A sandwich from Spread & Co. | Spread & Co. Spread & Co. plans on reopening in a new location though AN Austin cheese and sandwich cafe closed up its original location this month, but it plans on reopening in a new address later this year. Spread & Co.’s last day of service at 1601 West 38th Street in Jefferson Square in the Rosedale neighborhood was on Sunday, May 26. Spread & Co. co-owners and couple Rosemary Ewald and Austin Ewald will announce their restaurant’s new address and neighborhood at a later date. They decided to not renew their lease at 38th Street, where the ..read more

David Robinson, Kévin D’Andrea, and Corey Robinson cooking red curry mussels on Breaking Baguettes. | NBCUniversal Kévin D’Andrea will talk and cook French food with Olympians in Breaking Baguettes A recent Austin Top Chef contestant is going to be hosting a food show pegged to the Olympics in Paris. Kévin D’Andrea — the owner and executive chef of tartelettes bakery Foliepops — is the host of Breaking Baguettes airing this June ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024 on NBC. During the show (get the Breaking Bad reference?), D’Andrea will interview athletes who have or will be competing in the Olymp ..read more

Mother’s Ruin in New York. | Bryan Kim/Mother’s Ruin Mother’s Ruin is opening its third location on East Sixth A New York City neighborhood bar is making its way to East Austin this fall. Mother’s Ruin will open in mixed-use development Centro at 1401 East Sixth Street, Building A, Suite 204 in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood starting sometime in the fall of 2024. Mother’s Ruin is known for its dive bar-slash-cocktail bar approaches and aesthetics. The drinks include a frozen slushie with bourbon; house cocktails, pickleback shots, beers, Austin Eastciders, and wines. It’s fair to expect co ..read more

Cuvee Coffee’s East Sixth cafe. | Cuvee Coffee But the popular roaster/cafe has already expanded onto Rainey Street Longtime Austin coffee shop and roaster Cuvee Coffee is closing its nearly 10-year-old cafe in East Austin. Its last day of service at 2000 East Sixth Street in the Holly neighborhood will be on Wednesday, May 29. Cuvee had to leave the East Sixth address because of “increasing rent,” according to the Instagram announcement post, so it decided to not renew its lease. The cafe was known for the coffee company’s various caffeinated drinks, including espressos, lattes, its famous ni ..read more

A dish from La Seareinita. | Ishmael Cabral La Seareinita took over the former Whataburger on Oltorf An Austin Mexican hospitality group is opening its newest restaurant in South Austin this week. La Seareinita will open at 2305 Burleson Road in the East Riverside-Oltorf neighborhood starting on Wednesday, May 29 — in the former Whataburger space. La Seareinita is essentially a spin-off of parent company Gabriela’s Group’s Seareinas. This means a similar but smaller menu of Sinola-style seafood dishes such as ceviches, tostadas, and cócteles. The full bar will serve up cocktails like margarita ..read more

Vinyl Beauty Bar. | Vinyl Beauty Bar Vinyl Beauty Bar debuted in the spring with drinks, mani/pedis, and concerts An Austin salon moved into a new location and expanded with a full cocktail bar, music venue, and record shop in the spring. Vinyl Beauty Bar relocated from its original Chestnut neighborhood home into Holly at 2400 East Cesar Chavez Street, Unit 312 as of May 3. The new Vinyl offers cocktails developed by co-founder and co-owner Tinita Harpel. This includes a lot of Central Texas spirits and draft pilsners from neighboring brewery Blue Owl. The Dolly is made with Deep Eddy grapefr ..read more

House Wine. | House Wine House Wine is relocating from Josephine Street this summer A Zilker wine bar is closing up its longtime address this summer and will be relocating to further South Austin. House Wine’s last day at 408 Josephine Street will be on Monday, May 27. And then it’ll reopen in Bouldin Creek at 1711 South First Street starting sometime in late June. House Wine owner and founder Kerry White tells Eater that the bar’s landlord passed away recently, so she wanted to look for a new location. A physical house was crucial — “We can’t be House Wine without a house,” she writes. That’s ..read more

Wheatsville on Guadalupe. | Wheatsville The market’s last day in North Campus will be on December 31, 2026 Austin’s cooperatively-owned grocery store and market Wheatsville Food Co-op is going to be closing its original North Campus location eventually. The last day for the 3101 Guadalupe Street shop will be on December 31, 2026. A press release noted that Wheatsville owners decided to not renew the West Campus store’s lease, which ends at the end of 2026. A major reason for this decision was the city’s light rail plan Project Connect, which would run through Guadalupe Street. “While this proj ..read more

The Allandale burger at Phil’s Icehouse. | Phil’s Icehouse The best restaurants and bars along Burnet Road in the North-Central neighborhood Allandale is a skinny but long neighborhood in North-Central Austin known for its large mid-century modern style homes and abundance of restaurants and coffee shops. It runs from the westside of Burnet Road to Mopac Expressway to the western side of Burnet Road, and from north of 45th Street north up to the southside of West Anderson Lane with Shoal Creek running smack dab through the center. The dining and drinking places in in this neighborhood run the ..read more

The mango sago from Hui Lau Shan. | Hui Lau Shan Hui Lau Shan opens in Crestview with mango chewy balls, mango puddings, and mango pancakes in the spring A very popular fast-casual mango dessert shop chain from Hong Kong is making its way into Austin this year. Hui Lau Shan opened in the Crestview neighborhood at 7020 Easy Wind Drive, Suite 150 as of May 21. Hui Lau Shan focuses on Chinese-style desserts making use of mangos. This includes its signature dish — the mango chewy ball — which consists of pureed mangos, mango ice cream, and mango taopioca balls. The dessert’s available in several w ..read more