Ask a longtime member what's for dinner at the club this weekend and there's a decent chance they'll still say "let's grab a table at Creekside." That restaurant closed. The room it lived in reopened in December as Veranda, the last piece of a renovation that started before most people were paying attention and finished quietly enough that plenty of Lost Creek residents haven't set foot in it yet.
That gap between what changed and what people know changed is the story here. Not a list of new amenities, but the fact that a three year renovation just wrapped at the neighborhood's country club, and the club itself doesn't share a name with the neighborhood anymore. If you live on Lost Creek Boulevard and haven't been out to the club since before the pandemic wound down, you're walking into a building that kept its address and lost almost everything else.
Three Phases, One Long Runway
The project that ended in December 2025 started in November 2022, and it moved in a sequence most residents experienced piecemeal rather than all at once. Phase one redid the golf course, working with World Golf Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins to rebuild the greens and bunkers from the ground up. Phase two turned to the tennis and fitness side, resurfacing courts and adding eight new pickleball courts to a facility that hadn't kept pace with how many members had picked up the sport. Phase three, the one that just finished, rebuilt the clubhouse itself: new lobby, reimagined locker rooms, and a dining program that got renamed twice in the telling of it.
That staggered timeline matters more than it sounds like it should. A member who golfed through 2023 saw a transformed course but ate dinner in a construction zone. A member who joined for tennis in 2024 got new courts but an old, worn dining room. Only someone walking in for the first time this year sees the finished version, which is part of why the renovation still feels unfinished to people who've technically watched the whole thing happen.
Regional general manager Zac Wellner put the intent behind it simply: the goal was "elevating the member experience" while leaning into the site's natural setting along Barton Creek. Three years is a long time to hold that thought together across three separate construction phases, and it shows in how disconnected the individual updates felt while they were happening.
What Actually Changed Where You Already Go
The specifics land differently depending on which part of a typical week you're picturing.
The morning coffee run. Dora's Casita sits between the first and tenth tee boxes, housed in what used to be a chicken coop from the property's ranch days. It's a breakfast taco and jalapeño margarita stop now, the kind of place you duck into at the turn rather than plan a visit around. It's small, it's converted, and it's easy to miss if nobody tells you it's there.
The after work or after match stop. The Roost sits above the pool and tennis courts and got a full redo as part of the second phase: more shaded seating, a larger bar, weather resistant shade walls, and a calendar that now includes live music, trivia nights, and a running wine club called The Lost Vine. This is the space built for the in between hours, not the special occasion.
The night you actually plan for. Veranda is the one that took three years to arrive. It replaced Creekside entirely, doubled the restaurant's seating, and expanded onto a wraparound balcony. Community Impact's reporting on the completed project described it as the piece that finished off the entire reinvestment, the room the whole renovation had been building toward.
| Old name | What it became | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Creekside | Veranda | Doubled seating, expanded patio, new interior finish |
| (no prior equivalent) | Dora's Casita | New taco and drink stop built into a former ranch structure |
| Prior poolside bar | The Roost | Larger bar, shade structures, added event programming |
None of this required a membership upgrade or a special invitation. It required showing up, which is exactly what a good number of Lost Creek residents haven't done yet, because the finished version of the club is barely nine months old.
The Neighborhood Kept Its Name. The Club Didn't.
Here's the part that trips people up even after the renovation: the club is called Westlake Country Club now, not Lost Creek Country Club, even though the physical address is still 2612 Lost Creek Boulevard and the neighborhood around it is still Lost Creek. That rename happened during the renovation, back when the ownership group, Invited, decided a project this large deserved a new identity to go with it.
It's a small thing until you're the person giving directions to a houseguest, telling them to look up Westlake Country Club when their GPS is sitting on a street called Lost Creek. Longtime residents adjusted years ago. Anyone newer to the neighborhood, or anyone who hasn't had a reason to mention the club by name in a while, is going to hit that mismatch eventually.
It's also a useful reminder of how much can change at an amenity everyone assumes they already know. The neighborhood association still uses Lost Creek in its name. The limited district that maintains the entrance and community parks still uses Lost Creek in its name. The club, the thing most people actually associate with daily life here, quietly stepped outside that naming convention while the rest of the community held onto it.
Part of a Wider Pattern, Not an Isolated One
Westlake Country Club wasn't the only west Austin club mid-transformation over the past few years. Twin Creeks Country Club finished its own multimillion dollar dining and lounge renovation in early 2025, following an earlier update to its family activities center. River Place Country Club wrapped tennis center renovations in 2025 and has clubhouse work planned for this year. Lakecliff Racquet Club changed ownership in December and is restriping courts for pickleball along with adding wellness features like a cold plunge and red light therapy.
None of that is competition in the sense that matters to a Lost Creek resident. It's more evidence that the club renovation cycle happening in this specific neighborhood is part of a broader recalibration across west Austin's private clubs, most of it aimed at the same thing: keeping up with how members actually want to spend an evening now versus a decade ago. Pickleball courts and expanded outdoor dining aren't unique to one club. They're what members across the corridor have been asking for.
What This Means If You Live Here
If you're a member, the practical move is simple: go see Veranda before you keep calling it Creekside out of habit. If you're not a member but live nearby, the renovation is worth knowing about anyway, if only because it changes what "the club" means when neighbors bring it up at a block party or over the fence. The building didn't get a facelift. It got a new floor plan, a new restaurant, a new outdoor bar, and a name that no longer matches the street it sits on.
Three years is long enough that the finished version can feel like old news and brand new information at the same time, depending on when you last walked through the door. For a neighborhood built around the idea that not much changes here, that's a bigger shift than it looks like from the outside.
If you're curious what else has shifted in Lost Creek recently, or you'd like a walkthrough of how the neighborhood's amenities stack up against nearby west Austin communities, The Drewett Group knows this corridor well and is happy to talk through it, no obligation attached.
