{"id":490729,"date":"2026-11-09T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/490729\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:12:08","slug":"east-austins-kalimotxo-to-close-in-november-east-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/490729\/","title":{"rendered":"East Austin&#8217;s Kalimotxo to close in November | East Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish tapas bar <a href=\"https:\/\/kalimotxoatx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kalimotxo<\/a> will close on Nov. 9 when <a href=\"https:\/\/emmerhospitality.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Emmer &amp; Rye Hospitality Group<\/a> stops managing the restaurant, according to a statement from the group shared by a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Kalimotxo is located off East Sixth Street, inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivehotels.com\/hotels\/austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Arrive Austin hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening<\/p>\n<p>Emmer &amp; Rye will also stop managing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftysdayandnight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lefty\u2019s Day and Night<\/a>, the hotel\u2019s other restaurant, on Nov. 9. Lefty\u2019s will stay open with its regular hours and programming, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Arrive Austin will open a hotel lobby bar in the Kalimotxo space starting Nov. 9, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sad to see this chapter come to a close, and we are deeply grateful to the guests, staff, and neighbors who frequented Kalimotxo over the years,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>Kalimotxo <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/south-central-austin\/dining\/spanish-bar-and-restaurant-kalimotxo-reopening-at-east-sides-arrive-austin-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reopened<\/a> inside Arrive Austin in October 2024, as previously reported by Community Impact. The 113-seat restaurant served Basque-style pintxos inspired by the bars of San Sebasti\u00e1n, along with larger plates such as the Kali Burger and Texas wagyu sirloin, as Rand Egbert, Emmer &amp; Rye partner and creative director, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/east-austin\/dining\/kalimotxo-brings-spanish-flair-and-flavor-to-austins-east-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told Community Impact<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish tapas bar Kalimotxo will close on Nov. 9 when Emmer &amp; Rye Hospitality Group stops managing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[164271,132,134,164276,133,164274,164273,25110,135328,164270,164272,164275],"class_list":["post-490729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-arrive-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-impacts","tag-austin-news","tag-east-austin-restaurant-closing","tag-east-sixth-street","tag-emmer-rye-hospitality-group","tag-kalimotxo","tag-kalimotxo-closing","tag-leftys-day-and-night","tag-spanish-tapas-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490729","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=490729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}