out - or hide out - on a weeknight, and an even better spot to host a get-together on the back patio, which just expanded even farther behind the bar. On a busy night, you could have a wedding back there and no one would be the wiser.