Bar Mirabeau/Restaurant Jezebel
Parind Vora's places in the Cirrus Logic building are open and opening soon.
Bar Mirabeau - anyone tried it yet? Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, looks like. Plus a take-out menu.
http://www.barmirabeau.com
Restaurant Jezebel - moving to an all prix fixe format and having their grand reopening on 10/31. (Whyyyyy, Jezebel, why on Halloween night? I can get away from family obligations on any other night!) Very much looking forward to some foie gras. Parind will also do some dish creation on the fly. They will be making cocktails and desserts table side, too. Sounds interesting. Hope he has not bitten off more than he can chew!
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re: addlepated
Jacket required for Jezebel, not Mirabeau. Here's some info:
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re: ampeg66
Wow. So very much angst in the comments. I don't know about the jacket thing - Austin is its own little culture, really. I grew up in San Antonio where, believe it or not, things are much dressier, although maybe not so much today. One of my favorite special occasion restaurants there was La Louisianne, where jacket and tie were required and they did have an emergency supply at the door for diners who forgot. I miss their flaming tableside desserts.
Most of the comments on those links focus on our heat. New Orleans has many dressy and jacket-required places, despite its sultry clime, but it's also a different sort of animal from Austin. I understand what Parind is saying when he talks about days gone by when people used to dress up for occasions, but this is a town that is belligerently casual, even if we can't articulate why. We take pride in telling visitors, "No, pack light - there's not a place you can't go wearing shorts." It will be interesting to see if the policy stands.
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