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The most popular starters from Le Vacher are deep-fried dessert balls with Emmentaler cheese, roasted garlic aioli and pickled shallot. (Community Impact Newspaper / Maggie Quinlan)
Lauren Weeks, Marketing Director at Le Vacher, calls the restaurant her brother’s baby. Her brother Jacob Euler dreamed of opening a restaurant with high-quality French cuisine in a casual, rural atmosphere around five years before Le Vacher opened its doors in Dripping Springs in August 2020.
“You will feel celebrated whether you come to celebrate or not,” said Weeks.
The restaurant, with its modern mid-century decor, serves quality wines and spirits, as well as Mediterranean and French dishes, mainly made with local ingredients.
Euler is a former pastry chef in the restaurant of the renowned French chef Joel Robuchon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Co-owner Eric Weeks, Lauren’s husband, had about a decade of experience in the hospitality industry when the couple entered the founding of Le Vacher. Weeks worked as a nutritionist for most of her career, coordinating hospitality in hospitals in the Austin area. She envisioned that the restaurant could be more than just a place for good food, but a complete sensory experience.
She creates this experience in the private dining room upstairs, where she leads events. Despite the family’s combined dining experience, their young business could have failed in its infancy, Eric said. Le Vacher was slated to open in February 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the public eye and would soon be closing restaurants across the country. Construction stopped this winter. Delays in receiving fixtures delayed the opening for weeks and even more until the family-run eatery was able to open in August.
“It was a hidden blessing,” said Eric. “The most important thing is the community and how quickly it got behind us. They wanted us to be successful even if we opened in the middle of a pandemic. “
From the start, customers have become regulars, salespeople make allies and employees like an extended family, Weeks said.
“It’s not just by blood or marriage; Our employees are now a family too, ”she said. “You have been with us since day one.”
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