A steakhouse, a tasting counter and two burger counters carry this. Bartlett's sits its ribeye a hundred hours in marinade before it meets the live oak fire, Birdie's runs five courses at $79 and was Food and Wine's Restaurant of the Year in 2023, and Moreno Burger Co presses a double patty hard for the crust.
Classic and modern American.
The rooms, best first
- Odd Duckvisited
Cast-iron cheddar cornbread is permanently on, and the Texan spine runs to a chicken-fried pork chop and quail stuffed with dirty masa.
- Birdie'sverified
Food and Wine named it Restaurant of the Year in 2023 and ranked it fourth in America in 2024, for about five courses at $79.
- Barley Swineverified
A tasting counter running a Texan repertoire: dry-aged Akaushi ribeye, smoked pork shoulder with creamed corn, and shiitake soup dumplings over soft scrambled eggs.
- Hestiaverified
A twenty foot hearth runs the open kitchen and touches almost everything on the menu, which is modern American cooking built on live fire.
- Launderetteverified
Odam's own reading: a globe-hopping menu that still keeps the American in modern American, with redfish under Old Bay beurre blanc.
- Emmer & Ryeverified
Mills its own heirloom grain in the building and cooks pork liver into dirty farro from Barton Springs Mill, then runs it through a pasta list.
- Moreno Burger Coverified
The smashburger is double patties pressed hard for a crisp griddled edge, which The Infatuation calls one of the best in town at a counter it scored 8.1.
- Bartlett'sverified
The ribeye sits one hundred hours in a pineapple, sesame and ginger marinade before it goes over the live oak fire.
- Casino El Caminoverified
A three quarter pound patty Nicolai McCrary calls incredibly thick, with a char-grilled crust and a pink center, on a counter he scored 8.1. The toppings are organized by city: wing sauce and bleu cheese for the Buffalo, Guinness and sherry mushrooms for the Pittsburgh.
- Foreign & Domesticverified
The Statesman files it as Modern American and ranked it 15th in Austin in 2024, and the dish evidence is specific: gruyere and black pepper popovers that have outlasted two ownerships, mafaldine under braised goat neck, and a four-course offal menu that has run pork blood spaghetti with goat heart bolognese.
- Billy's On Burnetverified
The Cobra burger runs a third pound patty with cheddar, crispy curly bacon, grilled jalapenos and chipotle mayo, which Raphael Brion calls the reason the regulars come, on a page The Infatuation leaves unrated by its own stated policy.
- Swift's Atticverified
Billed modern American by the outlet that rates it and by the room itself, with dish evidence to match: charred edamame under pop rocks that has run since 2012, and carrots al pastor with pineapple butter that The Infatuation says will make you forget the pork version.