It鈥檚 been more than a year since Austinite Paul Qui cooked up a win on Bravo TV鈥檚 . It was especially sweet because the season was shot in Texas, including here in Austin. Paul Qui took home $125,000, and he could have followed the path of some of his predecessors by opening a restaurant in New York City or something like that, but instead he doubled down on his food stands in Austin.
Now his fine-dining restaurant is about to open. We talked with CultureMap food editor Jessica DuPuy, who .
You鈥檙e going to see all sorts of things on that menu that don鈥檛 necessarily have a specific heritage to them. He did playful things, though; one of my favorite dishes that we tried was a Rabbit 7 Ways, which really was all sorts of preparations for rabbit, including a certain spicy sausage, braised rabbit belly, a rabbit foie gras type of presentation; all of it was served with lettuce leaves and a carrot nuoc mam, so it鈥檚 the types of things a rabbit would eat; it鈥檚 very rabbit-centric. And that鈥檚 just the type of creativity that Paul uses with his food.
