Busty's
James Durham brought his JimJam's biscuit popup in-house, so the biscuits arrive with chili country gravy and the honey butter sliders come with turkey patties.
Why go
Breakfast runs all day, and Busty Morris says why: he spent years finishing shifts at the White Horse at three in the morning and going home to make a breakfast sandwich, which is how the Burnout Breakfast got its name.1 The rest of the menu is American and Tex-Mex counter food: onion petals, duros, burgers, turkey clubs, burritos, a mushroom melt and a Beet-LT.1 The bar comes from Nathan Hill and Morris, the same hands behind Frazier's Long & Low, High Noon and The White Horse.1 The building used to be Fran's Hamburgers and then Cenote; a full-sized 1969 Corvette now hangs upside down over the dining room, fur-lined, which Morris calls a dumb drunk idea he went ahead and built.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: biscuits with chili country gravy, or the honey butter sliders with turkey patties. That program is Durham's and it is the reason the kitchen is worth a detour.1
- Drink: the Mezquito, the house mezcal build, or the Smoking Jacket on whiskey. Both draft cocktails are rum, the Blue Hawaiian and the Cruzan to the Park.1
- Avoid: coming for the car. It is the room's joke, and the biscuits are the argument.
What locals & experts say
- Nicolai McCrary, The Infatuation Austin:
it’s a casual affair with cheap and potent drinks that serve as catnip to anyone in a five-mile radius with boots and a flannel shirt
.2 - On the room, same review: he places most of the crowd catching up, eating a cheeseburger and drinking blue hawaiians under the hanging car, with a few taking their billiards a little too seriously.2
- On the food's intent, Busty Morris to the Chronicle:
I love the Sixties/Seventies cocktail lounges that are dirty and seedy, and a lot of them randomly have really good food
.1 - Why there is no score: the Infatuation rates only places where you can eat a full meal, so there is a byline here and no number.2
Good to know
- Hygiene: Austin Public Health scored the kitchen 89 on 4 February 2026, 86 on 18 July 2025, 91 on 19 March 2025 and 93 on 7 November 2024, on a scale where 70 is the failing line. The city files it as
Busty's Bar & Jukebox
.3 - Parking: the lot has been overflowing since opening, and the neighborhood is short of other nightlife.1
- Hours: the Chronicle wrote in April 2024 that an 11am brunch open was still coming. Nothing newer was read, so check before making an early trip.1
Verdict
could-visit — A Windsor Park neighborhood bar from the White Horse and Frazier's people, with a kitchen that is better than the format promises. James Durham brought his JimJam's biscuit popup in-house, so the biscuits with chili country gravy and the honey butter turkey sliders are the thing to order rather than a concession to the beer. Breakfast runs all day because the co-owner used to want it at three in the morning. The drinks are cheap, potent and mostly agave and rum, with two draft tiki-adjacent pours. A 1969 Corvette hangs upside down over the room, which tells you the ambition level and it is not the reason to come. The city has scored it 93, 91, 86 and 89 across four inspections.