{"id":292754,"date":"2026-05-14T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:04:06","slug":"shuttered-austin-honky-tonk-giddy-ups-scores-epic-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292754\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttered Austin honky-tonk Giddy Ups scores epic revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An iconic Central Texas honky-tonk is making an unexpected comeback two years after shuttering.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/austin-honky-tonks-19739214.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Giddy Ups in Austin<\/a> is planning to reopen less than 2 miles from its shuttered stomping grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The construction filing lists Roy Antognini as one of the new owners of the new-and-improved version of Giddy Ups. Reports by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/giddy-ups-reopening-new-location-south-atx.html?utm_source=st&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;utm_campaign=ae&amp;utm_content=AU&amp;j=45684284&amp;senddate=2026-05-12&amp;utm_term=ep4&amp;empos=p4\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Austin Business Journal<\/a> indicate that Antognini was friends with the bar&#8217;s original\u00a0owner, Nancy Morgan, and swooped in to save the business. According to ABJ, its new owners include Antognini, Carissa Bunker and\u00a0Anna Bosworth.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations for the revitalized bar will cost approximately $70,000, according to the\u00a0TDLR. Antognini told ABJ he estimates that the revived Giddy Ups could be open by the beginning of June.\u00a0MySA reached out to Antognini for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the space is expected to begin May 15 with a completion date of May 31. However, TDLR filings are subject to change at any time without notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An iconic Central Texas honky-tonk is making an unexpected comeback two years after shuttering.\u00a0Giddy Ups in Austin is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2108,1112,2527,820,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-292754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysafood","tag-mysalifestyle","tag-mysastaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292754","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=292754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}