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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Black’s Barbecue
A longtime Lockhart favorite since 1932, with sausage so good Lyndon Johnson had Black’s cater a party at the nation’s capital.
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Chisholm Trail Bar-B-Q
Chisholm Trail has been named one of the top 10 barbecue restaurants in the state by Texas Monthly magazine.
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Mozart’s Coffee Roasters
Out on Lake Austin you’ll find a great waterfront view and a sinful dessert case.
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Ruggles Grill
Houston’s original green restaurant is a dietary-restriction-friendly Montrose phenomenon. Local, organic ingredients shine in creative dishes such as butternut hemp ravioli and agave-glazed pork chops. The answer to one of life’s most agonizing questions, ‘Do you want dessert?’ should be a resounding ‘Yes’ here. (Chocolate crème brûlée, red velvet cake and a low-fat tres leches.)
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Brasil
Fresh soups, such as sweet potato and fresh thyme, paired with salads and pizzas. Decadent cheesecakes and nightly drink specials. Oh Brasil, what don’t you offer? Retreat to the shaded back patio for an artsy scene full of writers, professors, and bright-eyed dilettantes engrossed in their laptops, cigarettes, and red wine. Watch for offbeat movies that screen most evenings.
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Baba Yega
Grilled salmon and fruit blintzes overflow the Sunday buffet brunch (a bargain at $18.95) in this pretty garden bungalow cafe that’s named after a witchy character in Slavic folklore. Plenty of TLC for vegetarians – such as a veggie meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes – balanced with good burgers and homemade peanut-butter pie mean that all appetites will happily coexist here.
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Empire Café
A classic fixture of the Montrose neighborhood and one of the best all-day breakfasts in town, the Empire’s a jack of all trades that manages to excel at everything: coffee, lunch, evening cocktails… We like to sit on the shady patio with a slice of luscious lemon poppy cake – or maybe the Chocolate Blackout. With half-price cake night on Monday, why not order both?
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Chuy’s Spanish Inn
Hungry? Stop off for a little Tex-Mex at Chuy’s Spanish Inn. It’s right on the highway, so you can’t miss it. Chuy’s has earned a place in ‘Madden’s Haul of Fame,’ so named by US football broadcaster John Madden. Because he won’t fly, the well-traveled Madden spends a lot of time crossing the US by bus, and this is one of his favorite restaurants.
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Josephine Street
The neon signs in the front window advertise ‘steak’ and ‘whisky.’ There’s a tree growing up through the floor and out the ceiling of the dining room. And the creaky hardwood floors slant more than a little. This isn’t the place for fussy foodies. It is, however, the place for anyone who wants good steak and seafood – hold the fine-dining ambience and prices.
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Green Vegetarian Cuisine
Vegetarians all around the city must’ve breathed a sigh of contentment when this cafe opened up. It’s the only place in town (at least at the time of research) that’s 100% vegetarian, and it’s 100% kosher to boot. With dishes such as basil mint pecan pesto pasta, avocado eggs Benedict, and ‘neatloaf, ’ it’s the kind of place even a meat-eater can enjoy.
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Magic Pan Restaurant
Not to be confused with the crepe chain of the same name, this cute little courtyard cafe is a treat. By day, enjoy ultrafresh soups, salads and sandwiches under the shade trees on the breezy patio. At night, it takes on more of a fine-dining tone, with twinkle lights illuminating said shade trees and an upscale menu ranging from paella to tenderloin.
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Zodiac
For more than 50 years, the classic downtown lunch spot for Dallas ladies who shop – and anyone else who wants to experience the tradition. Attentive waiters bustle about, soothing and pampering diners with hot consommé, popovers with strawberry butter and elegant salads. This is legit old-school Dallas, and it doesn’t need to put on airs.
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