Woodrows North is a chill place to come and hang out with your friends for happy hour or after dinner. I like it because you don't have to wear a miniskirt and heels to fit in. The guys aren't creepy (for the most part) and nobody is trying to force their phone number down your throat.
Most of the bartenders are cool. It's pretty typical in bars that female bartenders usually tend to ignore other female customers, but not here. The GM Sam and the other girls that were working this past Friday night were awesome. They remembered our names and even came over and talked to my friend and I. I have never had a problem getting great service here.
I just wish they had food. But there is a pizza place nearby that will come and bring you pizza if you call and order it. And sometimes theres a guy that comes in selling tamales. It's a little weird, but after a few drinks who cares.
First time at this Little Woodrows and it was fine expect for the smoking on the patio but why not sit out there on such a nice, sunny, WARM day but I disgress!!
Waitress was friendly and service was fine. Yes, they've got the big patio and the specials and the food next door or you can come on Steak Nights when the Ribeye Truck shows ups which is AWESOME by the way. Â It is $12.00 for a 10 oz and $17.00 for a 16 oz - they both come with either a salad or baked potato.
So if your new to Austin or just visiting this FUN town - stop by Little Woodrows and get your true feeling for Austin.
My first visit to Woodrows of any kind. Â I was surprised the level of fun that was occurring in a strip mall. Â Darts, Golden Tee, Foosball, food, etc. Â The patio was huge and was mega awesome. Â While the drink prices were reasonable, the reason this place gets three stars is that the bartendresses (is that a word?) were beyond rude. Â It just made me want to say "Girl, you ain't that cute". Â What's the saying? Â "You can either be a pretty bitch or jolly and ugly." Â I'm going to do that saying one better and say "or a Civil Seven." Â But even if you are Heidi Klum serving me Fat Tire draft, I don't come to a neighborhood bar for attitude. Â Since Austin is crawling with cool places to hang out where people are actually outwardly glad you are there, next time I'm pickin' a different place.
Review Source:Being new to Austin it is always fun to find new places to hangout and have a good time. Â This past Saturday I went to meet up with a friend here and it was a great experience.
Sam was our bartender, and boy was she great!! Â Throughout the entirety of our visit she remembered our names and our drinks. Â I have worked in restaurants/bars before and that is no simple task. Â She even broke up a bar fight before it even started. Â To me she is the bartender of the month!!
I will look forward to many more visits!!
We sat at a table outside (which was hard to come by) and it took the waitress at least 20 min. to get us drinks, every time. She also had no personality or customer service skills. I ordered a rum and diet coke, and you could tell the carbonation was out. When I went to the bar to get a replacement drink (because the waitress was no where to be found), they didn't check the soda and gave me another drink exactly the same. And they charged my bank account twice for my tab.
Review Source:This dirty watering hole is on my No Go list. As if gagging on second hand smoke were not enough, the service is appalling. Cigarette butts everywhere. Â The out door furniture was poorly slapped together. My wife tore her dress on one of the nails that were popping out. I asked to speak with the manager, big mistake. Â i didn't get her name. She had a big tattoo running down her cellulite leg and a mouth that would make a drunk sailer blush. Made it all clear though. If the manager doesn't give a shit why should her subordinates?
Review Source:Stopped by Little Woodrows in hopes of a quick drink. Oh I got my quick drink alright. I had to get out of there because it smelled like cigarette smoke so much. Nobody was smoking inside, but the way the outside is so opened up, all the smoke traveled inside. I did like the atmosphere though, and the service was good. Bartenders were not stingy on the pours for sure.
I might try again as soon as I can breathe normally again.. Cough~cough....
Love this place! We live just a few short blocks away and it's an easy walk. We like to take our dog with us, and we're always surprised by how many other dogs are on the patio. There are usually 5-8 dogs there on a typical weekday evening, which is a good ice-breaker as well.
The beer selection is very strong. The prices are reasonable enough. It's also a good place to watch sports. The staff has always been attentive and friendly to me.
Sure, it would be awesome if they served food too, but Al Forno right next door delivers to the bar... it's really no different than if Woodrow's was making the food themselves, and the food is usually excellent.
Very, very pleased that we have this fine establishment right in our neighborhood.
