Critics Picks:
Food and Drink



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


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