Austin Restaurant Fixe Opens a New Casual Southern Cafe in the Arboretum

An upscale downtown Southern restaurant expanded into northwest Austin with a new casual cafe this fall. Fixe Southern House opened Hissy Fit in the Arboretum at 9761 Great Hills Trail on October 8.

Co-owners chef James Robert and Keith House see Hissy Fit as Fixe’s “sassy little sister,” hence the name, as House explains. The cafe is an all-day casual restaurant serving counter-service breakfast, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Find baked goods such as Fixe’s famous biscuits and cinnamon rolls, as well as sandwiches (duck confit melt, po’ boys, sausage-egg-cheese on biscuits), salads, and bowls. For drinks, there will be coffee, espresso, house-pressed juices, wines, and cocktails like the frozen hurricane.

Robert and House (who had worked at seafood and steakhouse chain Eddie V’s on the Austin location’s opening team back in 2000) opened Fixe in 2014, where the team serves finer-dining Southern meals in a unique space evoking an alfresco patio but indoors. Then they expanded the restaurant into Fort Worth in 2018.

Hissy Fit’s hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 am. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Takeout orders can be placed online or in person; there are indoor and outdoor dine-in services