Great selection of beers on tap. Service can be a little slow. Check out the website for specials. Went there on a Tuesday night and they had big beers for cheap. Only downfall is that they do not serve food. You can order from a place next door and they will deliver it to you.
They do have multiple flat screens for watching sports.
Overall a pretty good place to hangouts.
Overcharge central, these guys are rip off artist. We were charged over $150 for a night of drinking for 2, granted i was drinking shots and getting tipsy(and ps the service sucked), shots were flowing, but we paid cash for the first few rounds and ended up with the tab for 15 marines. we challenged some of the charges and without question(like they knew it was coming) took $20 off the tab. if YOU GO HERE PAY CASH, the will try to screw you.
Review Source:How this place is still open is beyond me. We came in here a few weekends ago. We had menus in front of us and were looking them over. The waitress took our orde r and the FIRST SIX BEERS my fiancee ordered, they were out of. really?
How much would it cost to print out a new list, on an ink jet printer of what you actually DO carry so that we dont continue to order whats not in stock. Nothing fancy, just a regular printout. We know little woodrows is not a fancy place, I dont expect fancy.
A few minutes after we ordered, another waitress comes up and says "our HH ends at 7, and its "xtime" and that was all she said... and stared blankly at us.
I said, "Ok. .. . " My fiancee who saw me looking at her confused said are you taking or order or just letting us know what time HH ends? Â We concluded she was trying to take our order, which she never actually asked for. . it was so awkward.
She walked away without saying anything. ok.. . thats fine. When waitress #1 returned with my drink she didnt mention anything about his. . isnt that waitress/waiter 101 to show up with both drinks/and or plates at the same time?
so I waited for him to get his beer. . he was over it and asked to close out. . she rolled her eyes and without a word walked off. same when we got our receipt. .
Ive been here before. . not the greatest experience but it took me almost a year to let that go and give it another try. uhhhh. the 2nd trip was even worse. . . I think I'll pass on this location. . .
I'm not giving up on the establishment...just this location for good.
NOTE: with all do RESPECT and fairness. I did receive an email from someone at the Little Woodrow camp offering me a voucher of $5-$10 to return to give them another try. With my full-time work and school schedule I really didnt have a whole lot of free time anyway to attend yelp events or even places on my own accord.. I did return on my own dollar to give it a 2nd chance. Unfortunately it was just not a great experience.
Not my favorite Little Woodrow's. The place has a decent number of taps, but the beer selection is lacking, for sure.
We went on a Sunday recently and almost every local beer we asked for was OUT. Oh, and the Live Oak Hefe tap was FROZEN! I blame that on a bad bar manager; I know it's after a busy Saturday, but as a good bar, you plan for such and have other beers available.
I do like that the pizza place next door will deliver to you at LW. Another plus? They switched over to non-smoking last year.
Decent beer selection having my two favorite go-to beers - 512 IPA and Pecan Porter. The wait staff is always nice, and I just started The Big 50 awhile back which has been interesting. Sometimes the place can be a bit loud, but what bar isn't on a Friday or Saturday night. This place is fantastic for those nice outside Saturdays since they have an awesome patio that has a garage opening straight to the bar. Another awesome thing is Al Forno's pizza is right next door and you can call them and have them walk it over to your table while they run your card and bring it back immediately. Living close to this place has been amazing, definitely has a home type feel to it.
Cheers!
My least favorite of the Little Woodrows. Yes, they've got the big patio and the specials and the food next door... but it just lacks heart. It's hard to explain but suffice to say the other little woodrows feel more welcoming. Maybe it's the weird way tables are sectioned off but I have long felt that this spot discourages mingling.
The last two times I've been here, the music is at ear splitting decibels. I have to yell so my companion can hear me... and I've got a really loud voice. Even when the place is empty (today: 5 people) they feel the need to pump up the jams. It's just a little much for a Sunday night at 11.
I really want to like this place b/c my friends love it and like to meet here but I just can't bring myself to. Â
I'm 28 and I feel like I'm too old for this place. Â Also, I think they roofie the air. Â If Glen Quagmire ran a bar, this would be that bar.
My friends like the taco truck so we met here and it wasn't open! It's so damn loud in that place, I had to walk outside to text message. What the hell kinda messeduppedness is that.
