Though La Botanica — Texas’ first vegan restaurant and full bar — survived the initial wave of COVID-19 closures, the local favorite was denied a new lease by its landlord and will close October 20. “We have reached the end of our building lease and have been denied a new contract. This means that La…
The Top LGBT-Friendly Brunch Spots in SA
It used to be that only restaurants served brunch. Today, you can have brunch at a bar and even catch a drag show. Whether this means curing the previous night’s hangover, or simply getting your Sunday Funday started early, brunch might now be considered the most important meal of the day. From the traditional to the outrageous and everything in between,…
Business spotlight: Feast
From reading cookbooks in the back of HH-60 helicopters to a yearlong apprenticeship where his fingers never left the cutting board, Chef Stefan Bowers was destined for culinary greatness. In 2011, while working as executive chef at 20Nine, Bowers met entrepreneur Andrew Goodman, and the pair opened the doors to Feast, the King William spot…
Business spotlight: Sustenio
Sustenio is so much more than a restaurant inside a hotel. Sustenio is a culinary experience with lodging attached. Celebrity chef Stephan Pyles (the man that put the southwest in southwest cuisine) collaborates with Executive Chef Mike Collins to create a menu “comprised of innovative, original new dishes with some reinventions of Texas classics,” with…