“Occasionally, you are shown kindness in the strangest places if you look at it correctly. “
I don’t associate the Grateful Dead with wooded neighborhoods, labor parks and food trucks, but here we are.
The western component of Austin’s domain has never been known as a bastion for diners of exciting options.
But over the next year, the possibility has arisen to turn a small parking lot in the basically residential Lost Creek neighborhood into an unforeseen oasis for food lovers.
Isaac Flores, who returned to Austin, New York with his wife, Kelsey Sammataro Hutchins, in 2018, looking for a house for Sammataro, the pizza concept he created with some friends last year. His brother-in-law, Devon Hutchins, told Isaac and Kelsey about the lines his Trailer of Woody’s Shave Ice encouraged on a small platform on Lost Creek Boulevard last summer.
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Kruewan Chiangthuek had been cooking food from his local Thailand in Austin for thirteen years, the last six of his caravan, Thai Kruefha in East Austin, when a friend at a Muay Thai gym in Lost Creek told him about the same little lot. Capital of Texas Highway (Loop 360).
Sammataro and Thai Kruefha joined Woody’s at the end of the year, which gave Lost Creek one of the area’s densest restaurant collections.
Flores and Hutchins returned to Austin (she grew up in Lost Creek and lived here for over a decade before moving to New York) for her new business. Kelsey started an in-house design company and Flores is the wife of Western Grace Brandy.
But Flores couldn’t get rid of his love of pizza. He worked at Home Slice Pizza from 2008 to 2011, and the owners of Austin’s largest New York-style pizzeria took him to some of the mythical places on the Big Apple (Lombardi’s, Di Fara, L
After running bars in New York for nearly a decade, Flores continued his reputation for pizza and opened Sammataro, named after his wife’s Sicilian family.
Flores sought to follow his concept of the best pizza, built on a forged but not cursed basis in New York, so he asked his chef friend Townsend Smith to marry Sammataro. pandemic of baked sourdy bread in Connecticut.
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Last fall, the band introduced a pop-up promoting cakes. from a friend’s driveway east of Austin and now operates Sammataro from the Lost Creek lot.
Flores undergoes its dough to an incruse fermentation process of 48 to 72 hours in an external store, then cooks the 16-inch pizzas in a low-dome wood-burning oven, fulfilling its dream of a pizza with an edge with a crisp base that provides just the right amount of movement and traction. The fledgling pizzaiolo says the flavor is designed as a tribute to his two favorite New York locations, Lucali in Brooklyn and Scarr’s Pizza in the East Village.
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The cakes achieve an exact balance of cheese, sauce and dough, which makes them super ground and leaves you desperate for a nap.
The trailer features about 10 ingredients that, at $3-4 the soft drink, can temporarily increase the value of the fundamental pizza to $21, but after adding pepperoni with a strong bite to a salty Spanish pizza and anchovies and roasted shallots (for a pizza edition of a very popular pasta dish discovered in the New York Times recipe pages) to another , I also loved the texture. and flavor profiles to locate me arguing with the value of pizzas that can feed everyone. adults.
The reception in the domain has been so strong that Flores and his partners are already checking the food yard on Bee Cave Road, and Flores is also making plans to open an operation in East Austin, which is arguing vaguely but enthusiastically.
Those who lived in Austin before Google and Facebook probably remembered Gene Kobboon’s downtown restaurant, Thai Passion, in the historic building attached to the One America Center.
Chiangthuek cooked there for seven years after arriving from his Khon Kaen in Thailand’s Isan region. When Thai Passion closed its doors in 2014 after a nearly 20-year run, Chiangthuek opened Thai Kruefha, a food trailer that operated for six years. kenny Dorham’s backyard on East 11th Street.
Her friend, who directed her to the box next to muay Thai’s former gymnasium (now home of Westlake’s Taekwondo Academy) may have a long career in real estate advertising. There are very few Thai features in the domain, and Lost Creek Domain is the home of a captive audience who is forced to face the road if you are looking for wonderful food from scratch.
Despite its Isanian roots, Chiangthuek’s truck avoids the hot, herbaceous flavors of this region for a list of dishes more related to central Thailand.
The yellow curry ($11) shines with the turmeric characteristic of the spice mixture, with notes of ginger and coriander swollen through the rounded sweetness of the coconut in a curry sprinkled with potato, carrot and onion. and noodle dishes in the trailer) includes a selection of bird (best with yellow curry), veal, red meats or tofu, with shrimp costing $3 more.
I ordered those plump shrimps on a fair pad ($10), the giant flat rice noodles topped with umami and colorful with their hot, smoky addition to the wok with tender broccoli buds. The egg on this dish remained flexible but grilled, so it also came to the ubiquitous pad Thai dish ($10), the tangle of fine noodles joined in combination through a sour sauce and crispy chopped cabbage relief and a complete crushed peanut shower.
All dishes had an intensity of flavor and freshness that is lost in Thai cuisines at maximum volume. These welcome commandos from the house kitchen were also given on a plate of fried rice with pineapple meat ($11) sprinkled with carrots, peas and juicy cubes. fruit on a plate of rice illuminated with yellow curry. This, like other Thai Kruefha selections, is the kind of dish that deserves to make Lost Creek the envy of other residential neighborhoods that crave more diversity in their dining options, and deserve to allow birthing facilities to rest.
Sammataro: 1158 Lost Creek Blvd. 512-6nine0-1547, sammataro. pizza Order without appointment, call and order online to have an outdoor picnic table on site Time: 3:30 p. m. until 8:30 p. m Wednesday Thursday; 3:30 p. m. , at nine o’clock on Friday night; noon at nine o’clock on Saturday and Sunday night.
Thai Kruefha: 1158 Lost Creek Blvd. 512-547-7281, facebook. com/thaikruefha. Do not go and place available on-call orders, and picnic table on site. Hours: noon to 8 p. m. Tuesday to Sunday.