Am I missin' something here?! Why does everyone love this place? Â Reminds me of several times in my life when my friends will all just adore the shiet outta something and I'm the only one oblivious to it's charms. Â
I'll try you one more time Little Woodrow's, cuz you have a cool patio and food trucks, but if it's anything less than stellar, we'll have to go our separate ways.
Finally tried Little Woodrow's after being afraid to enter due to 1) not being over 35, 2) no being a smoker, 3) not being deaf and 4) still having a small amount of dignity left.
When my previous review was removed, even though I did discuss the parking issues, I felt it was a challenge to try this place out - for real.
- Parking is still terrible
- It is still a haven for folks who dress like they're in college but can't afford enough Botox to fool anyone
- You leave smelling of lung cancer
- The noise level can be oddly unbearable
- And the beer is lackluster in terms of pricing
If there was better food close-by, I might be able to deal with Little Woodrow's, but the local food, just like this bar, leave you wanting LESS not more.
One of my favorite places to go on the weekends. Great hours, even on holidays when most places are closed. Â The the large amount of clientele the place is ran very well. They always have something going on too.
To those reviews comparing it to the down town Woodrows all I have to say is, really? Â What did you expect? It's up north and it's on Parmer.
For a neighborhood bar it's rare to see all they have to offer.
Note: I love the Little Woodrow's on 6th. But this place is quite different. For a place that bills itself "The Ultimate Sports Watching Experience", they aren't very accommodating to sports fans.
I have no problem toning down my cheering if it's not appropriate for the bar where I'm watching the game. But during the entire first three innings of the baseball game that my friend and I showed up to watch, there were three loud, obnoxious drunks at the end of the bar. They did all the things that loud obnoxious drunks do. Played quarters. Spilled beer. Broke glasses. Screamed at the television.
That's not what I have a problem with, not by any stretch. Nor do I have a problem with the fact that the bartender encouraged them (at one point, she hopped on one of their backs and he carried her around the bar). No, what I have a problem with is that this same bartender told my friend and I during the 7th inning, "You guys need to quiet down. We don't do 'loud' here."
Really? You'll jump on a patron's back, knock over a wine glass with your high heels, shriek and giggle at the top of your lungs when he drops you, and chuckle along side a trio of drunks as they repeatedly shout obscenities at Tony Romo.... but you don't do "loud".
If you're going to bill yourself as the "ultimate sports-watching experience", don't tell your patrons you don't "do loud".
There's nothing remarkable about this place, in fact it kind of makes my skin crawl. I'll explain later.
It has a few TVs constantly blaring sports, which I don't care about. They only serve beer and wine, so it's not a very flexible drinking experience. It's in an odd location at Parmer/McNeil; I'd rather go to the 6th street location or Ginger Man if I simply must patronize a beer bar. You get the ambiance of downtown there, as opposed to the ambiance of a generic NW Austin strip mall.
I used to meet my friend here for our own little Happy Hour if she got off of work at the Mexican restaurant nearby. We'd down a few beers and smoke on the patio, nothing fancy. It's also a nice place for me to meet my straight guy friends if they want to meet for a beer and shoot the breeze.
For a while, I couldn't put my finger on what I didn't like about this place. It's not the staff; they're friendly for the most part. It's not the interior, or the lack of vodka....I guess you can say it's just not my scene. I feel like I'm back in highschool when I'm at this bar, the customers seem kind of young.
And then, one day at Happy Hour, a man with a mullet and a dirty trucker hat walked in. As if that wasn't retch-inducing enough, he was wearing a ketchup-stained T-shirt that said "NO HOMO" and had a red "no smoking"-type symbol stamped on a picture of two men holding hands. He was accompanied by some poorly dressed female livestock I'm guessing were his relatives.
I suppose ever since then, in my head the place remains an incubator of ignorant, militant anti-gay trash. I could be wrong, and I'm probably overgeneralizing. I've never been back since then, since any place that someone like that would want to go to is no place for this homo.
Some people may absolutely love the place, but I can think of a hundred other places I'd rather go than here if given the option.
I know they have a butt load of beer here, but $2 lone stars!? All day every day!? Â Thus far this is my favorite place to watch NFL on Sunday.
