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Cedar Door Relaunch Party

The Cedar Door is Austin’s lucky charm …

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Chris Apollo Lynn and Ari Guerrero

The bar and restaurant is snug at its fourth location in 26 years of business …

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Jeramy Neugent and Andrea Cowan

No, the owners did move from building to building …

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Maggie Lea and Dan Gentile

They moved the whole building, now resting at Brazos and East Second streets …

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Jason Zepeda and Brandon Jacobs

Current owners Heather Hart Potts and Steve Potts didn’t want to rub that lucky charm the wrong way in a recent expansion and renovation …

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Ken Burger and Trisha Atwater

So they asked designer Michael Hsu to keep the original main room intact, then added spacious new rooms where a back patio and kitchen sat, the better to service the convention trade that dominates that district …

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Heather Hart Potts, Anne Dilworth and Pamela Miller

Hsu also added signature slatting of recycled wood and ziz-zag vaulting inside and out — a seamless blend of Austin, Old and New …

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Steve Potts, Stephanie Hughes and Michael Hsu

A buoyant crowd of in-the-know Austinites wandered through the space, snacking on tacos and brownies, while drinking the institution’s emblematic Mexican martinis …

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Elizabeth Wiewall and Matt Hall

It was a warm crowd, conversationally, and various media fields were heavily represented …

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Leila Rahimi, Elizabeth Hufnagel

I had the pleasure of escorting my sister, Kathleen Klingshirn, to the party, and she was immediately drawn into a dozen different discussions …

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Courtney Irving, Ben Brown and Courtney Spence

Kathleen has lived in the Woodlands, lo these many years, but is scouting land out in the Hill Country to take advantage of its raw natural beauty, as well as its proximity to Austin’s allurements.

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