AUSTIN — (AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN) The powder blue bungalow that houses neighborhood bar Craftsman is a pleasing sight on East Cesar Chavez Street — but it’s transforming in mid-October into something far more frightening, in honor of Halloween.
Craftsman is dressing up for the spooky holiday, too, and will become a haunted pop-up bar starting on Oct. 17 through Halloween. Thanks to the decor, you’ll feel as though you’ve wandered into a haunted house in the heart of East Austin and just might need a drink to get you through it.
And not just any cocktail, of course.
The usual drinks menu is being tossed aside in favor of themed cocktails featuring house-made ingredients and surprising garnishes, according to a news release. Each one gets its name from a range of scary subjects. The foam-topped Billy Butcherson is an ode to beloved Halloween film “Hocus Pocus,” for example, while the beer-filled Bride in Room #525 nods to a local legend: the suicidal brides who killed themselves at the Driskill Hotel, in the room — you guessed it — 525.
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