Someone sent me the Instagram profile of this “new restaurant” coming soon to East Austin, and I genuinely cannot tell if this is for real or a parody. Here’s the website: https://www.spacecowboyatx.com/about-us
Has anyone heard anything about this place?
by farmerpeach
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This is giving me Ethos vibes except it’s actually hard to tell whether this is real or not. The red flags for me are that the photos they use on their website are giving off serious wine bar energy instead of “cool cocktail bar with global street food” (plus they use a picture of a rainbow trout dish when that’s not even on their menu, and there are windows all over the interior picture they have on their website but you can’t see a single one in either of their Instagram videos) and the grammar issues riddled all over the menu (though maybe they didn’t have anyone to proofread).
This is definitely strange, I spent way too long trying to dig into this
Seems legit to me. It’s in the old Michoacana Market on East 7th. If you street view on Goog maps you can see the same railing and overhang he’s filming in front of. The phone number thing is probably an oversight of using a website template from a build your own site, same with all the photos on the site. The over stylized food and drink photos on IG are standard PR for a new restaurant. Also his shirt says boss sooo lol
You know your hood getting gentrified when a Michoacana Mexican market gets replaced by a place called Space Cowboy
It’s real, there are building permits filed with the city on that address that show the name Space Cowboy.
Likely another money laundry op from Red Dragon crime syndicate …
I’m not digging their cocktail list. I get they are going for more unique descriptions, but this tells me very little about the drink.
>The forbidden red fruit lures the seeker for a sip of it’s tart bitter-sweetness for a sensation to remember
Nor am I excited for someone fat-washing rum with cheap white truffle oil.
>A mysterious rum based mix with notes of herbs, ginseng, and truffle
They finally cracked the case on that one ingredient that was missing from your favorite marg (though it’s probably trying to rip off the parmesan espresso martini thing)
>Tequila & mezcal based margarita with notes of chile, **cheese**, and cucumber
If there is any drink that doesn’t come with that tiny cowboy hat I’m leaving.
Jesus. $17 cocktails. $14 fries. Even more unforgivable, the use of “pallet” instead of “palate”