Today, I dropped in on a social gathering at The Vortex (love the name)! The Vortex is a fun and…read morefunky place - indoor and outdoor spaces. The interior and exterior areas are very much eclectic. This charming little community event is located on Manor Road. Plays and other productions including bands are featured at The Vortex. The group was very welcoming and friendly. The food was a combination of pot luck and prepared foods.

They get stars for having good parking and it seems to be run by volunteers so it won't be…read moreperfect/professional. The seats weren't too comfortable and the arm rest kept snagging my sweater. We watched the Mutt-Cracker. The kids enjoyed the show.

We had an amazing time at The Escape Game in Austin! TLDR: Highly recommend - You should play!!…read moreStaff were fantastic!! Toby was a very friendly and genuine game guide that made us feel great about our accomplishments and CJ was an awesome and generous host that got us hyped and left us feeling elated. I was visiting from The Bay Area, California for my birthday, and we decided to play The Heist. There were 5 of us, and 4 had played escape rooms before (not at this company). The room design was awesome, very intricate and detailed, and the puzzles were really well done and very fun (Zelda Ocarina of Time vibes in one puzzle). It had plenty of things for us to do and find solo, and then still come together to solve the puzzles as a group. We smoked it, escaping with over 20 minutes left, with no clues, so we were ecstatic! We got out of the room and much to my surprise they made me a hand-drawn birthday card!! So incredibly sweet, and totally made my day. Coming off of our high of escaping The Heist, we decided to try their hardest room, Prison Break (with a discount for playing same day!). We were split into two cells at first, which proved difficult because we weren't communicating as well as we should have been. We needed a little bit of guidance in the beginning, but once we were out of the cells we started working better as a whole team. The final room was my favorite, I completed a really cool chess puzzle and then there was a detailed bookcase one too that I managed to figure out! I personally felt very accomplished in this room and we managed to escape with around 7 minutes left! Overall, these rooms are meticulously designed and sets were immersive. The puzzles were clever and made you feel very smart when you figured them out, which made the rooms that much more fun. They really focus on teamwork, which amplifies the connection and good vibes of your friends and family. Guidance was kind and not overbearing, allowing you to struggle on your own before gently nudging you towards what was blatantly obvious in hindsight. You can tell that the staff there have a unique bond and really enjoy making the guests feel special. They made my birthday a super memorable one and I'm so happy I decided to come here. Please check them out, you'll be glad you did. My birthday was the bestest because of you all! Thank you so much Toby and CJ!!

We had fun, took advantage of some clues, and Aubrey was super nice!…read more I suggest better a/c because it was an oven in the rooms!

We had such an amazing time! It was the perfect balance of being family-friendly without feeling…read morelike it was just for kids, so everyone had a great experience. Our server, Tracy, was fantastic--friendly, attentive, and made our visit even more enjoyable. We'll definitely be back!

So fun and cute! It seems like a large warehouse that was updated and redone really well. Super…read moremodern feel and very nice interior. So many games, you could be here for hours. The bowling is Duckpin which I haven't played, it's like mini bowling. Pay per game. Then they have a lot of games that are free as long as they are available, including skee ball, arcade type games and sega console games. So cute! Their pin ball machines are $1 for 3 balls, ping pong you just need to get the ball from their little vending machine for $0.25. They have a Photo Booth and basketball games as well. We saw they had pizza but we got some fries and sliders at the little food vendor. Full bar with a lot of options and pitchers of select cocktail drinks that serve multiple people. Fun stop, for a date, large group or a birthday!

Just had a negative experience here. I signed up for a football watch party through Eventbrite…read more They had several events like this before where I could attend without being a UT club member. I got 3 tickets and when I arrived I was told that the cost was $35 a person for the buffet to be allowed entry even though there was no mention of this in the event info. This was not communicated on the event page and my guests were not interested in eating. I drove in traffic 30 minutes to get there and then walked over a mile to avoid paying for parking only to be turned away. Even asked if we could just stay and watch the game based on the miscommunication and was told no. I support the UT club all the time for their pep rallies and am disappointed in how this was handled. Seems like there could have been an exception made based on the miscommunication. It was an embarrassment for my guests and didn't reflect well on the club. I was informed that the Club had no control over the info put on Eventbrite and the only accommodation made was a free lunch voucher which does not address the impact to my self or guests for watching the game. For full disclosure, attaching the link to the event and for the verbiage. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ut-club-watch-party-texas-vs-kentucky-tickets-1797142815539?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=a809b3f26d39f787453f24c37cd1e8699bda95ef3a3b044426c8024546acbf53340bd0e59d3601341612d45b3e4e882f4575187876804fd0f24d03ca498b2dc38d2c44a7a6fb9c2597777c5c

Awesome spot. Highly recommend. Fantastic game day experience and the service is great.read more

Mac treated our group so well and very interactive with us! Gave us such a fantastic time with…read moresuggestions for cocktails and food! I definitely will be coming back and bringing everyone I know to make sure they know about this place and this amazing staff! If you come to Cosmic ask for Mac if you want someone who is fun, knowledgeable, and has great service!!

