Half Moon
Bar · Pershing ·
Alfresco bar with fizzy cocktails, Caribbean food, pig roasts
Alfresco bar with fizzy cocktails, Caribbean food, pig roasts
"It’s patio season and this newly opened alfresco bar is a must visit since it opened in April. The East Austin spot was created by the folks behind Nickel City and Murray Tavern and is focused on fizzy, carbonated cocktails made with sotol, tequila, mezcal, and rum. It’s all heavy on influence from the Caribbean, including the food menu. There are outdoor dine-in areas." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Opening in East Austin at 2316 Webberville Road behind Murray’s on Sunday, April 7, Half Moon is meant to feel like a “super patio hang” with uptempo music, different-colored lights, a wall of candles, dog-friendly seating, and board games. The menu is intentionally simple and built around highly carbonated “fizzy cocktails” made with sotol, tequila, mezcal, and rum; the team plans to use a Japanese fashion draft highball tower to cold-plate and super-carbonate batched cocktails like a draft system so the drinks are very crushable. There’s a choose-your-own daiquiri that uses a frozen flavor cube plus two ounces of Flor de Caña rum that’s immersion-blended to an almost Slurpee-like texture, hand-squeezed Cuba Libres served with miniature Mexican Coke, and two beer options (Hamm’s tallboy cans and Carta Blanca bottles) for $4 each. Inspired by a favorite bar in Puerto Rico, the bar took over the patio of the previous tenant and will eventually offer a short, Caribbean-ish food menu by chef Nic Yanes. Half Moon launches a monthly Sunday pig roast series (free food on the first Sunday of every month) with its first roast run from noon to 8 p.m. in partnership with Mill Scale Metalworks; the owners also pegged the opening to the big solar eclipse and will host a daytime eclipse party on April 8 from noon to 5 p.m. with free eclipse glasses and a DJ. Regular hours will be Fridays 6 p.m.–midnight, Saturdays noon–midnight, and Sundays noon–6 p.m." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Plus, I know Nickel City’s Travis Tober’s new bar Half Moon at the already-opened Murray’s Tavern patio will be hella fun when it opens." - Erin Russell
"Planned to debut as a patio bar at the same 2316 Webberville Road address in March 2024, Half Moon will focus on rum- and agave-forward, easygoing drinks and operate Fridays through Sundays; the name references the boat Henry Hudson sailed on, and the team also plans neighborhood-focused events such as free pig roasts." - Nadia Chaudhury
"For a newer patio spot, hit up Half Moon by the Nickel City team for very crushable fizzy drinks in East Austin." - Nadia Chaudhury
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