New Swan Dive Drinks; Wood's Hard On Soft Opening

DOWNTOWN -- Swan Dive, the "beautiful illegitimate child of East Side Show Room and Barbarella," has announced a "reenvisioned live entertainment format" complete with a new drink menu featuring classic cocktails. [Eaterwire]

DOWNTOWN -- Now that TRACE's new chef Ben Hightower has moved into the kitchen, check out their new menu online to see what he's got on offer. [Eaterwire]

????????? -- Some restaurant made the terrible mistake of letting Austin Chronicle food editor Virginia B. Wood through its softly opened doors last weekend. Wood won't say where she went, only that she had an awful time at the horribly unprepared location at which she says "should never have been" in the first place. [Austin Chronicle]

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