Sushi by Scratch Restaurants: Cedar Creek
Sixteen courses and a dessert at an omakase counter inside a Bastrop County resort, thirty miles southeast of downtown.1
Why go
A small omakase counter inside the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa at Cedar Creek, southeast of Austin near Bastrop. The Austin Chronicle's Wayne Alan Brenner reviewed it on 28 April 2022, counted sixteen courses plus a dessert, and came down on the side of the drive.1 That verdict is four years old and it is still the only one anybody has published. The group later opened a separate counter downtown at 603 Brazos St, and when it did, the reporting said this room would stay open. That was December 2024 and it has not been re-confirmed, so call ahead.2
Order this / avoid
- Order: the omakase, since that is the entire offer, and take a counter seat. The format is the chefs building each course in front of you.
- Avoid: slotting it into an Austin evening. It is a resort in another county and the drive runs both ways.
What locals & experts say
- No other critic has written about this counter, and nothing has been published about it since 2022.
- The Austin Chronicle, Wayne Alan Brenner (28 April 2022): the one published verdict, and it is favorable on the question its own headline asks, which is whether the driving time and the money are worth it:
a sushi bar by any name should be as enjoyable as this omakase out in those Lost Pines of Cedar Creek.
Everything qualitative here is from that piece and is four years old.1
Good to know
- Where it is: inside the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa, Cedar Creek, in Bastrop County. Not Austin, and not Travis County.1
- Booking: essential. It is a counter with a handful of seats and fixed seatings.
- Is it still trading: last confirmed in December 2024, when coverage of the group's downtown opening said this room would stay open. Check before you drive.2
- Hygiene: Austin Public Health has no jurisdiction here, which is a different statement from the venue having no record. The one Sushi by Scratch location the register does hold is the downtown counter at 603 Brazos St, which scored 89 on 3 December 2025, and that number belongs to that address alone.3
- Getting there: roughly thirty miles southeast of downtown Austin, off Highway 71.
Verdict
could-visit — An omakase counter built into the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines resort at Cedar Creek, which is Bastrop County rather than Austin and about half an hour southeast of town. The Austin Chronicle's Wayne Alan Brenner reviewed it in April 2022 at sixteen courses plus a dessert and came down on the side of the drive being worth it, and that is still the only critic verdict on the room four years later. Read it as a destination dinner attached to a resort rather than as part of an Austin night, and book, because ten seats is the format. It sits at could-visit because the evidence is one aging review, the group has since opened a separate downtown counter that has absorbed most of the attention, and no inspection authority this project has researched covers the address.