South Central Austin Edition | June 2023

IMPACTS

Businesses that have recently opened or are coming soon, relocating or expanding

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MOPAC

Uchiba

Counter Culture

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Favor

Zalat Pizza

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small bites and desserts that are meant to be shared. Uchiba Austin will mark the restaurant’s second location behind Dallas. uchiba.uchirestaurants.com 4 Zalat Pizza will open its rst Austin location at 2222 Rio Grande St., Ste. 190, on July 5. The Dallas-based pizza chain oers a variety of unique pizzas, including an elote pizza, pickle pizza and the Pho Shizzle pizza as well as pret- zel bites, cheesy bread and ice cream. Zalat Pizza is led by CEO Khanh Nguyen. www.zalatpizza.com CLOSINGS 5 Cookbook Cafe , located inside the Central Library at 710 W. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, temporarily closed in May. The restaurant, run by WIP Hospitality, is still oering catering services. A date for when the cafe will reopen or perma- nently close has not been announced. www.cookbookatx.com 6 Buckshot , a shot bar in the East Sixth Street entertainment district, permanent-

ly closed in April. The bar had multiple levels with an arcade, photo booth, and outdoor patio with live music and served dozens of unique shots. Buckshot was located at 422 E. Sixth St., Austin. ANNIVERSARIES 7 Downtown Austin Alliance cel- ebrated its 30th anniversary in May. The nonprot was created by Austin City Council in 1993 and creates urban planning initiatives aimed to improve downtown. Downtown Austin Alli- ance’s oce is located at 515 Congress Ave., Ste. 2150, Austin. 512-469-1766. www.downtownaustin.com Favor , a Texas-based delivery service that was acquired by H-E-B in 2018, reached its 10-year anniversary June 5. Favor operates in over 400 cities in Texas and has over 100,000 delivery drivers, or “runners,” as Favor calls them. Since 2019, Favor has contributed to Feeding Texas with a total of over 1.4 million meals. www.favordelivery.com

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2 Seafood restaurant Truluck’s opened its new downtown location at 300 Colorado St., Austin, on June 16. The new location features a mezzanine dining room and a second-story wraparound patio with views of Austin’s skyline. The restaurant also has a light who sound coordinator who manages the playlist and lighting in the restaurant in real time. 512-482-9000. www.trulucks.com COMING SOON 3 Hai Hospitality, the team behind Uchi and Loro, will open a new bar and restau- rant called Uchiba inside the Google tower at 601 W. Second St., Austin, this summer. Uchiba will serve high-end Jap- anese whiskeys and cocktails paired with

1 Vegan restaurant Counter Culture reopened in a food truck located at the back patio of Tweedy’s Bar in May. The restaurant is serving a new menu that owner Sue Davis describes as part bar food, part health food, including bowls, burritos, nachos, and mac and cheese. Counter Culture's last loca- tion was at a brick and mortar space at 2337 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, for 11 years until it shuttered at the end of 2022. The restaurant’s new address is 2908 Fruth St., Austin. 737-357-9522. www.countercultureaustin.com

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