The place is huge but still manages to feel cozy. It has a log cabin type of feel...but with Wifi. Nice.
Had a pizza that was really good (I dunno why I thought it would be bad - maybe cuz I ordered from a half sheet of paper with a checklist?), fans there were cool, staff was attentive and friendly - and they even changed the TV we were nearest to the game of our choosing.
The doors to the patio were open - what a neat feeling. I adore listening to the rain, and to do so snuggled in a booth with my sweetie, Tom Brady on multiple screens, with a never-ending cold one in my hand...ahhhh.
Okay first off by let me start by saying this place was pretty cool, garage doors that were open (however the rain and humidity was no good), the beer selection was great (however our waitress seemed to have her on tap selections "stolen", so we had no idea what was on tap), and the smoking in there was disgusting. I felt like I was in a smoke shop, i smelt like a dirty ashtray at the end of my night. I went with another couple from work, and it was alright. College football game was on, we ordered wings, alot of tables and seating room, but the waitress took forever to get our beers to us and tended to be a bit snotty. Did I mention she decided to put my credit card in her top? How classy.
I guess I won't be going back there anytime soon. Sorry for those who love it, nothing special to me.
Little Woodrow's is smoky as heck, which can be quite jarring after growing accustomed to stank-free happy hour environs.
There's a lively happy hour crowd, but the service from the waitresses and at the bar can be very slow.
For a beer-only place, there are much better alternatives out there (Opal Devines, Flying Saucer, Draughthouse) with more beer, better service, and less odoriferous tobacco.
A friend and I had a good time here tonight watching the UT basketball team beat up on the number 2 ranked OU team. Â It was a hopping place with friendly help behind the bar. Â We were in awe to find out that every beer on tap was only $3.00 a pint until 10:00 pm on Saturday nights.
Nice job, Little Woodrow's and thanks for the fun evening! Â By the looks of the specials list on your website, we'll be back again soon.
The bartenders are always good- unfortunately management under staffs at the bar, so if it's busy be prepared to wait- but don't be a dick to the poor bartenders about it!
The prices are decent, and they serve Strongbow cider which can be hard to find up in this neck of the woods.
It's a good place to just kick back if you go during the day or early evening on the weekend and hide outside on the patio. If you go when all the jackasses come out to play, however, it's just annoying.
The service is good and its a great little dive for some reasonably priced beer. Â
Lots of TVs with good sports on. Â I do recommend avoiding it during UFC fight nights though.
Great outdoor patio. Â I always meet some interesting folks here.
You can smoke inside here. Â They do not serve hard alcohol here - only beer and wine.
Cons:
After 11-12 the place clears out.
Little Woodrow's has a pretty good selection of beer, priced at about the average point for the kind of beer they're serving up. Â The bar was pretty crowded and service was sometimes a little slow, but everyone seemed friendly enough. Â The patio looks better from the outside than it actually is up close... the tables were kind of dirty and wobbly, but the half-inside, half-outside vibe is cool.
There was a bachelorette party there the night we visited, and some of the girls were a little unruly (which I guess is par for the course at a b'ette party) but one of them actually ran into me and almost spilled my beer. Â I was a little annoyed, but it wasn't enough to spoil my night.
I might be back, as it's close to where I live and Woody's Pizza & Wings is next door, but I'd rather drive a little farther for a better selection of beer and a less-crowded bar.
Do you like high school reunions that take place in crowded bars? Â Do you like running into people you went to middle school with who pass by you glaring and wondering if there is going to be some kind of rumble? Â Do you like complaining about the above 2 situations to the group of people you're with in an effort to seem "sooo over this place." Â If so, Lil' Woodrows is for you.
For those of you who are lucky enough to have avoided going to the high school right down the road from this bar, well then you might actually have a good time here. Â I think it's probably a nice neighborhood hangout for the Milwood transplants, or for people who never moved from their North Austin roots, and who don't mind McNeil peeps all up in your grill. Â You will never find me here again however.
Okay I love beer. Â I love it. Â Stella is my newfound favorite. Â I love the wood benches. Â I love the flirty waitresses who snap to serve and usually have something nice to say. Â Do these chicks work at Hooters too cause they are seriously flirty? Â The outdoor patio is very nice, and the fact that they have those nice big radiant heaters makes it even nicer in the winter.
