/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Don't go to Franklin's unless you like standing in line for hours in the heat I would suggest you go to one of the better places a bit of a drive out like Kreuz in Lockhart or Louis Mueller in Taylor. You can also see what these people are saying is ~~~real~~~ Texas though driving West is definitely prettier.

My favorite Mexican place is Fonda San Miguel, they do a great brunch and their food is a bit more Mexican than most of the purely Tex Mex places.

There are more shitty run of the mill hipster places with decent food and insufferable people than you can shake a stick at.

People especially many that consider themselves """""foodies""""" in Austin are taco fetishists, there's no other way to describe it. They are obsessed with knowing where the objectively best taco is and where they hate, and you get a mix of people ranting about what is and is not authentic, and how certain places are too white (Taco Deli, which is owned by mexicans iirc) or too touristy/popular (Torchy's). I just hate that people are so concerned with and adamant about finding and knowing what the absolute and only objective best of X, Y and Z are when it's not only subjective but subject to change. Like, there was a Taco Deli across mopac from my old job, it's decent and yes there are white soccer moms there god forbid. You get similar shit with burgers, although on a side note In-N-Out for reasons is worse than in California.

There's nothing wrong with Austin desu but you;ll find many people that hate it for various reasons as seen in this thread, from it being liberal, to it being expensive, to it being no longer what it was when they were teenagers, etc. It's all rather silly.