Is Austin better known for delicious food or it’s live music? Personally we’re more partial to food, but we don’t want to start a fight! The Austin City Limits Music Festival 2013 is here, not only with an amazing line-up of talented musicians, but the most impressive list of food vendors of any music festival in history.
While rocking out at Zilker Park, your appetite may suddenly strike you for a taste of Austin’s finest food. You won’t find any large turkey legs from a classic festival. If you’re looking for more than just a bag of popcorn and cotten candy, visit the list of vendors below for a little bit of culinary goodness and get back to dancing when you’re not too full.
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Amy’s Ice Creams has been making people’s day through 350 rotating flavors of homemade super premium ice creams, frozen desserts & great customer experiences for 27 years. Amy’s operates 14 locations in Austin, San Antonio & Houston along with catering and wholesale service and has expanded the dessert line to include frozen yogurt and dairy-free fruit ice, shakes, smoothies and ice cream cakes. Gluten-free ice creams available!
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We at Austins Pizza are proud to have been part of the ACL Festival since 2006. We are a locally owned pizza chain with 12 stores and have the capability both operationally and personnel wise to effectively execute the festival to both C3 standards and our own standards. We have the ability to make it a great event for all. Looking forward to being a part of the festival again this year.
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Texas chef Tim Love, official chef of Austin City Limits, is known as much for his freewheeling personality as his signature urban western cuisine. Love is the chef and owner of the Woodshed Smokehouse, Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, the Love Shack, and the White Elephant Saloon, all located in Fort Worth, and Queenie’s Steakhouse in Denton, Texas. Born and raised in Texas, Love is also a founding partner of the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival and the preferred caterer of TCU Stadium.
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Chi’Lantro BBQ is Korean and Mexican fusion food truck in Austin, TX. The name “Chi’Lantro” is a fusion of “kimchi” and “cilantro”, two distinct cultural staples, reinventing traditional Korean and Mexican cuisine. Chi’Lantro is known as the originator of “Kimchi Fries” a popular and trendy dish that’s been featured in Food and Wine Magazine and The Cooking Channel. Chi’Lantro received notable recognitions for its Kimchi Fries and Korean BBQ Tacos by celebrity chefs such as Aaron Sanchez and Tom Colicchio.
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Children of the Kettle Corn has been a success since 2004 thanks to Austin City Limits Music Festival. My mission is to provide a healthy snack alternative to all who wish to indulge, while providing a dedicated effort towards preserving the planet and our bodies. This year, ACLMF is expanding to two weekends, and so is our product! Come enjoy Children of the Kettle Corn’s NEW FLAVOR; Texas Heat Corn! This new flavor combines the traditional sweet and salty taste with that of “SPICY HEAT.” Made with fresh jalapeño’s, this delicious flavor will certainly “spark” up your taste buds!
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Coolhaus serves all-natural, gourmet, made-to-order ice cream sandwiches. Ice cream flavors range from Tahitian Vanilla Bean to Brown Butter Candied Bacon and Pineapple Cilantro Serrano Chili Sorbet, and cookies are available in 12 different varieties, including gluten-free and vegan options. All of our products are built by hand while you decide which options to devour first!
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Daily Juice is Austin’s original source of juice and smoothies since 2003. Daily Juice continues to bring you delicious and refreshing juices, smoothies, fresh salads and desserts. We work with local and regional farmers to provide us with the freshest and finest ingredients. All vegetarian (VGT), vegan (V) and gluten-free (GF).
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Frank is a local sausage company based and owned out of Austin, TX. A classic Chicago Hot Doggery, Frank specializes in exotic game sausages paired with savory cheeses, topped with delicate and hearty sauces and garnishes. Opening at 8 a.m. Mon-Sat, the Frank Coffee Shop is slinging made-to-order pour over coffees, espresso drinks and a wonderful array of breakfast items from the Chicken and Bacon Waffle Sammy to Pork Belly Tacos and Housemade Granola and Yogurt. Full Bar includes dozens of Cold Beers and hand crafted cocktails including our Bacon Infused Tito’s Vodka Bloody Mary.
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Since the beginning, FREEB!RDS is all about freedom of choice. Where else do you get your very own “roller” to help you navigate your way through more than two trillion possible burrito combinations? Four sizes of Burrito with four flavors of tortilla. Nachos built from house made chips. Salads made from spring mix and topped with ancho or tomatillo dressing. Fresh. Natural. Way more choices with one-to-one service. That’s the way FREEBIRDS rolls.
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Since their beginnings at the Farmers Markets of Austin, TX in 2009, GoodPop has produced some of the most unique frozen treats available on the market. GoodPops come in mouth-watering flavor combinations such as Hibiscus Mint, Watermelon Agave and Strawberry Lemonade. As always, GoodPops are made in small batches with the finest all-natural, organic and locally sourced Texas ingredients. You’ve had them at ACL – and you can also find GoodPops at your local natural grocery stores in TX, including all Whole Foods Market and Central Market locations in Texas, as well as select specialty retailers around the country.
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Hat Creek Burger Company was born out of a pure passion for cheeseburgers – juicy, delicious and always double meat. What started out as a trailer on 6th street has grown into 3 locations with a 4th on the way. The menu, and our passion for food, has evolved from the first days as well, introducing chicken, salads, and sweet potato fries to the menu in 2012. Along with our all natural, black angus burgers, hand cut fries and incredible Blue Bell milkshakes you will find extraordinary fellowship and fun at all of our locations. Come check us out!
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The HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign connects Creatives with causes and helps artists & musicians support education through projects and events around the world and in their own backyard. HOPE Farmers Market & HOPE Campaign are both projects of HOPE Events – a 501(c)3 non-profit company.
