The Canary Roost

I love the karaōke. Can’t say I love that one of their bartenders gets sh! t faced there every weekend.
I used to just grin and bear it, but she decided to get up in my face last night. Called me a «f!$cking bitch» and then proceeded to tell me «I work here, bitch, so you’re never allowed in here when I’m working.» Luckily she doesn’t work Fri. and Sat. Just annoys everyone in the bar as a customer.
We had a huge group there too for my husband’s Bday. She kept interrupting us. Not cool. I don’t care how much of a dive bar you are. Customers are still paying your rent. Fire that hot mess.

This place is small and the wait staff is very slow with tending to there customer’s .I order one beer and had to keep getting up to get my own drinks .Will never go back to this place again. Beware!

Brown haired bartender will ignore you at the bar. Same thing, every time I’m there. I’ve waited tables, so I appreciate being really busy, but there’s a difference between that and just being a bitch.

Not people of pigmentation friendly bar… so racist… never go there again… wouldn’t even service us… for no reason at all… totally ignored me and my date

I come in to get out of traffic and it took the bartender 10 mins to acknowledge me. There was only 5 customers and she wasn’t busy at all. Then when she asked for my id, as I was pulling it out, she walks away and starts playing some golf video game. I will never come back here. Horrible service!

Cool place. karaōke happens quite a bit. great service and drink specials. pool tables are good. people smoke out back. the bathroom could use a facelift.

Great karaōke selection. Cleaner than most dive bars. Drinks are weak but priced okay. The staff is really not very friendly, which is why I can’t give the place five stars. I’ve been coming here a few times s year for about five years, and my experience has been consistently fun.

If you want feel warmed and welcomed go to church; if you want to feel that your death is the best thing for the community go to the Roost.
Dominated by local barstaff and uncomfortable with criticism this stripcenter cold spot is better for a bathroom break, than enjoying a local brew or meetings with friends or clients.
Give it a pass, they’ve already passed on you.
Local investigators should consider this business a laundering threat, the staff is too genuinely horrid, and management too disinterested to merit a genuine business concern.

I only come here because I’m a huge fan of local, funky, fun, oddball dive bars and the only reason they don’t get 5 stars is they don’t serve food. Fortunately, they don’t give a rats ass about food because there’s a pizza joint next door. The bartenders are cool unless you’re an idiot who thinks money entitlement exists. The karaōke is good to great, unless a big guy named Ryan gets on and, then it’s mind bending. Please don’t come here unless you’re chill, love to laugh, educated beyond grade school, and are ok with just having a good time with no frills, and want to escape reality in a permanent midnight.

My boyfriend and I ordered a screwdriver and it tasted absolutely disgusting. The atmosphere is OKAY but I would have been nervous going up on stage. I’m not coming back to this place again. I ended up going to the common interest down the road and the drinks and environment were great, we had a blast! The roost is a dive bar and the drinks are disgusting, that’s an odd combination.

This place is boo boo. Don’t go to drink here. Where grown a#s «men» request to have their seat back. So immature and childish. Worst experience ever. Shame that I used to come here to have a good time in the past and recommended this place to my boyfriend.
It started with the bartender having a sour attitude upon trying to order a drink. Some weirdo dressed, as a «green beret gone gay» told me to get out of his seat that I have I have been sitting at for the past 25 minutes. I get up with my boyfriend and move to a table and about 15 minutes later an employee tells us, «can you guys give me my table back». We left immediately after that. You just don’t treat customers like that. I came out for a good time on Halloween night and it just turned bad, thanks Canary Roost.

It’s a dive bar with totally kick ass karaōke.

I used to come here weekly a couple years ago, but it seems the atmosphere has changed drastically. The last couple times I visited the KJs were terrible (speeding up songs from non-​regulars, pushing their friends on busy nights, and not knowing how to solve simple issues with the karaōke tech), although I enjoyed the Thursday night KJ quite a bit.
The reason I’m giving a one star review is for the bartenders. I’ve never met a colder group of people in a customer service position in my life. Aggressively rude and sluggishly lazy; it took ten minutes of staring at them to get a single drink. When I finally did, I was given attitude and had my ID checked twice by the same person. I could understand if it was a busy night, but there were maybe twenty-​five people in the bar. I would have spent 4x as much there if they had just helped me immediately instead of finishing up their conversations with other patrons.
I constantly hear them complain about not getting tipped and wonder how they don’t see the correlation between being awful to customers and not being rewarded for it. Dreadful.
Also, drinks are about $ 2 too expensive for how divey this place is.

Bartender is very rude, and disrespectful.. and what else do you expect the least.

Janet/​or jen not sure was unbelievable unnecessarily rude! Beyond unprofessional, racist, sexist homophobic and all around a discusting human being that any established should be embarrassed to have working for them none the less (from what I understand) managing. You are in the SERVICE industry and if you can’t provide a service to any and all paying people then you don’t need to be working! !! Never I repeat NEVER will me or any of my many friends (as we are austinite who respects this city and ourselves) be returning ever again!

This place blows if I can give it negative stars I would. I hate being that person writing a negative review because of one bad experience but this bartender just charged my friends for the same tab to two different people and was just rude. I do love listening to everybody sing.

Bartender was so rude it was unexpected and unnecessary Sasha needs to learn how to handle her emotions cause all she is needed for is to serve drinks with a smile but instead spits attitude and shows her aggressive attitude by slamming her hand on the bar dramatically and I usually come there with abt 20 ppl often and the other bartenders are very nice we decided to go somewhere else tonight still can’t believe her unnecessary attitude!!!

I always end up having a great time at Canary Roost!
Myra, Tia, and April are THE bartenders!
The atomsphere is just comfortable– nobody cares what you are wearing as long as you’ve come to sing, laugh, and have a good time! Don’t walk in with any snooty attititude or the regulars will make fun of you. =) Seriously folks, it’s a local non-​downtown karoke bar. You wanna get treated crummy and be pushed and shoved for a drink, then go downtown.
Since it’s located near ACC, there is a great mixture of students and locals. It’s bring your own food, which is so awesome that Double Daves is next door! The bathrooms can run out of paper towels, but just give one of the AWESOME bartenders a heads up and they’ll take care of it.
Love Canary!

Date Night: Part III — The Wrath of Karaōke!
Just Got Paid… (just got paid) Friday night (friday!)…Roost is hopping… Im feeling fine. (thanks Johnny Kemp for the lyrics!)
Second time here (actually first time I walked in out/​cuz there was no singing going on/​setup)
Walked in at the start of the K night, KJ can really sing damn him, and the book was nice (Digging Your Scene? Seriously??)
Drinks weren’t too badly priced, but the Kamikaze I had was eww (remember, I don’t drink!) The rest of the party loved them tho’!
The atmosphere was weird, not exactly a dive bar, but no other term would describe the place. Good people watching.
I don’t like the way the KJ does rotations, but I am a karaōke snob I guess.
So far the best of all worlds (close to the house, great songbook, non smoking. although I miss stealing cancer from my friends outside smoking, nice singers)
I will be back —

This place reminds me of my old comfy shoes. Old looking, a little worn, familiar and goes great with my «I don’t care» pants.
Friendly bartenders. Colorful patrons. The occasional terrible karaōke. Good prices.
Across from ACC so plenty of sociable students interested in talking about an array of random topics.
For a calm night away from the meat market bars this is the place.
Oh and parking? Plenty.