Bigger-than-they-look scoops add points to the scoreboard for this paradigm of local, independent franchises.
The foie gras doesn't come with barbecue sauce, but at least they have Californian wine.
Ask for a fork if you're not feeling primal at this Ethiopian restaurant with a learned location.
A triple threat of cheese, meat, and wine fuels community-building oratories.
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.
The piano man keeps it classy for blue-hairs and Audi drivers who frequent this cheery, family-owned restaurant.
- Clay Pit
- University
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INDIAN, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
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Outwit university students by ordering your fix of tikka masala from the bar's surehanded drink-slingers.
- Cru
- Downtown
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ASIAN, FRENCH, PIZZA, SOUTHWEST
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A wine-bar chain, yes, but a superbly situated one with a staff trained to abet you in harmonizing eats and vino.
Look past the crumbs and non-complimentary chips and salsa to the tantalizing breakfast tacos that make sleeping in a chore.
Puff, puff, give ... yourself a dope-inspired pizza and tie-dyed tee.
- Eastside Café
- East Austin
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HEALTH FOOD, NEW AMERICAN, SEAFOOD, SOUPS/SANDWICHES
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This veteran of Eastside’s “restaurant row” will have you and Mom swooning over its organic, New American fare.
Weepy, conservative, old broads almost tear their faces apart in smile from the surf and turf.
A kaleidoscope of margaritas, Mexican cooking with a gourmet edge, and roasted-jalapeno salsa that sets the record straight.
- Fino
- University
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AMERICAN (NOUVEAU), MEDITERRANEAN, SEAFOOD, SOUPS/SANDWICHES
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Bamboo window shades protect the pretty-people happy-hour set while dates share paella for two.
Where the morning after can become the night before all over again thanks to Nutella and bananas.
The James Beard House is partial to the Interior Mexican comida comprising this divine brunch.
Keep this Design Within Reach-inspired breakfast, lunch, and dinner spot like a secret.
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.
Meats for hoagies the likes of the Tony Danza are imported from Philly and Italy.
The butcher-paper serving trays are for drool pools sprung from Mother Dorothy's soulful southern-comfort recipes.
The only rattlesnakes found in this limestone farmhouse are on a plate.
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