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Bigger-than-they-look scoops add points to the scoreboard for this paradigm of local, independent franchises.

Misty May-Treanors and Kerri Walshes in training play sports while ESPN broadcasters in training react to them.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world at the motel with the phallus-looking sign out front.

Bartenders as patrons guarantee heavy pours from this converted gas station with a double identity.

Loud crowds under the mighty oaks channel customer-service skills for which they tip generously.

This Berkeley on a creek bed is where vegans ply their trade among the great unbathed.

The wooden mallet thingie is for making tortillas, not shutting up the little kid keeping you from your New Yorker.

Look past the crumbs and non-complimentary chips and salsa to the tantalizing breakfast tacos that make sleeping in a chore.

Large, loud groups down local craft beer at some grease monkey's former garage.

Couples short on compromise narrowly avert crises thanks to two TVs, cooked-to-order breakfast, and equidistant distances to daily activities.

The "straight" community likes strip-club variety too, especially when there's across-the-board liquid courage.

Where the morning after can become the night before all over again thanks to Nutella and bananas.

Myriad time-killers are under your thumb at this dive-bar beer emporium, so long as the owner isn't charging you $10 for a PBR tallboy.

Well-mannered preps are as prevalent as the peafowl roaming the grounds.

All walks of life intermingle over queso flameado and tacos al pastor at South Congress epicenter.

Cupcakes that sell like hotcakes provide boosts to South Congress shoppers and the post-coital.

Warmed-up pot brownies and chilled post-ACL Fest beers are only a short pedicab ride out of Zilker Park.

Where the drinks have as much character as the grizzled telephone repairman's pool game.

A modern, bungalow-style hotel whose Shangri-La courtyard is base camp for the South Congress attractions nearby.

Guests frolic in the postcard-sized pool while you eat, drink, and ... type.

The face-lifted lobby lounge has a most-expansive skyline view for fried paddle-boaters.

South Congress passerby and dogs in costumes needing to relieve themselves justify hot coffee in the outdoor heat.

The Pepsi alternative to 24-hour pancakes sweetens the deal with its dedicated bakery.

This "Sorry, we're open" cafe counterbalances cups of mud with Eggs Zapatino and Tempur-Pedic mattresses.

The South Austin Taco Queen makes faithful freaks and families mas fuerte every weekend morning.

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