Restaurants in Texas
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Salt Lick BBQ
Many people say the Salt Lick is well worth the drive for the vast Hill Country horizons seen from its rustic outdoor tables. The family-style meal includes all-you-can-eat beef, sausage, pork ribs and sides. There’s also live music on weekends.
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Güero’s Taco Bar
Oh, Güero’s, how we love you. Why must you make us wait? Well, clearly it’s because of the three million other hungry people crammed into your bar area. Still, we’ll try to be patient, because we love the atmosphere lent by the century-old former feed-and-seed store, and because we have an obsessive craving for your chicken tortilla soup.
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Joe T Garcia’s
The most famous restaurant in Fort Worth, this fourth-generation place takes up a city block. Dinners (choose between fajitas or a family-style combo plate) in the candlelit walled courtyard are magical, as Mexican-tile fountains bubble among the acres of tropical foliage. On weekends the line (no reservations!) often stretches around the block.
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County Line
Unless you have an enormous appetite, there’s no need to splurge on the all-you-can-eat meals. Most of the combos and platters of delicious ribs, brisket and sausage are – truly – all you can eat. We love the lakeside location (enjoy a beer on the dock while you wait) and the lake-lodge decor.
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Polvos
Fun, festive and just a little divey, Polvos serves central-Mexican food that always packs in a crowd. Try some of the dozen or so salsa varieties with one of the fierce margaritas.
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Angry Dog
Workers crowd in at lunchtime for the unbeatable burgers at this saloon, whose pedigree includes best wings, hot dogs, bar food and hangover therapy for several years running.
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Casa de Luz
A peaceful commune feel wafts from Casa De Luz, where the set macrobiotic, organic, gluten-free - yet somehow tasty - meal changes at each sitting (daily menu posted on web).
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Shady Grove Restaurant
‘Do you want inside or out?’ Really, what kind of question is that? We came for the shady patio, like everyone else. The lodgelike stone building is fine if it’s raining, or if you’re too hungry to wait, but outdoors under the pecan trees is prime real estate for enjoying everything from chili cheese fries to the vegetarian Hippie Sandwich.
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Indika
One of the best Indian restaurants in Texas, or maybe in the whole South. OK, we’ll fess up – we have a crush on Indika. The alluring dining room sets the tone for the sublime Indian food here, a fusion of authentic tastes and adventurous preparations, such as crabmeat samosas with papaya ginger chutney. Great happy hour and Sunday brunch.
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Threadgill’s World Headquarters
Taking home cooking to a gluttonous new level, Threadgill’s lets you choose from a ridiculously long list of vegetable sides – something you just don’t get at home. Pair your meatloaf or chicken-fried steak with spinach casserole, butter beans, mac and cheese (not technically a vegetable, but still) and classic mashed potatoes and gravy.
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Schilo’s German Delicatessen
Schilo’s has certainly earned its ambience: this German restaurant has been around since 1917, and looks the part, down to the wooden booths and the elaborate pattern of the hexagonal floor tiles. Specialties include wonderful split-pea soup, fresh pumpernickel bread, German beer and homemade root beer.
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Tila's Restaurante & Bar
Tila's stands out from similar Houston establishments by combining Central-Mexican recipes with interesting ingredients, resulting in unusual dishes like brie and pear quesadillas. The dining rooms have a rustic, faux-painted flair and there's a patio just perfect for that pre-dinner margarita.
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Haven
Houston’s first LEED-certified restaurant cooks up farm-to-table cuisine that’s so fresh your grandma would slap it. An adventurous menu puts a mod spin on Texas comfort foods, such as free-range devilled eggs, peanut-crusted soft-shell crab with okra and Hill Country wild-boar chili.
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Trudy’s Texas Star
Get your Tex-Mex fix here; the menu is consistently good, with several healthier-than-usual options. But we’ll let you in on a little secret: this place could serve beans and dirt and people would still line up for the margaritas, which might very well be the best in Austin.
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Hobbit Hole Cafe
You don’t have to be a Lord of the Rings fan to geek out over this adorable woodsy hideaway with enticing veggie options. What would Frodo order? Probably the Gandalf sandwich or the curry chicken salad, guaranteed to fortify against orc attacks.
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Shady Grove
This 1940s state-park replica, complete with Airstream trailer and metal-lawn-chair kitsch, makes a great place to hang out. Munch on black-bean burritos under lights strung between pecan trees. Thursday night April to November unplugged musicians play.
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La Duni Latin Café
- Dallas, USA
- Restaurants › Café
Fried plantains topped with black beans and beef are just the beginning. All the dishes at this upmarket, modern eatery have a Spanish accent, if not a specific country of origin. La Duni blends European traditions with Latin American soul.
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Rib Hut
Go all caveman-like and join the UTEP crowd over a serious plate of ribs in this funky little A-frame building with typical campus-adjacent decor. Wednesday night is packed for rib night, when ribs are $1.75 each.
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Lambert’s
Torn between barbecue and fine dining? Lambert’s serves intelligent updates of American comfort-food classics – some might call it ‘uppity barbecue’ – in a historic stone building run by Austin chef Lou Lambert.
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Mi Tierra Café
Red-velvet booths, colorful streamers, guitar-playing troubadours, a colorful pan dulce (sweet pastry) counter - this Market Sq veteran is touristed, but tops for pageantry à la Mexicana.
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Magnolia Cafe
In Westlake, opposite Deep Eddy Cabaret, this casual, all-night cafe serves American and Tex-Mex standbys such as migas, enchiladas, pancakes and potato scrambles. It gets absurdly crowded on weekends.
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Esperanza's Panaderia y Café
Breakfasts here are real Mexican - pulled chicken tops the breakfast migas (eggs scrambled with tortilla strips) or you could have machacado (spiced dried beef) with those sunny side ups.
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East Side Cafe
- Austin, USA
- Restaurants › Café
Expect earthfresh ingredients in the peach-strawberry soup or veggie enchiladas; you can walk through the herb and vegetable garden behind the whitewashed wood house. (And yes, there are meat dishes too.)
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Hut's Hamburgers
Choose from regular beef, natural grass-fed cattle or buffalo meat for your burger at this Austin roadhouse (it was opened in 1939). Southern mains, like chicken-fried steak, are pretty good too.
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Chicos Tacos
With several locations, Chicos Tacos specializes in its namesake fare – with lots of garlic. Expect a crowd from about 10pm to midnight, when El Pasoans citywide experience a collective craving.
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