Karen H. wrote: > >I am looking for a good restaurant in Austin TX to take >my father to while I'm visiting Austin. Some place kind >of special, could be a chain, just good food! Thanks. > > Try Threadgill's on North Lamar for down home cooking (but don't take American Express because they don't take it--they were featured in a VISA commercial). Their food is really good. For pizza try Brick Oven Pizza on Red River and for Mexican try Chuy's Comida Deluxe on Barton Springs Road. Also Eastside Cafe for regular food but I don't remember the address. These are all cheap to moderately priced restaurants. I'm out of touch with the high end ones. Enjoy!
Austin, TX
Great Austin, TX restaurants...
NNTP-Posting-User: brcs Threadgill's on Lamar--good home cookin' Sam's BBQ--excellent ribs, brisket, spicy Las Manitas--great Tex Mex, fajitas, breakfast Evitas--Tex'Mex, best salsas, maybe six or eight at your table The Salt Lick--a little out of town, in Driftwood TX (20 minutes away) great Texas family-style BBQ, great sauce Bob in Seattle
Castle Hill Cafe Stonewall Mileiu Brenham's Cafe All the above serve "eclectic southwest" for lack of a better description. Menus are not fixed. Also check out the Texas Monthly magazine restaurant reviews on other Austin restaurants at http://www.texasmonthly.com/resto/central.html#Austin. Marty
Check out the Austin, TX dining guide at... http://www.quadralay.com/www/Austin/AustinFood/AustinFood.html Also, the Austin Chronicle, the city's "alternative" weekly, publishes an annual readers' and critics' restaurant poll. This can be found at... http://www.auschron.com/issues/annual/restpolls/ Weekly restaurant/food reviews are found at... http://www.auschron.com/current/food.index.html Marty