Treasure Island Pirate Bar

Good place to start the night on Sundays. .25 cent wells is a steal. Also they have the best looking bar tender on 6^th. Prolly the only reason I go in Sundays lol.

DO NOT GO HERE!!!
the famous F-​bomb moved it’s way west from treasure island, that WAS until they started saving the guitar shaped bottles and refilling them with Extra crappy alcohol that taste like mccormicks.
Went here two weeks ago or so, watched the bartender up front finish the bottle of Famous in our first round of f-​bombs, she then threw the bottle away and the other bartender beside her pulled it out of the trash and said ‘PUT IT UNDER THE WELLS, BLAH blah… Refill later.’ SHE DIDN’T SCRATCH THE T.A.B.C. STICKER OFF LIKE SUPPOSED TO, AND PUT THE BOTTLE UNDER THE BAR. ILLEGAL!!!
OUR DRINKS TASTED AWFUL like rubbing alcohol!!!
These people have gotten dishonest And greedy, and frankly, TOP SHELF DRINKERS DO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN BOOZE EVEN IN A CRAPPY POURED BOMB!!!
&erik WAS the best bartender before they replaced all the dudes with chicks who move slower than molases!
Treasure island= FIRED!!!

Not too much good stuff going on in this place. Bars are in disrepair. You have to wonder if by cleaning the glassware, they do little more than dip the cups in warm water. Their decorations include: dead sticks hanging out of the wall, a twenty-​inch screen CRT tv above the bar, and a yellow fish tank with shapes (possibly fish) moving in the murk. It’s the kind of place that will give you hepatitis from stepping into the bathroom.
On top of all this, the owner is racist! He specifically tells his employees to keep blacks, mexicans or ‘darks’ out of his bar. Do a little research on the owner, Mike Yassine, and see for yourself his history of discrimination.
This isn’t the kind of place I want to give my money to. There are SO many better places in Austin to drink at than this scummy place.

This place is on the lower end of the scale for bars on 6^th. I dont think I’ve ever come here for drinks willingly. I feel like the crowd can get to be slightly trashy and they play music that you could hear at any other bar. For how dirty it was and for such poor service, I’d say keep walking.

This is a great spot to have some cheap drinks before bar hopping around 6^th street. They play top 40s and hip hop mash ups. Weds and Suns they have $ 1 drinks and they are pretty strong for a buck. The last time i went the credit card limit was $ 10 which isnt bad. I wouldnt stay here the whole night but its good to pop in and have a few drinks. ERICK IS THE BEST BARTENDER THERE!, HE’S AWESOME!

they played the best music of all the bars we hit up this evening, lots of hip hop. $ 15 minimum on credit card? BOO! drinks were ok. i only came to dance =)
lots of booty shakin’ in this joint for sure. not quite sure the purpose of the downstairs bar/​room area because it was so tiny i think only 10 people can fit in there.

Dirty place with sticky floors. Shots are poured in small shot glasses but wells are made freakishly strong. I often fear for my safety here. Enough said.

This is a place you go to pregame before hitting 6^th. Wed & Sundays they have 1 $ triple wells!!! The music is top 40/​hip hop/​mashups, and for the most part the Dj’s have been consistent in here.
One time I saw a guy get on top of a barrel, and start walking on top of it while it rolled. His friend kicked it from under him, and he ATE it… True story
peace

The crowd here is a bit douchey for my taste but I couldn’t argue with $.25 well drinks and $ 1.00 triples. Lots of funny white folks trying to dance to keep you entertained for hours but other than the drink prices there is nothing the stands out here.

Avast ye maties! I was on Sixth St during SXSW last Monday trying to catch some of the afterparties. We walked by Treasure Island and they lured us in with $ 1 anything in the house. We are talking about Crown, Jäger, Goldschlager, Patron, Stoli, you name it for only $ 1. Needless to say we had a blast! Thanks for the booty Treasure Island.

I like going here on Monday nights when they have $ 1 drinks. We tend to stop here first when we go out on Friday and Saturdays. Two bars upstairs. Girl sells beers when you first come in. They have a girl walking around with shooters. There’s also a bar downstairs with seating that most people don’t know about. The downstairs bar has different drink specials than upstairs. It gets pretty packed. Really good bouncers.
I’ve only seen one issue there, and that was a guy that got alcohol poisoning. They took him outside and EMT was there in 2 seconds.

What does a pirate call his friends in the military? «Arrrrrrrr me» maties!!!
What do pirates and pimps have in common? They both say «YO HO!» and walk with a limp!
Are some of the pirate jokes I might approach you with.
Seeing how this place is pretty ghetto, the other people were not entertained.

Went to watch a live showcase for Texas RockFest during SXSW there. Really bad place for a live band because the bar is long and narrow and the stage (actually just a step and a low platform) is all the way at the back of the bar so unless you want to stand right in front of the speakers you can’t see anything or get close to the stage.
Drinks are ok, prices are reasonable. Go to drink, not for the music.

