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- The Driskill Bar, Austin
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- La Traviata, Austin
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- Numero28, Austin
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- Andiamo Ristorante, Austin
#322 of 1,921 Restaurants in Austin $$ - $$$, Italian,...
- The Driskill Bar, Austin
- Lutie’s Garden Restaurant. Best for an upscale date night. While there are plenty of beautiful restaurants in Austin (and Lutie’s certainly is a showstopper with the dozens of plants hanging from the ceiling!)
- Birdie’s. Best For A Chic Weeknight Dinner With Friends. One of the best wine bars in Austin (and an absolute charmer!!) , Birdie’s is this adorable wine garden and kitchen in far east Austin.
- Dai Due. Best for brunch or a date night dinner. This might be the most one-of-a-kind restaurant in Austin... or in the entire state of Texas, for that matter.
- Franklin BBQ. Best for a weekend lunch. Even if you’re not familiar with the Austin dining scene, you’ve heard of Franklin Barbecue. It’s been called the best barbecue in the world by Bon Appetit, and Aaron Franklin won a James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef: Southwest.
Jul 9, 2024 · The 38 Essential Restaurants in Austin. A guide to the city's defining restaurants spanning all cuisines, neighborhoods, and price ranges. by Nadia Chaudhury and Erin Russell Updated Jul 9,...
- 1 / Odd Duck
- 2 / Suerte
- 3 / Otoko
- 4 / Nixta Taqueria
- 5 / Kemuri Tatsu-Ya
- 6 / Cuantos Tacos
- 7 / Sammie’s
- 8 / Better Half Coffee & Cocktails
- 9 / Franklin Barbecue
- 10 / Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ
Regarding his menu, chef-partner Bryce Gilmore likes to say: “Everything has the potential to change.” Yet, that’s a mighty big understatement from the James Beard Award nominee, whose culinary attention span is like a cat chasing a laser pointer. Because of his close working relationship with local farmers and purveyors, today’s charred eggplant b...
Corn is king at a number of modern Mexican eateries today, but Suerteexecutive chef Fermín Núñez might be its most trusted courtier. Taking dried red kernels from Richardson Farms, as well as a white heirloom variety from Barton Springs Mill, the Torreón, Mexico, native nixtamalizes each ear and turns them into fragrant masa that becomes the base f...
Kyoto-born Yoshi Okai made his way to Austin via San Francisco chasing the music scene, and you can still see that influence in the chef’s approach to sushi inside his futuristic 12-seat tasting counter at the South Congress Hotel. While he does serve a seasonal 20-course omakase menu that’s structured kaiseki-style, with fish flown in primarily fr...
Two years ago, before chef Edgar Rico opened Nixta Taqueria with partner Sara Mardanbigi, he’d tell people that the menu would be predominantly vegetarian and vegan. “You mean you’re not gonna have carnitas or carne asada?” they’d ask.“In Texas?” But, according to Rico, “If you can make a vegetable taste as good as a piece of meat, then you’re doin...
Expertly melding the bones of a Texas barbecue joint with a Japanese izakaya, chef-owner Tatsu Aikawa (of Ramen Tatsu-ya fame) has somehow managed to wrangle the flavors of wood smoke, Tex-Mex, yakitori, sashimi, and a whiskey tumblers’ worth of stoner food into their honky-tonk-by-way-of-Tokyo. Instead of Frito pie, you get chili cheese takoyaki b...
Consider Luis “Beto” Robledo the keeper of the comal—the convex stainless-steel pan seen so often at iconic taco stands in Mexico City. Because it was there, in what Robledo calls the “mecca of street tacos,” where his life changed forever. A classically trained chef from Austin who’d launched a short-lived Japanese-Mexican fusion project, Robledo ...
McGuire Moorman Lambert Hospitality has a history of taking over historic spots (see Swedish Hill and Jeffrey’s), but when co-founder Larry McGuire dared to adopt the former home of Hut’s Hamburgers, an 80-year-old institution, the cries of outrage reached a fever pitch. Knowing he could never replace the sentimental waft of Dagburgers and peppered...
When Better Half’s trio of owners first moved into their Clarksville digs in 2018, Matthew Bolick says there was a bit of an intimidation factor to the neighborhood. Coming from the laid-back confines of their East Side coffee shop, Brew & Brew, the regular sight of Maseratis and a well-coiffed clientele had them hesitating on what they did best. O...
The incontrovertible truth is that Franklin Barbecue makes the best danged barbecue on the planet. It’s also very true that waiting in that epic line (especially during the summer months) is just an enormous pain in the a**. In fact, that four-plus hour rite of passage is so daunting, that camping out for Aaron Franklin’s peppery-crusted pork ribs,...
Using mesquite over the more traditional post oak was never a conscious decision for pitmaster Miguel Vidal. Even though the former burns hotter and is notoriously difficult to tame, it’s what Vidal had grown up using in South San Antonio. So, there it crackles inside his smoker, imparting what he describes as a “sweet, burnt chocolate brownie arom...
Feb 15, 2024 · You're never far from a place that overdelivers; these are the best restaurants in Austin. Read our complete Austin travel guide here.
- Mandy Ellis
Top 10 Best Restaurants Near Austin, Texas - With Real Reviews. Sort:Recommended. 1. All. Price. Open Now. Reservations. Offers Online Waitlist. Offers Delivery. Offers Takeout. 1. Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill. 4.4 (6.1k reviews) Southern. Breakfast & Brunch. Cocktail Bars. $$Downtown. This is a placeholder.
These are the highest-rated restaurants and food trucks in Austin—the ones we’d brave the summer heat or a winter freeze to get to. Food and experience are both taken into consideration, and any type of dining establishment is fair game.
