{"id":214836,"date":"2026-03-21T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214836\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:30:07","slug":"austin-soul-food-staple-hoovers-cooking-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214836\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin soul food staple Hoover\u2019s Cooking to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin\u2019s east side culinary legend Hoover Alexander is retiring after 50 years, closing all services at his iconic restaurant Hoover\u2019s Cooking on May 31.<\/p>\n<p>While the Manor Road soul food spot is ending its sit down dining service, it will still book private events through the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant blends Alexander\u2019s culinary expertise in southern, Tex-Mex, cajun food and barbecue. The fifth-generation Texan and native Austinite first opened Hoover\u2019s Cooking in 1998. His passion for farm-to-table cooking later led him to open a food trailer focused on fresh food and promoting urban gardens and balanced eating.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover&#8217;s is hosting a Juneteenth week bash on June 15 to celebrate Alexander&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin\u2019s east side culinary legend Hoover Alexander is retiring after 50 years, closing all services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4998,132,134,133,5604,910,223,13214,27],"class_list":["post-214836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-local-business","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-business","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836","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=214836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}