Foreign and Domestic on East 53rd Street in Austin has been one of the city’s most celebrated farm-to-table American restaurants since Ned and Jodi Elliott opened it, building a menu around locally sourced Texas ingredients and the kind of creative, technique-driven cooking that earns a neighborhood restaurant its national food media reputation in a city
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American, Austin, Restaurants, Season 14, TexasNoble Pig Sandwiches appeared in Season 14, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Serious Sandwiches,” which aired June 11, 2012, as an Austin sandwich operation building creative scratch-made sandwiches with house-cured meats, house-baked bread, and the kind of from-scratch commitment that earned it a devoted following in a city with an increasingly competitive sandwich
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Austin, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 14, TexasCounter Cafe on North Lamar in Austin has been a city breakfast and lunch institution since it opened, serving the kind of scratch-made diner classics and cafe plates that earn an Austin neighborhood restaurant its loyal following in a city where the breakfast scene is one of the most competitive in the country. It appeared
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Austin, Restaurants, Season 14, TexasLuke’s Inside Out appeared in Season 14, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Streamlined Sammies,” which aired April 9, 2012, as an Austin sandwich food truck and counter on South Lamar building creative scratch-made sandwiches with the quality ingredients and bold flavor combinations that earned a following in a city with an exceptionally competitive
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Austin, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 14, TexasGreen Mesquite on Barton Springs Road in Austin has been feeding the Zilker Park crowd since 1988, combining Texas BBQ and Tex-Mex in an outdoor-heavy setting that captures what eating in Austin on a good day actually feels like. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “BBQ and More,” which
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Austin, Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasPaul Eighmey moved from Buffalo to Austin in 1990 with a dream of owning a bar. In 1994 he and his partner Mark Supples opened Casino El Camino on East Sixth Street, named after Eighmey’s stage name from his punk rock days. For the first 14 years, the bar’s food was what Eighmey calls Sixth
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Austin, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 4, TexasMaria Corbalan started Taco Xpress in 1997 with her income tax refund, a little trailer, $500 cash, some dishes from her house, and a friend who painted the trailer real cute. For the first three months sales ran about $17 a day. Then a review in the Austin American-Statesman ran, and as Maria describes it:
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