A Tarrytown Summer at Home: What Actually Changed on Your Weekly Loop

Most summers in Tarrytown feel like the last one. Same walk down to the pool, same coffee at Mozart's, same Saturday tee time. This one is different in ways small enough to miss and specific enough to matter. A Tuesday you used to swim is gone. A shuttered storefront on Windsor is open again. And the golf course at the western edge of the neighborhood is playing a longer game than most residents realize.

The pieces are not dramatic on their own. Read together, they redraw the week.

The Tuesday You Used to Have

Deep Eddy has been the neighborhood's cold-water constant since 1915, and its schedule has been stable enough that regulars build their week around it. That changed this spring. Beginning April 21, 2026, Deep Eddy Pool will be closed every Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance. The change is quiet on the city's site and easy to miss if you show up with a towel and a plan.

For anyone who treats the pool as a five-day-a-week fixture, the practical effect is simple: Tuesday is now the day to stay dry. Wednesday reopens at the usual rhythm, and the rest of the summer schedule holds. Lap swim runs the mornings, recreational swim the afternoons, and the water keeps its odd and reliable trick of staying 68 to 70 degrees all year long because it flows in from underground wells rather than from a chlorinated tank.

If you have not been in a season or two, a few details are worth carrying with you:

• The pool is the oldest swimming pool in Texas, and the bathhouse dates to the Depression-era Works Progress Administration.
• In summer months, the pool sponsors Splash Party Movie Nights, showing family films on an inflatable movie screen visible by swimmers and waders.
• Parking on Deep Eddy Avenue fills fast on weekend afternoons. If you can walk from home, you already know this. If you drive, mornings are the answer.

The Tuesday closure is a small operational fact. It also nudges the week in the direction of a different question: what do you do with the free evening?

Windsor Road Fills In

For a couple of years, the storefront at 3110 Windsor sat quiet after the Tarrytown restaurant closed. This April it reopened under a new name and a very different menu. Community Kitchen and Taproom opened this week in Tarrytown at 3110 Windsor Rd., serving plant-based versions of fried chicken, surf and turf, and barbecue plates alongside classic Southern sides. Co-owners Marlon Rison and Ericka Dotson brought the concept over from their East Eleventh food truck. Fried chicken is made with oyster mushrooms, nuggets use lion's mane, and dishes like surf and turf combine plant-based steak and shrimp.

The room reads Tarrytown in the way the neighborhood tends to absorb new tenants without changing character. Community Kitchen is the team's first brick-and-mortar, bringing its plant-based comfort food into a space designed to feel relaxed and welcoming, with live plants on wood-block tables, low lighting, and gentle jazz. Hours skew evening and weekend, which fits a Windsor Road that gets busiest after five: Community Kitchen's current hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4-9 pm, Friday and Saturdays from noon to 9 pm, and Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm. Brunch is served from 11 am to 3 pm. The restaurant is currently closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

A block away, a second Tarrytown outpost of Bésame opened in early April with ice cream and coffee out of a trailer, adding a walking-distance treat stop that the neighborhood had been routing over to Lake Austin Boulevard to find.

These are two small openings. What they do together is quietly meaningful. The Windsor corridor between Exposition and the pharmacy block now has a plausible dinner-and-dessert loop on foot, which is a rare thing to be able to say about a Central Austin neighborhood without leaving it.

A short scan of what else is worth the walk or the short drive:

• Pool Burger on Lake Austin Boulevard, the tiki-bar-and-burger-shack neighbor to Deep Eddy.
• Quince, the lakefront room with a menu that swings across cuisines.
• Mozart's Coffee on Lake Austin, still the quiet-morning answer.
• Goldy's at Littlefield's, a semi-permanent trailer with real outdoor seating.
• Flo's, a wine bar and bottle shop that has settled into the neighborhood without asking for attention.
• Tumble 22, the Nashville-style fried chicken counter for the nights you want the opposite of a plant-based menu.

One footnote for anyone who was planning around Bar Peached over on West Sixth: Bar Peached is temporarily closed while the team works on fixing up the space. A popular West Sixth Street bar is heavily damaged after a fire. On the morning of May 31, Bar Peached was largely consumed by fire, resulting in apparently total damage in the kitchen, along with flooding in the dining room and a massive hole in the roof. Not Tarrytown proper, but close enough to your Saturday plans that it deserves a mention.

Muny, Still

At the western end of the neighborhood, Lions Municipal Golf Course keeps doing what it has done for a century. In 1924, the Lions Club opened Lions Municipal, the first public golf course in the city. If you have lived here long, you already call it Muny. If you are new, that is what your neighbor will call it when they mention where they walked this morning.

Two things worth knowing this summer if Muny is going to be part of your weekly loop.

First, the Firecracker Open is on the calendar again. Each summer, Muny hosts Texas' oldest amateur tournament, the Firecracker Open, which dates back to the 1940s and boasts Crenshaw and Kite as past champs. Even if you do not play, the tournament reshapes tee-time availability for a stretch of the summer. Call ahead if a specific morning matters.

Second, and more consequentially, the course occupies a piece of ground that a lot of people are watching. Though Lions is owned by the city, the land is owned by the University of Texas. And this land is valuable; it's estimated in the neighborhood of $200 million. UT wants to lease the land to developers for a hefty profit. The city, residents, golfers and activists — a coalition known as Save Muny — hope to preserve it. Whether or not you swing a club, the outcome of that lease will shape the west end of Tarrytown for a generation. It is the only piece of undeveloped, centrally located green space of that scale left in this part of the city.

For the summer, that debate is background. The course is open, weekday rates run around $30, and the grass, in the words of one Legend of Lions, always grows toward the setting sun.

The Exposition Errand Loop

The block that most defines the neighborhood's day-to-day is still Exposition between Windsor and Westover, and its anchors have not moved. Tarrytown Pharmacy sits at 2727 Exposition and has been on that corner since 1941, still run by the Newberry family across three generations. Tarrytown Texaco at 2400 Exposition has been in the Newberry family since the early 1980s and still sponsors PTA fundraisers at Casis, O. Henry, and Austin High. The barbershop at 2415, the salon next door, and Tarrytown Nails & Spa across the street round out an errand loop you can finish in an hour on foot.

None of that is news. What is worth noticing is that this block has stayed the same while much of Central Austin has not. The value of a Tarrytown address has always leaned on that specific stability, and the small changes on Windsor Road this year do not disrupt it. They extend it.

The Week, Reshuffled

Put it all together and the Tarrytown summer routine looks something like this, at least until Deep Eddy's schedule shifts again in the fall.

The point is not the grid. The point is that a neighborhood people describe as unchanging has quietly changed enough this year to be worth a fresh look, even from residents. Two new places to eat. One less day at the pool. One long-running conversation about what happens to the course at the west end. The rest, mostly, holds.

That combination, small updates layered onto genuine continuity, is why Tarrytown holds its value in a way most Central Austin neighborhoods cannot. If you already live here, you know that instinctively. If you are thinking about the next chapter of your life on this block, whether that means a renovation, a move within the neighborhood, or a quiet conversation about what your home might be worth, Leah Petri and The Petri Group are the neighbors to call. Receive Exclusive Listings in Your Inbox.