Black Sheep Lodge Reviews

Dog friendly... motorcycle friendly... the people are friendly...

Can get a bit packed sometime but nice spot-on SOLA over all. Especially for margarita night w friends. Decent veggie burger, amazing TOTS, and good variety on draft.

Decent burger, a touch dry. I'd say the punk vibe is transitioning to a bro vibe here but the patio is pretty chill.

Really a great neighborhood bar. The food is good, they have a plethora of beers on the menu and they have a super dog friendly patio! They feature a new meal every week and it's always amazing!

good Chicago dog, Brody was a great server. fun watching soccer with Manchester united fans

Dive bar with decent food. Good place to go sit outside or ride in on a motorcycle

Parking can be difficult however they have a large selection of beer and other drinks.

If you like to watch sports, this is a cool place to go to. If you are hungry, then I recommend the Buffalo burger. It is really juicy and filling with a good 'kick' to it. Order a side of sweet potato fries and you will be set. A very good amount of Texas beers for you to try and the rest of their food is great. I do not like their parking but it also seems that you can't find anywhere to park when in Austin. Other than that, I like this place.

Not into it. Too many sports on tv. It's dark and dank. Beers are ok but limited. Didn't have food, but maybe that's good. Not rating down too much because maybe you like sports. For a place to watch The Big Game, I'd say it earned 4 stars.

Great laid back atmosphere and very diff friendly patio

They have great sweet potato fries and burgers here! I also recommend the cheese curds. I would say the only drawback to this place is parking.

The atmosphere was good, the service was good, the beer was good, the fried food was okay. My biggest disappointment was the food. I had never been there before and first I ordered the chicken club with a side salad. The chicken on the sandwich was charred so much that it tasted very burnt. The onions on the sandwich still had the skin on it as if the cook did not peel the onion before cutting it. I then ordered some fried chicken bites, they were okay, tasty but a little dry. The staff was very nice, unfortunately with the food there was little attention paid to detail. With the current covid situation I doubt the ownership would be okay with the experience I had today. Hopefully this critique can be used to better the establishment for the next customer and help them survive these times.

I don't get it. I've routinely had crappy food and bad service.

Get the chili. Then have another beer. Rinse and repeat.

Food great, especially cheese curds. Parking impossible.

This is one of my local bar spots. I love the new outside seating and covering. Great on all occasions.

One of the best neighborhood hangs. Great food and specials. Thursdays get kinda crazy for the $2 margs.

Been a patron for 7 years and have noticed a decline, steadily, in several key areas. Prices have increased, quality is still great yet the response on the price raises was a run around from new management. I understand it happens but don't treat the customer like a vapid waste of space. Service is a constant turnover with no quality control. While seated at a table was asked to provide payment rather than wait for a check.

I loved coming here for years. Would consider a different spot now

Visited here on a really busy night but was still greeted with great service and drinks. I tried the grapefruit lemonade slush and cheese curds. Very good; will definitely be going back!

The place seemed cool and fun until closing. They never made a last call and allowed me to buy two beers right before they closed. Instead of letting me and my friend finish them, they were literally taken out our hands. Mind you, I was not drunk in the slightest. I was complaining to my friend about how lame that whole situation was and one of the staff yelled at me and said I shouldn't come back. Very disappointed in the staff.

Open on Christmas, which was greatly appreciated. Food is pretty good. Vegan option (green belt burger) is tasty but slightly bland. Good place to watch sports and grab a beer.

Definitely a great place to grab a burger. Plus, they have tots! (Give me tots over fries any day.) Be sure to order cheese curds. They're melt-in-your-mouth delicious! Background music was a bit loud, but it's a great place to watch your favorite sporting event.

Service was SUPER slow and we literally watched the staff just chat and take forever to bring a VERY simple drink order. The music choices were so slow it made us want to take a nap. Guessing the place is better at night (I'd hope). We literally had a drink and left, there's too many places along Lamar to have this sort of environment and service

I was here last night, had a couple beers while watching the game and left. I noticed in my bank account that the waitress took it upon herself to tip herself extra on my card. I'm now -$30 in my bank account. Very very terrible service, I was with my brother and he tipped her EXTRA on my behalf on his card because I didn't have the funds to, There was absolutely no reason for her to do this.

Friendly staff, great service, and food is awesome!

Ok sports bar. No complaints. We go here for Michigan State game watches.

Awesome neighborhood bar, with solid grub, lots of TVs for sports, shuffleboard and pool. Really cheap drink specials if that is the mood you are in. Parking can be a pain.

Kind of a hole in the wall type bar, but had some good beer selctions

Great service and solid food. Really decent drinks list.

Location and friendly atmosphere with burgers or other dishes there is a choice!

Great sports bar. The staff is quite nice and they have great beer specials and promos.

Decent service. Tough to find parking when theyre busy.

The chipotle wings are the best wings I've ever had.

Great day spot. Dog friendly patio with dog bowls for water. Friendly service. Good drink specials

The absolute best burger and fries in Austin. The Waitresses are hit-or-miss as far as hotness, but they are all tatted up skanks. It's a pretty nasty bar to be honest, but seriously . . . The food! Keeps me coming back

This place was always packed when I would drive by, so I wanted to see what all the hype was about. They have a moderately sized beer selection and food menu. Service was good, but the food was just okay. I'll probably go back due to convenience, but not my number one choice.

Very good food for a bar. Great place to watch a game.

Cheap drink specials daily, cheap bar grub, nice staff and a shaded patio. 5 stars all day

Perfect dive. Dimly lit. Lots of tvs. Good specials. Good beer selection. Um also they have Malort.

