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Austin Restaurants + Food
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items Been living in Austin 10+ years! Here's the stuff I love to order.
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This may be the best BBQ in Austin (it's my #1) and you won't have to wait in an hours-long line on hot asphalt. Instead, the charmingly painted Micklethwait trailer is located in the backyard of Saddle Up, a bar + cafe combo where you grab a drink i...
Micklethwait - Austin Craft Meats Barbecue & Catering
Elevated yet comforting and wildly delicious Korean fare. You can't go wrong with a bibimbap here, they're incredible, but one of my favorite entrees here is the hwedup bap, a bowl with honeycrisp apple, rice, perilla, gochujang, a ginger soy vinaigr...
Oseyo
Sa-Ten gets so much of my money. Their Japanese food menu is restaurant quality and variety of Japanese and other Asian drinks are always on point, including a rotating selection of seasonal drinks unlike anything else in Austin. Their milk bread toa...
Sa-Tén Coffee
A generous, piping hot bowl of ramen is one of my favorite dinners for cold weather, and Michi's ramen selection is hearty and satisfying no matter your taste; I’m partial to the Sapporo.
But for most of the year in Austin that’s decidedly not chil...
Michi Ramen
Really into chicken biscuits? Bird Bird Biscuit's the one for you! With a menu of *big* indulgent chicken biscuits (big biscuits and big pieces of very good fried chicken both) topped with all sorts of delicious accoutrement--black pepper honey, baco...
Bird Bird Biscuit
Coastal Mexican cuisine is one of my weaknesses. El Marisquero's exceptional, restaurant quality selection is served in a truck behind a gas station on a main stretch of highway cutting through downtown Austin. The quesadilla el marisquero is messy, ...
El Marisquero
Tony's is so, *so* good. There are no downsides, just personal faves: I love the curry goat and oxtail--both so savory and fall-apart tender--the deliciously caramelized plantains, and fresh, hot beef patties.
Tony's Jamaican Food
This little trailer in the parking lot of a convenience store off Pleasant Valley Ave in serving up some of the most OMG-worthy dishes I've ever had from an Austin food truck. The catracho chicken, served on plantains with cabbage and pickled onions ...
Sabor a Honduras
Hawaiian Bros' menu may be simple and small but it's no less satisfying for its brevity. The various sweet'n'savory chicken options, as well as the Hawaiian pulled pork, are indulgent without being greasy or overly heavy. I was skeptical of the macar...
Hawaiian Bros Island Grill
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