{"id":259165,"date":"2026-04-21T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:28:42","slug":"counter-culture-plans-to-open-vegan-diner-in-austin-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259165\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter Culture plans to open vegan diner in Austin this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOwner of the plant-based restaurant, Sue Davis, is gearing up to open a permanent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countercultureaustin.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Counter Culture<\/a> restaurant in Austin this summer, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more<\/p>\n<p>Counter Culture had a previous food trailer, which opened in 2009, and later a brick and mortar, before Davis closed the location to build a purposeful space, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s crew is currently renovating an older building in Windsor Park with help from Havens Construction and Weiss Architecture, Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are transforming it into a mid-century-inspired vegan diner,\u201d Davis explained.<\/p>\n<p>Final takeaways<\/p>\n<p>According to a Kickstarter page, construction costs have piled up and Counter Culture is now turning to the community to help open its doors sooner. So far, 270 backers have raised over $35,000 of the $45,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour support means we open sooner. It means we hire from this community,\u201d the Kickstarter states. \u201cIt means there&#8217;s one more table in Austin where everyone is welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owner of the plant-based restaurant, Sue Davis, is gearing up to open a permanent Counter Culture restaurant in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,750,97181,97180,22922,2924,18846,4131],"class_list":{"0":"post-259165","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","11":"tag-coming-soon","12":"tag-construciton","13":"tag-counter-culture","14":"tag-diner","15":"tag-east-austin","16":"tag-food-truck","17":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259165","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=259165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}