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Austin’s Storied Driskill Grill Returns, Now With April Bloomfield at the Helm

April Bloomfield brings Texas beef, dry-aged steaks and chef-driven sides to the newly revamped Austin steakhouse inside the historic Driskill Hotel.

MML Hospitality will debut its revamp of Austin’s historic Driskill Grill and Bar today (Monday, May 18), with a deep focus on Texas beef alongside an all-over-the-map cooking sensibility from chef April Bloomfield.

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“It always comes back to what’s in Austin, what’s the market,” MML co-founder Larry McGuire tells Observer. “It seems like the capital of Texas should have an independent, grand, badass steakhouse. It’s never really had that. We’ve wanted to do that for a long time.”

“Procuring Texas beef was a No. 1 priority,” Bloomfield tells Observer. 

So at a restaurant space that dates back to 1930, inside a hotel that debuted in 1886, the Driskill Grill is serving Dean & Peeler beef that’s raised, finished and dry-aged in Texas while Bloomfield nods at everything from legendary New York steakhouses to her British cooking roots to a recent trip to Egypt.

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