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This year, Newcity’s Big Heat feature focuses on those who stand behind the chef in the kitchen. We want to recognize the people who’ve succeeded big time, but we also want to recognize promising upstarts.
Some of Austin’s best restaurants can be found in Austin hotels, offering good Texas food and hospitality for hotel guests and locals, including the Driskill Hotel, Hotel Viata, and the Line Austin
Rendering: The Thompson [Official] Chicago restaurant group Land and Sea Dept. — behind famed bars and restaurants including tropical bar spot Lost Lake — is opening its first Texas restaurant this year. The unnamed restaurant and bar will be found in the forthcoming downtown Austin hotel the Thompson on 506 San Jacinto Boulevard sometime this summer. The restaurant will be an entirely new project for Land and Sea Dept., as shared by co-partner Peter Toalson, involving food, drinks, and outdoor spaces. A press release from the hotel notes that it will be found on the fourth floor with a t...
The Little Nell. Photo courtesy of Shawn O’Connor. The après-ski scene at Chair 9, a 1,450 square-foot bar located in luxury Aspen retreat The Little Nell, is legendary. As soon as lifts close, the DJ-fueled lounge quickly fills to standing-room-only capacity, with guests eager to party with Champagne, large-format wine bottles, and group shots of tequila. After the pandemic brought the bacchanalia to a screeching halt last March, The Little Nell set out to reinvent Chair 9 into a new concept for ski season 2021. Its new iteration, The Wine Bar, is a reservation-only lounge limited to a fr...