Salt & Time Softly Opens; Super Bowl Drinking Game

EAST SIDE — The much-awaited Salt & Time Butcher Shop and Salumeria brick-and-mortar will soft open tomorrow, owner Ben Runkle tells Eater Austin: "We'll be open tomorrow and Sunday from 11-5. It'll be an open house, soft opening kind if thing. We'll have a limited, but still abundant, selection of products." [Eaterwire]

NORTH LOOP — This Sunday, The Tigress will be a Super Bowl-free zone, according to owner Pam Pritchard: "I like football, but in The Tigress conversation is what we do whilst drinking." [Eaterwire]

DOWNTOWN — On the other hand, if you're looking for a Super Bowl party but not a sports bar party, The Bonneville will start an all-night happy hour at 4:30, featuring $4 Buffalo Trace Manhattans. [Eaterwire]

BEERWIRE — And if you're just going to get drunk at home during the football, Austin's Bitch Beer blog has a drinking game all ready to go. [Bitch Beer]

"Lordy Lordy our name sure looks good on the door." [Photo: Salt & Time/Facebook]