DINING FEATURE
BY ZARA FLORES
PERSONAL PICKS The menu features personal-sized items including the:
Squid Ink Carbonara with English peas, Asiago cream and cured egg yolk topped with pork belly ($17). DOM Short-rib/brisket burger with a secret sauce and American cheese on a sesame seed bun ($14).
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One of Rebecca Varela’s favorite items is the Garlic Funk Sauce ($12.99), one of many items diners can take home.
Rebecca Valera and her father, Rafael, are co-owners of Dos Olivos Markets in Buda, Dripping Springs, Wimberley and Harlingen. (Photos by Zara Flores/Community Impact)
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Dos Olivos Market Local family-owned business supports other similar establishments U pon entrance, the walls of the Dos Olivos Market in Buda feature perfectly ago. Those trees were planted at the family farm in Dripping Springs and led to the eventual enterprise now
very artisan. We don’t want it to feel like a large grocery store; we want to make sure that whenever a customer comes in, they’ll nd things that they won’t nd anywhere else,” Rebecca said. “We are a family business, so we want to make sure we support family businesses as well.” The market features a range of goods from Spanish-imported oils to jams and jellies to butter spreads. The menu for food features appetizers called “shareables,” family-style servings, personal-sized items and desserts as well as an array of wine to choose from. “We really just wanted to bring in those European roots, the wine, the beer, the food and just the culture,” Rebecca said.
Dos Olivos Market 306 S. Main St., Ste. 104, Buda 512-523-8222 www.dosolivosmarkets.com Hours: Sun.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.
arranged rows and columns of wine. On the opposite end of the shop are rows of locally made, family-pro- duced artisan goods available for sale. Throughout the shop are seats and tables for dine-in culminating in the perfect setting for a “sobre mesa,” time spent with family and friends at the dinner table after a big meal. The family-owned market and eat- ery was formerly known as Los Oli- vos, which roughly translates to “the olive trees,” but father-daughter duo Rafael and Rebecca Varela swapped the “L” for a “D,” translating to “two olive trees,” which were actual trees gifted to Rebecca’s grandfather years
known as Dos Olivos Market. The Varelas opened the Buda location during the onset of the pandemic at the Buda Mill & Grain Co. nearly two years after the rst location opened in Wimberley. Beyond the Buda and Dripping Springs locations, the Varelas opened a location in Harlingen, near the border city of Matamoros, where Rafael is from, cementing their past and history in their business. Her mother’s side of the family still resides in Spain and helps with the scouting and sourcing of vendors that stock the market. “We really want to keep it local,
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