{"id":176739,"date":"2026-02-23T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:00:32","slug":"restaurant-francois-brings-french-flair-to-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176739\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Fran\u00e7ois Brings French Flair to Downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a sophisticated menu, romantic ambience, and impeccable service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantfrancois.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Restaurant Fran\u00e7ois<\/a> certainly has that je ne sais quoi. Located in downtown Austin, the latest concept from Guy + Larry Restaurants (Red Ash, ATX Cocina, J. Carver\u2019s) exudes a cosmopolitan verve that transports diners to somewhere magical. \u201cWe were looking [to create] a hip Parisian restaurant that you\u2019d find in New York or Chicago or San Francisco,\u201d says chef\/proprietor Harold Marmulstein. While the acclaimed culinary figure is best known in Austin for more casual concepts like Salty Sow and Tumble 22, Marmulstein worked in fine dining early in his career and honed his skills in the \u201980s as a sous chef under a French chef in Atlanta. Whet your appetite with comt\u00e9 cheese popovers or French onion soup while preparing for decadent entrees like the boneless wagyu short ribs bourguignon, made with Wagyu-X beef that\u2019s been marinated in burgundy wine with mirepoix, garlic, and herbs then braised in a multi-day process. Be sure to pre-order rotating souffl\u00e9s like the amaretto mid-meal to cap off your dinner with the theatrical dessert: \u201cWe serve it with a [cr\u00e8me] anglaise, which is a vanilla sauce that we open the souffl\u00e9 and pour in, so you get the cool and the hot,\u201d he says. C\u2019est si bon!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a sophisticated menu, romantic ambience, and impeccable service, Restaurant Fran\u00e7ois certainly has that je ne sais quoi.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-176739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}