City Lifestyle
Chef Pyles, the “founding father of Southwestern Cuisine” and Texas’ first James Beard Award winner opened his latest restaurant Alma by Stephan Pyles, Spanish for ‘soul,’ in The Hacienda, a luxury senior living facility in Georgetown. It’s also open to the public. We went to check it out and from being greeted at the door by Chef Pyles himself, to the pop rocks bursting off our tongue at the first bite of his signature Hell’s Eggs (created for his very first restaurant), to the passion fissuring from co-Chef de Cuisine Joshua Gianni Farrell as he described each course to us, we were impressed – and embarrassed we nearly skipped on this gem.
Chef Pyles says he opened Alma here because, “Having had experience with another luxury retirement community in Dallas, the owners of the soon-to-be-opened Hacienda in Georgetown reached out to me last year for consultation. When they explained they wanted to offer a restaurant that would be open to the public, as well as to the members, I asked if this had ever been done before. When they said it hadn’t been done in Texas, I felt like I was up for the challenge as I have always loved being a pioneer.”…