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The Barton Springs Road Bennigans has a haunted womens bathroom…I’m anxious to see who occupies this location next and wonder if the haunt will stay!!!!
I can’t believe it. Are you telling me that crappy overpriced food with a recent price increase coupled with diminished selections..are you telling me that’s NOT a receipe for success????
we use to really enjoy bennigans, but in the last couple of years, quality of food and service really went south. we ate at the round rock location several months ago and it was all but inedible. we will never eat at a bennigans again.
Finally, the downtown Bennigan’s is closed! Make way for a real restaurant!
this is not hard to understand…I had one of the worst meals of my life at the Bennigan’s on North 183 a couple of weeks ago…only 4 tables occupied, yet super slow service, and yet…the food was cold! Yikes!
Castle Hill has always been a favorite of mine and I am sad to hear it closing, but the reasoning makes no sense whatsoever as many people have already stated. Some of the best restaurants in any city are the unique, quaint places, commonly situated in converted houses and such. It’s a shame that these places are mysteriously disappearing while PF Chang’s and Chili’s seem to be popping up all over the place. But seriously, a Mexican restaurant?!?! Does anyone but native Mexicans actually eat this everyday? Are these sophisticated condo dwellers actually going to “call this their own”? Cheese, rice, beans and some kind of meat - I guess it’s at least easy and cheap to make. But just so you know, you’re providing nothing other than an alternative to a clientele currently content to refer to Kraft macaroni & cheese and Ramen noodles as dinner.
Hmmmmmmmmm…same place, walking distance from a lot of condos, yet another Mexican restaurant????? Tooo Bad…
How sad. Castle Hill has been our favorite restaurant since we moved here 12 years ago. Good luck on the new restaurant, we’ll be in to check it out.
I do enjoy the noddle too, that was great. It is a traditional Chinese noddle, and the restraunt is very old and famous. Meanwhile, it is very cheap.
Actually a good thing. This place should have shut down a long while back, due to their mouse and roach infestation. Hopefully new place won’t exhibit that kind of carelessness.
Dale,
There has to be more to this story than this. It makes no sense.
What gives?
Agree that the rationale doesn’t seem too sound - however, I noted in my last two visits to CH, I felt the quality of service and cleanliness had gone downhill. I still really love the food and am sad that another mexican will take it’s place. We don’t need more of those.
This makes me very sad. Castle Hill was my favorite restaurant in Austin! It was a tradition of mine to treat new friends to dinner there. I’m glad I went last month for that reason.
I agree with poster “Mbd”- the reasoning doesn’t make sense as presented. I’m guessing the real reason for the switch is cheaper ingredients.
I thought this place was a museum, it looked dark and closed when I would drive by. I agree with one of the posts, the owner does not make sense. HE now has a bigger market, with elements of the past and the present…i see a lot of cafe’s around town thriving with business. He needs a better business plan and pulse of the city.
NOOOOOOO! This is my favorite place in Austin. My husband and I go every year for our anniversary. What a loss!
We are looking for a good upscale Chinese resturant in the Austin area. Can’t seem to come up with one???
so let me get this straight…castle hill is going out of business because more people are moving into the area surrounding the restaurant who can afford higher prices and prefer to have a place to eat within walking distance? did I miss the chain of logic or the owners of castle hill graduates of the mccombs school of business?
Have you seen corn prices? Austin has pegged their Tex-Mex and BBQ already. If the intent is truly to update, then INNOVATE as you have for two decades.
Another Mexican restaurant? Across the street from Z Tejas? What?!#!
We would drive down from Northwest Austin to go to Castle Hill, but we have a five mile radius for Mexican food :)
There is no Mexican food worth driving a distance for.
I’m sad and angry at the same time….they could have raised prices (we would have paid more), they could have made it more casual.
If you are going to change your restaurant, don’t change it to a Mexican restaurant!!
I’m sorry, I’m still in the anger stage!
People don’t understand that even a great restaurant can’t make any profit on just special occasion fine dining in today’s economy. No one likes to work hard for free while delivering a great product that the public only supports you on once or twice a year. I understand where the owners are coming from and I support their decision to make a change! Best of Luck.
