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All other forms of entertainment considered, going out to eat is the one ticket everybody buys, whether it's fast-food cheap seats, big-steak luxury boxes or the chicken-fried arena seating in-between. Let American-Statesman and austin360.com restaurant critic
Mike Sutter be your all-access guide to the Central Texas dining-out scene.
In more than two decades at the Statesman, Mike's been a copy editor, Sunday editor, Page 1 designer and, for the past 14 years, XL art director. But after more than 700 XL covers, nine XL Dining Guides, managing the hundreds of listings in our restaurant database and writing stories about doughnuts, Vietnam and the Incredible Hulk, he'll finally be able to put his nine years of fancy restaurant job experience (thank you, drive through) to good use. This means he can write about trailer tacos on South Lamar, $250 anniversary dinners at Hudson's, smoking a cigar with Michael Moriarty at Louie's 106, brewing his own Anderson's Coffee stout beer and freeloading at kids-eat-free nights all over town.
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By Mike Sutter
| Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 05:36 PM
Mars, the Asian-inspired restaurant with a big front patio on South Congress Avenue, will close Dec. 22.
Opened in 1992 as a cozy bungalow on San Antonio Street, Mars turned heads when it moved in 2007 into a modern space in the new 04 complex that includes Cissi’s Market and By George. A group that includes a restaurateur and a nightclub owner plans to open a casual seafood restaurant in the space, a spokesperson for the group said Wednesday.
Mars manager Daniel Myers attributed the closing to a bad economy and said he wasn’t aware of plans to relocate the restaurant.
Mars gained a following with pork tandoori, glazed and grilled baby-back ribs, pot stickers and a dessert called “coffee and doughnuts.” Myers said the restaurant’s business was strong for six months after the move to SoCo, but that “over the past six months, it’s definitely been slower.”
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By Turquoise Boy
December 11, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
Business has probably been slow due to the fact that the food isn’t very good.