Critics Picks:
Food and Drink
- Best Affordable Wine List: Castle Hill Cafe
- Best Fresh Juice: Apple Lemon Ginger Juice, Central Market
- Best Cheap Dinner & Movie Combo: Holiday House
- Best Buns: Fortune Pho 75
- Best Brooklyn Family Style: Italian Garden
- Best Place to Eat to Live Music: Jovita's Cantina
- Best Enchiladas Rojas: El Sol y La Luna
- Best Sushi: Musashino Sushi Dokoro
- Best Pocket Propagation: The Empanada Parlour
- Best Place to Critique the Show: SOMA
- Best Airline Snacks: American Airlines, Michael Angelo Gourmet Foods
- Best Ice Cream Soda: Nau Enfield Drug
- Best Breakfast Taco: Mi Madre's
- Best Salad Dressing: Milto's Pizza Pub
- Best Dependable Comfort Food: Marimont Cafeteria
- Best Mass-Produced Brownie: HEB Hershey's Brownies
- Best Pizza & Strüdel: Nick's Great Pizza
- Best Resurfacing of a MIA Barkeep: Biss Mitch, Mitch at Momma's
- Best 3-Cups: 3-Cup Chicken, Pao's Mandarin House
- Best Tortilla Substitute: Phoenicia Bakery's Pita Bread
- Best Summer Beer: Waterloo Brewing Company's Hefeweizen
- Best No-Attitude Turtle Soup: Eaves Brothers' Quality Seafood
- Sweetest Tea: Sallie's Down-Home Cookin'
- Best Way to Fake a Homecooked Meal: Central Market
- Best Gender-Bending Caffeine Kick: Cup a Jane Coffeehouse
- Best Staff of Life: Whole Foods Market Buttermilk Sourdough
- Best Homegrown Away From Home: TIE: Boggy Creek Farm, Eastside Cafe
- Best Sandwich Like Mom Used to Make : Hyde Park Bar & Grill's Pimento Cheese and Cucumber
- Best Capsicum Kick: Evita's Botanitas
- Best Game: TIE: Skyline Grill, J*One*S Ranch
- Best Caterer: Word of Mouth Fine Catering
- Best Vegetarian Dish: Tempeh Phat Thai at Martin Brothers Cafe
- Best Little Slice of Heaven: Peanut Butter Pie, Magnolia Cafe South
- Best Place to Tea-Se Your Brain and Appease Your Whistle: High Time Tea Bar & Brain Gym
- Best Falafel: Solar Falafel
- Best Movie Star Food: Threadgill's Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
- Best Joint Venture: Schlotzsky's and Bread Alone
- Best Culinary Floor Show: Tequila -- Cooking With the Spirit of Mexico
- Best Inland Shrimp: Penbur Farms of Buda
- Best Resurrection: Stubb's BBQ
- Best Genuine French Atmosphere: Jean Luc's French Bistro
- Best Eastside Food Delivery: La Pizza Loca
- Best Urban Farmers' Market: Wednesdays & Saturdays at Whole Foods
- Best Gnocchi: Bottega della Pasta
- Best Rebound From the Cyclospora Scare: Lammes Candies' Chocolate-Covered Grapes
- Best Save of an Austin Tradition: Dart Bowl Enchiladas
- Best Way to Drown One's Sorrows: Trudy's Texas Star; Trudy's North Star
- Best Seafood Cocktails: Eastside: Los Comales; Downtown: Marisco Grill
- Best Reason to Order Kerbey's Quesadillas: Kerbey Lane Chipotle Sauce
- Best Flying Nuts: AustiNuts/Southwest Airlines
- Best Neighborhood Biergarten: Pato's Good Tacos
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