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Spaghetti Warehouse

Submitted by clex on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 9:20pm. Restaurants

Spaghetti Warehouse - that place (for me anyway) that I never went to in over 30 years of living and dining in Austin. It was, after all, a holdover from the 70's: a funky San Francisco manufactured experience with 2nd rate food and even worse decor. All of that being said, SW was a cornerstone of downtown Austin restaurants. It saw the rise and fall of Mezzaluna, oversaw the flourish of Sullivan's and Cedar Street (and the entire 4th Street weird mix of Hip/Gay: Oilcan Harry's? across from Fado?), and survived being the next door neighbor to the Boathouse (and better? Worse?) the Bitter End.

The current vitality of downtown Austin has an immeasurable debt to pay to those that hung in there and tried, tried, tried to make downtown a destination years ago. That's much easier now and I hope that the current venues pay homage to the now defunct Spaghetti Warehouse after all these years.

BTW: who will bet against me that Lance ultimately owns that entire property?

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Spaghetti Warehouse

Submitted by TejasMike on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 7:41am.

Went there a few timees-It was kind of expensive for those days when you were a college student and living on a budget-But they had great food. They had one in Sugar Land but it closed about 5 years ago

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