A new restaurant and bar has popped up at the intersection of South Fifth and Mary in Bouldin Creek. High Road DelicaTexan — the new deli from the team behind East Austin's beloved bar The Cavalier — brings elevated cocktails and an unpretentious all-day food menu to the neighborhood.
Chadwick Leger and Rachelle Fox, the husband-and-wife owners of The Cavalier, opened High Road with salumist Ryan Wilson and chef Kate Rousset.
"As a kid, we called this part of town the hippie highway because you can bypass the traffic and get all the way down to deep South Austin," Fox says. "When we found this building, we all were like, 'Oh, this is it.' We had the vision."
The space features a cafe for sandwiches and coffee up front, with a game room in back featuring Skee-Ball and arcade games. Leger filled the room with childhood nostalgia: Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan memorabilia, NBA Jam, and more. "It's everything I grew up with," he says with glee.
Wilson, a member of Houston's Burt's Meat Market family and former employee of Franklin Barbecue, brings serious credentials to the housemade sausages. "There's a Chicago and Cajun influence to the sausages and hot dogs here," he explains. "I want the food to feel familiar where you can be from anywhere and be like, 'Oh, I've never had this before but this reminds me of home.'"
The signature Everything Is Bigger in Texas breakfast sandwich features sage pork sausage, hash brown, and egg with Giardiniera mayo. The boudin balls are so addictive that Leger admits he has to force himself not to eat them every day.
The beverage program from Leger includes creative cocktails like the FFRNC — a "played-up rum and coke" — and Fox's favorite, the Big Red frozen margarita.
"This is a neighborhood-forward space where we care about the community and families that come in," Wilson says. Whether it's hotdogs and Skee-Ball or cocktails and sandwiches, High Road seeks to be everything to everyone in this vibrant Bouldin Creek intersection.