{"id":388214,"date":"2026-07-27T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388214\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:40:21","slug":"what-we-did-in-austin-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388214\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Did in Austin This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our new editorial where we share what we did in Austin this week, with and without the kids. From date nights and coffee shops to kids\u2019 camps and easy dinners, here\u2019s what made our week.<\/p>\n

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Popovers and Moulin a Passion Martini at Restaurant Francois<\/p>\n

Friday Night<\/p>\n

Restaurant Francois<\/a>. It\u2019s our second time because we\u2019re obsessed with three things: the rich ambience, insane popovers served with fresh butter, and their Moulin a Passion<\/a>, served as a Martini with a side of prosecco. We sat in the lounge for a side-by-side, sophisticaded grown up dinner.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sweet potato latkes at Ema <\/p>\n

Saturday<\/p>\n

Brunch at Ema<\/a>. We went without a reservation and were able to get seated immediately, even though it was packed. The setting is gorgeous and you have the option of patio seating, which felt suprisingly cool to us even in the Austin afternoon heat. We loved the sweet potato latkes, and would definitely order again.<\/p>\n

\"\"A slice of cheese at Home Slice via Yelp<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/p>\n

Staying home day!\u00a0We did order Home Slice<\/a> through Uber Eats, though. Our kids love Home Slice so much they\u2019re currently heating up leftover slices in the air fryer for breakfast. They\u2019ll be sad when it\u2019s gone. Our regular order is always a large cheese pizza, a medium eggplant parmesan pizza, and a tub of ranch because it\u2019s that good.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Train 4 the Game via Yelp<\/p>\n

Monday<\/p>\n

Work from home and shuffle kids to classes! Today we have an older kids doing bass guitar lessons at Strait Music<\/a>, and a younger kid doing a half day camp at Young Chefs Academy<\/a>. We\u2019re having a pasta night with different types we picked up from Trader Joe\u2019s, like tortellini, burrata and corn ravioli, and their fresh made fetticine, with different sauce options.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday<\/p>\n

Another work from home day, plus camps and\u00a0Train 4 the Game<\/a>\u00a0for our middle schooler. It\u2019s a great walk in group training program with different sessions for elementary, middle, and high school students. We also browsed Breed & Co<\/a>. and Barton Springs Nursery<\/a>,, then made fried egg sandwiches with melted cheese and smashed avocado on croissants for dinner.<\/p>\n

\"\"Swedish Hill via Yelp<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/p>\n

Our oldest is really into coffee shops, so we\u2019re always on the hunt for somewhere new (although she\u2019s just as happy with her homemade iced honey latte). This week we tried the newer\u00a0Swedish Hill Bakery<\/a> in Westlake, and she gave it two thumbs up. The pesto pasta salad and lavender lattes were top notch.<\/p>\n

Other places she\u2019s loves:<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Rudy\u2019s via Yelp<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/p>\n

We picked up Rudy\u2019s Bar-B-Q<\/a> and used the leftovers for an easy lunch for the kids while we worked! It was back to Train 4 the Game, last two days of camp at Young Chef\u2019s Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week Wrapped: <\/p>\n

\u2b50 Best bite: Sweet potato latkes at Ema<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc67 Biggest kid win: Train 4 the Game <\/a><\/p>\n

\u2615 Coffee of the week: Merit Coffe Co.<\/a> lavender latte.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcc5 On deck: Volente Beach<\/a>. And order PE clothes, because the emails from school are already coming in<\/p>\n

Have ideas of what we should try next? Email our editor, [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our new editorial where we share what we did in Austin this week, with and without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-388214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388214","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=388214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}