Restaurateur Tips; Tadashi Opens; Micklethwait Dinner; Lenoir Pig Roast

OPENING ADVICE — The Austin Business Journal talks to five Austin restaurant veterans, including Sharon Watkins of Chez Zee and Hoover Alexander of Hoover's Cooking, about what it takes to run a successful restaurant. The article contains 17 'tips,' including this one from Watkins: "Don't believe your own press. You are only as good as your last meal." [ABJ]

OPENING ALERT — Tadashi, a new Japanse restaurant in the Hill Country Galleria, is soft open tonight, and offering 30% off their food menu. [Eaterwire]

ZOMG BBQ — The Austin Barbecue Society is hosting a dinner by Tom Micklethwait of Micklethwait Barbecue on Monday, November 18. Tickets are $35, and the dinner will be "acorn-themed." [Eaterwire]

SOUTH FIRST — Lenoir will be hosting a pig roast Sunday, November 17. As they put it, "We've got a fire. . . We have a pig. And we have cases of Burgundy. It sort of explains itself, doesn't it?" Admission will be $40 in advance, and kids under 10 eat free. [Eaterwire]
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