{"id":415742,"date":"2026-08-24T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:24:08","slug":"picnik-relaunches-with-new-dining-concept-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415742\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnik relaunches with new dining concept | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picnikrestaurants.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Picnik<\/a> temporarily closed on July 27 while the restaurant\u2019s team prepared to launch a new concept, founder Naomi Seifter announced on social media. Now, Picnik is reopening with a new limited menu for a week-long soft opening.<\/p>\n<p>Picnik is now open for lunch and dinner service from 11 a.m.-8 p.m., according to an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted a place that you could eat at every single day where the ultimate standard was the ingredient integrity and nourishment,\u201d the brand shared on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>Seifter launched Picnik&#8217;s first location in 2013, which was a 150-square-foot food trailer, according to Picnik&#8217;s website. The first sit-down Picnik restaurant opened three years later, bringing farm-to-table dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Picnik\u2019s menu served salads and bowls, tacos, burgers, chicken sandwiches, cashew queso, curried chicken salad and more.<\/p>\n<p>Seifter brought in outside management to oversee the business in 2019, she shared on Instagram. 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>On the menu <\/p>\n<p>After closing at the end of July, Seifter spent the following weeks building a restaurant that uses \u201cnourishing, health-promoting food,\u201d she shared online. The new Picnik will do so by offering one farm-to-table meal per day, cooked with the highest-quality ingredients that the restaurant can obtain.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients will include meats, fruit, vegetables and fish. Patrons can expect to find organic, pasture-raised, regenerative, grass-fed, organic and conscious provisions. Meals might also feature organic rice, quinoa or overnight soaked beans.<\/p>\n<p>More details<\/p>\n<p>The base of every main plate will be free from gluten, seed oils, refined sugar and peanuts. Vegan and vegetarian options are available upon request. For drinks, Picnik will offer wine, canned drinks and classic bone broth.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>Picnik is soft opening this week, bringing simple ingredients to the space. Throughout the soft opening, the team will be training staff, serving customers and gathering data about the new concept all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are literally building the car as we are driving it,\u201d the brand shared online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picnik temporarily closed on July 27 while the restaurant\u2019s team prepared to launch a new concept, founder Naomi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,15534,144865,144864,144799,749,136671,144866],"class_list":["post-415742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-gluten-free","tag-healthy-restaurant","tag-local-ingredients","tag-new-ownership","tag-now-open","tag-picnik","tag-seed-oil-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415742","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=415742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}