Butler Pitch & Putt
Golf course · Bouldin ·
9-hole pitch-and-putt with chef-curated menu & beer garden
9-hole pitch-and-putt with chef-curated menu & beer garden
"The golf option with the best food is, without question, Butler Pitch & Putt. The outdoor mini golf course has a clubhouse menu from chef Michael Fojtasek of James Beard Award finalist Olamaie, which is part of the same hospitality group. There are sandwiches on Fojtasek’s famous biscuits, plus beer, wine, and sodas in the clubhouse, and an on-site food truck, Gimme Burger, with burgers, fried okra, and more. On Fridays and Saturdays, the course stays open until 10 p.m. for Glow Golf with glow-in-the-dark balls." - Erin Russell
"Butler Park Pitch and Putt When the only serious requirement for play is that golfers have a putter and at least one other club, you know a course is more about fun than rules. Butler Park Pitch and Putt has been a pleasant destination since it opened in 1949, giving Austin a chance for a walk under the shade of pecan trees and some low-key exercise. Much is made of famous golfers who've spent time on the nine-hole course, like Ben Crenshaw (who played when he was an undergrad at UT), but you'll find the challenge of play is within your reach. And your kid's."
"A public golf course where the restaurant group recently opened a small cafe in April, serving as an additional neighborhood outpost and testing ground for the company’s concepts." - Nadia Chaudhury
"I learned that a public golf course near Auditorium Shores in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood is debuting a new clubhouse: Butler Pitch & Putt's clubhouse at 201 Lee Barton Drive opens Friday, April 9, and features a menu curated by Olamaie chef and two-time James Beard Award finalist Michael Fojtasek. The new menu draws heavily from Olamaie’s casual biscuit shop Little Ola’s—offering breakfast sandwiches, egg salad, fried chicken, chicken salad, and pimento cheese—alongside beef and vegetarian hot dogs, snacks like candy bars and chips, and desserts such as cookies and rotating seasonal ice cream sandwiches from pastry chef Jules Stoddart. The park will now sell beer, spiked seltzer, and wine (so it will no longer be BYOB), and the clubhouse includes public beer garden space; Butler and its clubhouse are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the course is walk-ins only. Butler had been run by the Kinser family for over 70 years until a 2019 paperwork issue; Pecan Grove Partners, including Bart Knaggs of New Waterloo, won the bid, and Knaggs and Fojtasek are now collaborating on the golf-course restaurant." - Erin Russell
"A pitch-and-putt recreational venue that was temporarily closed on March 16 along with ten restaurants run by the same Austin hospitality group as part of measures to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus through social distancing; there is no announced timeline for reopening. The operator also noted plans to use its current food supply to feed affected staffers and to offer additional, currently unclear, resources to employees." - Nadia Chaudhury
