Famous Wimberly Attraction Set for Revival

Big Tasty Hospitality has plans to bring a once-thriving restaurant back to life and add a boutique hotel and grocery store. The Cypress Creek Cafe in Wimberly, a small Hill Country town southwest of Austin, burned down eight years ago after serving as a popular go-to hotspot since it opened in the late 1930s. It’s been shuttered since the fire.

The developers are in the process of obtaining necessary entitlements for a project that would include a 20-room, 12,500-square-foot boutique hotel, a 3,500-square-foot Mediterranean restaurant and a 3,500-square-foot gourmet grocery store. The aim is to start construction on the $10 million effort in six months and open in two years.

The hotel will be called the Lane House, named after J.C. Lane, who built the original building in 1937. The restaurant, which doesn’t have a name yet, will serve Mediterranean cuisine. The grocery store will be called B.W. Forester’s, after the original drug store that was in the building in the 1940s.