“Frankly speaking, I never thought I would go this far,” admits Wee Fong Ehlers, the chef and owner of critically acclaimed Malaysian restaurant Wee’s Cozy Kitchen, which recently opened at Royal Blue Grocery on 609 Congress Ave.

[Update – Saturday, April 27, 11:42am: This story has been updated to remove mention of the Saturday sandwich pop-up which has been canceled.]

Busty’s Bar & Jukebox, a T-shirt line started by former White Horse manager Busty Morris as something of an inside joke when COVID-19 shut down, has become reality as entrepreneur Nathan Hill and Morris team up to open a bar/diner located in Windsor Park.

If you’ve been to Justine’s Brasserie, the much-loved Eastside French bistro and perennial Best of Austin winner, you already know it’s a place of beauty – beautiful people, beautifully composed plates. Imagining all that transposed to an art museum is no stretch.

Recently, a reader asked me if there were any wines I always count on as a restaurant choice. My wife and I love a great Italian restaurant, so we need to have an idea of a few Italian wines we can always order with confidence.

First, be informed that CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the tenets of a bacterial defense system that forms the basis for the tech. Then, recall that the scientists who developed CRISPR won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the tech’s already been used to create life-saving therapeutics.

As a New Yorker now living in Austin, I felt my breath catch at the sight of two words on the Endo website: “Sushi Nakazawa.”

In Austin, March begins a festival season that lasts all the way until Feb. 28 of the following year, so everyone should be thrilled to hear that a brand-new beer hoedown is setting up camp right at the cusp of this year’s SXSW blowout.

Ready to start drooling early, citizen? The Texas Food and Wine Alliance has revealed their roster of chefs for this year’s Live Fire! shindig at Camp Mabry.