Cuantos Tacos serves tremendous Mexico City-style street tacos in East Austin.

Patika Coffee is a coffee shop on South Lamar Boulevard serving excellent pastries and kind of healthy dishes.

The all-day spot Kinda Tropical is part cafe and part bar, with good coffee, cocktails, and a menu that’s well, kind-of-tropical.

The Little Darlin’ in South Austin is a great place to unwind or spend a chill Sunday afternoon on the picnic tables.

There’s a location of Easy Tiger, bake shop and beer garden, in the Linc shopping center in the Highland neighborhood.

Halcyon is an all-day cafe downtown that opened in 2002 before the term “all-day cafe” even existed.

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.

LoLo is a natural wine bar and bottle shop on East 6th Street.

Taco Bronco is a barbecue/taco trailer from the Micklethwait people in the shady backyard of Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches on the East Side.

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

Nixta Taqueria serves some of the best tacos in the city out of a low-key space in East Austin.

Head to the Comedor for upscale Mexican food in a sleek space downtown.

Carpenters Hall is the restaurant in the new Carpenter Hotel near Zilker Park, and it's open all day with a patio and small plates.

Tommy Want Wingy is both a Tommy Boy reference and a food truck at Lustre Pearl on Rainey Street serving lollipop wings with nine different sauces.

Located in the backyard of one of our favorite bars, The Liberty, is East Side Kings, an Asian fusion food truck open late.

Domo Alley-Gato on the East Side is from the Ramen Tatsu-ya team, serves great cocktails, and has a food truck out back, right by their cat shrine.