What's New On Windsor Road, And What's Changed At The Pool, In Tarrytown This Summer

Walk east on Windsor from Exposition on a Saturday morning and the block reads differently than it did a year ago. The Pak Mail is still there. Austin Pets Alive is still there. But between them, at 3110 Windsor, a set of doors that spent much of last year dark now opens onto wood-block tables, live plants, and jazz at low volume. The Tarrytown restaurant scene has been described for decades in the negative, as the neighborhood that had Mozart's and Maudie's and a Starbucks on Exposition and not a great deal else. That description is quietly becoming inaccurate.

This is a look at what has actually shifted in the neighborhood since spring, aimed at the person who lives here and wants to know which of the summer routines still work, which ones now come with a caveat, and where the newest short walks and lunches are.

The Windsor Road corner is doing something new

The most concrete change is Community Kitchen and Taproom, which opened this spring in Tarrytown at 3110 Windsor Rd. after co-owners Marlon Rison and Ericka Dotson spent five years building a following as Community Vegan, a food truck operating out of a brightly painted 1973 Winnebago on East 11th Street. The menu is a plant-based read on Southern comfort food. Fried chicken is made with oyster mushrooms, nuggets use lion's mane, and dishes like surf and turf combine plant-based steak and shrimp. For a neighborhood whose long-running lunch options ran through Tex-Mex, tacos, and pizza, an interior full of mushroom fried chicken is a genuine reset.

A few practical notes for locals: current hours run Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 9 pm, Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 9 pm, and Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm with brunch served from 11 am to 3 pm, and the restaurant is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The restaurant's website cautions that the address isn't well represented on Google Maps yet, but it's correct; the storefront sits between Pak Mail and Austin Pets Alive, facing Windsor Road.

Two doors down the block, in the sense of food follows food, Bésame, a spot for ice cream, coffee, and other treats, opened a second food truck in Tarrytown with a soft opening in early April. Between the two, the Windsor corridor now supports a lunch-and-dessert loop that didn't exist a year ago.

Neither opening is a solo event. Read against the older baseline, they belong with the ongoing evolution of the 2401 Winsted Ln. taco park, where Littlefield's Coffee + Tacos brought Medici Roasting and Veracruz All Natural to the west side of Mopac, its name a nod to the open-air concept and the land's former owner Clyde Littlefield, the one-time University of Texas football coach, and with the persistent draw of Pool Burger next to Deep Eddy, Flo's wine bar and pizzeria, Goldy's at Littlefield's, and Quince on the lake. What used to be a two-address dining map is now closer to a dozen.

Deep Eddy is running on a different calendar this year

If you swim at Deep Eddy, your schedule changed in April and most people still adjust their week around the old one.

2026 Deep Eddy operating notes

• Seasonal fees resumed March 14.
• Reopened for the season April 13 after a weather-delayed repaint.
• Closed every Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance beginning April 21.
• Closed June 22 through June 28 for repairs to a fill inlet valve.
• Residents $5, non-residents $9.

The Tuesday closure is the one worth internalizing. Deep Eddy Pool at 401 Deep Eddy Ave. reopened Monday, April 13, 2026, after the completion of annual spring cleaning and maintenance, with the delayed reopening a result of the repainting schedule shifting due to rainy weather. Moving forward, Deep Eddy Pool will be closed every Tuesday for cleaning starting April 21. That is a permanent-feeling change from the seven-day pattern longtime lap swimmers grew up with. The pool was also closed Monday, June 22, through Sunday, June 28, for repairs to a fill inlet valve that broke earlier this year.

For Tuesday laps, the city's own guidance is to try the year-round alternates. Austin residents and visitors can visit other year-round pools across the city including Big Stacy, Bartholomew, Springwoods, Colony Park and Barton Springs during Deep Eddy Pool's closure, and Big Stacy and Colony Park pools offer free entry year-round. In practice, most Tarrytown swimmers will just walk the loop, wait a day, or drive to Barton. The point is planning around it. You can find current schedules on the Austin Parks and Recreation Deep Eddy page.

