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Restaurateurs

Cooking with CK

Longtime Austin restaurateur CK Chin has a bit of a reputation as the consummate host.

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Calling All Cooks

Walk into any Austin restaurant from Torchy’s Tacos to Jeffrey’s and you’ll most likely find that it’s understaffed.

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Svante’s Ranch Direct

In 1838, the land that would soon be officially recognized as Central Texas was ripe, fertile and largely untouched, and the first Swedish immigrant to

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Erin Wade

The sun-drenched South Austin space where Erin Wade set up her salad-focused restaurant Vinaigrette once housed a greasy old Pig Stand fast-food joint. That irony

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Rachel and Matthew Buchanan

A decade ago, Rachel and Matthew (“Matt”) Buchanan opened The Leaning Pear—an ambitious farm-to-table café in Wimberley, Texas. Despite the long odds of opening a successful

The Pie Guys

by Claire Cella • Photography by Melanie Grizzel Despite what you may think, East Side Pies was not born at 1401 Rosewood Ave. in that

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Mongers Market + Kitchen

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Alison Narro Roberto San Miguel, co-owner of Mongers Market + Kitchen, can cuss like a sailor when he wants