There's More To Food In Austin Than Tacos And Barbecue

... though I'm pretty sure that most of us could die happy having to choose between only Franklin and Torchy's every day.

There's sushi (yes, good sushi!) all over town.

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The best places are: Uchi/Uchiko (happy hour until 6:30), Soto (all night happy hour on Monday).

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In fact, we do seafood pretty well in general.

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Clark's Oyster Bar in the west, Perla's in the south, and Hillside Farmacy for the east side. (They've got an all-nighter on oysters every Monday.)

We're getting the hang of this tapas trend.

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Barlata and Winebelly are both equally divine.

The Vietnamese here is incredible.

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Banh mi, pho, whatever... Give it all to me. For sandwiches, go with Tam Deli. For pho, Tan My.

We do fine dining as well.

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Don't ask me what that was, but I promise it tasted delicious. If you want to impress a date, Barley Swine and Odd Duck are sure to deliver.

We love to eat outdoors (for about 4 months out of the year).

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Contigo is sure to delight, plus they make some killer cocktails.

We are MASTERS of brunch.

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...and almost everywhere serves $1 mimosas. We take day drinking to new and terrifying levels most days of the week.

And we have some pretty impressive pizza here and there.

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I'm pretty sure Jay-Z ordered hundreds of dollars worth of Via 313 while he was here for SXSW.

Ah, who am I kidding? We're really freaking good at tacos and barbecue.

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