Tiny Grocer, a local grocery store in Hyde Park, opened a new cafe this spring.

What's on the menu: The Tiny Grocer Café serves all-day brunch and dinner, including French favorites and deli classic dishes alongside coffee, cocktails and dessert.

The cafe's menu features the following: 

• Brunch: omelette, Bacon and Egg’wich, Brioche French Toast, Avocado Tartine and Croque Madame

• Lunch: French onion soup, hot pastrami sandwich, turkey and havarti sandwich, BLT and French dip

• Dinner: Duck Leg Deconstructed Cassoulet, Chicken Paillard, Pommes Dauphine and half-roasted chicken

The background: The new cafe replaced Bureau de Poste—a French-inspired dinner restaurant at Tiny Grocer. 

Owner Steph Steele opened Tiny Grocer off South Congress in 2021 and opened a second location in Hyde Park in 2023. The business celebrated its fifth anniversary in March.

Stay tuned: Tiny Grocer is preparing to open a third location in East Austin off East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in late 2026, replacing the former Longhorn Meat Market.

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City Council voted to dissolve the South Central Waterfront Advisory Board, the body established almost a decade ago to help guide a wave of planned development south of downtown.

The details: The board's deactivation came after it had struggled to meet on a regular basis since early 2025, and as a series of civic planning updates made its duties less critical. Austin requires its resident-led boards and commissions to meet regularly or face the potential of being shut down. The South Central Waterfront board had experienced frequent turnover and meeting cancellations, only convening once in the year leading up to council's vote this spring.

The board's work is ending as Austin wraps the nearly 120-acre South Central Waterfront into a wider initiative for the future of the central city area stretching from south of Lady Bird Lake to The University of Texas at Austin campus.

Flyrite Chicken once again has a presence in East Austin just over a year after the closure of its brick-and-mortar location.

The details: Flyrite is now based out of a food truck at Stoney's Good Time Ranch on East Seventh Street. The location is just over a mile down Seventh from its former eatery that operated from 2016 through early 2025.

The food truck menu features original staples like The Cowboy chicken breast sandwich topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, jalapenos, house-made pickles and Hoss Sauce. New items for the bar location were added this year, like the creamy Dirty Mac topped with white queso, cilantro lime slaw and avocado salsa.

The $180 million St. David’s South Austin Medical Center expansion broke ground March 2, ahead of construction on the project’s four-story patient tower later this year.

The details: The new tower will include a 30-bed patient care unit, a 20-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit, four new operating rooms with shell space for future OR expansion, an eight-bed pre- and post-surgical unit, a seven-bay post-anesthesia care unit, and new lobby and waiting areas. The development will also feature new utility infrastructure, a sterile processing department and shell space for future additions.

Quote of note: “As South Austin continues to grow, we’re responding with an investment that expands access to surgical, rehabilitation and inpatient care, while strengthening the infrastructure that supports our clinical teams,” hospital CEO Charles Laird said in a statement.