Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden.

Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden

Almost a dozen sausage varieties, made with everything from duck and fig, to brown sugar, chicken, and apple, against a tap wall carrying over 200 beers on draft.1

Why go

It is a sausage house first and a beer garden second, on one of the largest patios in Austin with a fenced dog park attached.1 The Infatuation rates it 7.7. Worth knowing before you go: that page describes the menu and never judges a dish, so nothing below is a critic's verdict on how anything tastes.1

Order this / avoid

• The smoked Philly cheesesteak. Jeff's own note here, and the only dish-level pointer the record carries.
• The duck and fig sausage, or the brown sugar, chicken and apple, from a dozen or so varieties.1
• At weekend brunch, the kitchen puts out whole smoked hogs, and the manmosa is a full bottle of champagne with a splash of orange juice.1

What locals & experts say

• The Infatuation Austin rates it 7.7, bylined Nicolai McCrary, page dated 16 September 2022. The page has no evaluative line about any individual dish, so nothing about a dish is quoted here.1
• What it does say, verbatim, is what the kitchen makes: almost a dozen varieties, made with everything from duck and fig, to brown sugar, chicken, and apple, against a tap wall with over 200 beers on draft and one of the largest patios in Austin.1

Good to know

• Hygiene: no finding, and the business holds two permits. Austin Public Health scores 92 on 26 February 2025 at 81 Rainey St, registered Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden, after a 100 in July 2023; and 85 on the same February day at 79 Rainey St, registered Banger's Sausage House and Beer Garden, after a 95. Nothing below the city's failing line of 70 on either. If you look these inspections up yourself, check both street numbers.2
• Dogs are part of the design, not tolerated at the edges: a large fenced dog park, and a woofwurst on the menu for them.1

Verdict

listed — A Rainey Street sausage house with almost a dozen varieties, made with everything from duck and fig to brown sugar, chicken and apple, against a wall of over two hundred beers on draft and one of the largest patios in the city. The Infatuation scores it 7.7 and, unusually, judges no dish on the page, so the only dish-level pointer here is Jeff's own: the smoked Philly cheesesteak. Bring the dog, there is a fenced dog park and a woofwurst for it.