Best of ATX 2025 & 2026 ยท Austin Monthly
Austin's Best Liquor Store, Two Years Running
Best Bottle Shop, Best of ATX 2025 - Editors' Choice. First place, Liquor/Wine Store, Best of ATX 2026 - Readers' Choice.
Austin Monthly has put Goodnight Cowboy at the top of the city twice: once chosen by its editors, once voted by its readers. We soft-opened on Manor Road in the spring of 2025 to do one thing - run the kind of bottle shop we always wanted to walk into.
2025: the editors picked us
In Best of ATX 2025: Dining & Nightlife, Austin Monthly's editors named Goodnight Cowboy Best Bottle Shop. We had been open about four months.
2026: Austin voted
In August 2026, out of more than 50,000 nominations and 131,000 votes cast in Best of ATX - the readers' choice awards presented by Austin Monthly and the Austin American-Statesman - Goodnight Cowboy took first place in the Liquor/Wine Store category.
The story behind the shop
Austin Monthly ran a feature on us the week we opened. It covers how Adam Rios and Zach Hill - who had worked on the branding and marketing team that launched The Sphere in Las Vegas - came to name a Manor Road bottle shop after the Texas Ranger Charles Goodnight, and why they filled it with leather, cowhide and antlers instead of fluorescent light.
Curation over clutter
Every bottle on our shelves is there for a reason. Texas-made spirits, small-producer wine, hard-to-find craft beer - picked by people who taste what they sell and will happily tell you why.
A shop, and a parlour
Most liquor stores are a transaction. We built a room worth lingering in: order an espresso or a non-alcoholic drink while you browse, sit at the big wooden table in the middle, come back for a tasting or one of the nights we host around it. The staff would rather ask what you are cooking than point you down an aisle.
Come see us
3120 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78723
(512) 284-7689
Monday to Saturday, 10am to 9pm. Closed Sunday.
Frequently asked
Who won Best Liquor Store in Austin in 2026?
Goodnight Cowboy won first place in the Liquor/Wine Store category of Best of ATX 2026, the readers' choice awards from Austin Monthly and the Austin American-Statesman. Spec's placed second.
Has Goodnight Cowboy won Best of ATX before?
Yes. In 2025 Austin Monthly's editors named Goodnight Cowboy Best Bottle Shop in Best of ATX 2025: Dining & Nightlife - an editors' pick rather than a public vote. The 2026 award was decided by readers, which makes it two years running from two different juries.
What is Best of ATX?
Best of ATX is Austin Monthly's annual best-of-the-city programme. The editors' picks run in the magazine, and the readers' choice awards - presented with the Austin American-Statesman - are decided by public vote. The 2026 readers' edition drew more than 50,000 nominations and 131,000 votes.
Where is Austin's best liquor store?
Goodnight Cowboy is at 3120 Manor Rd in East Austin, open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 9pm. There is a parking lot in front of the store.