According to recent reporting in the Austin Business Journal, local restaurateur Scott Roberts is cooking up a new concept, inspired by his grandmother.
A beloved local of the Driftwood community, Miss Roxie (or Gaga to Mr. Roberts) is said to have earned a reputation for cooking generous Southern meals filled with “fried chicken and heaping mounds of mashed potatoes and green beans.”
“My job was to pull the feathers,” Roberts said to the Journal. “For a while, I couldn’t eat fried chicken, but hers was so good, it brought me back to the table.”
Now, Roxie is in the works for 308 Main Street in the historic Buda Mill & Grain Co. in Buda. The restaurant will offer family-style platters of “char-grilled steaks and chicken-fried steaks fried in beef tallow, as well as unlimited bowls of mashed potatoes, green beans, creamed corn, and freshly baked rolls. The restaurant will also have a full bar.”
“My grandmother was known for these kinds of meals,” Roberts said. “They’re indelibly stamped into my mind. After church on Sunday, you wanted to be invited over to her house to eat, and that’s where this is all coming from.”
Among the other dishes will be “deviled eggs topped with fried chicken bites and pimento cheese crocks, plus a selection of pies made with his grandmother’s recipe, which notably featured lard in its crusts. Only during lunch will diners be able to secure individual meals, including smoked turkey and chopped beef sandwiches and a rendition of a burger once made by Roberts’s father, Thurman.”
“We’re going to have the best fried chicken around,” Roberts said.
