5122 Bee Caves Road
328-9770
Men’s room rating: 3. (Average and large enough. The old cigarette ads on the wall are amusing for a few seconds, and I like places that put sections of the daily paper above the urinals. I’m still waiting to hear from Terri about the women’s room.)
Dwight’s comments:
We went to Shields expecting it to be a pizza place. Yes, they do serve pizza, but we reached the conclusion early on that it isn’t a pizza place: it’s a sports bar that serves pizza. (I counted three TV sets, all turned on, including one projection screen in the middle of the restaurant.)
The pizza is just okay: the style is very close to Milto’s deep dish pizzas, but Milto’s does a much better job, I think.
If you live out along Bee Caves, it wouldn’t be a bad place to take the children (there’s even an outdoor deck where noisy families can exile themselves), or a bad place to watch the sporting event du joir.
As a pizza place, though, Shields is not an essential stop on any dining tour of Austin.
Additional comments from +Rich:
Also, we weren’t terribly impressed by Shields pizza, it seemed overpriced, the crust was average and obviously the same thing they served as garlic bread. And while it wasn’t too bad while we were there, the atmosphere there has the potential to be absolutely testosterone laden. I like sports and that was still a bit high on video availability.
Additional comments from Ann Anonymous Diner:
No better for lunch than dinner. I work minutes away and NEVER go there. (Well, hardly ever.) They get points for actually showing both Formula 1 and Grand Prix motorcycle racing; seeing as almost nobody in this country watches either one. (Except for me, of course.)