in North Austin during the pandemic; he first joined up as a manager when the brewery reopened in the summer of 2020. When then-taproom manager Bonham White and current general manager Trevor Mortensen learned of Lazo’s oyster-shucking prowess, they asked him to host seafood pop-ups centered on 99-cent East Coast oysters in the beer garden.Kass Jones
In the future, Lazo hopes to open a physical seafood bar in the Austin area with oysters, crawfish, and other shellfish-centric offerings. But for now, Lazo’s can be found at Celis Brewery on Sundays, and they’ll be hosting crawfish boils until the end of the spring season. Twin brothers Jermaine and Jahmaal Dumes grew up in the bayou city of Beaumont, Texas, along the Louisiana border, and crawfish boils were part of their lives from the very beginning. “We come from a family of cooks,” Jermaine says, adding that many of their family members consider Louisiana home. When the brothers moved to Central Texas to attend Southwestern University in Georgetown, they “saw that there was a lack of Cajun food in Austin and the surrounding areas.
Down South Cajjun Eats serves crawfish boils on Sundays at Austin Daiquiri Factory until the end of crawfish season in the summer.