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Check out the latest business updates for the Northwest Austin area, including new restaurants, a Pilates studio, a waterless slide park coming soon and mental health clinic updates.
Now open
Aburi Tora
The restaurant is known for its "sushi concierge system” and specializes in flame-seared sushi and rectangular pressed sushi. The menu also features nigiri and sashimi rolls, traditional Japanese hot and cold tapas-style dishes, and sake.
Bestlaser
The business provides laser hair removal services designed to treat a range of body areas, and specializes in laser hair removal packages using laser technology designed to safely treat all skin tones and hair types.
Ēma
The Mediterranean-inspired restaurant opened its first Texas location at Domain Northside. The restaurant features a mezze-style menu and prioritizes vegetables and seafood.
Frost Bank
The branch features a drive-thru bank and offers services such as checking and savings accounts, personal financing, personal and commercial loans, trust services, treasury management, wealth advising, insurance, and investments.
MaxStrength Fitness
The franchised fitness studio offers one-on-one guided workouts focused on strength training in 20-minute sessions.
Pronto Pilates
The Australian-founded Pilates studio has eight Pilates reformers and offers a variety of daily classes, including full body, low-impact workouts, strength and conditioning, stretching, and restoring and rebuilding mobility.
Roya
The restaurant serves a variety of Persian cuisine, features a curated dining experience option in which the chef picks out courses for guests, and has wine, craft cocktails and desserts.
Soho Asian Fusion
The restaurant serves a variety of Asian cuisine including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Thai and Vietnamese dishes.
Spicy House
The restaurant serves Sichuan cuisine such as dan dan noodles, konjac beer duck and chili oil pork dumplings, as well as other meat and seafood dishes, appetizers and tea drinks.
Swig
The shop serves dirty sodas with a variety of flavors, fruits and creams to add in, including seasonal drinks such as the Cupid’s Crush with Dr. Pepper, cherry, raspberry, strawberry puree and vanilla cream.
Coming soon
Estela Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry
The center offers psychiatric evaluations and medication management for adults with anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder or other mental health conditions, and offers help for patients during pregnancy, postpartum, fertility journeys and perimenopause.
Slick City Action Park
The indoor action park features multiple waterless slides, a zipline, arcade games, laser tag and a freestyle air court.
Relocations
Austin Mindfulness Center
The business relocated from 9501 N. Capital of Texas Hwy., Stes. 201-202, Austin, to a new site down the street. The center provides counseling services for individuals, couples, teenagers and families.
In the news
SPS Pool Care
The pool cleaning, maintenance and repair company announced Jan. 23 its acquisition of Pool Troopers. The now-combined company is on track to perform over two million weekly recurring pool services in 2026.
Texas Wellness Collective
The business rebranded from Nora Mental Health to Texas Wellness Collective in December, and offers mental health therapy, functional nutrition services and red-light therapy.
Closings
Kung Fu Saloon
The bar offered a range of cocktails, domestic and craft beers and was known for its specialty shots and vintage arcade games. Its other Austin location on Sixth Street remains open.
RAD Moves Dance
The dance studio offers dance camps and ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap and tumble dance classes for toddlers, children and teenagers.
Worth the trip
Scheel’s
The store will be located in the 117-acre CedarView development and feature 75 specialty shops, a 65-foot indoor Ferris wheel, a 16,000-gallon saltwater aquarium and Ginna’s Café, which will serve soups and sandwiches.