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Best Boozy Spot to Tap Into Your Inner Child

Barrel O' Fun

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photo by Richard Whittaker

During the day, this carnival-inspired bar is strictly G-rated, where kids and their adult tenders can toss beanbags and slurp house-made sodas. But it’s at night, when they shave the ’rel off the door sign to become a Bar O’ Fun, that we most love this cozy space on the ground floor of the new Alamo Drafthouse Mueller. No matter the name, fun is fun, whether you’re showing off your smarts at the regular trivia nights, sussing out subtext at Queer Film Theory 101, or sipping a vodka cherry-lime rickey in the retro-cool Tilt-a-Whirl booths.