But here is the reason that I give this place a 3 and not a 4. Â I quit smoking last year. Â As far as I know there is a law against smoking indoors. Â I woke up with some serious nasal problems this morning due to sidestream smoke inhalation. Â Appetizers and food at this place are ridiculously priced. Â If you don't want to make the food available to people, don't make it. Â If you are going to commit to having a kitchen do it right. Â Don't charge me $10 for 5 chicken strips. Â It's not right. Â Don't ride the fence on whether you want to serve food. Â I used to hear, "sorry we don't have food", and that was fine. Â I'm sure that it was an afterthought to the beer. Â I love beer. Â I can't taste your food because of all the smoke, so why should I be charged more?
Did I mention that they have good beer on tap. Â Lots of tv's so if you're a closet sports watcher like me but can't commit to sitting and watching too much of it, you'll like the fact that there are tvs everywhere you look.
The smoking thing really does suck about this place though. Â It wouldn't be so bad if a few people were smoking but DAMN! Â Everyone was huffing and puffing away.
I love that place, but I'll be waiting for them to change the smoking policy before I go back.
I have so many questions for this place...
Why is this place so popular? Â Is it the lack of suitable bars in North Austin/Round Rock? Â Or is it that smoking in public has now become such a novelty that it is to be relished at every opportunity to fill one's lungs with carcinogens?
Why do they have a wall full of beer selections, but can't make a 10 cent cup of coffee? Â Why didn't they get the right size projector for their screen, and actually get a decent image? Â Why do they call it a "Margarita" pizza when it defies the very definition? Â Lastly, why give me a weird stare when I ask for a water along with my beer?
After 2 visits I haven't received an answer to any of these questions. Â That's why I won't be back.
Fantasy football fun! Â Watch Cedar Choppers get their drunk on!
This is my sisters' bar up on Parmer. Â I say sisters because my sister Stephanie K and my sister from another mother (in-law) Marti K both pretty much live there. (I use their names because they are yelpers too)
I decided this season I would go up and watch football games with them on Sunday. Â This is my third Sunday in a row watching the noon and most all of the late games at Little Woodrow's North. I have to say, good times, good times.
The ladies do most of the work. They get there around 11AM, sometimes waiting for the manager to open the joint. Â They get the same booth, near a power outlet, and set up shop. Â They usually bring breakfast, this past time I brought snacks. Â (I prefer things in canisters)
I usually leave my house around 11:30AM, and by the time I arrive we are ready for kickoffs. Kickoffs because from our vantage point, we can see every game that is on. Â The sisters have their laptops up and running, and we can check our fantasy scores real time. Â I whip out my little notebook, which holds the games I bet on in the fifty freakin pools I'm in around town, plus my on-line bets.
If they had some video poker for me to play, it would be a perfect football experience. Â "H" and "R" are great managers who I know from my LW on 6Th. Â There is usually a bartender and one waitress. Â Our regular waitress "E" is phenomenal. Â Truly lives up to the LW standard. Apparently the LW standard is: A completely competent server, a hard worker, who is fun, wonderful with customers and also happens to be a total knock-out.
The place gets pretty darn crowded too. Fans of various teams have made it their regular hang out. Â There is sometimes a little seat shuffling as the managers get all the TVs situated. Â
Now I don't drink much Sunday during the day. I've got ten hours of football to watch, plus I'm going to Little Woodrow's on sixth for the night game. I usually have one or two mimosas and a beer or two from noon to 5:30pm. Â But let me tell ya, some of these northies put it down. Â There is a regular there, an older gentleman, who I first met last week. He is one of those fun drunks who likes to be really loud, hit on the waitresses and bartender and hug grown men. Â I am sure he's a nice guy, but he drinks too much. When he does he thinks he is god's gift to the bar. One of those back patters. He came up to me last week, said some stupid joke and put his hand on my back. I had to tell him, "Sir, please don't touch me."
Well this week, him and his much younger friends were completely in the bag by like 2:30pm. Â One of his friends was so drunk he thought it would be a good idea to hum a glass bottle into the trash can behind the bar from twenty feet away. Â He really zinged it in there too, like he was Roger Clemens.
