Malarkey Makes The Media Rounds; Clive Bar Sued

RAINEY STREET — The father of a woman killed by Texas legislative aide Gabrielle Nestande in a hit-and-run crash two years ago is suing both Nestande and Clive Bar, one of the places Nestande had been drinking the night of the incident. [KVUE]

DOWNTOWN — Swift's Attic pastry chef Callie Speer talks to Serious Eats about her sort of unintentional, self-made career as a pastry chef, adding that she's "not really that into sweet things." [Serious Eats]

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT — Everything's coming up Brian Malarkey, the California Top Chef veteran whose Searsucker restaurant soft opened last night in the former Maria Maria space downtown. The Statesman's social column and Fed Man Walking both have interviews with the sidways-chapeau'd chef. [Austin360/Fed Man Walking]

DOWNTOWN — Here's a recipe for tortilla soup from La Condesa chef Rene Ortiz. [Food & Wine]

[Photo: Clive Bar/Facebook]