Award-profitable chef Mashama Bailey is bringing two new eating places to Austin. (Courtesy Chia Chong)

1. The Creek and the Cave, a comedy club that just lately closed its doorways in New York Metropolis, will be transferring to Austin and reopening April 1. The club will be opening at 611 E. Seventh St., Austin, in the space that formerly housed Barracuda, one of a number of new music venues in the Red River Avenue area that shut during the pandemic. www.creekandcaveatx.com

2. The Grey Diner Bar and The Grey Industry will open up this summer time at the forthcoming Thompson Hotel, 506 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin. Mashama Bailey, a 2019 James Beard Award winner, and Johno Morisano opened The Gray in 2014 in a previously segregated Greyhound bus terminal. The diner bar will be an all-day, full-support cafe in the lodge lobby, even though the market place will aim on counter company with get-and-go products. Both equally will be positioned on the ground ground of the lodge, which is also slated to open up this summertime. www.thegreyrestaurant.com

3. Moxy Austin-University opened its new 162-home hotel Jan. 13 on The Drag at 2552 Guadalupe St., Austin. The hotel owned by White Lodging is the to start with locale in Texas for Marriott International’s Moxy Lodges brand name, which operates 26 accommodations in the United States and 71 overseas. The hotel has an indoor and outside bar and includes a 24-hour taco counter, Zombie Taco, on the first degree. 737-471-2621. www.moxy-resorts-marriott.com

4. Spread & Co. opened a new site at the Present-day Austin’s Laguna Gloria campus, 3809 W. 35th St., Austin, on Feb. 2. This is the second place for the restaurant from Rosemary and Austin Ewald, which very first opened on West 38th Street in 2019. The Laguna Gloria cafĂ© is open up for breakfast and lunch with a menu targeted on cheese and household-designed bread. 737-757-4367. www.spreadandco.com

Editor’s Be aware: The headline of this report has been current to clarify that The Grey taking care of husband or wife Johno Moirsano will be aspect of the restaurant’s enlargement to Austin.