The kitchen stays open ‘til midnight, the bar offers daily drink specials, and three 50” plasma TVs are available to watch the game. Browse the local art on the walls, which is available for purchase and updates every 6 weeks. Enjoy a casual happy hour while mingling with friends and family or dine in our resturant, which seats150 comfortably while many can lounge around the bar near the hustle and bussle of Sixth Street. Also, many who visit the Paradise Cafe regularly know that the downstairs maple wall is made of the original skating rink in the old Armadillo World Headquarters, which was considered the premiere music hall and entertainment center in Austin, Texas from 1970 to 1980.
Upstairs at Paradise Cafe is a newly renovated local favorite music and events venue. This new addition to the famous Sixth Street entertainment district can accommodate 350+ with the spacious patio and deck along Trinity.
Originally this building housed Austin’s Cotton Exchange and had cotton bales on the main floor where the Paradise Cafe currently resides and the offices for brokers and buyers were overlooking the floor of the exchange on the second story It was later used as a market for produce, dry goods, groceries and clothing.
History
The Paradise Cafe and Bar has been an Austin staple for over 28 years and has maintained its prime location at the corner of famous Sixth Street and Trinity. Enjoy a fun, fully-loaded and low key bar and restaurant with knowledgeable and helpful service. The menu is affordable and delicious with unique and creative entrees.k here to add text.
Rumor has is it, the Cotton Exchange on the corner of Sixth and Trinity was once a brothel shortly after it was erected in 1874. And “Nadine” was no other than the main ‘Madame’. It just so happens the Arc Angels, a blues rock back formed in Austin in the late 1990s, wrote their hit song, “Paradise Cafe” while dining at the Paradise Cafe and Bar when their hit song, “Sweet Nadine” was also released.
Today, cool beverages are consumed at the bar built from the original Cotton Exchange building dating back to the late 1800’s with a view of historic Sixth Street. Enjoy a beer, wine or spirit as the sun goes down and as the nightlife begins in downtown Austin.
So, come on by and see how history and music combine to make The Paradise Cafe a local favorite bar
and muxic venue located upstairs at Paradise Cafe and Bar on historic Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
