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Food Network: Giada heads to this hot spot for real Texas food, live music and a dance floor. She ordered the classic Chicken Fried Steak and a Lonestar beer on tap.
Food Network: While the facade and interior are sleek and modern, the menu is full of hearty dishes like Carrot Cake French Toast, which is made with homemade carrot cake.
Ice Cream Parlor · Old West Austin · 90 tips and reviews
Food Network: Featuring 300 rotating flavors of ice cream that are full of 14-percent butter fat, Giada checks out "Texas Dirt Cake" - chocolate cheesecake ice cream filled with Oreo cookie chunks.
American Restaurant · Old West Austin · 32 tips and reviews
Food Network: This restaurant has become an institution since it opened in 1975 as one of the first fine-dining establishments in Austin. Their signature Crispy Oysters have been on the menu for 30 years.
517 E 6th St (bt Red River & Neches Sts), Austin, TX
Dive Bar · Downtown Austin · 229 tips and reviews
Food Network: Guy Fieri heads here for some of the best burgers in town. Try the Buffalo Burger (coated in wing sauce, topped w/ blue cheese) or the Amarillo Burger w/ fresh roasted serrano chiles & cilantro mayo.
Food Network: Guy visits this barbecue joint that uses only green mesquite wood or young wood for cooking. The owner swears by it for giving the meat the best and most consistent flavor.
Food Network: On The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Beau MacMillan shares his sweet-tooth favorite: Nutella Strawberry Banana Crepes from this trailer, where every crepe is cooked to order.
Food Network: Guy loves that this cafe is open 24/7, but still makes everything from scratch.Check out the menu that features pancakes, omelets, jambalaya, quesadillas & anything else you could possibly be craving.
Cooking Channel: With baked goods as unique as Austin itself, this little specialty shop doles out some of the most lavish and indulgent doughnuts you may ever encounter. We recommend the PB&J and the Mother Clucker.
Middle Eastern Restaurant · Brentwood · 16 tips and reviews
Cooking Channel: Swing by for Mediterranean specialties, but make sure you don't leave without trying their homemade breaks and baklava. We also recommend the Zatar Bread.
New American Restaurant · Zilker · 61 tips and reviews
Cooking Channel: Chef James Holmes made sure his menu included a treatise about buying from local farms, foragers and ranchers, and it shows with his fresh and changing takes on Texas-style cuisine. Get the S.O.S.
Cooking Channel: They're known for their tortilla cones which they fill with crispy chicken, deep fried avocado, crispy shrimps - the list goes on! We suggest: Deep Fried Avocado or Hot & Crunchy Chicken Cones.
Cooking Channel: Competitively priced wines, mouth-wateringly good fried foods & a motto that reads: "Fried Chicken & Champagne After Midnight-Why the Hell Not?" Get Pan Borracho, Fried Chicken and Alligator Beignets.
Cooking Channel: Hot chocolate, cool cake shakes, and cake balls on a stick are the highlights at this food truck that encourages indulgence in manageable portions. Try a cake shake or Frozen Mexican Hot Chocolate.
Cuban Restaurant · Windsor Park · 5 tips and reviews
Cooking Channel: Enrique left Regla, Cuba at the age of five, and now owns this Cuban bakery in Austin. Don't miss the café con leche with cuban coffee, espresso, milk, and sugar or the Pastelito de Queso.
Food Truck · Downtown Austin · 114 tips and reviews
Cooking Channel: This mobile truck serves Korean-Mexican inspired tacos, burritos, quesadillas and burgers, and zests things up with a little cilantro in nearly every dish. We suggest the Hawaiian Bulgogi Burger.
1102 E Cesar Chavez St (btwn Walter St and Medina St), Austin, TX
African Restaurant · South Lamar · 11 tips and reviews
Cooking Channel: A fusion of flavors and styles influenced by Co-Owner and Head Chef's West African upbringing, as well as his experiences living in France, New York, and Austin. Try the Seared Yassa Chicken.