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Oasthouse Gastropub: Not Your Ordinary Pub Food

Written by Elaine Heng | March 9, 2016

Oasthouse Gastropub interior

With the openings of all the new restaurants in the Lake Travis area, Oasthouse Gastropub will have a good chance of making it on your list as one of the newest local favorites.

Oasthouse Gastropub serves up locally sourced, melt-in-your-mouth, upscale pub food. As soon as you walk up to the joint, you’ll be greeted by warm smiles and clean cut staff members.

The aesthetic details of the restaurant are designed tastefully chic — welcoming, cozy, and elegant. You will take notice of the re-purposed wood tables and Edison light bulbs floating above the dining floor. The view through a wall of glass allows you to see all of the action taking place in the kitchen.

Oasthouse Gastropub kitchen view

You may be completely floored by the entire operation, as it is a big step above the site formerly occupied by Highlights Gametime Grill. You could say this rightfully so as the owners, brothers Amir and Ali Hajimaleki, reign another highly successful restaurant in South Austin — District Kitchen + Cocktails.

A sampling of the menu at Oasthouse

Just three months young, Oasthouses’ menu is chock-full of dishes that will sometimes rotate in (or out), depending on what’s in season. You can literally taste the freshness of the farm-to-table concepts.

Amir H. is the head chef and will tell you himself, the curation of some of his favorite signature dishes.

Let’s dive into a variety of German influenced pub fare and craft cocktails that are being served at the Oasthouse Gastropub.

The wild cut calamari is phenomenal. From first glance, it may appear to be just fried calamari — in fact, it’s like eating pad thai … but with calamari, bean sprouts, peanuts, micro greens, and boiled egg yolk crumbles. Talk about a taste bud explosion.

Oasthouse Gastropub appetizer

The carnitas poutine + egg (brunch item) is another one of those wildly flavor-filled appetizers. In this appetizer you will find perfectly tender carnitas, sunny side up egg, house-smoked bacon gravy, Texas goat cheese, and micro cilantro over house-cut fries.

Oasthouse Gastropub salad

The bangers + mash are a house favorite. You’ll find the house pork and ribeye banger atop sweet potato mash, bacon bourbon mustardo, brown gravy, and crunchy onion strings to complete the mix.

Oasthouse Gastropub appetizer 2

The bacon beignets brunch bites are not exactly what you’d find in New Orleans. Instead, they’re dusted with cinnamon sugar, served with a side of real maple syrup — none of that processed sugary stuff.

Oasthouse Gastropub bread

The truffle prosciutto bruschetta brunch bite packs in the most delicate flavors onto freshly baked (and delivered) bread from a little bakery in Marble Falls. You’ll bite into house made ricotta, arugula, medjool dates, local honey drops, and truffle oil.

Oasthouse Gastropub appetizer 3

The shackshuka is the perfect thing to order on a cool and dreary day. Served from a small cast iron skillet, dip the french bread that comes with your order into a savory mix of two eggs poached in spiced tomato ragout, sliced english banger, feta cheese, and cilantro micro greens.

Oasthouse Gastropub dinner 2

The ipa pork + spaetzle dinner entree is a truly melt-in-your-mouth braised pork cheek with a Bucket Head IPA glaze atop sweet potato spaetzle, english peas, sage, pickled onions and green tomatoes.

Oasthouse Gastropub dinner

And of course, who can live on without dessert?

The cookies and milk come with chocolate chip, peanut butter bacon, chai snickerdoodle, and cookie dough with a side of cinnamon mocha milk.

The chocolate duet gives you a pair of tastefully crafted desserts. One is the 512 Pecan Porter chocolate cake with a salted toffee glaze. The second is a sundae ice cream with pecan crumbles and a housemade chocolate syrup that is poured on your sundae, table side.

Oasthouse Gastropub dessert

Craft cocktails at Oasthouse Gastropub

The bar slings creative and quirky signature cocktails like the good morning — tastes like the cereal milk that’s left to drink after you polish off a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Oasthouse Gastropub cocktails

The morning after is reminiscent of a hazy morning after a night of heavy drinking — imagine refreshing orange juice with the aromas of hot coffee being brewed.

