Austin Bar & Restaurant Revenue, July 2026

Austin’s highest-grossing bars in July 2026

Ranked by mixed-beverage receipts for July 2026 alone — one month, not a lifetime total. July 2026 is the newest month the Texas Comptroller has published.

Rank is out of the 1,904 venues that reported for July 2026 — not out of every venue ever recorded.

Who is up and who is down, year over year

May – Jul 2026 against May – Jul 2025 — the same three calendar months a year apart, so a single big private event cannot swing the list. Dollar gains and percentage gains are published separately and never blended: one is the money story, the other the discovery story.

New on the tax rolls

Venues whose first mixed-beverage filing lands in the last twelve months — the earliest public signal that a new bar has opened.

“Reported so far” is everything this venue has filed since it opened, across the months listed — for most of them that is a single month. A first filing trails the actual opening by a month or two, and a change of ownership at an existing address mints a new taxpayer and location number that looks exactly like a new venue.

Gone quiet

Venues that were filing and then stopped, within the last twelve months. Nobody tracks this at metro scale — a stopped mixed-beverage filing is the earliest dated public signal that a bar may have closed.

A stopped filing is not proof of closure — when a bar changes hands the new owner files under a new taxpayer and location number, so the old record goes quiet while the doors stay open. A venue can appear here and in “new on the tax rolls” in the same month — that is precisely what a change of ownership looks like in this data.

The dormant archive

2,269 venues in the Austin-metro record have not filed a mixed-beverage return in over a year. They are kept because the addresses and the numbers are real, and because “what used to be here?” is a fair question — but they are a historical record, not a listing of operating bars, and they are never mixed into the lists above.

A stopped filing is not proof of closure — when a bar changes hands the new owner files under a new taxpayer and location number, so the old record goes quiet while the doors stay open.

Every venue ever recorded — dormant ones included — keeps its own page, and each page leads with the month that venue last filed.

Frequently asked questions

Is this Austin bar still open?

Every venue on this site is labelled with the last month it filed a mixed-beverage return. A venue filing through the newest published month is almost certainly trading; one that stopped filing four or more months ago has gone quiet, and one silent for over a year is treated as a historical record. A stopped filing is not proof of closure — when a bar changes hands the new owner files under a new taxpayer and location number, so the old record goes quiet while the doors stay open.

How many Austin bars and restaurants are in this database?

1,904 Austin-metro venues reported mixed-beverage receipts for July 2026, the newest month published, and 2,171 have filed within the last three months. Older venues stay in the record — they are shown separately and labelled with the month they last filed, never mixed into the current list.

How often is the bar and restaurant data updated?

The Texas Comptroller releases mixed beverage receipt data monthly, and a month’s receipts generally become available about three to four weeks after that month ends. So the newest figures here describe last month, not this one. Each venue is listed with the most recent month it reported, so you can see how current its figures are.

How accurate is Austin bar and restaurant revenue data?

The figures come from official Texas Comptroller reports. Every establishment with a mixed beverage permit is required by law to report its monthly gross receipts from alcohol sales, and that filing is what the state taxes. It covers alcohol only — food, retail and ticketing are not included, so a restaurant’s bar receipts are a slice of its business, not the whole of it.

Which areas does the Austin bars database cover?

The Austin metro: Travis County (Austin, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood), Williamson County (Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, Hutto, Taylor), Hays County (Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Dripping Springs), Bastrop County and Caldwell County. You can filter by city, neighborhood or zip code.

What is mixed beverage gross receipts data?

Mixed beverage gross receipts are the total revenue from sales of alcoholic beverages (liquor, wine, beer) and related cover charges at a licensed establishment. Venues holding a mixed beverage permit report the figure monthly to the Texas Comptroller, who uses it to calculate the state mixed beverage tax. It is a monthly, dated, per-location number — which is why a venue that stops filing is visible the moment it stops.

Search and map all 2,171 venues that filed within the last three months

The interactive explorer below covers venues that have filed within the last three months — the same default the rest of the site now uses. Venues that went quiet earlier are listed above, under gone quiet and the dormant archive, each one labelled with the month it last filed.