The Tavern

The house

The Tavern sits on a hill west of downtown in a 1916 building that has been a restaurant, a brothel, and a speakeasy depending on who was asking. The ghost the floor staff name is a woman in white on the grand stairs — seen often enough that new hires are told about her the way they are told about the fryer. The basement, leftover from the building’s less legal years, is where voices happen without a crowd. Austin has louder haunted houses. This one is a neighborhood tavern that happens to be a century old and unwilling to give the stairs back.

Pub food, a pint, a table with a view of the hill. Walk the stairs even if you are seated downstairs. She is not a secret. She is on the floor chart.

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