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Eater
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
All of Austin's Award-Winning Restaurants Seem to Have a Special Dinner in the Works
In a bustling city like Austin, it can be tough to keep up with all the changes at local restaurants — noteworthy specials, limited-time deals, pop-ups, and menu changes abound. This weekly guide highlights the coolest things, major changes, and exciting events at some of Austin's best restaurants. Emmer & Rye celebrates 90 years of chef Jacques Pépin The legendary French chef Jacques Pépin celebrates turning 90 this year, and as part of the worldwide campaign to honor his legacy, Emmer & Rye will host a dinner called Breaking Bread. The hospitality group's partners and chefs, Kevin Fink and Tavel Bristol-Joseph, will take to the kitchen to produce dishes that draw from Pépin's 2012 cookbook, Complete Techniques , but interpreted via the restaurant's lens. The one-off dinner's menu will include goujonnettes (crispy strips of red snapper marinated in Texas Keeper Cider, coated in buckwheat and rouge de bordeaux grain, and paired with a classic sauce tartare), gnocchi Parisienne (a Sonoran wheat dumpling gratin finished with Parmesan), and pain de ménage (a rustic country loaf served with chicken skin cracklings, chicken liver pate, and cultured butter flowers). And those are just the options for starters. For entrees, choose from fish en papillote (parchment-baked Gulf grouper with braised celtuce and a fennel nage) and ficeler la volaille (a trussed and deboned stuffed chicken served with traditional sauce chasseur). The dinner is on Thursday, May 22, with various seating times, and dishes will be served a la carte. Reservations are available on OpenTable, and walk-ins will be seated if space allows. Had your crawfish fix yet this season? If not, Sign Bar is holding a crawfish boil on Saturday, May 17, from 2 p.m. until it sells out. In addition to crawfish, the boil will include shrimp and crab, plus all the fixings — potatoes, corn, and more. Get one pound for $11, three pounds for $30, and four for $45. The more you eat, the more you save. The Peached Tortilla and Ming Da's Cambodian Kitchen come together Now this is a cool collaboration: Asian-meets-Southern comfort food spot the Peached Tortilla and the pop-up Ming Da Cambodian Kitchen are throwing a family-style dinner. Highlights include salaw machu krueng (a Cambodian sour soup with tamarind, krueng, Thai eggplants and morning glory); misoyaki sea bass with nori brown butter, and wasabi mashed potatoes; and saich ko chaka (a grilled beef stick on a skewer marinated in krueng, a Cambodian lemongrass paste with garlic, Thai peppers, galangal, and makrut lime leaves). There will be cocktails to accompany each course. The dinner is on Monday, May 19, at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are available for $100 each. Uchiko and Garrison Brothers Distillery host an omakase in Hye, Texas Digging the omakase scene, but wish it was a lot more rustic? This is the dinner for you. Uchiko chef de cuisine Steven Attwood and the folks at Garrison Brothers Distillery are teaming up for a night of sushi and whiskey at an event they're calling Hai (Hospitality) takes Hye (Texas). Some highlights from the 10-course menu include blackened cod with a spiced miso marinade, charred snow pea leaves, and xo beurre monte; smoked pork jowl with chicken fat hot sauce, compressed celery, and koji cream; and hirame crudo with chayote squash, pickled strawberries, and rhubarb zu. There will also be six courses of drinks from the distillery. The omakase takes place Thursday, May 22, at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for $250 per person, with a two-person minimum booking. Sign up for our newsletter.
Miami Herald
07-03-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
This Texas import is a big hit in Wynwood. Now it has a sister restaurant in Miami Beach
One of Wynwood's most popular imports from Texas is opening an outpost in Miami Beach. Uchiko, which translates as 'child of Uchi,' is a new evolution of Uchi, the famous Japanese restaurant from Austin, which opened in Wynwood in 2021. Uchiko is one of the first restaurants opening at the Eighteen Sunset development on Purdy Avenue in Miami Beach's Sunset Harbour neighborhood. Chef Tyson Cole of Hai Hospitality, the James Beard Award winner who opened the first Uchi in 2003 and went on to open locations in Houston, Dallas and Denver, said that bringing Uchiko to the Miami area just felt right. 'It feels natural to expand our portfolio with Uchiko, just across Biscayne Bay,' he said in a statement, calling Miami Beach 'one of my favorite cities.' Hai Hospitality also owns Uchiba, a Japanese restaurant and cocktail bar in Dallas, and Oheya, an upscale, 12-seat sushi counter in Houston. Known for its nontraditional approach to Japanese cuisine, the upscale Uchi was at the forefront of Wynwood's ongoing shift from taco and pizza joints and craft beer bars to focusing on upscale restaurants. Uchiko, which has three locations in Texas, is somewhat less formal than Uchi, but still designed to highlight upscale Japanese cuisine. The 5,380-square-foot restaurant, designed with teakwood shutters, bamboo blinds and copper light fixtures, features a glass block bar and an open kitchen, seating 207 diners. There's also a 12-seat private dining room. Led by Uchiko Austin's chef de cuisine Jacob Yoder, who will be running the kitchen at the Miami Beach restaurant, the menu highlights dishes cooked on the yakitori grill. The menu will feature a few Uchi favorites, like the sake crudo with salmon, leche de tigre, chili crisp and papaya or sushi rolls, but Yoder and his team will focus on smoking and curing techniques to highlight hot and cold dishes, like the hearth-roasted lobster with umeboshi butter, seared New York strip wagyu with charred snow pea leaves, and Japanese sweet potato with brown butter, nori vinaigrette and creme freche. Guests will be able to order seafood, vegetables and steak prepared over an open flame — 'a key distinction between our two similar but unique concepts,' Cole said. The Miami Beach Uchiko will also feature daily specials like hirame amarillo, thin sliced flounder with aji amarillo paste and corn nut furikake. There's a daily 10-course set omakase menu as well as a somakase menu, which can be customized to the diner's preferences. There are larger plates like an oak-grilled sea bass and bone-in short rib as well. Uchiko has its own executive pastry chef, Ariana Quant, who will serve up the popular milk and cereal dish, made up of fried milk, chocolate mousse and toasted milk ice cream. There's a full bar menu, with an emphasis on Japanese whisky and sake, plus drinks like the Uchi favorites the Subarashi with reposada, mezcal, lime and hibiscus agave and the Tsurai with tequila, passion fruit, Aperol and Thai chili. The restaurant will offer maki rolling classes, a daily happy hour with a seven-course tasting for two and holiday-themed omakase specials. Uchiko Where: 1759 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach Opening: March 10 Hours: 5-11 p.m. daily Reservations and more information: or 305-995-0915
