still serving late

Solid · BBQ · East Cesar Chavez · $$

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On Sundays a trompo turns here, shaving smoked marinated pork onto small tortillas with melted cheese, pineapple and salsa, and the cook crisps the whole taco on the griddle.

Solid · Cocktails and listening · South Congress · $$$

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Obscured by Clouds takes its name from the 1972 Pink Floyd album and pours Suntory Toki whiskey with lavender honey, lemon, blue spirulina and egg white under a dust of lavender.

Solid · European small plates · Rainey Street · $$$

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The best thing on the menu is cabbage roasted until it is fork-tender, served with butter beans cooked rich and creamy.

Solid · Chili · Downtown · $

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The Mad Dog Margarita is two parts Monte Alban mezcal to one Triple Sec and one fresh lime, and it exists because the writers drinking here in the seventies could not afford anything better.

Solid · Burgers · East Sixth · $$

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The patty is three quarters of a pound, "incredibly thick, with a char-grilled crust and a pink center." Chronicle readers have also voted the jukebox the best in Austin twenty-five times.

Solid · Cocktails · East Austin · $$$

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The cocktail list is rewritten around whichever exhibition is hanging, and the Dream State show by Austin painter Karen Offutt had two drinks written for it.

Solid · Bar · East Sixth · $$$

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Four of the cocktails are built at your table off a rolling cart, and the staff pick which ones.

Listed · Neighborhood bar · East Austin · $$

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The food comes from a trailer in the back yard, Delray Cafe, doing fried bologna sandwiches, burgers and what The Infatuation calls some of the best wings in town.

Listed · Tijuana-style tacos · Downtown · $

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A trompo turns in the window shaving al pastor while the grill finishes slabs of carne asada, at the back of a bar, down an alley.

Listed · Cocktails, live jazz · Downtown, Congress Avenue · $$

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The house espresso martini is called Brewed in the Basement, and there is a cocktail named for the Texas saxophonist Tony Campise.

Listed · BBQ · Northwest Hills · $$

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The kitchen smokes baby back ribs, deep-fries them until the edges crisp, then sauces them like chicken wings.

Listed · Tijuana-style tacos · South Lamar · $

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The second Taqueria de Diez runs the alley original's tacos, volcanes and quesadillas, and adds grilled cactus and grab-and-go flan.

Listed · Mezcaleria · Mueller · $$

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Cocktails built on Mexican spirits and street tacos worth lingering over, in a room the Infatuation says could have been airlifted from Roma Norte.

Listed · Wings · South Austin · $

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Half the wing flavors on the board go by names like "hot girl" or "star dust" and come with an emoji for a description.

Listed · Cocktails, patio · East Austin · $$

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A patio bar with an outdoor kitchen it hands over to other people.

Listed · Mexican · East Austin · $

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Crispy tripas (beef tripe), lengua, carnitas and campechano in one order, which is exactly what the Infatuation tells you to do.

Listed · American · Windsor Park · $$

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James Durham brought his JimJam's biscuit popup in-house, so the biscuits arrive with chili country gravy and the honey butter sliders come with turkey patties.

Temp closed · Restaurant · Downtown, Congress Avenue · $$$

Charred edamame arrives under pop rocks, and it has been on this menu since the room opened in 2012.

Listed · Cocktails · Downtown · $$$

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The cocktails run to milk punch served with a side of Trix cereal.

Listed · Mediterranean and Asian small plates · Downtown · $$

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Shiitake mapo tofu under red Sichuan peppercorn, on a menu that also runs lamb kibbeh meatballs and whipped feta.