Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar
The oak-smoked brisket, the brisket cheeseburger and the curry chicken rice bowls travel to the Domain intact, and a handful of sandwich-and-side lunch combos exist only at this door.1
Why go
This is Austin's second Loro, which The Infatuation calls Austin's second outpost of the Asian smokehouse born from the unlikely but beautiful union of Uchi and Franklin Barbecue
.1 The food is mostly the same as South Lamar: oak-smoked everything, the cheeseburger under brisket, curry chicken over rice.1 The reviewer rates it 7.4 against the original's 8.2, and the gap is the room, in his words: it doesn't have the same fun, camp-cafeteria vibe as the South Lamar original
and reads as a typical high-end lunch spot
.1 Counter service, and no Franklin-length line.1
Order this / avoid
- Smoked beef brisket, the plate the whole collaboration is built on.1
- The sandwich-and-side lunch combos, which this location has and South Lamar does not.1
- Avoid: expecting the original's energy. The reviewer's judgment is that this room trades the camp cafeteria for a typical high-end lunch spot.1
Good to know
- No published hygiene score exists for this premises. The single Loro row in Austin Public Health's register is at 2115 S Lamar and that score does not travel here, so this is a gap in the public record and not a clean bill of health.2
- The South Lamar original is a separate entry with the 8.2 review, the register row and the Tyson Cole origin story. If you are choosing between doors, choose that one.3
Verdict
could-visit — Austin's second Loro, in the Domain, rated 7.4 against the original's 8.2. The oak-smoked brisket, the cheeseburger and the curry chicken travel north intact and a handful of lunch combos exist only here, but the reviewer says the room reads as a typical high-end lunch spot rather than the original's camp cafeteria. It is useful if you are already at the Domain, and it is not worth crossing town past the South Lamar door.