Manor Road sports bar with poutine, 40 plus taps and the American Outlaws on the back wall.
Haymaker sits on Manor Road in East Austin, in the Cherrywood-adjacent stretch between East 7th and the Mueller redevelopment. The Infatuation Austin describes the bar as "a serious sports bar with one of the best beer lists in town," and the Austin Chronicle's reader poll voted it Best Sports Bar in 2023 and 2024. The bar is the Austin chapter clubhouse for the American Outlaws (the U.S. men's and women's national team supporters), plus the city's Chelsea FC and Manchester City supporter sections, which fills the room before 7 a.m. on Saturday Premier League mornings.
The right visitor wants a Sunday afternoon NFL slate with a Texas pint and a plate of poutine. The wrong visitor wants quiet, table service, or a date. The room is loud when the games are on and the TVs are the focus, not the design.
The space is a low-slung Manor Road bar with a long counter facing a wall of TVs, picnic-style high-tops in the middle and a dog-friendly patio out back. The Infatuation calls out the "great patio" as the room's secret weapon — covered, fan-cooled, and big enough that it stays workable in Austin August. The walls carry supporter scarves: USMNT, Chelsea, Manchester City, plus rotating college pennants.
The draft list runs 40-plus taps with a clear bias toward Texas craft — Live Oak, Austin Beerworks, Pinthouse, Jester King, St Elmo — rotating weekly. The Austin Chronicle's beer-list writeup notes the "rare-for-Austin attention paid to imports," with a German and Belgian section that holds up. Pints land $6–8 depending on ABV. The cocktail programme is functional, not the reason to come; the boilermaker special (a Lone Star tallboy plus a shot of Tito's, $9) is the order if you want the local move.
The kitchen is what separates Haymaker from the average TV bar. The poutine at $12 is the menu's most-ordered plate per Google Maps photo reviews — the cheese curds are real, not melted shreds. The Sunday breakfast tacos are well-flagged by r/austin regulars as worth pairing with an early Premier League fixture. Skip the salads.
Weekday afternoons read as a Manor Road neighborhood bar — East Austin freelancers, dog walkers, a few campus stragglers from UT. Saturday mornings the room flips: Chelsea and Manchester City supporters arrive in scarves before 7:00 a.m. for the early kickoffs, and the American Outlaws section turns up for USMNT and USWNT fixtures. NFL Sundays are the loudest day. Reddit's r/austin thread "where to actually watch the games" puts Haymaker in the top three answers every season.