Easy Tiger Bake Shop and Beer Garden, a beloved establishment in Austin, Tex., is now anchoring a revitalized 1980s-era strip mall on the north side of town.
Designed by Furman & Keil Architects, the public-facing spaces include an indoor bar, bakeshop, and dining room, a 250-seat outdoor beer garden pavilion, and a drive-thru coffee bar. The back-of-house space contains a large commercial artisanal bakery, which supplies bread and pastries to many of Austin’s finest restaurants.
The design uses new elements to breathe life into what was a banal stucco-clad commercial strip mall and parking lot.
The new outdoor beer garden was carved out of an existing, oddly shaped parking lot. It borrows the site’s surrounding live oak trees to complement a new, airy pavilion structure, creating a lush landscape setting for outdoor activities.
