Yep, it used to be an old church! Courtesy: myspace.com/littlelonghornsaloon
When I say “dive bar”, I mean your hole-in-the-wall, only serves beer and the lead singer of the band is pushin’ 80 kind of bar! It’s always a good time to hit up the trendy places like 6th street, especially the West 6th area, but every now and then being able to go to a place where you can enjoy a beer and laugh at the fact that the bartender looks like your grandma is definitely a good time, too!
A couple of weekends ago, we decided to try Burnet Road where we visited Ginny’s Little Longhorn Saloon and Lala’s. First of all, Ginny’s is a small honky tonk bar at 5434 Burnet Road and was owned by a husband a wife team. Don Kalmbach passed away in September 2002, according to their website, leaving the little bar to be run by the witty Ginny herself. There’s never a cover here and they have Domino Night on Mondays. You can hear all kinds of country/ southern rock artists at the saloon most nights starting around 9, except for Sundays where bands play from 4-8pm.
Ginny Kalmbach, bar owner Courtesy: ginnyslittlelonghorn.com
One of Ginny’s most well-known traditions is Chicken Sh*t Sundays! They have a chicken in a coup in the middle of the joint where the ground has drawn numbers on it. If the chicken “relieves itself” on your number, Ginny will pick up your tab! I haven’t been apart of this event, but definitely plan to!
After getting a feel for the old church-turned honky tonk, we decided to make a stop at Lala’s which was just right up the street and it’s specialty is that it’s “Christmas all year-round”!
My roommates and me at Lala
It’s true, Lala’s is another dive bar on Burnet Road which is decorated rather lavishly for the holiday season! I’m thinking they are a little lazy to take the decorations down, but decided to make it their “thing”. The Bloody Mary’s here are great and yuo can head right across the street for a late night tamale run at Taqueria Arandas.
So if you and your friends are sitting around thinking of something to do but don’t want to get all snazzy, hit up an hold dive bar! You’re definitely in for a cheap drink and some friendly old folks!
See ya at the Saloon,
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