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Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ
Valentina’s serves a beautiful fusion of Austin's greatest cuisines: Tex-Mex and barbecue.
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Black's Barbecue
Black's Barbecue on Guadalupe by UT brings in barbecue that's smoked at the original location in Lockhart.
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The Roosevelt Room
Roosevelt Room is where you go for excellent, low-key cocktails downtown.
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Brotherton’s Black Iron Barbecue
Brotherton's is a strip mall barbecue spot in Pflugerville making excellent Central Texas-style barbecue and sandwiches.
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Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
Lamberts serves barbecue out out of an exceptionally good-looking brick building downtown.
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Barley Swine
Barley Swine serves a seasonal tasting menu of Texas-inspired bites, and is one of Austin’s original trailer-turned-restaurant success stories.
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LeRoy And Lewis Barbecue
LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue serves less conventional cuts of meat that are so good, you’ll forget all about brisket for a little while.
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Geraldine’s
When you need to escape the craziness of Rainey Street, head to Geraldine’s inside Hotel Van Zandt for upscale Southern food and nightly live music.
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Suerte
Suerte is an upscale Mexican spot on East Sixth with a buzzy dining room and excellent tortillas.
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Franklin Barbecue
Franklin Barbecue in East Austin has earned a reputation as the best place for smoked brisket in the entire country, and rightfully so.
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La Condesa
Take a big group to La Condesa for a colorful space, modern Mexican food, and great margaritas.
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Matt’s El Rancho
Going out for Tex-Mex at Matt's El Rancho in South Austin is like time traveling back to a simpler time, when gluten-free bread and nut milks didn't exist.
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Where To Eat & Drink With Out-Of-Towners
Austin’s best places for impressing out-of-towners.
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Carnitas El Guero
Carnitas El Guero, inside the Stassney Foodmart/Texaco on Stassney in South Austin, serves excellent carnitas tacos.
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Kemuri Tatsu-Ya
Kemuri Tatsu-ya is a Japanese-meets-Texas Izakaya/barbecue restaurant in East Austin.
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Emmer & Rye
Emmer & Rye’s seasonal small plates and beautiful space make it one of our favorite restaurants for a special occasion, and the best reason to visit Rainey Street.
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Micklethwait Craft Meats
Micklethwait is serving up excellent smoked meats and creative sides out of a vintage trailer in East Austin.
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DipDipDip Tatsu-Ya
DipDipDip Tatsu-Ya is an upscale hot pot restaurant on Burnet from the Ramen Tatsu-ya team.
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Interstellar BBQ
Interstellar BBQ in northwest Austin has quickly established itself as a great options for barbecue.