Another Austin Disruption: The Omelettry eyes move to new location

[TexasTowelie]

After 36 years, North Austin landmark restaurant The Omelettry is looking for a new place to cook up its trademark breakfast fare.

Restaurant co-owner Jesse Carpenter, who owns the restaurant along with his father Kenny Carpenter, told Austin Business Journal on Tuesday that the move is not exactly by choice. The landlord is not renewing the restaurant's lease, which expires in June 2015.

"We essentially got priced out of our neighborhood," said co-owner Jesse Carpenter. "No other restaurant can move in here. It's so old, it's not up to code. We were grandfathered in."

Since 1978, the restaurant has occupied the retro-style building at 4811 Burnet Road, but sometime within the next 18 months The Omelettry will look to lease a new space. The restaurant will remain open until its current lease expires, according to the owners.

More at http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/real-estate/2014/02/the-omelettry-eyes-move-to-new-location.html .

[font color=green]I love the old dive and enjoyed many breakfasts, brunches and lunches for over half of the time they were open. It was conveniently located to my old apartment and is located close to where several of my other friends live in Austin. The omelets are great, but the real bonus are the gingerbread pancakes--I call them "Prozac on a Plate" since eating a stack usually leads to an afternoon nap because of the blood sugar spike.[/font]

[HubertHeaver]

1. That area of town is rapidly gentrifying.

Sad to see the old places go.

[Javaman]

6. It's happening all over town, sadly. nt

[longship]

2. Have to kick this.

Lot of good it will do at 3AM. But I lived in Wichita for a while and there was a similar place in my neighborhood. Unfortunately the owner and chief cook died suddenly of a heart attack and the place closed. It was wonderful, though.

So, here's your kick.

[hobbit709]

3. They want to do to Burnet the same as they did to S. Congress and S. Lamar

One overpriced condo tower with fru-fru shops on the first floor after another.
I won't even go on S. Congress between Riverside and Oltorf any more. The traffic is totally fucked.

[Javaman]

4. It's happening all over Austin...

I'm watching the slow creep up Lamar. I live in North Austin and I have already seen the sign of things to come.

Some good, but a lot of them bad.

Mostly it will destroy the last affordable area of Austin to buy a home.

We bought back in 2005 and it's been a nice stable blue collar neighborhood since. However, as the older generation as moved or passed away, the asking price for houses has sky rocketed.

I give it 5 more years.

[Javaman]

5. While the Omelettry is an "institution"...

I never really thought their food was all that good.

The eggs are usually runny and the omelets without taste.

The last time I went there, I had a side of pancakes. The dang things weren't even mixed completely!
There were puffs of flour when I cut into them and they had an overpowering flavor of baking powder.

They might have been good years ago went I first when there (19 years ago), but not so much now.

[hobbit709]

7. the original Omelettry on Lake Austin Blvd was the best. None of the others came close.

[TexasTowelie]

8. Great news--they've chosen a place to relocate!

They will be moving to 47th and Airport across the street from the new In-and-Out Burger.

http://www.austinpost.org/article/omelettry-relocating-46th-and-airport