A great neighborhood bar with both inside and outside seating. All their food is great, but the tater tots are the best. They also have a great beer selection. Only complaint would be service is a little slow and unpredictable.

Nice place for get-together with friends for drinks. The outdoor seating even has heaters for those cold days. Parking can be challenging but that's expected for that area.

Over priced food and server took forever to come to our table it can be very loud outside

Great burgers, good beer selection and service is ok..

Negative stars, super rude staff. When you call they hang up on you, mid conversation. As a customer you feel like a burden.

Crowded and noisy. I think they used the same grease for the tots as the fish so those were sent back for onion rings. Bleu Buffalo burger is ok and good server stand

Good local dive bar. They always have great beers on tap, pretty decent food and sports on TV.

Great prices and drinks, but they do have a little bit of slow service on bigger groups. I don't know if this is the size or if service is just slow in general. Other then that good chill spot.

Good sports bar, and willing to change the channel for hockey which is a big plus. Margaritas were great as well.

Great beer, great food, great people. Watch out for the Sheep drinking tour beer if you are on the patio...

Very cool sports bar dog friendly great tasting food

A great bar, specials on drinks every night. The cheese curds are out of this world

Recently found this spot by chance, as I ended up giving a rideshare to one of the managers. Amazing environment, great energy and the staff are really friendly and on top of their game. Dog friendly, and they have really cool theme nights!

The two burgers on the menu are really good. Service is really good inside.

Love this place. Great beer selection, good food, lots of TVs with sports, watch parties. Fun!

Really nice staff. Busy atmosphere and cool dishes with good drink selections.

Stumbling distance from home, a great range of beers on tap and awesome specials ($2 tall cans anyone?)

Buffalo burger is amazing... pool tables, and now a separate game room and covered patio.. a neighborhood favorite.

Love the beer selection, cheese kurds, & mini hot dogs are the best!

Must be new management or something. But apparently the sports bar can t change TVs off their game watch. So every tv has to be that game watch, yet half the TVs are running commercials and football analysis. But they can t switch those TVs to an actual game.

Burgers are decent, drinks aren't too much. Lots of tv's, and thus, loud and sometimes more obnoxious than me fans as a result. Go when it's not gameday and it's better.

The manager as Black Sheep Lodge is terrible, we went there to watch the UT game. You think any bar in Austin would have the UT game on, however not Black Sheep Lodge. They had over half thier TVs dedicated to the A&M with NO A&M fans there. I get it if there is a big crowd but the game was pretty much already over and nobody was watching it.

We tried to leave but then it took forever to get closed out. Very poorly run bar.

Decent beer selection. I liked the burger but I got food poisoning from eating it and probably will avoid eating here in the future.

Great burgers, great sweet potato fries, and beer. And inexpensive too.

Food was lackluster but incredible atmosphere for friends.

Good place for food and drink. There is a shuffle board if you like to enjoy the time with the friends! They sale very soft shirts as well

Great people, great prices, good food, lots of fun great place to chill.

Cheese curds where tasty cool place to hangout and drink a beer.

Black Sheep Lodge is one of my favorite bars in Austin! It's not quite a dive bar, but has a chill vibe and I love it. We got to White trash can Wednesday for super cheap "white trash" beers (PBR, Lone Star, Miller, etc.) The food is bar food so don't expect a fancy 5 course meal. Still good though! They have darts and pool tables in the back. And you can bring your dog to sit on the patio!

Fun place, very friendly staff. Black Sheep is a nice place to sit outside and enjoy a beer. Their food is good, too! My favorite place for sweet potato fries they re never too greasy. It can be really difficult to find parking, though.

Do not get the California Philly. It sucks. Get the chilli cheese dog. It is the best kept secret on the menu

Horrible service. Went in for a burger and waited 20 minutes just to get a drink. Then waitress was upset when we asked about the delay. Left without ordering.

Every well-run bar tries to appeal to a certain kind of clientele. You've got your college bars like Crown & Anchor or Hole In the Wall, your sports bars like Third Base or Champions, your beer snob bars like Flying Saucer or Hopfields, your hopeless alcoholic/dive bars like Poodle Dog or The 04, your fun hangout/just-one-more-pitcher bars like Bender or Barflys... bars come in many archetypes, and the best bars try to incarnate themselves in one of those forms.

Except for Black Sheep Lodge, I guess, because I go there all the time and yet I'm not really sure what type of bar it aspires to be. It's a good place to watch sports, from your everyday NFL games to UEFA championships, but it doesn't have a "sports bar" vibe to it. It's too far from campus to be a college bar. Its beer selection is good, but not quite Flying Saucer good. The patrons have too many teeth, too much money, and too much liver function to even dream of putting it in the Poodle Dog bucket. And while I have begun many evenings there, it's never been my final, blurry stop of the night.

It's just a plain good bar with some of everything. Good (actually really good) burgers, good specials, a good patio, dog-friendly... it has many virtues and few faults. I will say that the one time I was able to grab the Primo Parking Spot in front right next to the patio was one of the happiest parking moments I've ever had, because usually you have to park in the back behind the sex shop and tattoo parlor, or across Kinney Ave. I felt like a boss, and I didn't even mind when the inevitable dude on a motorcycle ground all conversation on the patio to a halt when he took off.

Anyway, it's a friendly, relaxed, solid addition to the South Lamar bar scene, if you can call it a "scene", and you can't go wrong with it. Check it out.

best neighborhood bar! excellent food, yummy drinks and fabulous service :)