Hopfields
The Pascal Burger is built on Camembert, which is the one thing on this French menu you cannot order elsewhere on the Drag.1
Why go
The rest of the menu is bistro fundamentals played straight: steak frites, moules frites, ratatouille, French onion soup, and a salade nicoise the reviewer calls enormous.1 The Infatuation rates it 8.0 and carries it in its Best French Restaurants In Austin list as well as its best-near-campus list.1 The drinks are not an afterthought bolted to a kitchen: a broad craft beer draft list, a cocktail menu and a long by-the-glass wine list.1 One caveat on the record, stated plainly: the only published assessment of this kitchen is dated August 2022, so the menu shape is what is being carried, not a guarantee of today's specials.
Order this / avoid
- The Pascal Burger. Camembert on a burger, and the source says try it at least once.1
- Steak frites or moules frites if you want the bistro rather than the burger.1
- The salade nicoise for the table. It is enormous, which is a serving fact and not a compliment.1
- Avoid: coming in for the taplist and eating nothing. The kitchen is what carries the 8.0.1
What locals & experts say
- The Infatuation Austin rates it 8.0, bylined Raphael Brion, page dated 2 August 2022, and an 8 in their scale is the band they describe as worth crossing town for.1
- Brion on the burger, verbatim:
There's also their Pascal Burger that has Camembert cheese, which is perfectly French and something you should try at least once.
Note the byline is flagged on the page itself as a former Austin senior editor, so this is a four-year-old judgment and is recorded as one.1
Good to know
- Hygiene: record found and current. Austin Public Health has the kitchen at 3110 Guadalupe St Ste 400, scoring 93 on 13 January 2026, 92 in January 2025, 81 in June 2024 and 78 in November 2023. Austin's failing threshold is below 70, so nothing here is a finding, and the trajectory is upward. The register's newest published inspection anywhere is 22 May 2026 and the file was last updated 15 June 2026.2
- A second business trades at the same street address. Facility_id 11143265, registered as Blacks Barbecue, is a separate premises at 3110 Guadalupe and its scores are not this kitchen's.2
- Getting there: the Drag, on Guadalupe at 31st, walking distance from the UT campus.
Verdict
should-visit — A campus gastropub running an actual French menu, steak frites and moules frites and a salade nicoise big enough to share, with a Camembert burger as the house argument, plus craft beer on tap, cocktails and a real by-the-glass list. The Infatuation rates it 8.0 and files it under French, near-campus and casual date night, which is a fair description of the job it does on the Drag. It sits below the top rung for one reason: the only assessment on the record is from 2022 and no critic has been back in print since.