The pool itself hasn't changed. Deep Eddy is a historic, man-made swimming pool and is the oldest swimming pool in Texas; A.J. Eilers, Sr. bought the land surrounding the swimming hole in 1915 and built the concrete pool, and cold springs that rose from the river banks continue to fill the pool today. The rituals still hold. Only the calendar has moved.

Muny's summer still starts in July

The other Tarrytown institution that runs on a summer clock is the golf course at 2901 Enfield, and this year, as every year since the 1940s, it hosts the tournament that has defined July in this neighborhood.

Each summer, Muny hosts Texas's oldest amateur tournament, the Firecracker Open, which dates back to the 1940s and boasts Crenshaw and Kite as past champs. If you have ever wondered why the parking on Enfield tightens up around Independence Day weekend, that is why. The tournament pulls players and spectators onto a course that does over 70,000 rounds a year, according to Scotty Sayers, who is a co-chair with Ben Crenshaw on The Muny Conservancy initiative that was launched a number of years ago to preserve the course.

Two things are worth understanding as a resident who walks or drives past Muny every day. The first is what it actually is, historically. When it opened in 1924, it became the first public golf course in Austin, and in 1950, it became the first course south of the Mason-Dixon line to desegregate. The second is the ongoing question of its future. The 141-acre course sits on land the City of Austin has leased from the University of Texas since 1937 as part of the greater Brackenridge Tract, and has been subject to ongoing controversy due to the recommended termination of the current term by the University of Texas in 2019. The Conservancy's work continues in that context, which is why the Firecracker Open reads a little differently each summer than it did the one before.

If you have never actually played it, weekday tee times run modestly by Austin standards. Rates and reservation windows are posted at Austin's GolfATX site for Lions Municipal.

The rest of the summer rhythm, in short

A few standing routines that don't often make the citywide lists but that shape the everyday inside 78703.

Mayfield Preserve at the top of Old Enfield. The peacocks are the draw, but the koi ponds and the palm-lined pools are the reason people who live within walking distance come back. Beautiful Mayfield Park and Preserve has origins dating back to 1909 when Mrs. Allison Mayfield purchased the 23 acres of land to create a summer getaway retreat, and in 1971 Mayfield passed away, leaving the acreage to the city of Austin to be used as a park.

Laguna Gloria on Lake Austin Boulevard. Back in 2013, the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation awarded The Contemporary Austin a $9 million grant to help the longtime Austin community art museum create a Sculpture Park at the historic Laguna Gloria building. Late-day light on the sculpture trail is the reliable move.

Walsh Boat Landing for anyone with a paddleboard in the garage. Walsh Landing is a public boat ramp on Lake Austin overlooking the Tom Miller Dam, and the surrounding area is home to perennially popular restaurant Hula Hut and the well-liked Mozart's Coffee, which offers a festive holiday lights show each year.

Tarrytown Park and Reed Park for the everyday. Reed Park offers central Austin residents a swimming pool, a playground, walking trails, picnic tables, and a barbecue pit, and Tarrytown Park, often called "Triangle Park" for its shape, offers a baseball field, playscape, and a creek for exploring. When Deep Eddy is closed on a Tuesday, Reed is the pool most Tarrytown families walk to instead.

Tarrytown Pharmacy, still on Exposition, still worth the errand. Residents' homegrown pride for their area is apparent in everything from their neatly kept lawns to their penchant for patronizing longtime local businesses like Tarrytown Pharmacy, opened in 1941.

The through line

The reason all of this is worth writing down in one place is that the description of Tarrytown as a beautiful residential enclave with nowhere much to eat has quietly stopped being true, while two of its most beloved public amenities are running on newly complicated schedules. Windsor Road has a plant-based Southern kitchen it did not have last summer. Deep Eddy has a permanent Tuesday closure it did not have last summer. Muny has another Firecracker Open under the shadow of an unresolved lease. The neighborhood is not changing character. It is adding footnotes, and the residents who read them will get the most out of the season.

If you are curious how these shifts are influencing the character of Tarrytown as a place to live and hold property over the long term, Anna Morrison Lee is available for a private consultation. Schedule a private consultation to talk through what the neighborhood's next chapter looks like from the inside.