Kasian Boil offers up excellent seafood with a variety of butter-based sauces.

Reunión 19 is a Mexican restaurant in East Austin that serves excellent tacos.

Sammataro is a new pizza operation that makes Brooklyn-style pies.

Pieous Pizza in West Austin off of 290 serves excellent Neapolitan pizzas, pastries, salads, and some of the best pastrami.

Habana Restaurant offers Cuban and Caribbean food out of a large space on South Congress, complete with outdoor cabanas.

Posse East, just north of campus, is a sports bar that’s been around since 1971.

Sap’s Ver Fine Thai Cuisine on Burnet Road in Allandale serves spicy noodle and curry dishes.

Din Ho Chinese BBQ in North Austin serves excellent roast duck and barbecued pork.

Idle Hands is a bar/restaurant with a Havana/tropical bent on Rainey Street.

New Fortune is a popular banquet-sized Chinese restaurant in Austin’s Chinatown Center.

Slab BBQ on Research Boulevard is a chill, inexpensive North Austin barbecue spot that creatively mashes up different barbecue styles.

The all-day spot Kinda Tropical is part cafe and part bar, with good coffee, cocktails, and a menu that’s well, kind-of-tropical.

LoLo is a natural wine bar and bottle shop on East 6th Street.

The Peacock Mediterranean Grill is an all-day restaurant in the Austin Proper Hotel downtown.

Hestia is the new restaurant downtown with a wood-fired grill from the Emmer & Rye people.

Central Machine Works is a massive beer hall, brewery, and live music venue in East Austin.