A1 service, Mac the bartender treated with the upmost attention and is so kind. Highly recommend,…read morecoming back for the drinks, vibes, and her

This is a fun place to go and just chill and watch sports on TV like I did last night for the World…read moreCup and then the UFC fight! The bartender is really nice and chatty and attentive, even if you're hardly drinking (she found some NA drinks for me during the 4 hours I was at the bar. They have fantastic pizza and sliders and other elevated bar food, which I hate to call bar food since it's really better than that. I think they would say it's "chef inspired" if I recall reading that on the menu or something. There are TVs everywhere! So whether you're bowling or sitting near or at the bar, you'll be able to catch the game. They also host lots of great events and that bartender Kelsey is really nice and should get a big fat raise!!!

Extremely friendly staff (thanks Issac and Russ!)…read more Great food! The Monday night special was amazing. We could bowl all we wanted and throw axes. Unfortunately we weren't able to play the arcade games as is normal with the Monday night deal. We came for the Raiders fans and were not disappointed. Great value here!

THIS IS A BLAST! So…read moreI was playing in another kickball league here in town (we'll call em WAKA) and it was one of the worst experiences I've had in a social sports community. So when I came to NAKID I was not expecting much different, but was stunned at how different and how much more fun I had! My team is the Awful Waffles which was a team in a different league, we were all so fed up with the competiveness of the other leagues. Where they cuss you out if you make a bad play, make a bad call as a ref, basically have no regard for sportsmanship, and to top it off the league is ran by douchebags.It was so refreshing to come to NAKID, its fun still competitive(in a good way) AWESOME TROPHYS, cute girls for you guys out there, as well as flip cup tournaments every week!!! (AHHH HEAVEN!!) You gotta give it a shot!

There are some business names that scream, "Try Me"! Like "G-spot Thrift Store",…read more "Bite Mi," "Mooseknuckle", or...NAKID Social Sports. Anyone who patronizes those businesses is bound to be the kind of person who doesn't take themselves or life too seriously. So, one star for the concept and creation of Austin's Chapter of NAKID and one star to the fun ppl I met during the 8 weekly showdowns of ball-kicking during the actual game and ass-kicking during the subsequent flip-cup games. The withheld stars speak to the management of the league, to the abundance of fluff in advertising, and lack of information given to players. The owner/mgr actually lives in DC and apparently that chapter does well--proof that actually being available during the games is a real bonus. Instead, he flies down for the first game to welcome everyone, for all of 15 minutes, and for the closing ceremonies of awarding the trophy. In between, he is not attentive during registration nor during the season. For example, Tshirt sizes requested were totally ignored...we got way too many smalls and not nearly enough medium and larges as ordered. We showed up for the first game, and I--a newbie--was dubbed Captain. NO rules, nada. Quickly downloaded the iphone ap. Presto, ready to go. There are other instances, but the most irritating was when he emailed to survey which of two given dates we wanted the playoffs. After the votes were in and the date set, he emailed to tell us that the date was being moved to a date (that didn't work for almost my entire team!) not before mentioned bc some players wanted to attend the UT football game. I'm an Orangeblood, but really....? As it turned out, many of us weren't able to attend the playoffs. Considering that many of the players were non-paying (solicited by NAKID friends so they'd have enough players to form a league), this was a rip-off. The fluff pertains to the amt of free alcohol that turned out to be quite limited. IF you are the reffing team that week, your team gets a $20 tab at Gibsons--not enough for one drink per player if all your players showed up. Our first trip into Gibson's found them surprised at our arrival. Apparently, there was no prior arrangement made and NAKID was assuming that last season's deals were still applicable. We ended up standing around until someone figured out what that arrangement was. by the way, Gibson's was fantastic about all this! The "partying" they advertised amounted to a bus trip for a winery tour, which looked fun for the 8 or so ppl who went. Too bad we weren't told about its impending possibility until too late. INcidentally, all 8 were from one team whose lead player picks up and brings the equipment to the games (an assistant? don't know, was never told--she is super nice though). As for information dissemination, they wanted us to sign up on meetup website, which I did. As a result, I got emails as well as meetup messages, almost none of which were redundant and yet neither one had full details. There was no go-to place for information. For ex, one week we showed up for the game to find no one there except for a few players from some other team (not our scheduled opponents). Apparently the games were moved to another field not in sight of where we were scheduled to play. A stroke of luck --contacting the roommate of one of the players in the know--got us to the correct fields and by the time games started, it was already becoming dark--not good for catching flying balls. IN kickball at least. I am glad to have experienced Gibson's (free, fun Bingo on Thurs nights), Luke's Inside Out (great food trailer), and Flip Cup (my college drinking game--quarters--is outdated). In sum, this league is not "a skid-mark on the underpants of society" (movie, Dodgeball), but I think I'd rather spend my time at Mooseknuckle, in my newly acquired hot pants from G-spot, playing Flip Cup and following it with nibbles at Bite Mi.

A very cool workspace to do some out of the box thinking while working remotely. It's an expansive…read morehall with many benches, couches and even a backyard if you'd like to sit in nature. There are refreshments and stationary available for anyone to use. You can also pick up a book from the small library table and donate another. There's some more space in another hall area where somatic breathwork and sound bath workshops are hosted on certain days of the week.

I really like this venue. I've been here a couple of times for different events, and each time…read moreI've been impressed with how the space was able to accommodate the activity/activities. The green space in the back is nice for added activities or socializing, and I found it to be quite beautiful at night. I look forward to more events being hosted there.