Local food & hospitality news and services in Austin, TX.
Operators on Barton Springs Road, South Lamar, and South Congress tallied two weekends of 450,000 festivalgoers. The "ACL is a bonanza" story doesn't hold up against their numbers.
Before you book, here's what 10 participating restaurants' menus cost dish by dish, with every fee included and which prix fixe deals are real.
We called 25 Austin restaurants this summer. Some pass the money to cooks. Some keep it. Texas law doesn't require them to tell you which.
Leases signed during the post-pandemic recovery are hitting renewal windows. The numbers operators are getting back bear little resemblance to what they signed. Add pandemic debt that never went aw…
Most "best of" lists haven't been updated since 2023. We called every major spot, talked to the pitmasters, and documented what the scene actually looks like in 105-degree July. This is a map of wh…
We called and visited every Austin-area taproom on this list. Here's what's actually pouring this summer — and which well-known names have gone dark since 2024.
From City of Austin permits to commissary contracts to summer generator loads — here's what permit offices, commissary kitchens, and working operators told us.
We did the neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis. Flagged what still needs your phone call before you walk out the door.
No outlet has revisited Austin's food hall boom since the opening-day press coverage. We counted the empty stalls, called the operators, and asked the question nobody asks: is this a restaurant or …
Every summer, the Austin Food and Wine Alliance publishes its list of participating restaurants, local media runs the press release, and thousands of diners book tables assuming they're getting a d…
The closures aren't random. They're a lease-vintage problem hitting a specific cohort of operators at the worst possible moment, and the worst of it is happening right now.
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