Sitting out in Hare Texas looking out across the vast plains of the Blackland Prairie, Pancho and Lefty's is just a quick sprint up the road from Austin. But you might as well be a million miles away from America's fourteenth largest city.

Inside the old dive bar it's good and dark with just the faint glow of beer signs and televisions piercing the gloom. It's a good gloom too. Very peaceful. Beer is cheap as it should be out in these parts, nobody's trying to get rich selling overpriced Lone Star in Hare Texas.

If you're a big ol country hoss you might want to tackle their Big Kahuna Burger challenge. It's a four pounder with all the fixin's. Eat it and you'll walk away with a hundred dollars and a story to tell everybody back at the office.

Out back the proprietors have installed an al fresco movie theater with a nice screen and plenty seating. When we visited the burn ban was in effect so they'd suspended their outdoor cinema operation for the time being.

No Werner Herzog in Hare as the town's a tinderbox.

Pancho and Lefty's runs all sorts of specials: Ladies night, Karaoke, bike night, live music and what have you. It's a classic country bar with a history stretching all the way back to the 1920's when it housed a meat market.

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