Aperturas de restaurantes en Austin que debes conocer ahora mismo

Every month, a new crop of restaurants open in and around Austin. While everyone loves a good sushi spot, food truck, or outdoor patio, this round-up will give you the high-end spots and the low-end spots that are new to town, be they good, bad, or so bad they’re good/so good they’re bad. Whether it’s a locally owned restaurant or the latest addition of a chain, here’s what’s happening in the world of restaurant openings in Austin and beyond for the month.

Want to experience three restaurants in one? Great news: Austin’s new food hall Fareground has opened three new spots. Seigo Nakamura, the chef who founded Michelin-recognized restaurants in Canada, leads the hall’s new sushi restaurant Aburi Oshi Sushi, which serves a short and sweet menu of maki and hand rolls. Chef Nick Middleton and the team behind Y Comida opened their newest project, Golden Boy, a restaurant that focuses on bao, bowls, and salads, with dishes like gochujang beef bao, miso butter salmon bowls, and a Buffalo chicken salad. The team behind Shawarma Point has also opened JABS Burgers & Fries, which crafts its burgers from premium Angus, grass-fed Creekstone Farms beef and includes options for stacked patties (the K.O. is a triple stack for those who can handle it).

This New York dive bar opened an Austin outpost, and the dream is that it goes straight to the top of the list of local places to become a regular. With dishes like French onion soup grilled cheeses and Cholula-honey wings, the kitchen here stays open until last call. The cocktail menu changes regularly, and wine, beer, and shots are always options. The vibe is not fancy, according to its owners, who want diners to feel right at home in its moody, dimly-lit, hang-out spaces.

The folks behind Bat City Pies opened this new food truck at the Buzz Mill bar in Riverside, which prides itself on Southern comfort foods. Dishes include chicken and waffles; wings in flavors like spicy peanut butter, hot honey, lemon pepper, and Buffalo; a cheddar bacon burger called the Claude; and Armadillo eggs, a wild combination of chicken, cream cheese, jalapeño, pepper jack cheese, and tabasco dredged in a homemade cracker crumb and served with Ranch dressing.

In search of Nepalese cuisine? This halal food truck in North Austin has it covered. Yeti Bites chefs up several versions of momo (yeti dumplings), including chicken, mutton, and vegetarian options laced with chili and gravy. Diners can also find a bevy of curries, including tikka masala; sekuwa, a traditional Himalayan charcoal barbecue that’s served on skewers; and Himalayan chow mein.

With outposts in Houston and Dallas’s K-Towns, this Korean barbecue chain recently opened an Austin location at the Linc outdoor shopping area. In true tradition, it’s all about the experience of grilling meats. Order plates of rib-eye, wagyu, honey soy marinated beef belly, pork riblets, Hawaiian bacon, honey chicken, and so much more. This spot is casual, and if you order it, you cook it.

Looking beyond Austin city limits, here are a few spots in San Antonio and the surrounding cities worth checking out.

Located on San Antonio’s picturesque Riverwalk, this fresh Tex-Mex spot has a patio that offers killer views of the water and a menu that runs deep with Tex-Mex staples. There’s an entire section dedicated to rellenos, appetizers ranging from classic nachos to more modern crudo, plus taco plates, fajitas, redfish escabeche, and a solid list of salads with the option to add proteins. Round the experience out with flan for dessert. Sounds like Tex-Mex heaven.

Lucas Bradbury, the restaurateur behind the now-closed vegan fast food spot Project Pollo, has opened his newest venture, and he’s on a mission to change fast food.His new fast-casual restaurant Evo dishes out sourdough pizzas, bowls, wraps, burgers made with grass-fed beef, breakfast dishes, and more, all without using high fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, or seed oils (the kitchen doesn’t even use fryers). It’s all a part of Bradbury’s grand plan to create versions of food people crave that he says are healthier and better quality.

Diego Gonzalez, the chef behind San Antonio restaurant Los Azulejos, helms this taco spot, which features options like pulpo tacos, a ceviche de rib-eye, cajeta cheesecake, tortas, pozole, tostadas with panko-fried tuna, and chilaquiles for brunch. Stellar drinks, as implied by the name, are also a part of the experience, with simple margaritas on the rocks and colorful concoctions that pair well with PM’s inventive bites.