Foodie & Tina<\/a>, the husband-and-wife project from Becca Seiler and Spencer Brown, is set to open this summer at 2153 South Lamar Blvd. The 800-square-foot takeaway sushi counter will serve omakase boxes and rice bowls to go, while a small standing bar offers hand rolls directly from chef to guest.<\/p>\nThe core format revolves around\u00a0omakase boxes with 10 pieces of nigiri and a chef\u2019s choice roll, along with\u00a0chirashi and kaisendon bowls and a vegetarian option. At the hand roll bar, \u00a0standing\u00a0guests will receive made-to-order rolls finished with ingredients like Texas persimmon\u00a0miso or wasabi butter. Everything else is designed to travel.<\/p>\n
At the center of the operation is a supply chain that relies on domestic\u00a0sourcing and small-scale fishing practices. Much of the seafood will also be processed using ike jime, a Japanese harvesting technique intended to reduce stress on the fish and preserve texture and flavor.<\/p>\n
The result is a menu that shifts daily based on availability. Gulf fish from Texas waters will anchor the offerings when possible, supplemented by catches from the East and West coasts, and more selectively, imports from Japan. Familiar options like tuna and salmon may appear, but the menu is just as likely to highlight domestic substitutes alongside lesser-known varieties of snapper and grouper.<\/p>\n
Shelves will stock prepared goods like tomato jam from the couple\u2019s garden, a mushroom- and seed-based\u00a0furikake and condiments such as toasted\u00a0nori salsa macha.<\/p>\n
Both owners bring experience from across Austin\u2019s sushi and farm-to-table scenes. Brown has worked at Kom\u00e9, Uchiko, Uroko and Este, where he focused on fish butchery. Seiler comes from a farming background and has worked at Lenoir, grounding the project\u2019s produce-driven side.<\/p>\n
Foodie & Tina is expected to open this summer and will operate daily from late morning through early evening, targeting lunch and early dinner crowds. The couple plans to continue hosting their more elaborate garden omakase dinners on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Austin chefs known for intimate, garden-set\u00a0omakase dinners are preparing to open their first brick-and-mortar. Foodie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,62,1623,1622,354,27],"class_list":["post-223571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-dining","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurant-openings","tag-restaurants","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223571","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=223571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}