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Eater
16-06-2025
- General
- Eater
Day-to-Night Coffee and Wine Shops and Barbecue Rule Austin in June Openings
Every month, a new crop of restaurants opens in and around Austin. While everyone loves a good sushi spot, food truck, or outdoor patio, this round-up will give you the high-end spots and the low-end spots that are new to town — be they good, bad, or so bad they're good/so good they're bad. Whether it's a locally owned restaurant or the latest addition of a chain, here's what's happening in the world of restaurant openings in Austin and beyond for the month. Send your openings news to austin@ 2614 East Cesar Chavez Street Coffee by day and wine by night? That's what the folks in this renovated bungalow house from the 1920s in East Austin are serving up. The folks who own the cocktail bar Small Victory got together with the people at Figure 8 Coffee to create a space for morning, noon, and night. The wines are selected by Small Victory's buyer, as well as small bites like a bread and cheese basket, cookies, and pastries; the new spot will also host pop-ups with food trucks from around the city. There's a nice big outdoor patio in what used to be the backyard. Less of a ballroom and more of a converted corrugated metal storage building that's now a restaurant, this spot has all kinds of goodness hiding inside. It's a coffee shop (beans by Figure 8) with light bites and brunch dishes by day and a cocktail bar by night. The most substantial menu items are brunch bites like classic eggs Benedict, brioche French toast, a bacon-and-egg breakfast sandwich on brioche, a double smash burger, and two eggs with a Texas-sourced Akaushi New York strip steak. There are also matchas, teas, pastries, and breakfast tacos. Try fun cocktails like the Tiki Too Much (rum, pineapple, passion fruit, crème de banane, coconut, and pomegranate) or Puerto Punch (mezcal, ginger, cassis, and blackberry). Now open in the Central Austin Public Library is a second location of Café Crème. As a family-owned, French-Vietnamese restaurant and coffee shop, the cafe is known for serving up crepes and lattes with notable art dribbled in them — think cats, dogs, and even bears, oh my. It's creme brulee latte is a fan-favorite, and the kolaches and breakfast tacos here have a strong following, too. This hand location offers diners a chance to pop in and support their local library while getting a coffee and a little treat. 205 East Austin Street in Fredericksburg Out in Hill Country, a new hotel means a new barbecue joint. The Albert Hotel in Fredericksburg is home to Junebug's BBQ, which is in the historic Brockmann-Kiehne house — the hotel took over several historic properties in the city to cobble together a complex of sorts. Chef Justin Spencer created the menu, which features a menu of brisket, spare ribs, turkey, pulled pork, baby back ribs, sausage (regular and jalapeño), and chicken. The sides are classic, going all in on potato salad, green beans, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, beans, and a baked potato casserole — a very Dickey's coded-menu. There's also a stage for live music. This barbecue spot hits all the notes, with Texas-style brisket, Alabama pulled pork, Memphis-style ribs, and sauces inspired from the Carolinas. Founder Daniel Monplaisir is especially interested in Texas and Alabama barbecue traditions. In addition to meats by the pound, it offers brisket and pulled pork sandwiches, barbecue plates, and sides like bacon macaroni and cheese, creamed corn, baked beans, and a mayo-based cole slaw. After closing its space in the Frances Modern Inn in February, Italian cafe Poeta has reopened in East Austin this spring. In its new space, there is an outdoor garden cafe as well as indoor, and the floors get an upgrade to a lovely dark wood. The restaurant will continue to serve favorites from its seasonal menu, with dishes like tuna carpaccio, roasted beets with avocado, pork sausage rigatoni with tomato butter, and glistening wagyu steaks. See More: Austin Restaurant Openings
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lili Reinhart Tying Knot With Amazon MGM Studios And Ali & Anthony Garland's ‘Fake Wedding'
