Good news for everyone not into drinking Rolling Rocks until sunrise at the Fiji house: Beer-to-Go in Texas is official!

On Monday, June 10, the owners of local institution Hut’s Hamburgers announced through a post on their website that the restaurant is set to close this fall. October 20 will be the last day of service, and co-owner Mike Hutchinson hints that a new restaurant is in the works.

[Editor's note: Be sure to check out the entire Hot Luck Festival photo gallery as well as last week’s cover stories, The Women of Hot Luck and Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu.]

“What is dead may never die,” as they say in Westeros and apparently in the war room of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild. The infamous Beer-to-Go Amendment (née: Bill) continues to battle its way through the Texas Capitol collecting a cache of unlikely victories.

It’s no secret that the city of Austin’s health permitting procedures are nightmarish, both in terms of finances and time. In hopes of alleviating some of that tension, the Texas House pushed through Senate Bill 932 on May 14. The bill will cap health permit fees imposed on farmers and other farmers’ market vendors at $100 per year, per jurisdiction.

Since 2006, Mercy Chefs and their network of mobile kitchens has been sending culinary professionals to areas facing crises and disaster.

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and several Central Texas bakeries are lending their talent to the list of Depressed Cake Shops. Sales benefit NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Central Texas.

For dessert entrepreneur Lori Schneider, there’s something inherently joyful about the concept of a cupcake bar.

On Wednesday afternoon, May 1, Miche Bread posted a bit of surprising and heartbreaking news: The artisan bread subscription is closing up shop, its carby swan song a roasted buckwheat levain studded with forbidden rice, seeds, and Yecoro Rojo wheat. Its final appearance at the Mueller Farmers Market will be on Sunday, May 5.