Oasthouse Gastropub cocktails 2

The frozen irish coffee is a dangerous cocktail (not literally speaking)! It’s super smooth and refreshing. Picture a kid with a frozen chocolate milkshake … except yours tastes like coffee delightfully blended with cinnamon syrup, coconut, and condensed milk for an ultimately sweet, adult beverage.

Oasthouse Gastropub more cocktails

Stop by Oasthouse Gastropub for lunch or dinner any day of the week. And Saturday or Sunday for their boast worthy brunch menu that begins at 9:30am.

If that wasn’t enough to get you out of your seat, let’s just say that the honesty and dedication that goes into the food and drink at Oasthouse Gastropub should.

The words of the Chef Amir:

“I care about what goes into my body, I care about where my food comes from, and I care about what I serve to my guests.”

Oasthouse Gastropub in the Trails at 620

Address: 8300 N FM 620, Austin, TX 78726
Phone:(737) 222-5779

About Elaine Heng

Elaine is an Austin, TX based writer. She is making leaps to become a work from home freelancer with her writing, and many other talents including photography and crafting. You can read her pieces focusing on cooking & dining, travel, and as of recent, her journey on becoming mommy on her blog at breatheeatlive.com

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Comments

  1. Jack says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:25 am

    Location?

  2. Kirk says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:26 am

    Love the laketravislifestyle website and updates like this. Please include the address of the restaurant and their website next time.

    Thanks!

    • Todd Hower says

      March 9, 2016 at 9:58 am

      You got it Kirk! Thanks for the feedback 🙂

      -Todd
      Founder + Editor of LTL

  3. Marilyn says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Where is this restaurant located? I don’t see a link to their restaurant
    Thanks

  4. Mary Carlisle says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:42 am

    What is the address of this restaurant?

  5. Todd Hower says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:53 am

    It looks like we forgot to include the address and y’all would like that info. Here you go 🙂

    Oasthouse Gastropub in the Trails at 620
    Address: 8300 N FM 620, Austin, TX 78726
    Phone:(737) 222-5779

    I also added it at the bottom of the post with a link to their site. Thanks for letting us know!

    -Todd
    Founder + Editor of LTL

  6. Rachel says

    March 9, 2016 at 10:43 am

    Oasthouse is marginal at best, and not in Lake Travis “area”…north of 4 Points. How much is Amir paying you? Featured at least twice now. I guess the restaurant needs all the help it can get. UNFOLLOWING LTL. 🙁

    • Todd Hower says

      March 9, 2016 at 11:49 am

      Hi there Rachel,

      As with any restaurant, not everyone is going to like it and that’s okay. I have eaten at Oasthouse and think it’s pretty darn good, so we have a different opinion about it.

      We also have a different opinion about the Lake Travis area. I consider the boundary a little more north of Four Points and all the way up to Anderson Mill — call me crazy 🙂

      From the time that I launched LTL more than 3 years ago, I have not collected a single dime from anyone for an article that has been written and published on the site. So the answer to your question is — $0 — Amir has not paid me any money to be featured on LTL. If I change how I’m doing things in the future — like collecting money for a featured article — I will always disclose that in the article.

      Thanks for following us up to this point. I’m bummed that you’re leaving 🙁

      -Todd
      Founder + Editor of LTL

    • Amir says

      March 9, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      HI Rachel,

      Im sorry you had a bad experience at Oasthouse. I would love to have the opportunity to make it up to youor at least know where we missed the mark on your experience. My email is [email protected] if you do mind sharing your experience with me.

      Todd,

      I want to thank your team for the great review, i would love to meet you sometime. Next time you are in please ask for me.

      Thank you again,

      Amir Hajimaleki
      Chef/Owner
      Oasthouse Gastropub
      Locally Sourced – Chef Driven – Craft Bar

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