{"id":403704,"date":"2026-08-11T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:30:13","slug":"katzs-deli-begins-construction-on-long-awaited-austin-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403704\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz’s Deli begins construction on long-awaited Austin return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katz’s Deli<\/a>\u00a0officially began construction on its long-awaited revival project in the Capital City on Tuesday, August 11, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email to MySA. Not only is the deli returning to Austin, but it’s also setting up shop once more in its original Sixth Street location.<\/p>\n

The New York-style deli first opened at 618 W. Sixth St., Austin, TX 78701 in 1979 and quickly back a culinary institution, both in Austin as well as Houston. Following a 32-year run, the business shuttered in Central Texas, leaving\u00a0Austinites without the restaurant’s home base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That was until September 2024, when co-owners Barry and Lisa Katz bought the original Austin building and began fine-tuning their return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I started working in this very building at 8 years old when my dad opened the first Katz\u2019s, so the opportunity to return to the same location is a full-circle, bucket-list moment,” Barry Katz said in the announcement. “As I turn 55 this month, I\u2019m incredibly grateful to come back to where my passion for this business began. The spirit and energy of Katz\u2019s is the heart of what makes it special; it\u2019s what brings people together, whether they\u2019re dining late at night or early in the morning. Katz\u2019s has carried on that sense of community in Houston for the past 20 years, and I could not be more excited to bring it home to 6th Street next year.”<\/p>\n

Katz’s is projected to open in late spring 2027, officials shared in the announcement. That timeline matches initial project filings registered on April 3 with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which also outlined an estimated construction cost of $2.5 million first filed in April 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for those who can’t hold out on a New York-style Reuben any longer: Katz’s currently operates five restaurants in and around the Houston area following its expansion to H-Town back in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katz’s Deli\u00a0officially began construction on its long-awaited revival project in the Capital City on Tuesday, August 11, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1112,820],"class_list":["post-403704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysafood","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403704","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=403704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}