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Budare’s Serves Breakfast To Rainey Street Residents Hungry For More

Jude Galligan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:26:58 +0000

The newest addition to Rainey Street’s eclectic mix of repurposed bungalows is a backyard trailer named Budare’s serving … drum roll… BREAKFAST! The sign has been up for a couple of weeks, but it was the sight this morning of my vacant refrigerator that got me motivated to walk 100 yards to a warm meal. [...]

Budare’s Serves Breakfast To Rainey Street Residents Hungry For More is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Downtown Austin’s Asian Cuisine Corridor (Mai Thai Austin MENU & Restaurant Review)

amber gugino — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:57:47 +0000

Did you know, that in the two blocks between Cesar Chavez and 3rd Street on San Jacinto, there are four restaurants that fall under the category of Asian cuisine – Chinese (P.F. Chang’s), Japanese (Piranha Killer Sushi), and Mongolian (Mongolian Grille Downtown), and now, with the area’s newest addition, Thai (Mai Thai)? I’m gonna start [...]

Downtown Austin’s Asian Cuisine Corridor (Mai Thai Austin MENU & Restaurant Review) is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

La Boite Coming To Downtown Austin’s Old Bakery Park

Jude Galligan — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:03:06 +0000

La Boite Cafe will soon occupy an underutilized downtown Austin open space. If you’ve driven down South Lamar recently, then you’ve no doubt seen the adaptively repurposed shipping container perched on the hilltop at Collier and S. Lamar. The open space pictured below, just north south of the Old Bakery, will be the 2nd La Boite [...]

La Boite Coming To Downtown Austin’s Old Bakery Park is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Urban Wine + Liquor Takes Last Retail Space At The Austonian

Jude Galligan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:46:21 +0000

The last retail space under downtown Austin’s Austonian condos will go to Urban Wine + Liquor and its proprietor, Austin-based wine expert Buckley Wineholt (great name for a wine expert). The store will offer wine, spirits, beers, barware, imported cigars and cigarettes, and a choice of artisanal foods including Texas-produced items. The shop’s 2,615-square-foot storefront on [...]

Urban Wine + Liquor Takes Last Retail Space At The Austonian is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Jazz at Annie’s: Jim Cullum Jazz Band Returns to Annies Café & Bar

amber gugino — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:51:25 +0000

Looking for date night ideas this week or next? Try this: After playing to standing-room-only crowds of die-hard jazz fans at a sold-out, mid-winter residency at Annie’s Café & Bar, the historic Congress Avenue bistro has arranged to have Jim Cullum return to Annie’s as summer draws to a close – this time presenting the [...]

Jazz at Annie’s: Jim Cullum Jazz Band Returns to Annies Café & Bar is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Mutual Mobile On The Move In Downtown Austin

@JacobDirr — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:05:26 +0000

One of the hottest young companies in downtown Austin is on the move, according to a Sept. 6 announcement so far ignored by local major media outlets (probably at capacity covering the devastating wildfires). Mutual Mobile, which makes applications for Apple and Android-powered tablets and phones, is consolidating three offices into one at the 20-story [...]

Mutual Mobile On The Move In Downtown Austin is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

New Life For Congress Ave Store Fronts

@JacobDirr — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:19:43 +0000

More tenant changes are on tap in the shadow of the Capitol on on Congress Avenue. Middle Eastern restaurant Marakesh Cafe & Grill, at 9th and Congress, closed its doors and has a sign indicating its looking for a new location, but its fate is questionable. Going in place is a new addition to the [...]

New Life For Congress Ave Store Fronts is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Help Promote RE/MAX, Help Austin Pets Alive

Jude Galligan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:34:17 +0000

"Like" @RE/MAX Downtown Austin on facebook and help raise $1,000.00 to support @Austin Pets Alive once. Please share!

Help Promote RE/MAX, Help Austin Pets Alive is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Escobedo Esthetics Loves Your Mug

amber gugino — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:17:52 +0000

Tucked on the southern side of the ground floor of the Spring Condos, Escobedo Esthetics is a new 3,000 sf office that offers a variety of cosmetic surgery services. My friend Kristina won a gift card to for a microdermabrasion treatment at the last DANA Urban Core Happy Hour . She couldn’t go, so I put that [...]

Escobedo Esthetics Loves Your Mug is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Bats & Beers

Jude Galligan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:17:52 +0000

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive in downtown Austin’s Shore Condos. Resident Nate Taylor and Matt Abendschein have turned their passion for ez-living, good beer, and good views into an event known simply as “Bats & Beer”. Bats & Beers is a monthly event showcasing Austin craft brewers, and is an opportunity to gather with good people [...]

Bats & Beers is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Forbidden Fruit Says Farewell To E. 6th Street District

Jude Galligan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:38:47 +0000

Kinky sigh. A familiar icon of Austin small business, a lone downtown Austin retailer amidst a sea of E 6th Street bars, is shutting its downtown doors on August 28th. The ABJ reports that Forbidden Fruit is redirecting its efforts on a better performing store. From the article, owner Lynn Rairden says: “We have seen [...]

Forbidden Fruit Says Farewell To E. 6th Street District is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

EXCLUSIVE: Client relations firm announces $2M expansion, downtown Austin HQ

@JacobDirr — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:48:19 +0000

3Seventy, a company that provides cloud-based, mobile client relations software, is moving into downtown Austin. The company, formerly called “TXT4CRM” until it changed its name last year, said it plans to hire 30 to 40 people over the next 12 months in downtown and an office in Lithuania. While it might seem old hat to [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Client relations firm announces $2M expansion, downtown Austin HQ is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Hank’s: From Garage to Entrepreneur’s Dream

@JacobDirr — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:23:48 +0000

Downtown Austin office workers, visitors, and residents have a new choice when it comes to grabbing a bite and a beer: Hank’s Garage. Formerly Sister’s Edge II, a lesbian bar, and before that “The Cockpit,” an aptly-named gay bar, Hank’s instead caters to all people of all sexual orientations with a strong thirst for Belgian [...]

Hank’s: From Garage to Entrepreneur’s Dream is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Pay By Donation Yoga in Rainey Street

amber gugino — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:55:35 +0000

Be Yoga just opened in the Rainey Street District! Located in the Windsor (née Legacy on the Lake), Be Yoga is a no-frills studio, about 1,000 square feet, just a stone’s throw from the lake and across from the Milago condos. Perhaps more intriguing than it’s location is the fact that it’s a donation based [...]

Pay By Donation Yoga in Rainey Street is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog

Second Bar + Kitchen in Downtown Austin

amber gugino — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:55:09 +0000

Second Bar + Kitchen is aptly named for it’s Congress Ave @ Second Street location. But don’t think for a second that the food isn’t first-rate (wakka wakka!). On a whim, I ventured over to Second a couple of Sundays ago (after a morning coffee at the Austonian’s Caffe Medici) and was pleasantly surprised by [...]

Second Bar + Kitchen in Downtown Austin is a post from Jude's Downtown Austin Blog