25 Restaurants to Help You Eat Your Way Around the Domain in Austin

Sips, bites, sweets, and other food options from around the globe

"...Sprinkles lays claim to being the world's first cupcake bakery, first launching in L.A. and just recently landing..."

July 5, 2019 Food Feature by The Food Staff

Professional Cake Decorating

Cake decorating fundamentals from a pro

"...Professional Cake Decoratingby Toba Garrett Wiley, 416 pp., $65..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Braise

Braise is a charming place to get an impressive meal for $30 per person

"...The space it occupies, former home to Bossa Nova Coffeehouse, is part of the new modern development. The immediate..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...good cook. She made lutefisk and ostkaka (clabbered milk cheesecake) and Swedish brown bread with molasses. My husband and..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Food-o-File

The new year has brought several big changes among Austin's restaurants; Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood provides the details.

"...street from Central Market... Repeated customer demands encouraged wedding cake baker Janette Pfertner to reopen the retail portion of..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Pesto, Puccini, and the Omni Talented Singing With Your Supper

"...very pleased with his appetizer choice, a Deviled Crab Cake with a terrific Jalapeño-Jicama Coleslaw and Ancho-Chipotle Pesto ($5.75)...."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Who Wants to Run A Coffeehouse in Austin, Texas?

Four local javamongers tell us what it's like

"...mutiny and – you get the idea. Running a coffeehouse is, sometimes, a total fucking headache. But it's also,..."

Aug. 22, 2012 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Sweet It Is

Sugar Mama's Bakeshop East moves beyond the cupcake

"...herself locally by creating a truly inspired line of cupcake flavors to sell in the South Austin bakeshop she..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Sleek But Sporadic

Does a Vegetarian Monopoly Breed Complacency?

"...We finished the meal by sharing two slices of cake ($3.50 apiece): A chocolate cake with mocha icing (a..."

April 11, 1997 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Garbo’s Second Brick-and-Mortar Opens; JNL Barbecue’s First Brick-and-Mortar Opens; Flo’s Wine Bar & Bottle Shop Is Born; Oseyo Hires Laura Sawicki; Vixen’s Wedding’s New Menu Is *Chef’s Kiss*; and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...grilled cheese, signature caviar, smoked mahi-mahi fish dip, crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, salads, and desserts – alongside beer, wine,..."

March 1, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Feeding the Ukrainian Resistance With Varenyky and Mutual Aid

To Austin's Ukrainian community, the meaning of food has co-evolved with the war itself

"...lockstep with the war itself. And it started with coffee. Кава / Kava – Anxiety..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Food Feature by John Besche

Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...also includes a bake sale by the Capital Confectioners cake club to help finance their annual events such as..."

June 12, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Food-O-File

Local food trailers get in on the Fun Fun Fun

"...and none of them more intriguing than that of cake artist Natalie Sideserf. You may not recognize her name..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

in.gredients

This zero-waste, packaging-free grocery store is more than just sustainable and convenient, it's en.joyable

"...bulk bins, containing items like rice, beans, flours, cereals, coffee, teas, spices, dried fruits, nuts, and the like. Bulk..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

Visions of Sugarplums

Local bakers create distinctive pastries this holiday season

"...Melissa Brinckman, Cake & Spoon Baking Company..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Holiday Cookbook Roundup

Gift Guide

"...A Baker's Half Dozen Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & Moreby Carole Walter Clarkson..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

And the Academy Award for best brownie goes to ... Mary Louise Butters!

"...have teamed up to create SweetTempered (www.sweettemperedaustin.com, 825-3663), a wholesale-dessert-and-custom-cake business. Currently, you'll find their pastries at Little City,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

In Corsicana, "excellent fruitcake" is not an oxymoron.

"...Christmas. In the town southeast of Dallas, autumn means fruitcake season...."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Search of Marcel Proust

Once UT's Dr. Seth Wolitz discovered Proust, he didn't turn back, but it took a real beating for him to get to that point.

"...the reveries stimulated by the aroma of the Madeleine cake as a metaphor for the nature of memory (in..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Day Trips

Barry's Coffee Company in Temple provides fuel for the discerning I-35 driver in the form of real coffee, desserts, and the best chicken salad sandwiches in the universe.

"...Barry's Coffee Company in Temple is a caffeine oasis in the..."

June 23, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...ordered from tablets – the chiseling kind… Red Horn Coffee House & Brewery (69 pts.) This northern suburbs powerhouse..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Habesha Celebrates the Best of Ethiopian Cuisine

Friendly newcomers share Ethiopian food and hospitality

"...Ethiopian manner instead of using utensils. Injera is a pancake-shaped flat bread made of teff, a special Ethiopian cereal..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Food Post by Angela Shelf Medearis

King Cakes

King Cakes

"...In New Orleans, king cakes are a regular feature of the carnival season, showing..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Food Feature

Food-o-File

Streat, from a founder of Mirabelle, offers a gustatory whirlwind trip around the world in a casual setting

"...sandwiches, hot dogs, tacos, gorditas, and desserts, plus assorted coffee drinks, selected teas, aguas frescas, and sodas. In addition..."

June 11, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Dining Up and Down West Lynn

Venerable spaces and new faces

"...like panna cotta, dense chocolate torte, or tres leches cake, along with muffins, cookies, and a selection of house-made..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

A Trip to Bountiful Bakery and Cafe

After the death of her young daughter Libbie, longtime Austin caterer Becky Nichols was inspired to create a business where a portion of the profits would benefit children living with cancer

"...off to a good start. Customers drop by for coffee and pastries all day, having cozy conversations around small..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Local Specialties to Enhance Your Austintatious Wedding

"...Katherine Clapner's newest creations are tiny, one-layer individual wedding cakes in either Italian cream with edible flowers or carrot..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Food Feature

Chow Downtown

Dining in the Heart of Austin

"...ride and began looking for someplace to stop for coffee. They rode through the deserted Capitol grounds and down..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Food Feature

Three Sweets for the Sweet?

Yes – or even for the sour, because times are hard

"...a type of dessert made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake, coated in an outer layer of..."

Aug. 18, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crescent at North Lamar and Airport Now Offers Unique Asian Dining Options

Long-ignored strip mall gets a makeover

"...culinary experiences to the ready access to sea salt coffee. But the most exciting thing is that it's a..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

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