Big Shotz

Not a bad place if you don’t mind cig smoke. Nothing special, couple of pool tables that are pretty run down, kind of a small place. Gets shoulder to shoulder on the weekend. A good day to visit is Thursday. Marty behind the bar is awesome! They have a DJ on Thursdays and band on weekends usually. They don’t serve food, but a tamale guy usually comes by to take orders.

I love this place!!! Been coming here for a few years now. My only complaint is that people under 21 can’t get in at all. Other than that this place is an awesome little bar to catch a drink, watch a football game, play pool, and even sometimes sing a little karaōke at!!! Great place!!!

I come to watch every sporting event. The owner Jim is awesome! He always makes me feel welcome in his bar. The bartenders are amazing! I love this bar! Hook em Horns!

I’ve been coming here for almost a year. I love this place. For Longhorn or Cowboys games they almost always have free food and the service is great. And Robyn is the best looking bar tender in Austin!

Cool people horrible service. Plenty of other bars in the area don’t waste your night by going here. Clock is set 30 min fast and the bar tender closed the bar down 20 min before her clock so just be forewarned if you do get stuck here make sure it’s before 1am.

AIR… must… find… AIR… This bar inside looked super cool and had a million TVs and lots of smiling faces in there. But they were chain smoking smiling faces, each one-​a them. Every Olympic chain smoker in the radius was here. If you are not used inhaling cigarette smoke instead of sweet oxygen filled air, this ain’t your place. I had to walk out as immediately as I walked in and I still smelled like smoke all night after my 14 second visit here.
Lookie Here Big Shotz. Vegas Baby Vegas has smoking all day erreday, but they also have wicked good ventilation systems. Think of it as a long term investment in more customers.

This review might make me show my liberal progressive hippieish uppity roots. I couldn’t find a decent bar or think of one at least so Unilocal provides this place as around the corner. Why not?
I may as well give up because two places in our area have spoiled me. One is the Black Star co-​op which is my favorite all around pub for food and drink. The Westside Alehouse is second due to friendly staff, decent food and a great beer selection in Round Rock.
Big Shotz is a clean, hole in the wall with a pool table in back. I don’t like sports, don’t watch sports and I also don’t care for flavored vodka. That might skew my review. Drink prices are cheap but I usually just have a beer. The pool table in back is fine. It’s a bar, what else do you say?
Here’s where I turn irritable. I noticed people smoking. I didn’t mind the smoke at first. The fans seem to be pulling the air up so not so bad. When I left, I wreaked of it. I haven’t had that happen in so long I forgot what it’s like when someone smokes inside a building.
I’d consider going here again but it’s only if other places I enjoy more aren’t open.

Been drinking at this bar since it first opened. Good selection of beers and liquor. The daily specials are awesome from bloody mary’s to well specials. Regulars are fun and talkative. Has free pool Sunday to Tuesday which I’m a huge fan of. This bar is a great place for a few drinks or to watch the game. Plenty of televisions and if your game isnt on the bartenders or the owners will usually put it on for you. If you are a UT fan this is your bar by the way. Great bar, good people, truly a neighborhood bar.

I absolutely love this bar. Not only do they have what I would consider the most epic selection of flavored vodkas I have ever seen, but they also are so reasonably priced that it makes happy hour a joy! Cookie Dough Vodka!!!
I love that they have local music at nights too that is not just the same old stuff you see everywhere. It is great to go in one night and get rockabilly and then another night to get cover songs we all love (and sing along to). Even in the afternoon there is good music playing or sports.
The staff is super friendly and there was less drama (that is always handled quickly when it does pop up like at every bar.) They even offered to call a cab for anyone who seemed a little tipsy. It was nice to see their concern!
I didn’t notice what the other comments said about it being too smokey on the number of times I have been in there. I don’t smoke and typically am highly affected by smoke, but it doesn’t bother me here at all. I am glad that I don’t have to spend the entire night outside with my smoking friends because they allow smoking inside.
This is the bar that my girlfriends and I go to when we want to go out! Closer to home than 6^th street and a wide variety of people to meet and talk to and you can actually hear them. I recommend this bar to anyone who lives north!

