ThanX Austin
28 Dec 2025Texas is special. ThanksAustinGiving.
Update: found in message the guide curated by a friend of mine:
Food
- Wine belly or odd duck- good wine but tiny food portions, a bit pricey. Both are similar, I prefer odd duck
- Sawyer & co. For amazing southern food
- For Mexican food I recommend Matt’s el rancho, de nada cantina, Juan in a million, or Fonda San Miguel. Cabo bobs if you just want a Quick burrito
- Round rock donuts if you go to north Austin
- Launderette (it used to be an old laundry mat turned into a restaurant. Food is awesome and so are the drinks, but it’s pricey. Their Happy hour prices are great
- Elizabeth street is an amazing Vietnamese fusion restaurant
- Culinary dropout in the domain
- Kirby’s cafe is Austin famous, it’s a diner with really good queso
- P terrys is the best fast food you can get in Austin
- Phoebes diner is my favorite diner and has lots of southern Texas options
- Amy’s ice cream is an Austin staple
- LA barbecue is so good and got a Michelin star this year, but the line is usually long. Terry blacks bbq is also very good
- Fukumoto, sushi Junai omakase, and uchiko for sushi
- Any food truck park is bound to have good food, they’re everywhere
- Via 313 or toss for pizza
- Hillside farmacy for healthy food
- Easy tiger for coffee
- Cosmic cafe has coffee, food trucks, dogs, and good drinks. Radio is close by and is a similar vibe
- Hopfields. One of my favorite restaurants. Amazing vibe. French culinary food
- Clark’s oyster bar for seafood
- ALC for a Texas steakhouse, jay carvers is also good
Nature
- For parks the arboretum, zilker, and Barton springs.
- 360 bridge is a small hike with amazing views
- You can kayak or paddle board on lady bird lake.
- The bats come out from under the lady bird lake bridge every night and people go to see it, it’s really cool
- Zilker botanical gardens
- The west side in general has the best nature with a lot of lakes and hills
Places to go / things to do
- Waterloo records is a cool vinyl shop
- Take walk down south Congress. The shops are so fun, there’s a bunch of Knick knacks stores, bars, and food
- The domain can be pretty fun but it’s up north, lots of restaurants and shopping
- Blanton muesum of art is fun
- Mohawks usually has live music, but I’d recommend the continental club which is another Austin famous music venue
- Alamo draft house for the movies, good food and drinks, and they play throw back interactive movies
- Elephant room is a cool jazz club
- I’ve never done it but you can tour the capital and see the LBJ library
Bars and Drinking
- The Roosevelt room is a very very cool bar
- Gibson street bar
- Austin beer garden (food and drinks)
- Driskell hotel super cool old timey hotel with awesome drinks and music at the bar, but it might still be under renovation
- literally ANYWHERE on Rainey street (best place to do brunch and drink, it’s gutted out houses they turned into bars
- Barbarellas, container bar, and un bar lievable are my favorite for a night out
- At the domain, Kung fu is a fun bar, the rose room is a club, and there is a rooftop Miami bar next to it that has hookah.
- West sixth can be really fun, but I prefer Rainey personally. There is a bar on west called green light, it’s my favorite, they have vodka Capri suns
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