Austin Restaurants

If the always-fresh menu and extensive list of wines by the glass do not tempt you, the gems on the dessert cart will. The food is signature Stewart Scruggs, fresh ingredients, perfectly prepared and served simply. A fish entry... more

The menu at Castle Hill Cafe defies categorization at this eclectic spot. Asian, Southwestern, Mexican, Caribbean and European cuisines are blended to create unusual dishes that stimulate your sense of adventure as well as your... more

This is comfort food to please adults and children alike, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You will wait for a table, especially on weekends, but the wait only serves to sharpen the appetite for breakfast tacos and... more

It has been cloned now, three times, but the original location of this Austin icon is still the best place to eavesdrop in town. Its wonderfully diverse menu makes vegetarians and non-vegetarians go happy and healthy. The veget... more

This is a perennial Austin favorite. Some come for the battered fries served with pepper-and-onion-spiked mayonnaise; others for the Chicken-fried Steak with its crispy exterior topped with luscious cream gravy. Everyone has a... more

Spicy food from a variety of origins makes dining in this place a taste-tempting treat. Try the Tea-Smoked Duck, which is finished in a clay oven, or for something more traditional, the Tandoori Chicken. The buzz about Mars wou... more

A passion for friendship, food and wine fed the genesis of Jeffrey's. It continues to endure today. The restaurant first took shape in 1975 when Jeffrey Weinberger and Ron and Peggy Weiss, friends from student days at the Unive... more

Still one of Austin's trendiest restaurants, Vespaio doesn't quite draw the long lines that it did when it first opened in the late 1990s, but the weird policy for reservations -- they're accepted only for early hours on... more

This place has the freshest, best-prepared sushi in town and every Austin aficionado knows it -- which is why, in spite of its inauspicious location (on the southbound access road of Mo-Pac in northwest Austin) and less-... more

This is the most famous interior Mexican restaurant in Austin and perhaps the entire state. It serves classic preparations such as mole poblano and cochinita pibil, which are both prepared beautifully. However, most know... more