District Kitchen + Cocktails (Anderson Lane)
The lunch sandwich is chicken and brie with apricot mostarda, built on an Easy Tiger roll.1
Why go
Brothers Amir and Ali Hajimaleki opened this room on 14 May 2019 as the second District, with chef de cuisine MacKenzie Viglianco and pastry chef Dennis Van.1 It runs the same New American dinner menu as the original and a lunch menu written for this address.1 I haven't found a critic who has eaten at this address, so what follows is the menu on record.
Order this / avoid
- Spanish octopus with chorizo, corona beans and a cucumber herb salad.1
- Texas wagyu steak with chimichurri, roasted red potatoes and truffle aioli.1
- At lunch, the chicken and brie sandwich with apricot mostarda on an Easy Tiger roll, or the Ora King salmon salad with mango, avocado, jicama and a coconut lime vinaigrette.1
- Avoid: driving to the wrong District. The other one is at 5900 W Slaughter Ln, twenty minutes south.2
What locals & experts say
- CultureMap Austin, Brandon Watson, 14 May 2019, reporting the opening:
May 14 was opening day.
The piece carries the menu and the kitchen names. It is an opening report, so it makes no claim about the cooking.1 - The Austin Chronicle's First Plates 2019 entry belongs to the Slaughter Lane original, which it files under South.
Good to know
- Hygiene: no finding. Austin Public Health scores the kitchen (listed as
District Kitchen & Cocktails
at 7858 Shoal Creek Blvd Ste B) 89 on 27 March 2026, 79 on 6 December 2024 and 77 on 27 June 2023, a rising line with nothing below the city's failing threshold of 70.3 - It is trading, whatever a stale listing tells you. The restaurant's own site carries this address with full hours and no notice, and an inspector scored the kitchen on 27 March 2026.2
- Hours: lunch 11am to 3pm and dinner from 3pm Monday to Friday, to 9pm early week and 10pm Friday. Weekends open 10:30am with brunch to 3pm. Happy hour 3:30pm to 7pm Monday to Saturday.2
Verdict
could-visit — Brothers Amir and Ali Hajimaleki run this New American neighborhood room off Anderson Lane, the second of their two. The dishes on record are Spanish octopus with chorizo and corona beans, Texas wagyu with chimichurri, Southern shrimp and grits, and a lunch sandwich of chicken and brie with apricot mostarda on an Easy Tiger roll. No critic has scored this location, so the ladder sits where the evidence does.