Austin Sports Club Downtown Austin Reservation Details
September 17, 2026
September 17, 2026
Kevin Durant is involved in Austin Sports Club, the menu has caviar and tater tots, and the space used to sit around the corner from Vince Young Steakhouse. If you live three blocks away and want to watch a Longhorns game there this fall, the game-day policy is worth knowing.
Lobos Hospitality's website lays out the reservation options. Austin Sports Club is not a private club. Anyone can walk in. But the arrangement that lets you settle into a table for an entire game, rather than getting a polite nudge after ninety minutes, only exists if you specifically book for it. That distinction is the difference between a good Saturday and an annoying one, and it is worth understanding before the next home game rolls around.
Austin Sports Club opened Thursday, September 10, in a 4,723-square-foot space with a 500-square-foot patio at 205 East Third Street, a few doors from where Vince Young Steakhouse used to operate. The buildout ran close to $2.4 million, designed by PETERMAX Co., a ten-time-nominated, award-winning design firm tied to the 2026 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.
The ownership group reads like a cross-section of two industries that rarely mix. Kevin Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman run it through their company Boardroom Hospitality, alongside Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia. The operational partner is Lobos Hospitality, the Austin group already responsible for Powder Room, Toasty Badger, and Manny's, three concepts that know how to run a downtown crowd on a Friday night.
What they built is not another wall of televisions and rail drinks. The design draws from American athletic clubs of the 1960s and 70s, with vintage locker-room details and trophy cases meant to look collected over decades rather than delivered last month. It reads closer to a private dining room with sports on in the background than a sports bar with food as an afterthought.
The kitchen leans into that same tension between casual and formal. A Snake River Farms ribeye and grilled branzino share space with caviar and tater tots and lollipop wings. Weekend brunch brings stuffed French toast, steak and eggs, and a Bloody Hail Mary built with bacon-washed vodka.
Hours run Monday through Thursday from 5 to 10 p.m., Friday from 5 to 11 p.m., and weekends split between brunch from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and dinner service into the evening. That schedule alone signals who this is built for. It is not trying to catch the after-work happy hour crowd on a Tuesday. It is built around Saturdays.
The restaurant's website lays out its reservation policy. Austin Sports Club describes itself explicitly as not a private membership club. Reservations are strongly encouraged given limited seating, but walk-ins are welcome based on availability.
The part that matters is the clock. Standard dining reservations on NFL Sundays and college football Saturdays are allotted ninety minutes. If you want your table for the length of the actual game, you have to book a specific Game Day reservation, which comes with a food and beverage minimum that varies by date and seating selection.
The reservation options distinguish a standard visit from a longer game-day stay. You are not required to know somebody or carry a membership card. But if you show up expecting to camp out through a full four-quarter game on a standard reservation, you may find your table has other plans after an hour and a half. Anyone planning to watch a Longhorns game there this season should decide in advance which version of the reservation they actually want.
"Austin is an incredibly important place to me."
— Kevin Durant, as quoted by the Houston Chronicle
He played his only college season at Texas, averaging 25.8 points and 11.1 rebounds for the Longhorns before entering the 2007 NBA Draft at number two overall. Nearly twenty years later, he is opening a restaurant back in the city where that season happened as football season starts.
The September 10 opening did not arrive in a quiet stretch. The Downtown Austin Alliance's own August safety forum recap flagged a run of Texas Longhorns home football games this fall alongside major conferences at downtown hotels including the Fairmont, the JW Marriott, and the Hilton Austin, all expected to bring increased foot traffic to the same blocks where Austin Sports Club now sits.
For someone who already lives downtown, that context changes how you read the opening. This is not a new restaurant quietly finding its footing before a slow ramp-up. It launched directly into the stretch of Saturdays when downtown already sees its heaviest weekend traffic of the year. The reservation mechanics described above stop being a minor operational detail and start being the actual planning question for the next several weekends.
Durant is not the first athlete to put his name on a downtown Austin address. Nick Foles, the Super Bowl LII MVP and a Westlake High School alumnus, holds a partial ownership stake in ATX Cocina, also downtown. And the location Austin Sports Club now occupies sits around the corner from where Vince Young Steakhouse operated for years, though Young no longer has a business interest in the new restaurant.
None of that makes Austin Sports Club derivative. It does mean downtown residents have seen this shape before: a recognizable athlete, a local hospitality group handling the actual operations, and an opening during football season. What is different this time is the scale of the buildout and the specificity of the concept, an actual athletic-club aesthetic rather than a themed dining room with jerseys on the wall.
If you live within walking distance of Third and Colorado, the practical takeaway is straightforward. Austin Sports Club is open to anyone, no membership required, and reservations can be made through the restaurant's own site or through Google. If you are planning to go on a game day and want to stay through the final whistle, book the Game Day reservation specifically, not the standard dining slot, and expect a food and beverage minimum attached to it.
Beyond that one operational detail, the bigger signal is what it says about downtown's rhythm this fall. A high-profile opening during the same weeks the Downtown Austin Alliance is already tracking for increased foot traffic suggests the next few months of Saturdays downtown will feel busier than usual, whether or not you ever set foot inside 205 East Third.
If you're weighing what it's actually like to live in the middle of that rhythm, from game-day Saturdays to the quieter weekdays in between, Morgan Malin can walk you through what downtown living looks like on both kinds of days. Let's connect.
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