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  • Bridget Dunlap and her team ready to cut the ribbon.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • With golden shovels they break ground for Container Bar.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Plans for the new Container Bar.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Architects and designers talk over the plans at Clive Bar.
    Photo by Jessica Pages

  • Clive Bar was next, and sports warm, wood-wrapped walls, sassy all-whitefurniture from the old Peacock Lounge and a truly stupendous iron and glasschandelier made out of old Patron Tequila bottles
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Lustre Pearl was the first bar Bridget completed in the Rainey Street District,and it featured an instant hit-maker: a giant backyard full of fun seating, hulahoops and ping pong
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Lustre Pearl's dilapidated charm and aesthetics create an inviting andinteresting atmosphere
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • The all-white furniture in Clive Bar creates a contrast between the dark woodwalls, making for one dynamic and inviting space
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Bar 96 is the most recent bar from Bridget and has a modern, youthful exteriorfull of warm, red, color-blocking paint
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • The brightly-painted exterior of Bar 96 faces Cesar Chavez and serves as avisual sign post that this is a bar district unlike anything else in Austin
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Using old shipping containers, Bridget's next -- and last -- bar project for theRainey Street District will be the Container Bar
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Ambitious, formidable, intimidating and awesome, the Container Bar will be acrazy cool addition to the Austin bar scene
    Photo by Bill Baker
  • Without an ounce of design experience in her background, Bridget Dunlap used anarsenal full of raw talent and lots of guts to completely change the look ofseveral old houses on Rainey Street into wildly popular bars
    Photo by Bill Baker

  • Iba, owner of Cazamance
    Photo by Stefani Spandau
  • Cazamance located at 96 Rainey Street, just across from Clive Bar in the RaineyDistrict.
    Photo by Stefani Spandau
  • A chicken dish from The Flying Carpet.
  • The Flying Carpet found on Gibson and South Congress.
  • A map of Africa with Senegal and Morocco highlighted.

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