East Austin Italian Pop-Up Le Cowboy Is Closing In February

East Austin Italian restaurant Le Cowboy, from celebrated chef Grae Nonas, is closing within a thirty day period. Its previous day at 2113 Manor Street near Cherrywood will be on Friday, February 19 for dine-in patio provider, with takeout only obtainable on Mondays.

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Pasta e fagioli from Le Cowboy

Le Cowboy is identified for handmade pastas like strozzapreti all’amatriciana and ricotta tortelli, as effectively as a hefty rooster parmesan exclusive and appetizers like olives and refreshing-baked bread with cultured butter. Nonas, who is from New England, wrote in an Instagram submit that the pop-up “is, in all senses, me. An outsider seeking to obtain himself in cowboy country.”

Le Cowboy was usually supposed to be a momentary restaurant, running out of the former Elaine’s Pork & Pie house that previously held a temporary deli iteration of farmers current market typical Mum Food items. The setting up is component of the forthcoming Mexican seafood cafe Este, from Suerte’s Sam Hellman-Maas and Fermín Núñez, which will open up in late 2021. Fellow non permanent resident, vegetable-targeted truck Rogue Radish from founding Pitchfork Very chef Max Snyder, will also be moving along soon, while there is no timeline for that but.

Le Cowboy opened in August as a takeout-only cafe, but expanded with patio dining commencing in Oct, leaving Mondays open up for to-go orders. Nonas advised Eater that his tiny team did not want to compromise on excellent and was for that reason not able to help to-go meals as very well as patio dining at the same time.

As much as what’s upcoming for Nonas, he says that is “still quite considerably up in the air.” He hadvertisement beforehand explained to Eater that “the thought is to invest our residency in this article producing a thing that can scale into something larger sized, and a lot more everlasting down the line.”

Right before opening Le Cowboy, Nonas was the founding executive chef of South Austin resort cafe Carpenters Hall. It opened in November 2018, and he left in 2020. He was also just one of the co-founding govt cooks of Southern restaurant Olamaie, and was named to Food & Wine’s Greatest New Chefs record in 2015.