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Hula Hut on Lake Austin

The Hula Hut on Lake Austin is a wonderful place to hang out with family and friends and enjoy their wonderful menu of mixed drinks and margaritas.

Since June of 1993, Hula Hut has been a little piece of the tropics in Austin, Texas. It about a five minute drive from downtown with makes for a great place to eat your pre-6th Street meal. Menu highlights include such delicacies as Coconut Fried Shrimp, lavish Pu Pu Platters, our famous South Bay Seasar Salad, and Hawaiian Fajitas.

The restaurant is decked out with tiki torches, bamboo walls, grass-thatched bars and thousands of colored lights. Music from traditional Hawaiian to surf rock floats out over the water. And if there happens to be a wait for dinner just head out to the Palapa bar for a Mango Margarita and watch as the sun sets over the shores of Lake Austin.

Good Times! Outdoor dining and drinking. The Hula Hut has two outdoor patio area with two full bars.

view from outdoor patio

Tom Miller Dam

The Tom Miller Dam seperates Lake Austin and Town Lake.

Tom Miller Dam is leased to LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority) by the City of Austin until December 2020. The dam, built to provide hydroelectricity and store water, creates Lake Austin.

Named for an Austin mayor, the dam was built from 1938 to 1940 atop the remains of two earlier structures, both called Austin Dam. The first was built from 1890 to 1893, and the other from 1909 to 1912. Massive floods destroyed both structures. The lake originally was called Lake McDonald.

Directions and contact information for Hula Hut, Austin, TX:

3825 Lake Austin Blvd
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 476-4852

From Downtown - Take Sixth Street west. Stay to the left as you cross under MoPac (Loop 1) as Fifth Street turns into Lake Austin Boulevard. Continue on past Exposition Blvd and Redbud Trail until you see Hula Hut on the left.

From MoPac - Take the Lake Austin Boulevard exit and head west (away from downtown) on Lake Austin Boulevard until you see us on the left.

From IH-35 - Take the Sixth Street exit and go west all the way across downtown. Cross Lamar, and stay to the left as you cross under MoPac (Loop 1) as Fifth Street turns into Lake Austin Boulevard. Continue on past Exposition Blvd and Redbud Trail until you see Hula Hut on the left.