Est. 2019 · Austin, Texas
A speakeasy in downtown Austin. Please confirm your age to come inside.
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Est. 2019 · Downtown Austin
Cocktails · Low light · Live jazz
A small room behind an unmarked door, where the drinks are made slowly and the conversation carries.
Our story
We opened The Velvet Fox in 2019 in a downtown building that had spent most of its life as a print shop. The presses are long gone, but the bones stayed: the original brick, the freight door, and a long narrow room that was built for machines rather than for people.
We kept the low ceilings and the dim light, and added what the room was missing — a proper back bar, a piano in the corner, and a short list of drinks made with some care. Nothing about the place announces itself from the street, which is rather the point.
Tuesday – Saturday
5:00 pm – 2:00 am
Friday & Saturday
from around nine
Downtown Austin
look for the unmarked door
From the list
The full list lives on the cocktail menu, and it changes with the season.
Rye, demerara, aromatic bitters, a wide strip of orange.
Gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, stirred long and served cold.
Rye and sweet vermouth, finished with smoke under the glass.
Vodka, coffee liqueur and fresh espresso, thick foam on top.
Weekends
A trio in the corner from around nine, playing standards at a volume you can still talk over. No cover charge. The bar is walk-in only, so come early if you want the seats near the piano.
Friday
Trio · 9pm – midnight
Saturday
Trio · 9pm – midnight
News & events
New menus, jazz line-ups and one-off evenings. This section updates itself whenever a new post is published.
Events
August 28, 2026
The building was a print shop for most of a century. Taking the walls back to brick turned up more of its…
Events
August 28, 2026
A trio in the corner from around nine, both weekend nights. No cover charge, no reservations for the bar — but the…
New Menus
August 28, 2026
We have kept the first list deliberately short — four drinks we are happy to make a hundred times a night, with…
Tuesday through Saturday, five in the evening until two in the morning. No reservations for the bar — just walk in.