Restaurant Service: A Discussion

Twelve Austin professionals come to the table in an effort to define, demystify, and defend the most controversial aspect of dining out.

"...So, what is it about service in restaurants? How many times have you heard someone..."

March 31, 2006 Food Feature by MM Pack

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine

Support local business while maintaining your social distance

"...Austin’s thriving restaurant community is being forced to switch gears. As restrictions..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Restaurant Roulette

A sampling of eateries from the ‘Chronicle’ Restaurant Guide

"...Fortune Chinese Seafood Restaurant offers a 200-item Cantonese menu with all of your..."

March 11, 2011 Food Feature

Restaurant Review: Birdie's

A neighborhood restaurant, for some

"...That nondescript building houses one of Austin's most popular restaurants, opened in July 2021 by chef Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel and..."

May 6, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Restaurant Review: Yamas Greek Kitchen + Bar

Inconsistent food and service mar influencers’ darling

"...arrived, I was taken aback by how beautiful the restaurant is, its stark white walls accented with pops of..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Restaurant Review: Ezov

Chef Berty Richter’s upscale Mediterranean restaurant is thoughtful, modern, and inviting

"...Ezov, the latest concept from the Emmer & Rye restaurant group, the graffiti motif on the walls (the lyrics..."

July 28, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Restaurant Review: Este

There's a lot to like at Fermín Nuñez's new seafood restaurant

"...Ask anyone who's dined at Este, the new seafood restaurant from Best of Austin: Restaurants Best Chef winner Fermín..."

March 10, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Popular Clarksville Restaurant Wink Reopens on Its 19th Anniversary

Farm-to-table innovator opens its dining room

"...an oenophilic splash 19 years ago, and now Wink restaurant, that popular farm-to-table innovator in the Clarksville neighborhood, reopens..."

June 10, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Self Service

Merritt Tierce drew on her own time waiting tables for the provocative restaurant world in her novel Love Me Back

"...to write full time.) We spoke to Tierce about restaurants, motherhood, and masochism in Love Me Back...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Driskill 1886 Cafe & Bakery

Driskill 1886 Cafe & Bakery is home of impressive chefs and bad food service

"...when it has been justifiably famous for good food service. The legendary Helen Corbitt's tenure there established the Driskill's..."

May 23, 2008 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Opinion: We Need to Prioritize Our Service Workers

Olamaie Executive Chef Michael Fojtasek: "The way to ensure the health and livelihoods of service industry people is through vaccination"

"...means of mitigating the effects of this deadly virus, service workers are receiving it from their fellow citizens inadequately..."

March 5, 2021 Column by Michael Fojtasek

City Announces Limitations to Dine-In and Drink Service for New Year's and Beyond

Gov. Abbott pushes back: “This shutdown order by Austin isn’t allowed”

"...the new year at a bar, music venue, or restaurant in Austin. City officials have announced a 10:30pm curfew..."

Dec. 29, 2020 News Post by Kevin Curtin

Deals for Austin Restaurant Weeks Continue

Dine at award-winning restaurants and help Central Texas Food Bank

"...or swoon over Valentine’s Day, but for many, Austin Restaurant Weeks is really the most wonderful time of year...."

Aug. 23, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

MetroRail Tries Evening Service This Month

Every Friday in March, plus Saturdays during SXSW

"...Capital MetroRail's experiment with weekend service begins this week. Every Friday in March, the Red..."

March 3, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

Service Discussion Corrections

"...I recently participated in the round panel discussion about service industry issues with your publication [“Restaurant Service: A Discussion,”..."

April 21, 2006 Postmarks

Restaurant Recyclers

From earth to table and back again

"...in this popular program. This is particularly frustrating for restaurants; estimates hold that 79% of what ends up in..."

June 5, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

New Technology Provides Instant Restaurant Customer Feedback

Technology finally caught up with local software developer's vision

"...and solve problems as part of his popular show, Restaurant:Impossible...."

Feb. 21, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Restaurant Jezebel

An ambitious menu, and it all works

"...Restaurant Jezebel..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Russell's Bistro

Déjà food

"...ago when it was home to Bob Lowe's Galleria restaurant, known for continental cuisine, good coffee from Anderson's Coffee..."

March 30, 2012 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

The Mansion at Judges' Hill

The Mansion's intimacy and opulence are hard to top

"...morphed into a luxury boutique hotel with a nice restaurant. The food quality had been erratic – occasionally wonderful,..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Restaurant Roulette

The 10 you clicked

"...rummage around our labyrinthine database to find out which restaurants our readers were most curious about in 2010. When..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Food Feature by Anne Harris

The 2002 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll

Index

"...Ararat Middle Eastern Restaurant, 111 E. North Loop, 419-1692Readers Other Ethnic..."

May 24, 2002 Food Feature

2001 Restaurant Poll Index

"...Asti Trattoria, 408 E. 43rd, 451-1218READERS NEW RESTAURANT (TIE)..."

May 25, 2001 Food Feature

Top Chef Texas, Week 10: Restaurant Wars

This restaurant war needs more spies and razor wire.

"...“Hughnibrow” Acheson announce that the time has come for Restaurant Wars. (Whither the Quickfire? Isn’t this usually when they..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

2000 Restaurant Poll Index

"...Bistro 88, 2712 Bee Caves Rd., 328-8888CRITICS NEW RESTAURANT, CRITICS SOUP (TIE), CRITICS TOFU DISHES (TIE)..."

May 12, 2000 Food Feature

Supporting the Queer Service and Entertainment Industries

How to help LGBTQIA workers during COVID-19 pandemic

"...Since the city ordered all bars and restaurant dining rooms to close through at least May 1,..."

March 27, 2020 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

The Carillon

Carillon has the right staff, a perfect location in the center of town, and a talented young man at the creative helm

"...day-to-day tasks of any hotel kitchen: weddings, parties, multiple restaurants, room service, etc. The jewel in the hotel's crown,..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Shanghai Restaurant

If the name sounds familiar, it's because the Yim family helped introduce Austin to dim sum at the original location way back when

"...Shanghai Restaurant6718 Middle Fiskville, 458-8088 Sunday-Thursday, 11am-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-12mid Dim sum..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Food Review by Mick Vann

Épicerie

Consistency issues dog this new Rosedale cafe, but that doesn't mean we're not going back for more

"...Rosedale's Épicerie. When nearby residents got wind of a restaurant being built at the intersection of North Loop and..."

April 19, 2013 Food Review by Rachel Feit

Brisket Thief Strikes la Barbecue, Easy Tiger Works Some Pretzel Logic, Garbo’s Claws a Sunday Service, the Carillon Chimes Back In, and the Quesoff Is on Its Cheesy Way Again

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

"...to 7pm – until the new Garbo’s on Lamar restaurant is open for dine-in service …..."

Aug. 10, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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