From new Northwest Austin restaurants like KL Dragon House and Pebble Onebird to upcoming retail expansions for Hill House Home, here are 15 local business updates to know in October.
This list is not comprehensive.
Now Open
KL Dragon House
The restaurant serves Vietnamese and Chinese cuisines, including vermicelli, rice plates, stir-fried noodles, orange chicken and more. For appetizers, patrons will find spring rolls, egg rolls, crab rangoon, chicken wings, wontons and chicken dumplings.
Pebble Onebird offers a variety of chicken with fried chicken, which is brined in broth and double fried.(Courtesy Pebble Onebird)
Pebble Onebird
The restaurant offers a variety of breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner options, serving fried chicken with an Asian flair. The menu includes breakfast burritos and sandwiches, broth-brined fried chicken, ramen noodles, rice plates, banh mis and more.
Birds Barbershop
The full-service salon and barbershop offers haircuts, coloring, trims and more. Clients can get short cuts for hair lengths above the chin, which include a razor neck shave; long cuts for lengths below the chin, such as bobs and long layers; skin fades; buzz cuts and other options.
Baolicious
The restaurant, which opened within The Linc retail center, offers steamed dumplings that come with pork, crab, pork and shrimp, or rice and mushrooms; bao buns with barbecue pork, pork chashu and soft-shell crab; and appetizers such as spring rolls.
Urban Egg
Urban Egg is now open on Burnet Road in North Austin. The restaurant is serving up breakfast and lunch classics like pancakes and Monte Cristo sandwiches. The new expansion marks Urban Egg’s first Austin location, with other locations found in Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.
Coming Soon
Tumble 22
The chicken restaurant is heading for the Arboretum, offering sandwiches and sides. Tumble 22 serves handhelds like The O.G., featuring crispy or grilled chicken, coleslaw, bread-n-butter pickles and mayo. Patrons can also order tenders, bites or bone-in chicken.
Crunch Fitness
A new fitness center is opening in North Austin. Crunch Fitness offers free weight areas, a variety of workout machines and cardio equipment. The business also hosts group fitness classes and recovery services, such as a sauna, HydroMassage, tanning and red light therapy.
Lucid Private Offices
A Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing shows that StoneBridge Plaza II, a nine-story corporate building on North MoPac, is in the midst of a $1.8 million renovation project for the new offices. Space can be leased by individuals or teams of employees.
Hill House Home
The women’s and children’s apparel brand is launching its third Texas location at Domain Northside next year, according to a news release. The storefront is expected to open in early 2027, bringing clothing, swimwear and accessories to the shopping center.
Dolce & Gabbana
Italian fashion label Dolce & Gabbana is expected to open a new location in The Domain. The brand is known for its luxury merchandise that includes clothing for women, men and children as well as accessories and footwear. Dolce & Gabbana also carries beauty items, such as perfumes and makeup.
Relocations
Tarrant Roofing
Tarrant Roofing recently moved from Northwest Austin to a new office on Guadalupe Street. The business offers commercial and residential roofing services, including inspection, repair, insulation, replacement, new construction and gutter installation.
In the News
Circuit of the Americas
After COTALAND’s opening, officials are looking ahead to a planned water park and on-site resort as part of Circuit of the Americas’ push to grow its year-round offerings. To fund the next phase, COTA officials partnered with investment firm Carlyle, according to an Aug. 24 announcement.
Domain Northside
Domain Northside is celebrating a decade of retail, restaurants and entertainment in Northwest Austin, according to a news release. The center features tenants like Apple, Brandy Melville, YETI, Tecovas, Nike and Skims. Dining options include Little Woodrow’s and Velvet Taco.
Lammes, which has returned after closing earlier this year, has made its Texas Chewie Pecan Pralines from the same recipe since 1892.(Courtesy Lammes Candies/Dixie Dixon Photography)
Lammes Candies
The Austin candy maker, founded in 1885 on Congress Avenue, is back in business two months after its last store closed. Fort Worth-based Delightful Development Co. acquired the brand in partnership with the Lamme family, according to a Sept. 29 news release.
Closings
Blue Agave Tex Mex
Blue Agave Tex Mex restaurant in far Northwest Austin is permanently closed. The restaurant’s owner announced in a social media post Oct. 7 that it would be shutting down. The restaurant’s remaining food will be donated to a local charity, the post states.