Hyde Park's Morning Coffee Line Now Has an Evening Shift

"I stared at it for three years thinking how cool it would be as a wine bar," Brian Knowles told Austin Monthly. The room he meant is the old band room at the Baker Center, a low brick building with wide windows. He could see it from behind the register of his coffee window.

Since 2023, the line for Terrible Love Coffee has formed every morning along the lavender and primrose at 3908 Avenue B. On September 18, the band room opened as Terrible Love Wine Bar. Its weekday doors open at 4 p.m. Three days earlier, a family-style Italian American restaurant opened on Guadalupe. A sushi bar is being finished on Duval. All three new places are built for the late afternoon and evening, and all three moved into rooms Hyde Park already had.

A boiler room, a band room and a 4 p.m. start

The Baker Center is a former school, bought from the Austin Independent School District by Alamo Drafthouse co-founders Tim and Karrie League. They want to turn it into a creative community space. Knowles told Austin Monthly that Tim League first suggested turning the boiler room into a coffee shop. The wine bar follows the same idea one building over. "I wanted to make a wine bar that fit this spot that already existed without trying to change it too much," Knowles said.

The room is furnished in a mid-century style, and glasses can go out to the picnic tables in the garden. Wine director Kendall Jackson built a long by-the-glass list. It's sorted into plain categories like "Bold Rosé" and "Juicy Red," and the bottle list includes producers from Japan and Palestine. There are also four vermouths, a bigger selection than most Texas menus carry, since distribution here is limited. The food is snack-sized: jambon beurre, baguette and butter, a cheese plate, charcuterie, chickpea salad and rotating tinned fish.

"I don't want anybody in a hurry to get out of here," Knowles told the magazine. The hours back that up. According to the Austin Chronicle's listing, the bar stays open until midnight on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The new evening map, by the clock

Here is how the three newest arrivals fit into a week as of mid-October 2026.

Panciuto's hours come from the restaurant's own site. Some older directory listings show a dinner-only schedule, but the restaurant's site lists lunch and dinner. On Mondays, when Panciuto is closed, the wine bar is open from 4 p.m.

Panciuto took over a dining room its owner already knew

Mo Pittle, who started Jewboy Burgers, opened Panciuto at 4413 Guadalupe on Tuesday, September 15. The space used to be Umarell, an Italian restaurant Pittle co-owned, so this opening is a reworking of a room he already knew. Austin Monthly calls it his sixth restaurant.

Pittle told the magazine he wanted "an easy meal that is going to be satisfying and affordable in a space with a local diner feel." The name means "pot-bellied," and the portions match it. The menu includes sausage and mushroom cavatelli, a chicken parm alla vodka, a 14-layer vegetarian lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, and focaccia pizza squares. Leftover boxes are encouraged. The room uses dark reds and black-and-white checks, with Italian-style pictures from AO5 gallery and neon signs by Todd Sanders of Relic Roadhouse.

A full bar is still in the works. For now there is a short list of beers and wines. Pittle works the tables himself. "Real conversations are so important," he told Austin Monthly.

Duval's empty dining room gets a sushi counter

Up the street on Duval, the evening spot closed before the replacement arrived. According to Community Impact, Uncle Nicky's closed its Hyde Park location on April 26, and its South Lamar location stayed open.

The next tenant at 4222 Duval is Kōbō. It comes from brothers Ryan and Wade McElroy and chef Moto Seto, who spent the last eight of his 20 years in restaurants at Soto. Wade co-owns Rocco's Italian on Airport Boulevard and opened Kinsho on Rainey Street this year. Ryan is a co-owner of Bird Bird Biscuit. The Austin American-Statesman reported that the menu will center on nigiri, sashimi, hand rolls and maki, with a few prepared dishes.

In the Statesman story, Wade said the team wanted a concept that "honored and fit the unique space" and would "jive with the neighborhood," and that sushi filled a gap among Hyde Park's Italian, Mexican, pizza and pastry options. Seto, who studied architecture before he became a chef, said "each dish is almost like designing a work of art."

The Statesman said Kōbō would open "this fall." As of October 12, Kōbō's website still says "Coming Soon," and no opening date, hours or reservation details have been published.

Hyde Park Bar & Grill also changed hands quietly. The Statesman reported in January that longtime owner Bick Brown sold it to Brian and Angela Luke. The new owners planned gradual updates to the dining room and modest menu changes, not a rebrand. One of the neighborhood's longtime dinner rooms is staying largely as it was.

Three fall Sundays that end before dinner

This fall's neighborhood calendar fits the new hours well. All three big events fall on Sunday afternoons, and each one ends while Panciuto and the wine bar are open.

1. Hyde Park Fall Festival, Sunday, Oct. 18, 3–7 p.m., Shipe Park. Friends of Shipe Park lists a basketball skills challenge, DJ Juls, a free picnic supper, pumpkin carving and treats from Quack's 43rd Street Bakery. It ends at 7, and the wine bar is open until 10.
2. Fire Station Festival, Sunday, Oct. 25, 3–5 p.m., Austin Fire Station 9, 4301 Speedway. The Hyde Park Neighborhood Association lists family activities, fire trucks and time with neighbors. It wraps up early enough for dinner on Guadalupe, where Panciuto's Sunday hours run until 9.
3. 47th Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour, Sunday, Nov. 8, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Seven houses on the lettered avenues will be open, including the Sweet-George House at 4314 Avenue G. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, and children under 12 get in free. A bus runs the route all day. HPNA's tour page says neighbors have been opening their doors for this tour since 1975, and this year's theme is "Preservation & Progress."

The Ney grounds host the tour while the museum stays closed

The Homes Tour headquarters is on the grounds of the Elisabet Ney Museum at 304 East 44th Street, according to HPNA. The museum has been closed since December 30, 2024. The City of Austin's project page lists the work underway: restoring the original wood doors and windows, a new HVAC system, new lighting, repairs to the roof and masonry, a replacement pedestrian bridge over Waller Creek, accessible paths, and about 20,000 square feet of creek-bank stabilization.

The city's current schedule has construction finishing in winter 2027 and the museum reopening in spring 2027. That's later than the summer 2026 reopening the Friends of Elisabet Ney Museum had anticipated. Before it closed, the museum drew about 21,000 visitors a year. So this year, tour visitors will gather on the grounds outside a building they can't enter, and the museum's reopening will come after one more Homes Tour.

Hyde Park's houses and storefronts tend to get new uses rather than new buildings. That's why the Homes Tour shows off renovated bungalows, and it's how a school's old band room became a wine bar. If you've been watching a Hyde Park storefront or a lettered-avenue house change, our team at Ellevé Property Group follows these changes one address at a time in the weekly newsletter, and we'll be glad to talk through what's changing on your block. Start Your Elevated Experience.