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Iconic Southwestern restaurant grills up return to Northwest Austin Z'Tejas will open a new location in Avery Ranch. The Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill restaurant chain is adding a third location — in a familiar Austin area neighborhood — to its local menu. Known for its Mexican-style fare, Austin-based Z’Tejas plans to open a restaurant in a 5,280-square-foot space at Northwest Austin’s Plaza at Avery Ranch shopping center, just minutes outside of the Cedar Park suburb, according to an April 12 release from commercial real estate brokerage firm Rockspring. The center, at 14900 Av...

Williamson County in need of volunteers at Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex Brittany Ford Replay Video UP NEXT More than 20,000 vaccine doses are set to be distributed at mega centers in Williamson County this week. Family Hospital Systems says they're in need of volunteers to help at their site. Stephanie Stewart, Adele Edelman, and Susana Menchaca live in the same Avery Ranch neighborhood. "We're all stay at home moms. They're also nurses too so there's the availability of being able to do it," said Menchaca. Caption: Family Hospital Systems says they're in need of ...

Justine’s, the swinging French brasserie in East Austin and regular member of the Austin360 Dining Guide Top 50 restaurants in the city, has made a change at the top of its playbill. The restaurant from owners Pierre Pelegrin and Justine Gilcrease announced last week that a familiar face is returning to take control of the kitchen. Chef Justin Huffman, who spent much of the last four years working in California, has been named the executive chef at the restaurant that opened in 2009. The new position for Huffman completes an intermittent movement through the ranks at the restaurant that ...

Austin 360 Jason Carrier and his partners, Brad and Chad Womack, have had considerable success in the bar industry with their Dizzy Rooster, Chuggin' Monkey and Dogwood concepts. Now, the longtime Austin bar man is moving into the restaurant world. Well, maybe back into the restaurant world is more accurate. Carrier grew up in Houston and worked for years at Ninfa's, the iconic Houston Mexican restaurant brand. He followed in the footsteps of his mother, Betty, who worked as a general manager and director of operations for the famed group for two decades.  The hospitality veteran plans to o...

Best Austin restaurants dishing holiday meals to make the season bright Best Austin restaurants dishing holiday meals to make season bright Photo courtesy of Aba Photo by Nicole Gell Photo by Jessica Attie Not to sound like a grinch, but this holiday season is kind of a bummer. “The more the merrier” is a notion we can’t really embrace this year (along with our friends and family). Joyous holiday gatherings and lively cookie swaps and cocktail parties aren’t written in the stars this season.  Despite the gloom, there is still cause for the holiday spirit, maybe even more so this ye...