Austin Proper Hotel

"Located just steps from Lady Bird Lake, this hotel offers grand amenities like a modern fitness center, wellness classes, and a spa. Known for its boldly elegant design, the second floor features live music and the rooftop pool provides an urban oasis." - The MICHELIN Guide

"Austin Proper Hotel is a One Key hotel in Austin, Texas, known for providing a sophisticated and modern lodging experience in the city." - The MICHELIN Guide

"Proper Sandos by Kishi, run by chefs Haru Kishi and Gohei Kishi, offers a variety of Japanese sandwiches made with thick and fluffy milk bread. The menu includes tamago with eggs, Kewpie mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, and black pepper, nasu with eggplants, pickled red cabbage, and mustard, chicken katsu with smoked aioli, a pork iteration, and a $98 Japanese A5 wagyu sandwich. The pop-up is located at the Austin Proper Hotel, a temporary setup at the former Mockingbird cafe, allowing the chefs to experiment before opening their permanent restaurant in 2025." - Nadia Chaudhury

"Downtown hotel Austin Proper’s food and drink program is the work of local restaurant group McGuire Moorman Lambert Hospitality, so it stands to reason that the West Second Street spot’s restaurants and bars were created with specific looks, quality drinks, and enjoyable environments in mind. While some of the bars are only available to hotel guests and residents, the poolside bar and restaurant La Piscina, is open to the public, giving everyone the chance to enjoy frozen margaritas and tasting flights of small-batch tequilas and mezcals. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services." - Taylor Tobin

"A step through the hotel’s giant black doors and it’s obvious that Los Angeles-based designer Kelly Wearstler spent time getting to know the Texas landscape and the city of Austin. The lobby, a series of enclaves curated with patinaed club chairs, loveseats upholstered in the rusty reds, deep greens and golds of the surrounding hill country, and wrought iron light fixtures from the 1930s, nods to the Arts and Crafts bungalow homes the area is known for. Wearstler mixes patterns, colors, and materials with her characteristic zeal: a single sofa is a pastiche of ikat, floral, and stripes, while the reception has a black and white gingham ceiling, elevator walls are lined with cowhide, and patterned vintage rugs cover much of the cypress wood floors throughout the hotel. And yet the result, a sort of visual patchwork of influence and eras, tones and textures, is anything but haphazard. It takes an incredibly keen, confident eye to pull off such a maximalist look. And while the identity of Austin, the country’s fastest growing city, is somewhat in flux as it moves from the laid back indie darling it’s long been and the busy tech-centric town it’s becoming, the Proper—with its heart-of-downtown location, casual sidewalk café, high energy lobby bar, and the city’s best Mediterranean restaurant, Peacock—is a place where both sides of Austin feel welcome." - Mandy Ellis, Allison Bagley