Ive been here at least 2x. Once we came in and were playing pool when we noticed there was a tiny tv outside that had the spurs game on. b/​c my fiancée loves me despite my love for the SPURS he asked the bartender to put that game on to the bigscreen in the pool table area. Love love loved that.
2^nd time we came in here was a few weekends ago. We had the shot of the day. whatever thatwas on saturday. They were having their 1 year anniversary party and they were having an 80’s party. They were cutting cake or something but I guess that was just for the regulars b/​c we were never offered any which is fine, it was a liquid kinda diet that day.
We had a few drinks, great waitress/​bartender girl, very sweet. Too bad she was leaving for Chicago b/​c she was very nice without being too «so what are you ordering next kinda vibe» Loved her! And she didnt charge me for a drink I ordered that was gross.. not her fault a vodka tonic with lime tasted like an air freshner sitting in my car mixed with pine sol. .but the fact that she didnt charge me for it without even asking will have me returning for sure.
DIdnt like that the only guy in the bar smoking decided to sit next to me after I just straighted my hair that morning.. I hate smelling like an ash tray. My only wish is that this place not allow smoking indoors and it would be absolute chill.
Love the music too: 80s music and sounds like they just plugged in my ipod.

Wasn’t a good experience this time! Not many people here… boring…too smoky, even though the ceiling fans were on… boring…mainly guys hanging out, hardly any women to chat with… boring…and did I say it was too smoky, where it seemed as if I smoked and I don’t! Hopefully if I go back it’ll be much better!

Hubby and I have dropped by this place about 3 times. It’s a great place to grab a beer and catch a game. There isn’t food though which is always a bummer in a drinking establishment. We went back more then once because beer wasn’t bad but they had great new country music playing on the radio which I loved. It was a nice relaxed environment… reason we won’t go back again… the smoking. If you are a smoker, you’ll love the bar but as a non-​smoker, I’d rather go across the street and not smell afterwards. Service was always great with the bartender waiting tables as well. Overall ok place but like other raters have said, won’t go back due to the smoking.

Love the pickle shots

Only a few taps to chose from and the happy hour prices are high. This is a place that is close to work and is fun but I need better prices. We had high hopes but it appears they have some regulars. If you like shots this is your place. My friend tried to order something with OJ and they were out, so one of the workers went to get some and 20 minutes later hadn’t returned so we left.
I am right there with Gary K. and his review. We felt the same way and went to a chain across the street.

I really wish I could give Big Shotz a higher rating, but I’d be lying if i did. I stopped by last weekend because it was one of the very few bars showing the UT-​Rice football game (thanks a lot, Longhorn Network…).
It has a lot of positives actually: pretty close to my house, beer prices were good, the bar and restrooms were really clean, cool sports décor, and the owners were nice enough to order a bunch of pizza for the patrons that night.
Now for the bad stuff: the cloud of cigarette smoke that hit me as soon as I walked in, it took me about 3 minutes to get the bartender’s attention because she was too busy flirting with some dude at the bar (the other bartender was actually pretty good), and it was pretty small so the drunken idiots next to me kept bumping into me.
Honestly, I would give it an extra two stars if smoking was banned, but I guess that’s the clientele that they’re going for. Too bad, because it was a pretty cool little spot other than that.

Me: I don’t want to!
Friend: Let’s give it a try anyway, it can’t be that bad.
Me: But Matt B. warned me about it.
Friend: Let’s give it a shot anyway!
Me: regrettably frowning: OK!
So we slid into Big Shotz in Round Rock next to Chuck E Cheese. We entered and my friend ordered a bottle of beer and I ordered a drink. My friend took 2 drinks of his beer and then:
Friend: I can’t stand it let’s go!
Me: Yeah!
We left.
So this is a great small local bar for those that smoke and like to drink as they smoke or play a little pool. The prices are right. So if you are a smoker this is the place for you. So if you do not like being in a high smoking environment then you have been warned. I hope they are successful because I think that smokers should have a place they can go and not worry about having to go outside and smoke. So if you smoke I think you will love this bar.
However, I will exorcize my right to not go here since it is a smoking environment.
As a side note I raise my one star to a three star because of the sexy, beautiful bartender on Sundays and Tuesdays after 7:30pm.
Would I go back? Mostly likely no!

Nice but very SMALL sports bar for a Friday happy hour when we went. Place is in the same parking lot with Chuck E Cheese along the eastbound Hwy 45 access road. Haven’t been there during a sports Saturday but there are mid-​sized flatscreens all around and a tiny stage up front apparently for a karaōke or solo artist night.
Draft beer selection is limited to just the main domestics plus Dos XX. Bottle selection is mostly domestic, too. They could really use a couple local TX brews, but they DO have their full liqour license. Oh and just forewarning for the anti-​smoking nazis — yes, this is Austin ETJ so there are ashtrays on the back tables! Jim and Kelli (owners) usually bartend and are friendly. Apparently their first bar venture so I hope RR treats them well despite all the past failures around the neighborhood.