Fixe specializes in upscale Southern food from a spacious downtown location.

Dai Due Taqueria - an offshoot of the East Austin butcher shop/restaurant - makes al pastor and breakfast tacos in the downtown food hall Fareground.

Patika Luncheonette is tucked away on the ground floor of the 100 Congress building downtown, serving very good coffee and lunch.

Attached to Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop in the Warehouse District, Juan Pelota Cafe is a biking community hub and coffee shop with a good Happy Hour.

This Merit Coffee location in the Seaholm district is a great place to meet up with people or get some work done downtown.

The downtown location of Caffe Medici in the Austonian is very modern-looking, and the coffee is excellent.

The coffee shop Houndstooth in downtown in the base of the Frost Bank Tower serves some of the best coffee in town.

The downtown location of Epoch Coffee is a modern experience – all glass, concrete, and blonde wood.

Alta's Cafe is an under-the-radar cafe downtown that’s right on the trails near the Convention Center in the Waller Creek Boathouse.

In the middle of the lobby of the Line Hotel downtown is a walk-up counter location of Alfred, a mini-chain of trendy coffee shops out of LA.

The Peacock Mediterranean Grill is an all-day restaurant in the Austin Proper Hotel downtown.

Hestia is the new restaurant downtown with a wood-fired grill from the Emmer & Rye people.

Kalimotxo is the downtown Spanish-inspired bar serving pintxos from the people behind Emmer & Rye.

Dirty Bill's is a small, dark bar downtown that's full of regulars, and gets rowdier than you'd expect for a dive bar.

The Tavern downtown is one of the best places to post up at the bar - order a drink and the messy but fantastic burger, and watch whatever’s on TV.

This dive bar on Dirty 6th has one of our favorite burgers in the city.