I’ve been here more times than I’d like to admit, but only because I’m a whore for the free drinks they offer you as you walk by. I’m not usually this frank or mean, but I’ve never been hit on by so many fugly people as I have while being in Treasure Island. Also, one time a girl was so drunk she was passed out on the toilet, with her pants around her ankles. Another girl and I had to pull her pants up and help her out of the stall (I’m also not usually that nice). The drinks are pretty cheap, but the place sucks.

Bleh.
Yes, the drinks may be cheap but there are definitely less sketch places to shake your booty to some mediocre hip hop mixes of top 40 songs.
Also, this place reeks of «creeper”– a lot like the vibe at an 18+ dance club, where creepers hover at the edge of the dancefloor scoping out the drunkest underage gaggle of girls to approach with «hey ladies».
I’m thinking (and based on the reviews below, am probably right) that I need to drink more before visiting TI and enjoying myself.

Cheesy, but fun. We were there a little too early for it to be really fun, but it’s good that they have multiple bars and plenty of dance space. What’s the best thing about this place? The cheap drinks. ‘nough said.
The thing that pissed me off was the guy at the door asking for additional ID. I know I have a GA driver’s license, and that TX is super strict on fake ID’s, but I’m 27, and by questioning me, you’re saying that I look 20. Flattered? Not really — just annoyed.

This place gets 1 star because it’s a bar on 6^th street that has somehow, miraculously, not gone out of business within 6 months. And that IS an achievement, if you note the longevity of 6^th street bars.
It is, as other reviewers have said, nothing special, with drinks and college folk getting merry-​go-​round sick.
It hosted some cool bands during the Heart of TX Music Festival, which has been going on for several years at the same exact time as SXSW. That’s ballsy right there, not particpating in SXSW. And… still going! That makes me give them another star.
Now, those things being said — which are both notable — why does it have to be another cheesetastical bar in a world full o cheestastical bars? Is that truly the secret of Treasure Island’s success?
Nobody threw bounty at me, on me way out the door, either time I dared enter. Or bought me drinks! And yet, mateys, I still managed to rid me’self of this horrid accent.
Arrrrrrgh.

«Treasure Island Pirate Bar». Really? That’s what it’s called?
Go here to get drunk fast. Or go here because you enjoy cultural anthropology. Either way, mission accomplished.
There’s little reason to review this delightful monstrosity besides the fact that it’s a mandatory addition to my cheesewagon list. Mandatory addition?! Fuck yeah. Think Emerson, Lake, and Palmer meets truckloads of Gouda. Think musical theater meets Robert Van Winkle. Think Dani Filth meets Pizza Hut. Think… okay, I’m out.

On my birthday, several of my cousins, as well as my brother, came with me to go barhopping on Friday night that week. We were all having a good time when we ended our night at Treasure Island. I had been there before and the bartender did tricks with the bottles so it seemed like an interesting place to come back to. It ended up being a bad choice though.
At 2:00 AM, it’s standard that all bars on 6^th Street stop serving alcohol. Usually, they give you a few minutes to pay your tab, drink some water, and take another bathroom break. Not so at Treasure Island. We were rudely shoved out the door. I mean they physically pushed us out. What were we doing? I was taking pictures with my cousins, very innocent smiles, and drinking water. We weren’t being rowdy at all. It wasn’t just us, it was everyone, to be fair. Still, they even pulled the glass out of water out of my brother’s hand! Come on! We just spent money buying a couple of rounds of shots, why kick us out so quickly?!
When we get outside, we complain to the bouncer and he says, «Yeah, we are ***holes. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else.» I am not exaggerating, those were his precise words. So I encourage you to not support this bar. There are plenty of others on 6^th that treat their customers with some degree of respect.

I guess the question is, «What are you in the mood for?»
If you answered, «A sketchy club, with sketchy people, playing Hip/​Hop remixes of popular rock songs, with $ 1 wells/​domestics, with a cheesy pirate theme, where I’ve got a 4 out of 5 chance of getting mauled by a cougar (or at least seeing a cougar sucking face with a guy in a backwards cap, wearing a sweatband on his forearm) — well, then, Treasure Island is the place for you!
If not, well — did I mention the $ 1 wells/​domestic beers nearly every night of the week?
**This is a cost-​adjusted rating, to account for the fact that it is so cheap, it’s almost free.

Pros and Cons
Pros
1. The cheapest drinks downtown. Almost every day= dollar wells or domestics, or some other equally amazing special.
2. The ghetto bootie music is good
3. Tiny dance floor in the back, but people usually just mill around and have a dance party right by the bar
4. They have a small downstairs bar (sometimes closed) home to good musicians, who come to play guitar every once and a while.
5. One time a bartender on the street saw us and took us inside to buy us a drink, just cause. Wanted to throw that in there, nice guy :)
Cons
1. Its not a high class joint.
2. Lots of PDA where ever you look, prolly between folks who just met a few minutes ago.
3. A younger sort of vibe. Not necessarily a bad thing, just good to know. If you are thirty and look it, you’ll stand out here.
Verdict: Come here for cheap drinks and then go elsewhere. The drinks are sometimes amazing and sometimes crap. Find a bartender you like, go to them often and tip well.