Hotel Havana

The opening of a new Bunkhouse hotel, by the Austin-based hotelier Liz Lambert, is news around Texas, naturally, but it’s also news beyond the borders of the erstwhile Republic — there are people, to be frank, for whom San Antonio has just become an option, now that the Hotel Havana is open. Our point isn’t to talk Texas down; the fact that there’s a network of quality small hotels spreading south and west is a testament to the sophistication of the Lone Star State.