Downtown Waco Venues
Austin Avenue’s new restaurants, bars and cultural venues make a great scene for downtown nightlife. Showcasing live music 4 nights a week at Austin’s on The Avenue, it is a great place to meet your friends downtown, as is the 5th Street Ice House. The city’s best fine dining experience is without a doubt at the Green Room Grille. Dinner at the Green Room and a drink at Austin’s can both be accomplished either before or after taking in a musical or movie at the historic Hippodrome theater. Take in a gallery show and what promises to be one of Waco’s most exciting fine art galleries, the Croft Gallery.
If night life is not your cup of tea there are plenty of great things to do in downtown before the sun goes down. Flowers at Bloomingals, antiques and home decor at Bloom and Be Swanky or trips to Spice, The Shops at River Square and Honey’s Home + Style should satisfy your shopping itch. If you are hungry after shopping all day, there are plenty of great places to eat lunch downtown. The best sandwiches in town can be had downtown. Downtown pioneers Schmaltz’s Sandwich Shop and the Olive Branch, which has recently relocated to Waco Town Square, have both been around for years and new options are consistently springing up like Se Cocina which is offering up a white tablecloth twist on traditional Mexican Cuisine. Café Cappuccino also offers up local favorites for breakfast and lunch 7 days a week.
Whatever you’re looking for be it living, working, playing; or all of the above it can all be done downtown.