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Like many other spots that make this city a live music, bar-hopping, and dining destination, The Far Out Lounge & Stage is more than just a watering hole. The current owners of the storied property at 8504 South Congress Ave. have had to get creative and communal, and focus on both the food and the family of musicians, to survive.
The stone cottage now home to The Far Out (TFO) was built in 1908, and in recent decades it housed Austin favorites like Red Shed Tavern (closed in 2018) and the biker bar Beverly s. Known in the early days as The Last Chance bar, it was the last chance to get a beer before San Antonio (according to a 2005
Here’s a taste of what’s happening foodwise in town in this last week of December, as the virus-riddled shitshow of 2020 comes to a close. Here’s informative tidbits wrangled from numerous PR releases, official posts, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdropping. Huckleberry x Vista Brewing, FTW
Sweetgreen – the L.A.-based fast casual restaurant chain that started in Washington, DC, back in 2007 – has opened the newest outpost of its salad-centric succulence on the Drag. That storied stretch within the busy UT campus is an appropriate place, we reckon, to feature such popular plant-based provender and to include a local nod with interior wallpapers by Austin’s own Will Bryant. Also: “