Longtime Austin restaurateur CK Chin has a bit of a reputation as the consummate host. You might catch a glimpse on Instagram of Chin taking care of the Wu Tang Clan or Captain America himself (actor ...
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You might expect Cathy and Rob Lippincott, co-owners of Güero’s Taco Bar, to make Mexican food if they had you over for dinner. Instead, they choose a decidedly American menu: Baby back pork ribs, ...
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Steve Leininger and Chris Mullins operate LA 1 Cajun and Creole, a food trailer in East Austin named for the highway that winds diagonally across much of Louisiana’s culinary-gold country, from the ...
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Walk into any Austin restaurant from Torchy’s Tacos to Jeffrey’s and you’ll most likely find that it’s understaffed. In early March 2018, Poached Jobs, a website that posts jobs in the food ...
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On a gray, windy afternoon 10 days before Christmas and a week after the most spectacular snow in the memory of most Central Texans, I’m heading across the flat ranchland east of the Balcones Fault ...
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To the brothers Hunt—the siblings behind Via 313, Austin’s mini-chain of extremely popular Detroit-style pizza joints—pizza equals community. “It’s inclusive, that’s what it’s about,” ...
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In 1838, the land that would soon be officially recognized as Central Texas was ripe, fertile and largely untouched, and the first Swedish immigrant to arrive and make his way in the pioneering ...
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The sun-drenched South Austin space where Erin Wade set up her salad-focused restaurant Vinaigrette once housed a greasy old Pig Stand fast-food joint. That irony isn’t lost on someone who serves ...
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A decade ago, Rachel and Matthew (“Matt”) Buchanan opened The Leaning Pear—an ambitious farm-to-table café in Wimberley, Texas. Despite the long odds of opening a successful restaurant in ...
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