The Lost Well

The Lost Well is my home away from home. I frequently catch shows here and even sat amongst friends to memorialize Lemmy. A lot of memories here and more to come. Drinks are cheap and stiff, which is perfect. Sound is great. The place is always improving. I recommend this place to out of towners I feel are worthy.

Love this place! The staff and patrons made me feel right at home from the first minute I walked in. The drinks are affordable and they aren’t that watered down crap you get at other bars, which is great because those hard working bar tenders deserve extra tips.

Dropped in for a beer after a fun afternoon enjoying East Austin Studio Tours and we were surprised to see Corinne Rose Band warming up on stage so we stuck around to see their set. The band rocked, the sound was excellent and the tap beer (512 Pecan Porter, Peacemaker, Hans Pils and Founders Breakfast Stout were what we were drinking) was reasonably priced. There was a bonus baby shower going on to make the scene even more fun. We’ll be back for sure.

Yay Lost Well! Great folks, great scene, great music, cheap drinks! My fave place in town!!!

I would say that this little bar has improved from what it previously was for sure! I definitely think it may be the truest, divey-​est, grungiest bar in Austin. It’s pretty dirty, but dirty in the good sense. If you are looking for something heavy as far as music goes then this is definitely the place for that too. The bar has a decent selection of beers and the bartenders seem cool. It is a cool spot with some definite character. I would come here again. I have been here twice already — once to see a friend’s band play and another time with friends.

I love this place! Great location & cool chill vibe…

Terrific hole in the wall place. That is said with much love. I hang out at a similar place in Houston called The Big Easy, so I felt right at home. Décor is right on. Specials are great.

Who doesn’t love a dive bar with live music? It’s such a relaxed atmosphere inside — very unassuming.
Service is great, music is fantastic, I love the patrons here, and it just *feels* like a neighborhood bar. It’s also cool that you can order Gourmands across the street to eat. (Which is also great.)
The best part? The location — it’s not downtown! Woo! No puking frat boys or pretentious hipsters! That should be enough to see anyone on this place!

5-​star dive joint. cheap beer and it smells like vomit & lysol… my favorite kinda place. love it here.

Awesome dive bar with great music and people. Left my ID overnight (Obviously a GREAT time was had) and they some angel saved my traveling ass by turning it into the bar.
THANK ya Lost Well!

If you like to drink at a bar, this is a good place. They have a cool stage and really friendly people on staff, the majority of whom are seasoned bartenders from really great bars that have since gone the way of the Steamboat. It’s ever so slightly off the beaten path which makes it easy to find parking, and there are plenty of other places in the immediate area that serve libations and food if you like to wander. This little pocket of neighborhood is about to explode with other amazing businesses and I hope that The Lost Well stays where I can find it!

One of my favorite go to’s. Everyone here is super rad and the music is always spot on. if your hungry, there is usually delicious pie for sale too.

i love a good dive bar. sometimes you just need a margarita in a mason jar or some bulleit whiskey on the rocks. and the lost well has you covered.
great shows, awesome outdoor seating and a jukebox for even the most discriminating heavy rock connoisseur.
if you’re feeling sinister, try a fireball. hot nights, cold beer, killer tunes. stay sick, friends.

This is the best bar in town. And Andy Porter is the coolest person around. If you think otherwise, you should just move back to Dallas or LA or wherever the F*ck u just moved here from.

An honest bar run by decent people catering to hard-​working, creative characters. Go there, order a beer and a Fireball, and strike up a conversation with the first person you see. You will be better for it.

This place for a dive bar is OK but when it is the reincarnation of Love Joy’s then its a bit disappointing.
Really this place is the Frontier Bar (the bar that was in this location prior to The Lost Well) with a new sign outside.
The music was fun and the beer was cold. The good news is the prices are cheaper than Love Joy’s were but that’s really the only semblance I see to the former gem of Dirty 6^th.
All of that taken into account this is still a pretty good neighborhood dive bar.

Yay! The Lost Well is a reincarnation of Lovejoys minus the home brews. There. I said it. Jeff, the bartender was great and so was his playlist. They were showing the UT game on one screen and curling on the other. There’s local craft beer on tap and beef jerky if you get hungry. Or you can order from Gourmands across the street. I love this place already.

Home… comfort and cold beer… The Lost Well is still in its infancy (so to speak) since they just recently opened are still putting their touch on it, but it is where I will go to relax, see friends and neighbors. We (I) needed this badly.
Motorcycle friendly parking!
Also great bands and weekends, full bar and Moto GP viewings when there is a race.

I was a long-​time patron of Lovejoys — it was August of 1994 that I first walked through its doors, and I was there in August of 2012 when it finally closed — been there, did that, bought the t-​shirts, got the tattoo. 18 years. A lot of familiar faces, a lot of friends over the years. And with the demise of Lovejoys, a community was dispersed.
Oh sure, we had the Gypsy Lounge, and Casino el Camino, and St. Roch’s, but none of them were Lovejoys, not really. A couple of the same familiar faces to be sure, but we were like shell-​shocked refugees going through the motions.
So, it was with some excitement and nostalgia that two veteran bartenders of Lovejoys were rumored to be taking over the Frontier Bar. It would NOT be Lovejoys version 2.0 (or 3.0, or 4.0), but c’mon, this was the moment we’d been waiting for for just over a year. A couple of the same bartenders taking over, joining another Lovejoys vet who had worked at Frontier.
Okay, so getting to the point, The Lost Well is NOT Lovejoys. However, there are the same familiar tables scored from Lovejoys. There are also 3 Lovejoys bartenders serving you the same Lovejoys drinks. They also have the same types of bands performing on stage 3 nights of the week, and the same well-​attended Moto GP on Sundays. And a heckuva lot of familiar faces I’ve not seen since Lovejoys closed. But, this is NOT Lovejoys. That’s NOT their intent, I get it. Lovejoys did not have an ice-​filled piss trough, and luckily for us they’ve kept that over from the Frontier Bar days. They’ve kept the nice expensive sound system. There’s a smoking patio outside if that’s your thing. The jukebox ain’t exactly the quality that was Lovejoys, but again, this ain’t Lovejoys, dig?
The folks at The Lost Well didn’t have a lot of time to fix up things, so for now there’s a temporary vinyl sign outside, and a few things will be changed as time allows — new paint, a new sign, a cooler that will augment the typical diver beer taps with «better» beer selections for folks that got used to such things at Lovejoys, maybe an expansion of the taps in time (a boy can dream)…
Seriously though, this is NOT Lovejoys, and they’re not recreating it on the far east side. I have no clue if they’re going to be doing house beer (doesn’t look like there’s the space for it), but there are a plethora of craft beer bars for that close by anyway. Lovejoys was special — it was a time and a place, and a real sense of loss when Lovejoys closed — Lovejoys fostered a community, and there is a palpable excitement that The Lost Well may be picking up where Lovejoys left off.
So, if you like dive bars that remind you of Lovejoys or Frontier Bar, you’ll like The Lost Well, which happens to have Lovejoys veterans behind the bar, and Lovejoys chairs and tables scattered throughout the place. Biggest plus is that it’s not downtown, so parking is sweet and you don’t have the frat or hipster elements, and they still have the extended happy hour from 4−9pm.

The Lost Well opened today, I’ve been here for 20 minutes and it already feels like home.
Can’t wait to see what happens!