First, Lady Bird was Lyndon B. Johnson’s wife.
Second, Lady Bird was a lake in Austin, Texas.
Third, Ladybird is Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall, a new Beltline-accessible restaurant (whose name was partially inspired by those first two things) with a Leon’s vet in the kitchen and a King + Duke vet behind the bar, opening any day now in the Old Fourth Ward. (Check out the slideshow here.)
A place that looks and feels like summer camp for adults sort of speaks for itself. But these pictures probably won’t hurt either...
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This is a 48-star American flag hanging next to some taxidermy, framed gun sketches and wooden communal tables. Rally your troops accordingly.
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And here’s the patio, where you’ll eat things like crab imperial and Navajo fry bread before playing ping-pong on a half-hidden table.
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Back inside to the bar for 12 regional beers on tap (Orpheus, Creature Comforts...), four wines on tap and one very annoyed bear in a Sam Parker mural.
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From there, feel free to walk through those garage doors out to the screened-in porch with a custom-made shuffleboard table and potted cacti on it.
We’ll also accept cactuses.
Second, Lady Bird was a lake in Austin, Texas.
Third, Ladybird is Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall, a new Beltline-accessible restaurant (whose name was partially inspired by those first two things) with a Leon’s vet in the kitchen and a King + Duke vet behind the bar, opening any day now in the Old Fourth Ward. (Check out the slideshow here.)
A place that looks and feels like summer camp for adults sort of speaks for itself. But these pictures probably won’t hurt either...
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/67dfd7f9ff2b6f0511c5566413df7481.jpg)
This is a 48-star American flag hanging next to some taxidermy, framed gun sketches and wooden communal tables. Rally your troops accordingly.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/e3a87ae46695f714aa75d9a9c6dddd62.jpg?v=37653db00da3494b3d861ff257e93512)
And here’s the patio, where you’ll eat things like crab imperial and Navajo fry bread before playing ping-pong on a half-hidden table.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/e418f224ffc8dd0b5b52fc03cdd71c0e.jpg)
Back inside to the bar for 12 regional beers on tap (Orpheus, Creature Comforts...), four wines on tap and one very annoyed bear in a Sam Parker mural.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/0f2c57c2d763b6696942c5e078888716.jpg)
From there, feel free to walk through those garage doors out to the screened-in porch with a custom-made shuffleboard table and potted cacti on it.
We’ll also accept cactuses.