Editor's note: The top Austin news of the week is full of openings, from a long-awaited botanical cafe to Tex-Mex and sushi. Plus, a Hill Country ranch — with rumored buried treasure — hits the market. Catch up on our top stories below, then visit this guide to plan your weekend.

1. Anticipated Austin restaurant collab and botanical garden prep for debut. Austinites who regularly drive through Sunset Valley have been watching a highly anticipated project unfold since it broke ground nearly a year and a half ago. Leona Botanical Cafe & Bar will open November 11.

2. Austin Tex-Mex restaurant opens 2nd location with new cocktail lounge. An Austin-based hospitality group is opening a second location for Mama Betty's Tex-Mex, plus a new cocktail lounge next door, on November 13.

3. Austin food pantries and restaurants are helping during the SNAP pause. Millions of Texans face a gap in food assistance during the current government shutdown, and Austin-area food pantries, restaurants, and other organizations are stepping up.

4. Accessible sushi restaurant expands from South to North Austin. A little more than a year after Tancho Sushi + Sake debuted its affordable omakase in southwest Austin, a second location is opening at The Grove in Central Austin on November 12.

Simplicity is key at Tancho. Photo courtesy of Tancho Sushi

5. People say there's buried treasure at this Hill Country ranch for sale. A new $9.9 million ranch listing in the Hill Country community of Vance is rumored to include a trove of buried coins left behind from Spanish soldiers.