![]() Then there’s a chicken and sausage gumbo with rice caviar served with New Orleans’s Zapp’s chips and red beans with rice. Of the former, there are po’ boys made with bread from New Orleans bakery Leidenheimer Baking Company, with fillings like hot roast beef fried Gulf shrimp, fried green tomatoes and a club with roast beef, smoked turkey, and bacon. The resulting Uptown Sports Club is an all-day spot with a New Orleans-leaning food and drinks menu (no reservations). A corner featuring sports pennants and plants at Uptown Sports Club. There was a point when the defunct building had been flyered with what-turned-out-to-be fake signs announcing that a Chili’s was going to open back in 2017 (see if you can find the Chili’s cap in the space). Moody, who is from New Orleans, and Franklin has family from the state, according to Statesman. Their intention was always to open a sandwich-geared restaurant and bar, as Eater Austin uncovered in 2020. Then, in 2016, Franklin, Moody, and Jason Jones (a lawyer in Fort Worth) bought the historic building, as reported by Austin Monthly through the Hernandez family. Arnold died in 2000 and Ron had planned on reopening the business afterward, but he died in 2014 during a motorcycle accident. And then it became a bar and cafe called the Sport Bar by owner Arnold Hernandez in the 1960s into the 1990s when its name changed to Uptown Sports Club (hence the current name) under son Ron Hernandez. The physical space was built in the 1890s and was a bakery/butcher shop/market, per the Towers. Uptown had been a long time coming for the abandoned building on the corner of East Sixth and Waller Streets. Uptown Sports Club opened at 1200 East Sixth Street on March 27. ![]() ![]() Earlier this spring, a new all-day bar and restaurant touting New Orleans fare and ambiance with Texas tinges, made its way into in East Austin under the power team of pitmaster Aaron Franklin and music maven James Moody.
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