The pool changed its schedule. That sounds like a small thing until you realize how much of a Tarrytown week is built around a walk to Deep Eddy, and how the new off-day quietly reshuffles which Windsor Road kitchens get your Tuesday and which get your Wednesday.
This is a guide for people who already live here. The thesis is simple: summer 2026 in 78703 runs on a different calendar than last year, and the openings within a six-block radius of the pool are close enough to that calendar to feel coordinated, even though they aren't.
The Tuesday Shift Is the Real News
Deep Eddy reopened later than usual this spring. The City of Austin pushed the reopening to Monday, April 13, 2026 after rainy weather stretched out the paint-curing window on the annual spring maintenance. That part is forgivable. The part residents need to internalize is what came with it.
Moving forward, Deep Eddy Pool will be closed every Tuesday for cleaning starting April 21.
That is a permanent rhythm change, not a one-week notice. The pool that anchors the neighborhood's summer is now a six-day operation. If your default has been a Tuesday after-work swim, that default no longer exists, and the lap lanes that used to absorb the Tuesday crowd are now pushing it onto Monday evenings and Wednesday mornings. Expect the lap side to feel tighter on those days through August.
The water itself hasn't changed. It is still spring-fed at a steady 68 to 70 degrees, still chlorine-free, still the oldest swimming pool in Texas. The wading pool is still an acre with a beach entrance under pecan and oak shade. What has changed is the cadence around it.
Windsor Road Is the New Pre- and Post-Swim
Two openings within the last two months put Windsor Road in a different position than it held a year ago.
Community Kitchen and Taproom opened the week of April 10 at 3110 Windsor Rd., in the space between Pak Mail and Austin Pets Alive that has cycled through a few tenants. Co-owners Marlon Rison and Ericka Dotson ran their plant-based concept for five years as Community Vegan, a 1973 Winnebago parked on East 11th Street, before this brick-and-mortar. The menu is mushroom-based fried chicken, vegan surf and turf, Korean BBQ fries, and Southern sides, with a brunch service from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Worth flagging: they are closed Mondays and Tuesdays, which means Community Kitchen is dark on the same day the pool is dark. If you were hoping to pair a Tuesday lap swim with a casual dinner two blocks east, the calendar simply does not allow it this year.
Bésame, the ice cream and coffee operator, soft-opened a second food truck in Tarrytown in early April. It is the kind of addition that doesn't register as a headline but changes the geometry of a walk home. A post-swim affogato run that used to mean a drive now means a sidewalk.
If you map the openings against the new pool calendar, the cleanest evenings are Wednesday through Sunday. Tuesday becomes a different kind of day in the neighborhood, less about the pool and more about everything else that's open.
The W. 38th Anchor Has Settled In
Teddy's is no longer new. The Southwestern bar and grill at 1601 W. 38th St., Suite 1, opened in November 2024 in the former Spread & Co. space, steps from the original Kerbey Lane Cafe in the seam between Bryker Woods and Rosedale. The team is the one behind Bill's Oyster downtown: chef Daniel Berg, partner Dylan Salisbury, and executive chef Rene Garza, whose résumé runs through Suerte, Este, and Aaron Franklin's Uptown Sports Club.
What matters in the second summer is that Teddy's now serves weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, with Huckleberry Pancakes, a Mushroom Carnitas Frittata, and Flat Iron Steak and Eggs on the menu. That window overlaps perfectly with a 9 a.m. lap swim, a shower at the pool's restored 2007 bathhouse, and a 10:30 walk-in. The 40-seat enclosed patio is temperature-controlled, which is the only detail that matters once July hits.
Splash Party Nights and a Tuesday Backup Plan
Splash Party Movie Nights return at dusk on Saturdays at Deep Eddy through the summer. Regular pool admission covers the screening, and the cost remains one of the most resident-friendly numbers in town: $3 for an Austin adult, $1 for a child, $1 for a senior. Bring a picnic for the hill, float through the feature, leave before the lawn ants find your blanket.
The Tuesday closure is the question the city's news release actually answered for you. If you swim every day, the official suggestion is to rotate to another year-round city pool that Tuesday. The list:
- Big Stacy
- Bartholomew
- Springwoods
- Colony Park
- Barton Springs
Bartholomew and Big Stacy are the realistic substitutes for a Tarrytown resident who doesn't want to fight Zilker parking. Barton Springs is the obvious one and the wrong one on a hot Tuesday in July.
A Weekly Rhythm That Actually Works This Summer
The point of mapping all of this is that the neighborhood now rewards a slightly different week than it did in 2025. A version that respects the new constraints:
- Monday — Pool is open. Community Kitchen and Teddy's are not. Lap swim, then home cooking, or a Bésame stop on the walk back.
- Tuesday — Pool is closed. This is the day to drive across town to Bartholomew or stay above water entirely. Most Windsor Road kitchens are also dark, so think downtown.
- Wednesday — Pool reopens. Community Kitchen reopens at 4 p.m. A 5:30 swim into a 7 p.m. dinner two blocks away is the cleanest weekday combination available in 78703 this summer.
- Thursday — Same shape as Wednesday. Quieter on the lap side, in my observation, than Mondays.
- Friday — Community Kitchen opens at noon. If you're working from home, a lunch swim and a midday plate is finally possible inside walking distance.
- Saturday — Splash Party Movie Night at dusk. Teddy's brunch in the morning. The full neighborhood day exists.
- Sunday — Brunch is the best version of itself, at either Teddy's or Community Kitchen. The pool is still busy in the afternoon. Use the morning.
That sequence reads like minor logistics. It is. Minor logistics are exactly what residents notice and what relocation guides miss.
What This Adds Up To
The Tarrytown summer story this year is not a new restaurant or a new amenity in isolation. It is a small calendar shift at the neighborhood's most-used public asset that, combined with two openings inside a half-mile, has reorganized which evenings feel like the neighborhood and which feel like a normal Austin Tuesday. The infrastructure was already here. The schedule is what changed.
If you bought your house here in the last five years and have only known the seven-day pool, this is the first summer where planning matters again. If you've lived here long enough to remember the bathhouse restoration finishing in 2007, you've seen the neighborhood absorb bigger shifts than this one. The rhythm will settle. The openings on Windsor will either become weekly habits or they won't, and by Labor Day, you'll know.
For now, the most useful thing a neighbor can tell another neighbor is the one fact the city buried in a press release: no swimming on Tuesdays. Plan around it.
If you're thinking about how Tarrytown fits into a longer chapter, whether that means buying deeper into the neighborhood, listing the home you've outgrown, or quietly comparing this block to the next one over, Christopher Harris Homes builds those conversations around the same kind of specifics this post is built on. Schedule a consultation when you're ready for a calmer, more analytical read on your options.
