Browsing a few galleries before a night of bar-hopping is a tried-and-true East Austin date activity ... but what if the gallery and the bar were one and the same? And what if the cocktail menu was inspired by the gallery exhibit and changed every time a new collection of paintings arrived? That’s the vision achieved at Papercut, an East Fifth Street cocktail lounge helmed by skilled bartenders from San Francisco. Take a walk through the space, enjoy the art, order a drink influenced by your favorite piece, and duck into the back bar Konbini for excellent Mexican-Japanese sushi.
