Ego's

My go-to karaoke bar in Austin, Texas. Nice folks. I always feel at home here!

Best karaoke in Austin. 7 nights a week! Whether you're a singer or just in the mood to listen and do some people watching Ego's is THE place. The bartenders are some of the friendliest I've ever encountered and are top notch folks. A dive bar in the best possible sense: inexpensive drinks, local flair, storied history and nary a pretentious d-bag to be found!

No better place for good vibes, Karaoke, cheap drinks, and a hyped crowd. Make sure you eat before you come here... Or after.

It may look empty in the garage parking lot, but I kid you not, it Issss Nottt! As we arrive for my girls' birthday and greeted very nicely by the bouncer. We walked up to the bar, and it was Kelli's (the bartenders) birthday as well and bought my girl her first drink. Bahddd ass. It's definitely a great spot to kick off or end at. Bring yo singing skills too.

Visiting Austin for the weekend! Heard great things about this bar, which it is fun and the crowd is great - but the bartender / manager with pink hair is extremely rude. She was inconsiderate, and told my friend, who doesn’t even typically drink, that she’s "weird" when she tried to go to the bar. We had a group of 12 and would’ve loved to stay here longer and give a huge check but were so disappointed by the vibes she brought down. When my friend tried to talk to her about it, she was immediately sassy again without listening, started to walk away, and in a passive aggressive voice started screaming

We went here on a Tuesday night and it was standing room only. We walked in and walked back out. We didn't buy anything so I can't rate the service or food. The crowd/vibe seemed aggressive - or maybe just super in to the guy rapping. We wouldn't go here again.

I've been going to this bar since before I was old enough to drink and am now 44 years old...so I have definitely witnessed this bar at its best and worst. I'd say the bar staff they currently have is the most professional but still hip, convivial and fun, that I've ever seen. There used to be a faction of older and hard core bossy rude sorts of people that made going there not unlike ordering soup from the soup Nazi. From what I gather, they exclusively do karaoke now which didn't used to be the case. It has always been the most fun and coolest place to do it except when Club DeVille made it the fab thing on Tuesdays back in the late nineties/early auts. I must say though....the last time I went was pretty lame. While the bar staff was great, the guy running karaoke was clearly running it in a nepotistic way. It was hours before close and there were not that many people there but everyone who sang appeared to be surprised by being called up to sing...as though they hadn't even signed up. I even offered the DJ money to let my brother and I sing but was rebuffed and told it was "too late and wouldn't matter anyway", whatever that means. It was a sausage fest of an obviously well established and integrated clique. It felt like we were intruding on a teen aged girls birthday party but with maturely aged grown men in birthday tiaras instead. Definitely not how to make money above whatever status quo that group of regulars provides...although, on second thought--they were seriously putting the double cocktails down hard core so maybe they have come by their locale dominance honestly. Who knows? While I like and have liked this place a lot over my 27 years of going....I don't have the time machine to visit when it was fun. Maybe it was an off night?