Wright Bros. Brew and Brew.

Wright Bros. Brew and Brew

The bar sits at almost waist height with the espresso machine installed below the counter, so the barista and the drinker can talk across it.1

Why go

Brothers Matt and Grady Wright and Matthew Bolick spent two and a half years on this before it opened on 29 September 2013 in the room Progress Coffee had left.1 The split is real and it is staffed that way: Bolick co-owns Flat Track Coffee a few blocks over and trained as a barista at Frank, so he runs the coffee, and Grady Wright learned to home brew and took the tap list. It's 50-50 and equally well done, Bolick says. Flat Track roasts for the espresso bar alongside Sightglass and De La Paz.1 The room was built by people they knew, which Matt Wright puts plainly: I can point to damn near everything in here and tell you who built it, who scraped the paint off of it.1

Order this / avoid

• Order: the Son of a Bun, the breakfast sandwich the venue names as its signature, with a specialty latte.4
• Then: a cold brew and a beer in the same sitting. Marisa Dunn's line is that you can get an equally-excellent cold brew or IPA and that you will end up with time for both.3
• Avoid: planning around a specific tap. The board opened with 39 beers on it in 2013 and one of them was listed as Revolving.2

What locals & experts say

• The Austin Chronicle, Anna Toon, October 2013, liked the Guatemalan Flat Track cold brew and the $8.75 Reuben on Sweetish Hill rye, found the $9.75 brisket sandwich small for the money, and wrote the criticism that still reads as the useful one: with brewpubs in the area armed with craft beer experts, it would be wise to thoroughly educate staff on the menu. She had just asked which Hops & Grain Greenhouse beer was pouring and been told, Revolving.2
• The Infatuation, Marisa Dunn, rates nothing here, because the outlet scores only places where you can eat a full meal. She names the free wifi, the wraparound porch and the room's tolerance for a laptop on a weekend, and warns that the food options are minimal. The venue sits on the outlet's Best Coffee Shops In Austin guide and its East Side drinking guide.3
• On what this place is: it pours other people's beer and does not brew. My list files it as a brewery and nothing published supports that, so no brewing claim is made here.

Good to know

• Hours: 7am to 8pm every day, on the venue's own page, which also lists weekly live music, a game night, a trivia night and weekend brunch.4
• The room: drafting tables, metal light fixtures and a working garage door that opens onto the street, designed by Chelsea Grace, with benches by Josh Holstein and a logo by Public School.21
• Parking is the catch. The venue's own visit page asks for patience with construction around it and points at street parking from about $1.20 an hour.6
• Hygiene: clean, and it is the longest inspection run in this batch. Austin Public Health registers facility 11008232 at this address, scoring 85 on 25 February 2026, then 89 on 22 July 2025, 11 February 2025, 26 April 2024 and 16 August 2023. Nothing near the city's 70-point failing line.5

Verdict

could-visit — The bar is built at waist height with the espresso group installed underneath it, so the person making the drink and the person drinking it can talk across the counter. That is the concept in one fitting: Matthew Bolick, a Flat Track Coffee co-owner who trained behind the bar at Frank, runs the coffee, and Grady Wright runs the taps, which opened at 39 in September 2013 in the old Progress Coffee room. The Infatuation's Marisa Dunn says you can get an equally excellent cold brew or IPA here and warns that the food options are minimal. The Chronicle's opening review found the beer board listing a Hops & Grain Greenhouse beer as Revolving and staff who could not say which one, which is the complaint on the record.