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Larry McGuire on Why Breaking Into Dallas Is Harder Than Buying a Hotel in New York

The MML Hospitality co-founder talks about waking up Austin’s Driskill, bringing April Bloomfield to Texas and why Clark’s Oyster Bar can be a chain.

Larry McGuire has spent the past year turning MML Hospitality into as much a hotel company as a restaurant group. In August 2025, he and his partners, Tom Moorman and Liz Lambert, bought Nine Orchard for $92 million. The 113-room hotel sits in the former Jarmulowsky Bank Building on the Lower East Side, and the deal included its restaurants, Corner Bar, Swan Room and Blue Room. It gave MML its first East Coast project. At home in Austin, McGuire took over all food and beverage at the Driskill Hotel, which dates back to 1886. With April Bloomfield, who joined MML as executive chef, he reopened the Driskill Grill as a 250-seat steakhouse modeled as much on Peter Luger and Keens as on Texas tradition. They also added a new bar, The Victorian, and the 1886 Café.

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MML now runs 32 restaurants, including six Clark’s Oyster Bars; two hotels, Nine Orchard and Hotel Saint Vincent in New Orleans; and retail shops in Austin, where it recently added Westside Market. In Dallas, where MML opened Neighborhood Sushi in June, June’s All Day follows in December, then two Swedish Hill locations and a Clark’s Oyster Bar in early 2027. McGuire is also opening the 59-key Mountain Chalet in Aspen next winter. In Austin, he’s building a 57-key hotel, members’ club and retail space at........

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