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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
| Thursday, March 5, 2009, 06:36 PM
It’s been 10 weeks since the chefs and staff of Zoot traded knives and aprons for paintbrushes and brooms as the restaurant moved from a 70-seat small house in West Austin to a 100-seat renovated space in the La Hacienda shopping center on Bee Cave Road.
Their efforts will pay off when the 18-year-old gourmet institution reopens at 5 p.m. Monday at 11715 Bee Cave Road, just east of Texas 71.
Co-owned by Stewart Scruggs and Mark Paul, who also own Austin’s highly regarded Wink restaurant, Zoot will continue to showcase the cooking of Andreas Exarhos, with dishes such as seared foie gras with first-of-the-season Poteet strawberries, chile-braised lamb shank and paprika-glazed duck breast, not to mention a simple roasted chicken breast with creamy polenta. “We changed locations, but we didn’t sell our soul,” Scruggs said.
Appetizer prices will run $10 to $18, soups and salads $7 to $8, with main courses from $21 to $30 and $8 desserts by pastry chef Mary Catherine James, including a salted caramel ice cream sundae with peanut brittle and chocolate sauce.
Zoot (477-6535, www.zootrestaurant.com) will be open daily at 5 p.m., with an abundant wine list and beer, and Scruggs said lunch hours are planned in the coming weeks, with full bar service on the horizon.
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By Shawn
March 6, 2009 7:09 AM | Link to this
What is going where Zoot used to be?
By Rob
March 6, 2009 12:35 PM | Link to this
The Lakeway area has been waiting for a restaurant of this caliber. Welcome!