{"id":388702,"date":"2026-07-28T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:25:22","slug":"picnik-closes-its-final-location-owner-to-open-new-concept-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388702\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnik closes its final location, owner to open new concept | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picnikrestaurants.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Picnik<\/a> founder Naomi Seifter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naomiseifter\/reel\/DbS9_VlR2Zo\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced in an Instagram post<\/a> that Picnik will shutter its doors on Burnet Road, effective immediately, in preparation for something new.<\/p>\n<p>Seifter will open a refreshed concept in its place, coming within the next 4-6 weeks. The new restaurant will \u201cbe the perfect representation of what we believe healthy, nourishing, health-promoting food should look like in a restaurant setting in 2026 and beyond,\u201d Seifter said.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>Seifter launched Picnik&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.picnikrestaurants.com\/our-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first location in 2013<\/a>, which was a 150-square-foot food trailer, according to Picnik&#8217;s website. Her goal was to build a restaurant grounded in offering convenient, gluten free meals crafted with high quality ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>The first sit-down Picnik restaurant opened three years later, bringing farm-to-table dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Seifter brought in outside management to oversee the business in 2019, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/picnikrealfood\/reel\/Dal4au1htX6\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared on Instagram.<\/a> Recently, she has spent the last two years exploring how to buy the business back; Dec. 1 was Seifter\u2019s first day back as the new owner and operator.<\/p>\n<p>Seifter said what she came back to was unrecognizable, including menu offerings and ingredient standards, she explained online.<\/p>\n<p>On the menu <\/p>\n<p>Picnik\u2019s menu served salads and bowls, tacos, burgers, chicken sandwiches, cashew queso, curried chicken salad and more. The restaurant also had all-day brunch offerings like pancakes, steak and eggs, avocado toast and brioche french toast.<\/p>\n<p>Beverage options included collagen bone broth, juices, zero proof mocktails, cocktails and specialty coffees.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>More information about the new concept will be released in the next few weeks, according to Seifter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to do here is going to have the most beautiful, positive impact for people and the families of Austin and beyond,\u201d Seifter said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picnik founder Naomi Seifter announced in an Instagram post that Picnik will shutter its doors on Burnet Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,50229,12506,750,15534,98160,10759,1466,136671,67],"class_list":["post-388702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-burnet","tag-closed","tag-coming-soon","tag-gluten-free","tag-healthy-eating","tag-new-restaurant","tag-north-austin","tag-picnik","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388702","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=388702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}