A birthday dinner is not just a reservation for eight. The cake, the mixed ages, the check, the singing - the occasion has its own logistics. Here is how to pick and book the right Austin spot for a kids party, a family birthday, or a milestone group dinner.
Brunch beyond eggs and toast. Crab scrambles, a boil for the table, oysters, and Texas-sized cocktails. Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 3pm.
Not all crab legs are the same, and most Austin menus will not tell you the difference. Here is how to tell King from snow from Dungeness, how to order them, and where to get real crab legs in South Austin.
You just spent the morning at Zilker Park, Barton Springs, or on the Town Lake trail, and now you are starving. Here is where to eat near Zilker Park in South Austin, and how to time it right.
Austin brunch usually means eggs, toast, and a line out the door. Here is the case for putting oysters, a small boil, and a Texas-sized cocktail on the table instead. Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 3pm, in South Austin.
A raw bar board can read like a list of places you have never been. Here is how to tell a Gulf oyster from an Atlantic one, when to get them charbroiled, and how to order for the table without overthinking it.
Half the gluten-free restaurants in Austin are gluten-free friendly, not gluten-free safe - and if you have celiac, that gap is the whole game. Here is how to vet a kitchen before you eat, the three questions that filter the safe ones out, and where the real ones cluster.
Drop your guard. Pull up a chair. Make our place, yours.