It’s come to our attention that some people don’t think there is parking available for our original location in historic Hyde Park.

Take a look at this.

plenty of parking for our central Austin location behind the restaurant at 43rd & Ave H

Yes, that’s a parking lot.  It’s right behind the restaurant/Quack’s etc at 43rd and Ave H. Easy in, easy out.

Come try it out.

JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, plays Bass Concert Hall, Aug 18 – Sept 5.

Two ways Hyde Park Bar and Grill wants to help you see JERSEY BOYS:

Enter to win tickets to The Jersey Boys at either Hyde Park Bar & Grill location! Click the picture to watch the trailer.

1. In-store drawing. Drop your name into the jar at either location for a chance to Win Free Tickets – enter by August 15th.  Enter at either HPB&G location August 2nd to August 15th for ticket drawing.

2. SPECIAL SUPPER CLUB DISCOUNT AVAILABLE! Purchase tickets through the Austin Supper Club for the first 2 weeks of JERSEY BOYS and RECEIVE 25% OFF THE SINGLE TICKET PRICE IN ALL SECTIONS!

Go here and enter DINEAUSTIN to buy tickets and your Supper Club dinner (includes tax & gratuity so it’s easy in, easy out on the night of the show!)

About JERSEY BOYS:

The show is a Tony award-winning Best Musical of 2006 which is almost sold out! JERSEY BOYS is something you don’t want to miss! Watch the trailer by clicking here.

Central: 458-3168 -4206 Duval — in historic Hyde Park neighborhood, just north of UT & downtown

South: 899-2700 – 4521 Westgate — in Central Market south shopping center

In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry.  Artists from Lightin’ Hopkins to Beyonce recorded there.

We’ll have Andy Bradley and Roger Wood on hand at the party and it’s anybody’s guess as to who else, since they know every musician that ever set foot in Texas!!!

Come meet the authors, have a snack, buy a book to benefit SIMS Foundation, and hear a juicy story or two…

NEW!  Profits from books sales will benefit SIMS Foundation for Austin musicians!

House of Hits chronicles Houston's music powerhouse Sugarhill Studios

HOUSE OF HITS – Meet the Authors Party
Hyde Park Bar & Grill
4206 Duval (original, central location)
Austin, TX 78751
512-48-3168

Aug 18, 5-7pm

Complementary hors d’oeuvres, cash bar at happy hour prices

ABOUT HOUSE OF HITS

Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin’ Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child, and many, many more.

Bradley and Wood describe how Houston’s lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn’s house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill’s willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill’s recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio’s recordings.

You say you don’t know art, but you know what you like?

Check out these works by Robbin Polter and Ziya Neema:

Robbin Robertson Polter's "My Austin"

"Who Dat, Mardis Gras" by Ziya Neema

Now if those paintings don’t lift your spirits and stir your chili, nothing will.

We’ll have the lively, colorful and joyful paintings of Robbin Polter and Ziya Neema on display at Hyde Park Bar & Grill in the Hyde Park neighborhood — 4206 Duval — from Sept 4 to Oct 10.

Meet the Artists’ Party – Wed, Sept 8

4:30 – 6:30

About the Artists:

Ziya Neema

I paint big, loud, Afro-Caribbean inspired paintings on hand sewn crazy quilt canvases. Having been born in Tanzania and raised in the Virgin Islands, I try to depict the vivaciousness and spice of life in the tropics. I want my lush colors and intense patterns to initially draw you in. At first glance it may appear to be just another happy day in paradise, but upon closer examination you may begin to see the signs of chaos.

I love to collect fabrics from my world travels (39 countries and counting) and sew them into my canvases. My favorite pieces are from vintage Dhow sails I bought in a fishing village on the coast of Zanzibar. The sail texture is sea baked, sun kissed, and hand stitched. These random seams and lines inspire me to create unexpected divisions through my paintings.

My current work is becoming bigger, bolder, and more complex.  I am building and painting frames to extend the intensity of my work, polishing my craftsmanship, and developing my conceptual intent.

Robbin Robertson Polter

Robbin, local Austinite, a native Texan , and Texas A&M graduate is a multi-media contemporary folk artist working with canvas, wooden and metal collages and photography. Her portfolio is colorful and whimsical emphasizing a folk art style.  While using available art supplies she prefers found objects, scraps and recycled materials giving “life back to trash” .  Robbin paints on board, recycled frames or cabinet doors then easily moves into 3D creations out of metal, glass, found pieces & wood. She has a difficult time painting flat for too long …the figures want to rise out of the board and become 3-D . She prefers patterns on patterns, details, layers of color and has found inspirations from her travels in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. More specifically inspired by the folk art & textiles in Guatemala, Mexico,Peru and Haiti. She is a 4th generation folk artist and inspired most by her years making art with her mother Mary – a wood worker & folk artist.She has displayed and sold her art in Texas, California, New York, Washington, New Mexico,  Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. See www.robbinrobertsonstudios.com for more paintings and her blog with show updates

Check out this video trailer for Circle Mirror Transformation, still selling out fast at Hyde Park Theatre!

Circle Mirror Transformation trailer

Hyde Park Theatre is in the ‘hood and we’re a sponsor so we’re claiming their shows as events for our original location on Duval in Central Austin!

