South Lamar
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- Briscuits — Oak through an offset smoker under pitmasters Christopher McGhee and Will Spence since 2021, on Texas Monthly's Top 50 for 2025 and holding a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand. Moist peppery brisket goes on a thick buttery biscuit with smoked strawberry jelly.
- Loro — Oak smoked brisket arrives under chili gastrique and Thai herbs, and The Infatuation puts it at about 80 percent of Franklin's wow factor.
Restaurants9
Odd DuckBibJeff ★★★★★ 2024
Destination · Texan · South Lamar · $$$
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Cast-iron cornbread is permanently on the menu, usually under green onion butter, and the chicken hearts come glazed in mole and doused in masa gravy.
Uchi
Destination · Restaurant · South Lamar · $$$$
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The 72-hour short rib nigiri comes crisp outside and melts into beef-flavored butter. It sits on the same list as bluefin otoro and Hokkaido uni flown from Toyosu twice a week.
Matt's El Rancho
Solid · Restaurant · South Lamar · $$
walk-in
Bob Armstrong Dip is queso souped up with crumbled taco beef and guacamole, built in the seventies for a Texas Land Commissioner who ate here, and trademarked by the restaurant in 2015.
Blue Apsara LLC?
Solid · Cambodian · South Lamar · $$
walk-in
Fish amok is Cambodia's national dish, steamed in coconut curry inside a banana leaf, and Blue Apsara is one of the only trailers in Austin cooking it.
Loro?
Solid · Restaurant · South Lamar
walk-in
The oak-smoked brisket comes topped with chili gastrique and Thai herbs. It is the one plate where the Uchi half and the Franklin half of this kitchen both show up.
Soto
Listed · Japanese · South Lamar · $$$$
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Order the salmon over fire and a few raw slices arrive with raspberry chili sauce, hung over a live flame at the table.
Fig Italian Kitchen & Bar?
Listed · Italian · South Lamar
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The best plate at this South Lamar Italian room is fried Japanese eggplant swimming in a red curry broth brightened with fish sauce, lime and sugar.
Taqueria De Diez (D/10) (Barton Hills)new?
Listed · Tijuana-style tacos · South Lamar · $
walk-in
The second Taqueria de Diez runs the alley original's tacos, volcanes and quesadillas, and adds grilled cactus and grab-and-go flan.
Hattie B's Hot Chicken - Austin - South Lamar?
Listed · Hot chicken · South Lamar · $$
walk-in
Nashville hot chicken with a spice ladder long enough that the top of it, in the Nashville reviewer's words, tests even the mightiest tolerance for capsaicin.
Street food1
BriscuitsBib?
Solid · Barbecue biscuit sandwiches · South Lamar
walk-in
Brisket and butter on the same biscuit, finished with smoked strawberry jelly.
Cocktails1
Tiki Tatsu-Ya
Listed · Japanese · South Lamar · $$$
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Crab Lagoon is rangoon cheese loosened with sweet crabmeat, scooped on wonton chips, with a pineapple chili jam on the side.
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