Grounds for celebration

Austin coffee shop spills the beans on boozy new location in Domain Northside

Houndstooth Coffee will soon perk up Domain Northside's Rock Rose district.

Rendering courtesy of Houndstooth Coffee

This fall, North Austinites will have a whole new reason to wake up. According to a release, caffeinated mini-chain Houndstooth Coffee will be opening its fourth Austin location in the Rock Rose district at Domain Northside.

Located a few steps away from Sway and Tarka Indian Kitchen, the new cafe will be an evolution of the company’s previous stores. Coffee and espresso drinks will, of course, remain a focus. Houndstooth is known for being coffee obsessive, with a devotion to the best beans and a training program for baristas that keeps them abreast of the latest buzzy trends.

But the shop is adding a different kind of buzz to its North Austin location. Houndstooth added beer, wine, and cocktails to the mix shortly after opening a third location at 2823 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in January. The Rock Rose location will follow suit with similar beverage options.

The mixed drink menu is still in development, but a company rep tells CultureMap that it will have much the same character as the menu at Jettison, the sister bar to Houndstooth that opened in Dallas in October 2016. That menu combines classic cocktails, house specialties heavily using mezcal and tequila, rotating seasonal drinks, and experimental cocktails exploring new flavors.

The design of the Rock Rose shop will also take some cues from Jettison. While general contractor Chioco Development and interior designer Kasey McCarty will work within the warm, minimalist footprint established by the first location on North Lamar Boulevard, they also incorporated new elements to provide space for customer interaction. A little cheeriness is provided from rainbow tiles, a touch borrowed from Dallas’ Walnut Hill location.

Since owner Sean Henry opened the first Houndstooth in 2010, the coffee nerd favorite has branched out to six locations spread across Dallas and Austin.

Interim no more

Rodney Terry named Longhorn basketball head coach after successful March Madness run

Rodney Terry, interim coach for Texas Men's Basketball

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Rodney Terry’s wait has finally ended. And on his birthday, no less.

The erstwhile “interim” head coach of the Texas Longhorns’ men’s basketball team has officially been tabbed to run the program just one day after his club was eliminated from the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament. He’s set to sign a five-year contract worth $3 million per season and will be formally introduced at a press conference on Tuesday, March 28.

Terry began the season as an assistant under then head coach Chris Beard before the latter was suspended by the university after being arrested for assault of his fiancée back in December 2022. Once the Angleton native ascended to the helm, he provided a steadying presence in guiding a talented team to a 16-7 record over the remainder of the regular season en route to a second-place finish in the Big 12, with all but two of the losses coming against top-25 opponents.

During that stretch, many began to wonder when he would be officially promoted to head coach, and the outcry only grew as The Sporting News named Terry its “Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year” on March 8 before the Longhorns proceeded to run the table in the conference tournament. The Horns’ deepest March Madness run in 15 years only solidified the Terry’s hold on the job. While Texas’ athletic director Chris Del Conte has a policy of not negotiating coaching contracts during the season, he wasted no time in removing the “interim” tag from Terry’s title once the season concluded.

The 55-year-old has spent much of his life in Austin. He played his college ball at St. Edward’s University before beginning his coaching career as an assistant there in 1990. He would serve as the head coach at James Bowie High School for the following three years. The coaching carousel would land him at several other stops before bringing him back to UT Austin as an assistant to Rick Barnes from 2002 to 2011. Terry departed to head up the Fresno State and UTEP programs over the next decade before returning to UT Austin as an assistant in 2021.

This time, he’s looking to stay a while.