Circle Mirror Transformation at Hyde Park Theatre -- the hottest ticket in town!

Act fast if you want tickets to this play!  It’s been a sell-out every night since it opened on July 8 at Hyde Park Theatre right here in the motherland of all Hyde Parkness, the actual, genuine Hyde Park neighborhood.  Reviewers like Spike Gillespie and the Austin American Statesman can’t say enough good things about it.  Funny, great pacing, jaw drop ending — what’s not to like?

We would, of course, be missing a huge opportunity if we didn’t invite you to come by our Duval location before or after the show to have a bite and bit of conversation.  It’s a 15 minute stroll from our door to theirs.  Lots of picturesque houses and B&B’s along the way.

Circle Mirror Transformation

Hyde Park Theatre

511 West 43rd

July 8 – Aug 7

Reservations 479-PLAY or buy tickets online

Thurs – pay what you can; Fri & Sat – $19

Jeffrey Primeaux’s art is currently enlivening our walls at Hyde Park Bar & Grill on Duval (you know, the Original Hyde Park, the source of all Hyde Parkness in Austin).

Winter Coats by Jeffrey Primeaux -- meet the artist July 14

Look at this amazing image.  You gotta love it.

Meet the artist and see the work up close & personal on July 14.

According to Jeffrey’s blog:

“Hyde Park Bar and Grill will be hosting a reception for my artwork at the restaurant on Wednesday, July 14 (yes, that’s Bastille Day), from 4:30-6:30 in the evening. They will be providing some snacks, water, and ice tea along with a cash bar for the cocktail hour beverages. The restaurant is located at 4206 Duval Street. I will be there too, of course.”

And he adds: “The event will be regicide-free.”

Reception for Artist Jeffrey Primeaux

Hyde Park Bar & Grill on Duval

4206 Duval

July 14

4:30 – 7PM

Complementary hors d’eauvres , cash bar at Happy Hour prices

We are so humbled and grateful.

For the 15th year in a row, our fries were voted Best French Fries in the Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll.

Come for Fry Week, all you frequent fry-ers!

To celebrate, we’ve declared next week, May 24 – May 30, FRY WEEK.

1/2 off 1/2 orders of our famous fries all week, May 24 – 30!

We couldn’t be happier with our award.

And, for you graduates everywhere in the coming days, we leave you with this gem of wisdom:

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always  . . .

. . .  to Fry just one more time.

When stuff like devastating oil spills happens, do you find yourself fantasizing about having unlimited funds, super-duper scientific smarts, weaponry expertise, and international connections so you could go fix the problem while giving the perpetrators their due?

Meet Bwana Doc, international environmental pirate, the man who does what it takes to end the destruction of our planet!

Bwana Doc is one bad-a** environmentalist

The creation of author/ biologist / entrepreneur / UT prof D.R. Schneider, Bwana Doc is James Bond, millionaire Bruce Wayne, and Captain Morgan all rolled into one.   And he’s on a mission to save the earth.

(In real life, Bwana Doc’s creator is a real-life environmental hero.   His company, Micro-Bac Int’l, uses microbes to eat up crude oil.  His Facebook public profile here and his enviro-blog here.)

We’re hosting a book signing for Bwana Doc’s first published adventure, SAVING THE WHALES on Wed, June 30.

Now here’s the gospel truth about this event:  it was planned before the Oil Spill.   But,  as the plot — or perhaps we should say the Gulf — thickens, the need to do something about the worst environmental catastrophe in the US has become excruciatingly clear.

This event will benefit two environmental organizations: The Audubon Society and REEF.

About the book:

Hyde Park Fork has read it and says it’s a real page-turner.

Not only is it a satisfying high adventure story with an underlying good cause, it also [spoiler alert] features Hyde Park Bar & Grill in the story.

(While HPB&G is undoubtedly an internationally-known destination, our appearance in the book is largely because the author is a devotee of our Duval Street location.)

You’ll get a signed book in return for a donation to the Audubon Society and/or REEF, a grass-roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems, and we’ll have something cool for those who correctly answer trivia questions about the book.

Book Signing for SAVING THE WHALES, A BWANA DOC ADVENTURE

Hyde Park Bar & Grill, central – 4206 Duval

June 30

Time:  5 to 7pm

Complementary hors d’oeuvres, cash bar at happy hour prices

Minimum $10 donation (feel free to give more!) to the Audubon Society and/or REEF gets you a signed book, not to mention the satisfaction of knowing you’re doing something to help correct the worst environmental episode in US history.

Hyde Park Bar & Grill prizes for those who answer our Bwana Doc trivia questions correctly, so get the book by clicking here and start reading!

Awww.  Geez, you shouldn’t have.  Well, maybe you should have.

Austin360.com readers voted Hyde Park Bar & Grill a close second for Best Wait Staff in Austin.

Read all about it by clicking here.

The wait staff at both locations thanks you for your votes on Austin360!

Come see the new art show at the Duval location — work by John Mosteller & Jeffrey Primeaux on display beginning May 13.

artwork by John Mosteller on display at our Duval location starting May 13

ART @ HPB&G

4206 Duval

May 13 – July 25