EMMER & RYE OPENS A TEXAS MEGA-MARKET WITH FOUR NEW RESTAURANTS IN SAN ANTONIO

Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group, the company behind some of Austin’s best restaurants, is opening a new market with several restaurants in San Antonio. Pullman Market will open at 221 Newell Avenue in the Pearl development starting on Tuesday, April 23.

The new giant market — a total of 40,000 square feet — will include four new restaurants, two of which will open at the same time. Those include:

Fife & Farro: a casual no-reservations-required, family-friendly restaurant with house-made wood-fired pizza and pastas. The name is similar to Emmer & Rye’s, referring to red fife wheat and the hulled wheat respectively. Its hours are from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and then from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
Mezquité: a Mexican restaurant focusing on foods from the Sonora state. The name refers to the tree, whose wood is used for smoking and cooking. There’s also a mezcal bar part of the space called Mezcaleria. Its hours are from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Tuesday and then from 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday

Pullman’s other two restaurants will open later in the spring of 2024. Those are:

Isidore: a higher-end reservations-required restaurant with an oft-changing New Texan menu. The name has Greek origins.
Nicosi: a dessert bar from co-partner and pastry chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph. The intimate space specifically bans cellphones. The name also has Greek roots.

Elsewhere, the Pullman Market will include a bunch of very-fast-casual-takeout restaurants serving burgers, tacos, ceviche, coffee, and ice cream. As for the actual market areas, Pullman will have a butcher shop, a fishmonger area, and a bakery. There will be wine, beer, retail freshly made pastas, and Texas produce. Its general hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and then from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The press release compares Pullman to American-based Italian market chain Eataly (which does have a location up in Dallas). The space was designed by Austin architecture firms Clayton Korte and Baldridge Architects with interior design firm Joel Mozersky. There will be indoor and outdoor spaces.

Behind Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group are co-partners chef Kevin Fink, pastry chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph, chef Berty Richter, Alicynn Fink, and Rand Egbert. Fink and Tavel Bristol-Joseph opened Emmer & Rye the restaurant in Austin’s Rainey Street district in 2015. They followed that with fast-casual downtown food hall restaurant Henbit in 2018 (which closed earlier this March). Then there are sibling spots the higher-end live-fire restaurant Hestia and tapas bar Kalimotxo in downtown in 2019.

And then Richter, who had been operating Israeli food truck Hummus Among Us, restaurant TLV in the same Henbit food hall address, joined the company in 2019. And under him, the group opened fast-casual Israel restaurant TLV in the same Henbit food hall that year (which also closed in March 2023). Then they opened Mediterranean restaurants Ladino in San Antonio in 2022 and Ezov in April 2023. And then also, they opened Eater Austin’s Eater Award-winning Caribbean restaurant Canje in October 2021.

Update, April 23, 2024: This article, originally published on December 14, 2023, has been updated with new opening dates and projected opening dates, additional details, and photographs.

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