Waxy's Got a Brand New Brunch

The Chicago-based folks behind Wax Myrtle’s, that welcoming restaurant and lounge on the fourth floor of Austin’s Thompson Hotel? They totally know how hot it is outside.

These spicy eggs haven't been in the rooftop pool, but, mmmmmm, they're so well drowned.

They also know how to mitigate the heat, by installing new shades and fans and cabanas and all sorts of sun-thwarting upgrades around the swimming pool of that rooftop oasis.

Yes, the pool: Now there’s a summertime refresher! But that’s not what I walked into this blogpost to tell you about; that sort of aquatic action is better covered in this round-up from Austin Chronicle Food editor Melanie Haupt.

No, I’m here because Wax Myrtle’s sous chef Edgar Cua has made a sort of doughnut for the new brunch menu that’s served from 11am-3pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and I’ve had one (full disclosure: I’ve had one-and-a-half), and that doughnut – the Cinnamon-Sugar Rellenito Plantain – is a tiny fluffy loaf composed of dates and chocolate and plantains, it’s filled with a molten chocolate sauce, and there’s sweet condensed milk to pour on top, and — yeah, it’s the sort of delicacy that even dedicated doughnut joints dream about creating.

It also gives me an opportunity to note the rest of the new brunch menu, with its overstuffed tacos, and the “drowned” eggs inundated with braised beans in a rich chipotle sauce, and the steak-and-eggs plate with chipotle hollandaise accompanying the cackleberries and that tender slab of beef, and more. An impressive array of brunchables, I’m telling you, right there in the busy heart of Downtown.

(Bar-borne bonus: The Spresso Smack, a brunch cocktail made with vodka, Mr. Black coffee liqueur, amaro, creme de cacao, and nitro cold brew. Reckon it’s another good way to greet a nonworking day.)

Because you don’t have to enjoy a shaded-rooftop pool on a weekend morning, unless you really want to. You can just get yourself to Wax Myrtle’s brunch and you’ll be swimming, so to speak, in an atmosphere of casual style and delicious food before you go to wherever the rest of your day is beckoning.