Oct 5, 2026 | 3:30 pm
The scent of freshly baked bread will once again fill the former Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe space. Austin-based mini-chain Swedish Hill is opening its first San Antonio location in the Sunset Ridge shopping center at 6322 N. New Braunfels Ave. near Alamo Heights.
The current version of the café first debuted in 2019, but its history stretches back to the ‘70s. Original owners Patricia Bauer-Slate and Tom Neuhaus first opened the bakery as Sweetish Hill in 1975, converting a Victorian-era house in East Austin. The business later moved closer to downtown in 1991 with Jim Murphy on board as a partner.
In 2018, it looked like the business was going to close for good, but prolific Austin restaurateurs MML Hospitality (then McGuire Moorman) took over the reins. Though the group revamped the decor and the name, it kept the basic formula the same — with some new additions from an opening team comprised of baker Jennifer Tucker, acclaimed Austin pastry chef Alex Manley, and Page Pressley, now the proprietor of The Newstand on Broadway…