North - Northwest Austin Edition | June 2023

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Churro Co. Dessert Shop & Bakery serves churros, funnel cakes, drinks and more.

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open its first Austin location at 13609 N. I-35 in spring 2024. In addition to weekend services, the church offers lives- treamed sermons, weekly youth groups, adult LifeGroups and the Life.Church Worship band. Until the site is open, the church will meet at Joe Lee Johnson Elementary School at 2800 Sauls Drive, Austin. www.life.church/austin 9 Austin-based taco restaurant Kesos Tacos will open a new location at 3901 Spicewood Springs Road, Austin. The location is slated to open sometime in early 2024, founder and CEO Jhonatan Aldama said. Kesos Tacos is known for its taco menu and for topping all of its tacos with queso. The restaurant also makes homemade salsas; serves burritos, breakfast tacos, nachos and churro bites; and offers a weekly happy hour. www.kesostacos.com 10 O’Reilly Auto Parts is opening a new location at 12489 Los Indios Trail, Austin, with a tentative opening date of July 29. O’Reilly Auto Parts offers a variety of auto services plus accessories and tools. www.oreillyauto.com 11 Sit Still Kids Salon will open its second local location in August at 8127 Mesa Drive, Ste. 200, Austin. The salon offers first haircuts for babies and cuts for kids with a variety of different hair types along with hair care products, accessories and toys. https://austin.sitstillkids.com RELOCATIONS 12 Toy and novelties retailer Toy Joy is moving its Airport Boulevard location to the former building for Karavel Shoes at 5501 Burnet Road, Austin. The projected

opening date is July 1. Its sister business— candy, coffee and ice cream shop Yummi Joy— will also relocate to the Burnet Road building and have more offerings. Both Toy Joy’s and Yummi Joy’s down- town locations will remain in place. www.toyjoy.com NAME CHANGES 13 Mantra Massage, located at 8127 Mesa Drive, Ste. C304, Austin, changed its name to Mantra Wellness in May. Marketing manager Joi Bell said the rebrand reflects the business’s addition of more services and specialities, such as holistic and natural forms of medicine, deep-tissue massage and LED light thera- py. Mantra Wellness started as a massage and yoga studio in 2015, offering a variety of skin care treatments; facials; and bou- tique items, such as skin care products, essential oils and herbal teas. 512-960-4660. www.mantrawellness.co CLOSINGS 14 Taco Shack , located at 3901 Spicewood Springs Road, Austin, closed June 12 after 23 years of service. The restaurant served a variety of tacos plus breakfast plates, enchiladas, burritos and more. The newer Taco Shack location at 1508 W. Anderson Lane, Austin, will remain open. www.tacoshack.com ANNIVERSARIES Favor , a Texas-based delivery service that was acquired by H-E-B in 2018, reached its 10-year anniversary June 5. The on-demand delivery service operates

FEATURED IMPACT NOW OPEN Churro Co. Dessert Shop & Bakery opened in early April at 11101 Burnet Road, Ste. A140, Austin. The new spot is the second for Churro Co., which has a food truck in Central Austin. Gabriela Bucio and her brother Arturo Bucio co-own Gabriela’s Group, which, along with Churro Co., has establishments across Austin, including Mala Vida, Revival Coee and Taquero Mucho. The siblings took over the Churro Co. food truck in 2022 and have expanded into a second larger physical location in North Austin, which Gabriela said has allowed the business to expand its oerings. Inspired by the siblings’ roots in Michoácan, Mexico, the menu includes a variety of churros and toppings plus funnel cakes; drinks, such as agua fresca and horchata; and Mexican baked goods, such as pan dulce and arroz con leche. “We just wanted to oer that to a community that maybe didn’t have that

here in North Austin,” Gabriela said. With Churro Co.’s new location next door to Taquero Mucho, customers can get something sweet to eat or drink after dinner, Gabriela said. Churro Co., along with many other Gabriela’s Group projects, is known for its all-pink interior aesthetic, wallpapers and neon sign detailing, which Gabriela said the team custom makes and designs. 512-215-9066. www.churrocoaustin.com

Austin, welcomed Steven Salyer as its new CEO in May. Salyer recently served as CEO of Watsonville Community Hospital in California and was formerly the chief operating officer for a Level II trauma hospital in Michigan. Salyer will work to build plans for the future of the facility to enhance radiological services in Central Texas. 512-453-6100. www.ausrad.com

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