When something like this happens, I have to count to ten. I have to remember, I am not here to protect everyone, let the people here do their jobs. Â I wanted to go make that guys face "one" with the bar, but I did not stand up, and I sat on my hands. Â The new manager "M", handled it fine. The managers at LWS always handle it fine. Forcefully but without force. Â He had to throw the older gentleman out too.
I'm not judging or anything, but how do you get that drunk by 2:30pm on a Sunday? Â Listen I drink for a livin,(l-i-v-i-n) Â I know what I'm talking about, those guys are freakin drunks.
I'd never take away a star from a place because of what some drunks did though. Plus they handled it perfectly. Â Little Woodrow's north is a football fanatics heaven. Come on up and say hi. But no touching!
Little Woodrow's (north) is my neighborhood bar. Â I like to go there when I have had a bad day, or a good day, or a busy day, or a slow day, or on Sunday, or Wednesday, or Monday, or Friday, or Tuesday, or Thursday, or sometimes even Saturday.
My friends and I created some txting lingo to invite each other to the bar:
Tuesday is Big Ass Beer Night (BABN), $1.75 23 oz Lone Star or whatever other beer silly people that don't like Lone Star drink.
Thursday is Giant Mug Night [yeah!] (GMNY), $3.00 25 oz mugs.
Sunday is SABN, or Sunday Ass Beer Night.
Saturday is StABN, you get the picture.
All other nights are RABN, Regular Ass Beer Night, where Lone Star pints are always $2.00.
My husband ran a credit card report on our annual expenditures at this bar and we had to go to the bar to get over the shock. Â Not good.
Here is what I love about the Little Woodrows (or LWn for my centrie brother):
-the specials I listed above
-on Sundays during football season, they show every NFL game
-it is approximately 2 miles from my house
-comfy booths
-great porch
-lots of parking
-superfun NFL elimination pool
-friendly waitresses who learn your name and have a beer waiting for you when you sit down
-pictures on the wall of the Longhorns winning the National Freaking Championship
-UFC nights (I can't believe I just admitted that)
-free internet
I could go on and on. Stop on by, have a beer, and say hello.
Sick and freaking tired of B.B. Rover's? Zip on over to one of the last smokin' bars in the North Austin Area. Did I say North? I meant WAY North - Â as in nearly-freaking-Round Rock (which happens to ROCK if you live up North).
I have been accused of being a beer snob (not true), a beer connoisseur (true), and a person who just likes beer (also true). Â At least 2 out of 3 of those people (if not more) would love this place just for the beer. (and the other one sounds like a jerk!)
Nonetheless, check it out to see that SoCo is not the only place with cool folks that like having a relaxed evening, some mixed company, fine brews on tap and a chill spot to have all of the above.
Go. Sample. Smile. Repeat. (and skip the 45 min drive to SoCo). Plus park any freaking where you want. Plenty of parking.
North Austinities, listen up! This is the place to go on a Tuesday night! My friend was going to meet a friend and wanted company, so off I went to the somewhat undiscovered world that is McNeil and Palmer lane. Now I was supposed to go downtown, which I knew would be dead on a Tuesday, so imagine my surprise when I walked into the completely packed bar at 11 pm. Yeah. I was amazed! This is where all of the people had been hiding out, and with good reason too.
What I loved about Little Woodrow's
1. North Austin. Obviously.
2.$ 1.75 beer in 24 oz glasses. They have a sign that says Austins best happy hour hanging from the ceiling, and really, they may not be kidding.
3. Great atmosphere. Big, cozy, lots of regulars milling about. Big TVS playing hockey, cozy black leather couches in the corner, Â really a bar for both sexes.
4. They don't serve food, but Woody's next door ( stay tune for my next review) will bring food over to you while you sit at the bar. Novel concept but it got me excited.
5. The wait staff didn't come around forever so I got my drink at the bar. This was a very efficient process because they have a spot to stand to order drinks. Makes much sense to me.
6. On Tuesdays a guy comes with a grill outside and you can order steak. I didnt see this in action but heard many a rumor about it happening so I assume its true.
Verdict: All in all, superb place to hang, bring friend, have a happy hour. And if your hungry, food can be found right next door.