Little Swedish opens as Swedish Hill closes for hotel construction in Clarksville

Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman
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The original Swedish Hill has closed. It will eventually reappear inside a new mixed-use development, but in the meantime, a Little Swedish has opened on the same block.
The original Swedish Hill has closed. It will eventually reappear inside a new mixed-use development, but in the meantime, a Little Swedish has opened on the same block.

If you've driven down West Sixth Street in recent weeks, you've probably noticed that longtime bakery and deli Swedish Hill has closed and that construction looms.

Owners McGuire Moorman Lambert Hospitality closed to bakery to prepare for the development of a hotel and mixed-use development titled Sixth and Blanco. Swedish Hill will eventually return as one of the hotel’s cornerstone tenants, but in the meantime, a few paces away at 1128 W. Sixth St., the group has opened what it has dubbed "Little Swedish."

The small cafe offers coffee, baked goods and a take-away menu of sandwiches and prepared foods. Little Swedish is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The second phase of a project called Sixth&Blanco will have a five-story building that will have restaurants, retail space, a hotel and 10 luxury residences. The new development will be just west of downtown Austin, on a city block that formerly housed Z Tejas restaurant.
The second phase of a project called Sixth&Blanco will have a five-story building that will have restaurants, retail space, a hotel and 10 luxury residences. The new development will be just west of downtown Austin, on a city block that formerly housed Z Tejas restaurant.

MML has partnered with Austin-based developer Riverside and with the Swiss firm Herzog & De Meuron for the Sixth & Blanco project. It is the first project in Texas for the Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm. The development, which takes up a sizable portion of West Sixth Street, from Z'Tejas to Howard's, will feature a five-story building with restaurants, retail, a hotel and 10 luxury residences. The project is expected to take several years.

Swedish Hill's wholesale bakery program, which supplies bread for some MML properties and other restaurants around town, is operating out of a catering kitchen in Southeast Austin. That space is owned by Leslie Moore, the former owner of Word of Mouth catering, who sold the longtime catering business to MML last year.

Related: Exclusive: McGuire Moorman Lambert enters catering business with purchase of Word of Mouth

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