Miami Doughnut Shop Chain’s Expanding Into Austin’s Domain Northside

Miami-based bakery chain the Salty Donut is going to be opening its second Austin location in the Domain Northside at some point. It’ll be found at 11501 Rock Rose Avenue, Suite 158. The doughnut shop is known for its decadent doughnuts with cake and brioche bases. The chain’s first Austin location opened in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood on South Congress in August 2021.

Downtown hotel cocktail pop-up

Downtown Austin hotel the Four Seasons is running a pop-up cocktail bar this summer. The Hidden Flask, which will be found at the Congressional Suite room, will open on Saturday, June 13. The bar will serve Local aged liqueurs, infused spirits, and food; and the space will feature ice columns, interactive art, DJs at night, and more. $25 reservations can be booked online.

Central Texas brewery beer medal winners

The winners of the U.S. Open Beer Competition were announced this week, and, as per usual, there’s a bunch of Central Texas brewery winners. Those include:

• Marble Falls brewery Save the World Brewing Co. (gold for its Chasing Broncos and bronze for its Hunt for Hazy in the New England/July IPA category)
• Austin’s Infamous Brewing Company (silver for its Sally Skull in the Pink Boots Hops Blend slot and gold for its Dye-It pils in German Leichtbier)
• the Round Rock location of Flix Brewhouse (gold for its Kutia in the Foreign Stout group and silver for its Cosmic Spice in the American Fruit Wheat category)
• Austin brewery St. Elmo Brewing Co. (silver for its Vaughn in the German-style Pilsners and silver for its Baby in the Barrel-aged American Barleywine area)
• Driftwood brewery Vista Brewing (bronze for its Dark Skies in the American-style Dark Lager section)
• Fredericksburg brewery Altstadt Brewery (silver for its radler in the American Fruit – Peach group)
• Johnson City brewery Old 290 Brewery (silver for its All Ryte All Ryte in the Rye Beer slot)

Frozen sweets collaboration

Austin bakery Cookie Wookie is collaborating with Asian Southern restaurant the Peached Tortilla’s Cedar Park location for a summer bingsu special. The frozen sweet is made with a pandan condensed milk shaved ice with little pandan cookies, plus mochi, toasted coconuts, and puffed rice. It’s available through August 9.

Tracking Austin food and drink events

East Austin bar Kitty Cohen’s is celebrating its eighth birthday with a party this weekend. There will be $8 cocktail specials and frozen drinks, one dollar Jell-O, food by pop-up Parish Barbecue, and a DJ set at night. It takes place on Saturday, July 13 from noon to 2 a.m.

There’s been a last-minute addition to Central East Austin brunch restaurant Paperboy’s baker pop-up series. Chestnut bakery Comadre Panaderia’s Mariela Camacho will have her and her team’s baked goods at the restaurant’s pastry case, which will include pink cake, conchas, and the corn in a cup croissant. It’s available on Sunday, July 14 starting at 8 a.m.

McKinney neighborhood brewery Meanwhile Brewing Co. is hosting a party with Mexican restaurant Nixta Taqueria this weekend in honor of its Mexican lager. It takes place on Sunday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The restaurant will serve duck tacos and also collaborate with on-site truck Side Eye Pie on a pizza with poached tuna conserva, poblano crema, roasted calabrian peppers, olives, and salsa macha. Guests will get a free beer, and then there will be free duck tacos for the first 50 guests.

Austin seafood restaurant Garbo’s is embarking on a young chef series, where participants will offer a dish every Sunday in July at the 626 North Lamar Boulevard location at 2 p.m. The first one takes place on July 14 with Mexican restaurant Bacalar chef de cuisine B. Loza, who is making lobster pambazo. Then there’s Garbo owner Heidi Garbo’s son Conner Garbo on July 21, with Korean fried lobster bao buns; and then Southern restaurant Olamaie chef Manuel Acuna on July 28 with fried snapper tortas.

Mexican restaurant Chapulin Cantina is hosting monthly mezcal dinners starting this month. The three-course meals will be paired with mezcals from different producers each time. The first one takes place on Monday, July 15 at 7 p.m. with Oaxacan-based the Lost Explorer with dishes like lamb brisket and verde-grilled fish. Tickets are $100.