The Best Pizzas in Austin:
Pizza Wars 2016 Part 2
Last week we posted my choices for the Top Ten pizzas in the Austin area. There are many more very good places around and we’ll begin Part 2 by going roughly from South to North and listing my favorites in each area. Wimberly The obvious choice here is Brewster’s Pizza a few miles south of […]
The Best Pizzas in Austin:
Pizza Wars 2016 Part 1.
Welcome to Pizza Wars 2016. We started this back in 2000 when Austin didn’t have enough locally owned pizza joints for us to select a Top 5 let alone a Top 10. But my how things have changed. I no longer have to begin these pieces by lamenting my lack of access to Pepe’s and […]
Top 25 Best Fine Dining Restaurants in the Austin area.
The Top 20 has long been one of our reader favorites on Dining Out with Rob Balon. We’ve made changes from time to time, but there are so many great restaurants out there that the Top 20 no longer seems adequate. So, welcome to the Top 25! Many, many changes. First, let’s review our criteria […]
Back by Popular Demand:, Best New Restaurants in Austin: Rob’s take
For those who used to mourn the lack of quality restaurants in Austin, those days are long gone. Just in the last two years we’ve had dozens of quality openings. And as CK Chin keeps telling me, more are on the way! So here’s our take on the newbies: both fine dining, casual. and food […]
Rob’s Top Ten Comfort Food Restaurants in Austin
Ever since 9/11, when the national craving for comfort foods made a dramatic comeback, foodies have been rediscovering all those simple yet memorable tastes from their childhoods. And restaurants have been alert to what might have been called a fad for a time but is now most certainly a trend. Restaurants serving simpler, people-pleasing chow […]