EXCLUSIVE: The Riverdale star is attached to star and will produce under her Small Victory's first look deal at Amazon MGM Studios, Fake Wedding. The project, based on Ali and Anthony Garland's short story, is currently being developed with the twosome penning the screenplay. Fake Wedding follows two broke singles who throw a fake wedding to cash in on the registry and the very real problems the make-believe couple encounters. More from Deadline Amazon MGM Studios Reimagining 1980 UA Pic 'The Idolmaker'; 'Taylor Swift: Eras Tour's Sam Wrench Making Narrative Directing Debut Tiger Woods' Formative Rise Set As Amazon MGM Film; Obamas' Higher Ground & 'King Richard's Reinaldo Marcus Green Circling 'The Tiger Slam' Prime Video To Stream Donald Trump's TV Series 'The Apprentice' Amazon MGM Studios is becoming quite the house of rom-coms. Recently their Reese Witherspoon-Will Ferrell movie You're Cordially Invited amassed 827M viewing minutes within its first few days of availability on Prime, putting it at No. 6 on Nielsen's overall Top 10. The pic debuted on the streamer on Jan. 30. Amazon MGM Studios also recently world premiered the Paul Feig rom-com sequel Another Simple Favor at SXSW which counts 77% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Lili Reinhart is producing with Small Victory's Catherine Hagedorn. The news comes in the wake of Reinhart's movie American Sweatshop world premiering at SXSW. Small Victory was also an EP on that drama in which Reinhart plays Daisy Moriarty, who is dealing with a chaotic personal life, and becomes drawn into the underbelly of the internet. Also producing Fake Wedding are Davis Entertainment's John Davis, Scott Glassgold's 12:01 Films, and Catherine Davis. Davis Entertainment's John Fox and Jeremy Stein will serve as EPs. Reinhart starred in Hustlers, Charlie's Angels as well as CW/Warner Bros TV's Riverdale on which she portrayed Betty Cooper for 137 episodes. Raised on 90s cinema, the Garlands are a husband-and-wife creative team who obsess over high concept stories with emotionally complex characters. Together they have developed Anthony's feature directing debut, the sci-fi love story Alternate. Separately, Anthony is adapting the adventure epic Jaguar for Janet Zucker and Silent Films while Ali is executie producing Nicole Perlman's Limited Series Challenger with Searchlight Television. Davis Entertainment, founded by John Davis, has produced over 130 feature films television series, with various projects at networks and cable broadcasters, streaming platforms, major studios and independent distributors. Upcoming Davis Entertainment projects include Focus Features' Song Sung Blue, starring Academy Award nominee Hugh Jackman and Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson; Amazon MGM Studios' The Pickup starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson; Netflix's documentary Eddie, chronicling the extraordinary journey of Eddie Murphy and his career, directed by Academy Award winner Angus Wall; Amazon MGM Studios' Untitled George Clinton Biopic, directed by Academy Award winner Bill Condon and starring Eddie Murphy; Paramount Pictures' Vertigo produced alongside Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey banner; Universal Pictures' Blood Runs Coal, an adaption of Mark A. Bradley's book of the same name and starring Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy; and Sony's On Your Feet!, a feature adaptation of the Broadway musical telling the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, written and directed by Lissette Feliciano. Upcoming television projects also include Rear Window, a reimagining of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, also for Peacock. Davis's recent productions include Lionsgate's Flight Risk starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace; Peacock comedy Laid starring and Executive Produced by Academy Award-nominee Stephanie Hsu, and created by Nahnatchka Khan; the Predator origin movie Prey directed by Dan Trachtenberg for 20th Century Studios and Hulu, which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, among various other awards. 12:01 Films was founded by Glassgold, 12:01. Among their projects are The Dwelling at Amazon with Michael B Jordan starring, My Wife and I Bought A Ranch at Amazon with Drew Hancock writing and directing, Long Lost at Universal with Steven Spielberg's Amblin producing. As a producer, Glassgold has produced such feature films as Prospect, Hurricane Season and Sony's Tarot. Reinhart is represented by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Peikoff Mahan. Best of Deadline Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us' The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Box Office The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Box Office
