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Where Austin actually eats· page 3
Every restaurant, taco trailer, coffee bar and cocktail room in town, where Austinites and visitors to Austin can find the best eats.
Épicerie
A Louisiana-inflected café and grocery in Rosedale. Gumbo, a great burger, and cheese to take home.
epicerieaustin.com
Swedish Hill
A bakery and sandwich counter doing serious bread, morning buns and a very good tuna melt.
swedishhillaustin.com
ThunderCloud Subs
Fast, cheap, unchanged sandwiches — and the Turkey Trot the whole city runs on Thanksgiving.
thundercloud.com
Texas French Bread
A rebuilt Hyde Park bakery and dinner room, back after the fire and better than it needed to be.
texasfrenchbread.com
Sour Duck Market
Manor Road all-day market — pastry at eight, a beer garden by six, a smoker running throughout.
sourduckmarket.com
Launderette
A converted laundromat on Holly doing wood-grilled fish, a great burger and the birthday-cake ice cream sandwich.
launderetteaustin.com
June's All Day
The South Congress wine bar Austin treats as a café. Croque madame, a glass at noon, people-watching.
junesallday.com
Elizabeth Street Café
Vietnamese cooking and French pastry in a pink Bouldin cottage. Pho for breakfast, banh mi for later.
elizabethstreetcafe.com
Bouldin Creek Cafe
South First veggie diner since 2000 — the Renedict, bottomless coffee and no hurry at all.
bouldincreekcafe.com
The Steeping Room
A calm tea house doing loose-leaf properly, plus scones and a genuinely good lunch menu.
thesteepingroom.com
Summer Moon Coffee
Wood-fired roasting and the sweet Moon Milk, in patio-heavy shops across the city.
summermooncoffee.com
Cuvée Coffee Bar
East Sixth roaster that put nitro cold brew in a can before most people had tried one.
cuveecoffee.com
Flitch Coffee
A rebuilt 1939 trailer in a Bouldin yard, pouring careful espresso under the trees.
flitchcoffee.com
The Brew & Brew - Austin, TX
Old-school spot in East Austin for coffee, breakfast, brunch, happy hour, beer, and cocktails. Start your day, start your night at Brew and Brew.
thebrewandbrew.com
Bennu Coffee
Open late — often all night — which makes it the study hall for half of east Austin.
bennucoffee.com
Anderson's Coffee Company
A Burnet Road roaster that has been selling beans by the pound since 1974.
andersonscoffee.com
Casa Colombia
Authentic Colombian cuisine on East 7th in Austin, Texas. Scratch kitchen, dog-friendly patio, classic cocktails. Reserve a table or order online.
casa-colombia.com
Tumble 22
Nashville hot chicken with a heat scale that goes further than most people should attempt.
tumble22.com
Lucy's Fried Chicken
Fried chicken, Gulf oysters and cold beer on South Congress and Burnet.
lucysfriedchicken.com
Fixe Austin
Biscuits with cane syrup butter, shrimp and grits, and a downtown room built for a long Sunday.
fixesouthernhouse.com
Bartlett's
A North Austin steakhouse with a great bar snack menu and a patio under old oaks.
bartlettsaustin.com
Clark's Oyster Bar
A small white West Sixth room doing oysters, a lobster roll and a martini exactly right.
clarksoysterbar.com
Garbo's Lobster
A Maine lobster roll a very long way from Maine, and better than that has any right to be.
garboslobster.com
Quality Seafood Market
Fish counter and oyster bar on Airport since 1938. Gumbo, po'boys, and a Friday fish fry.
qualityseafoodmarket.com
Perla's Seafood and Oyster Bar
The South Congress patio under the oaks — oysters, a crisp white, and an hour that gets away from you.
perlasaustin.com
Container Bar
Shipping containers stacked into a Rainey Street bar, each one its own room.
containerbaraustin.com
Mattie's at Green Pastures
Peacocks on the lawn of an 1890s South Austin estate. Fried chicken, a milk punch, and a long afternoon.
mattiesaustin.com
Hotel San José Lounge
A courtyard off South Congress with a queso, a beer and the best people-watching in the city.
sanjosehotel.com
Mouton's Bistro & Bar
Cajun and Creole cooking on Lakeline — gumbo, étouffée and po'boys, with live jazz at weekend brunch.
moutonsbistro.com
Whitestone Brewery
Cedar Park's craft taproom: a dog-friendly patio, a rotating food truck and a daily happy hour.
whitestonebrewery.com
Jack Allen's Kitchen
Spirited Texan cooking across the northern suburbs — chicken-fried anything, and a patio in Cedar Park and Round Rock.
jackallenskitchen.com
Aleida's Restaurant
Pan-Latin cooking in Cedar Park with a Venezuelan heart. The arepas and empanadas are the order.
aleidasrestaurant.shop
Dahlia Cafe
Hand-breaded chicken-fried steak and homemade pie, a short run up 1869 from Leander.
dahliacafe.com
Lupe Tortilla
Texas-Mex since 1983: fajitas marinated in lime, and tortillas made where you can see them.
lupetortilla.com
Smokey Mo's BBQ
Neighbourhood Central Texas barbecue smoked in house daily, from Leander down through Round Rock.
smokeymosbbq.com
Round Rock Donuts
The enormous orange doughnut people drive up 35 for, from a counter that opens before dawn.
roundrockdonuts.com
Salt Traders Coastal Cooking
Gulf seafood done seriously in Round Rock — oysters, whole fish and a very good fried shrimp.
salttraderscc.com
Pinthouse
A 13,000 square foot Round Rock brewpub: award-winning IPAs and a pizza worth ordering on its own merits.
pinthouse.com
Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar
Farm-to-table plates, a wood grill and the namesake dessert, on the frontage road north of town.
whiskeycake.com
Monument Cafe
A 1940s-style diner on South Austin Avenue doing scratch cooking and pie from its own farm.
themonumentcafe.com
Wildfire
On the Georgetown Square since 1997 — mesquite-grilled steaks, wild game and a proper saloon.
wildfiretexas.com
Plaka Greek Cafe
Gyros and imported-ingredient Greek plates that Georgetown has voted its best year after year.
plakagreekcafe.com
Brotherton's Black Iron Barbecue
A strip-mall pit that landed on the Texas Monthly Top 50 — brisket worth leaving Austin for.
pflugervillebarbecue.com
The Victory Tap
Downtown Pflugerville's living room: twenty taps, enormous burgers and a brunch people plan around.
thevictorytap.com
Taste of Ethiopia
Family-run since 2008 — doro wot, kitfo and injera meant to be eaten with everyone reaching in.
tasteofethiopiaaustin.com
Good Luck Grill
Manor's own diner — burgers, catfish and chicken-fried steak, cooked by people who know the regulars.
goodluckgrill.com
Southside Market & Barbeque
Post-oak brisket and the original beef sausage, from a market that has been at it since 1882.
southsidemarket.com
Phoebe's Diner
All-day breakfast on South First — pancakes, a great patty melt and coffee that keeps coming.
phoebesdiner.com
Sugar Mama's Bakeshop
Cupcakes, pie and a very good chocolate chip cookie from a pink South First storefront.
sugarmamasbakeshop.com
Aviator Pizza & Drafthouse
Big pies, a long draft list and room for the whole soccer team, south of the river and out in Pflugerville.
aviatorpizza.com