Out in Salado — about 150 miles northeast of San Antonio — the restaurant on the historic Stagecoach Inn has been serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner since 1947, minus a two 12 months break for renovations starting in June 2023. Now, the workforce has opened their doorways as soon as once more, welcoming diners again from Central Texas and past.
In keeping with a press launch, Stagecoach has partnered with Monument Group in Georgetown (house owners of Monument Cafe and El Monumento) to “breathe new life into the celebrated restaurant.”
With the reopening, company can count on reimagined variations of previous favorites — and that does imply previous. A number of the traditional dishes, just like the well-known hushpuppies, had been on the menu when the restaurant first opened almost 80 years in the past.
“The notorious hushpuppies got here into existence due to the necessity to purchase time for [co-owner Dion Van Bibber] to run to the grocery store and get the substances wanted for every ticket as there was no menu, and company ordered no matter dish they fancied at that second,” says a timeline on the inn’s web site.
The Stagecoach Inn’s restaurant first opened its doorways in 1947. Picture courtesy of Stagecoach Inn
Different gadgets embody a creamy goat cheese dip, a fried hen salad, grilled bone-in pork chop with peach chutney, and seasonally-inspired and weekend-only dishes like prime rib. The Stagecoach Restaurant additionally encompasses a bar with a wine, cocktail, and beer menu.
Eating on the Stagecoach Restaurant is a novel expertise, not only for the meals, however the historical past.
The Stagecoach Inn itself was established again in 1860 as a lodge, welcoming wagon pioneers and folk pulling up in horse-drawn carriages. Greater than 160 years later, the Stagecoach Inn is the second-oldest continuously-operating lodge in Texas, and although the rooms have definitely been modernized and facilities like a pool and present store have been added in over time, the bones of the constructing stay the identical.
Even the newer facilities have a retro really feel.Picture courtesy of Stagecoach Inn
“The Stagecoach established itself as a welcoming relaxation cease on the Chisholm Path for weary vacationers over 160 years in the past and that southern hospitality continues right this moment,” mentioned Monument Group’s Rusty Winkstern within the launch. “We need to honor that legacy with real hospitality and crave-worthy food and drinks, persevering with thetradition as a group hub for guests previous and new.”
The Stagecoach Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Wednesdays by Sundays from 11:30 am to eight pm.