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La Condesa is an award-winning modern Mexican restaurant. Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for ‘Best New Restaurant’, La Condesa is helmed by noted Executive Chef Rene Ortiz and Food & Wine Magazine ‘Best New Pastry Chef’ Laura Sawicki.
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Lambas royal Indian food have been in business of gourmet delight for five years. Our first venture was hope farmers market and seeing the peoples response hope allowed us to put up a kiosk at ACL. Our food was widely appreciated and we were encouraged to get into other farmers markets. We were also invited to cater at the Texas state university San Marcos. This year we were a part of sodexo to put a food stall at v8 car race. We cater variety of palates like vegan, gluten free, vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Our motto-we cook to appease your taste buds.
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LIVE Soda is a better tasting Kombucha. Sip on the refreshing taste of wellness as LIVE Soda Kombucha detoxifies and provides your body with living probiotics, enzymes, b-vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants and organic acids. Kombucha is a cultured beverage made from a living blend of healthy bacteria and beneficial yeast. Our Raw, Organic kombucha is hand-crafted in Austin, TX with the finest Fair Trade and GMO Free ingredients and combines the popular taste of soda with all of the raw benefits of kombucha – aiding in digestion and detoxing the liver. LIVE Soda Kombucha has 4 delicious flavors, Revive Rootbeer, Living Limon, Pure Doctor and Culture Cola. Try them all – we are sure you will find one you love.
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Texas chef Tim Love, official of Austin City Limits, is known as much for his freewheeling personality as his signature urban western cuisine. Love is the chef and owner of the Woodshed Smokehouse, Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, the Love Shack and the White Elephant Saloon, all located in Fort Worth, and Queenie’s Steakhouse in Denton, Texas. Born and raised in Texas, Love is also a founding partner of the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival and the preferred caterer for the TCU Stadium.
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Mighty Bird is a rotisserie chicken roasting, homemade tortilla grilling, fresh sauces pouring, hunger ending machine. We’re dedicated to bringing the most craveable food to your table – breakfast, lunch and dinner. Crave the Bird.
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mmmpanadas is the creation of husband-wife team Cody and Kristen Fields. A U.T. Grad, Cody fell in love with empanadas while working in Costa Rica. Then, on a trip to Austin in 2006 Cody met Kristen and fell in love with her too. Together, they began making a variety of empanadas for local bars and coffee shops. Next thing they knew, they were married and slinging gourmet empanadas our of a big red truck. Five years later mmmpanadas has moved beyond the truck and can be found in many local, regional, and national grocery stores.
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Noble Sandwiches opened in 2010 creating all scratch, hand crafted sandwiches and deli meats. In the last year they were feature on Diner’s Drive ins and dives and Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America. Their Seared Beef Tongue won the Southwest Region and made it to the finals. Noble Sandwiches has always focused on quality cooking, top notch ingredients and a wealth of cooking experience to create the best sandwich experience in Austin.
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P. Terry’s Burger Stand is an Austin original established in 2005. We are known for our all natural black angus burgers, all natural chicken, our own veggie burger, fresh cut french fries and fresh squeezed lemonade.
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Second Bar + Kitchen is a dynamic downtown Austin destination where Executive Chef David Bull and Chef de Cuisine Jason Stude combine seasonal ingredients and local artisan products to create what Chef Bull calls “Natural American” cuisine. Open late with a creative cocktail, beer and wine program, Second Bar + Kitchen offers small plates for sharing, large plates for main dishes, eclectic salads, sandwiches, pizzas and desserts.
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Snowie is Austin’s local shaved ice purveyor. For 16 years now, they have been calling Memorial Stadium their home, and the official shaved ice of the Longhorns. You can enjoy Snowie’s traditional flavors or get yourself one of their homemade all natural flavors. Either way Snowie is the coolest part of Austin’s Summer.
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We’ve been in business on South Congress here in Austin for seven years, doing things our own way. Our recipes were developed right here in the Live Music Capital of the World. Our key to success is simple – we make everything we can from scratch, and use the finest ingredients. We take great pride in our crust and our sauce. We toss fresh dough and make your pizza just crispy enough every time. Try a slice with five cheeses! Or truly interesting and exotic specials. Even a gluten free! We will surprise and delight you with huge slices of the freshest pizza in town. Our meatballs subs are divine, big and fresh with lots of cheese and marinara sauce. Our brownies are to die for, we promise you will get to heaven! Real melted chocolate with lots of butter, covered in whip cream and adorned with a prize…you have landed!
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Centrally located in Austin’s popular downtown entertainment district, Stubbs Bar-B-Q is a landmark attraction housed in a 19th century structure that has served as a homestead, a grocery, a used furniture store, a beer bar and a tavern called the One Knite, still remembered by longtime Austinites. The familiar rock-faced gabled building has been a live music venue for close to four decades with Stubbs indoor stage, huge backyard and amphitheater featuring some of the greatest names in music including Willie Nelson, B.B. King and Linda Ronstadt, as well as many highly regarded musicians that call Austin home.
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Best tamales in the universe from Austin. Family business started in 2009, we attend now 14 farmer’s market weekly, our own 2 storefronts, 4 third party cafes, permanent vendors at the new Circuit of the Americas and soon to be out in retail. We have also participated 3 times at ACL and other important festivals including Formula 1 race and the Food and Wine Festival. Earned different awards by the Austin’s Chronicle, and the Capital of Texas Small Business award by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Featured at Edible Austin magazine, Austin’s Chronicle, Univision’s Despierta Show and KEYE News Show. All gluten-free (GF)
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The Best Wurst is a genuine Austin Institution and the first and longest running mobile food vender in the city. Having sold over 1 million sandwiches from their 6th street location alone, owner Jon Notarthomas is the original trailblazer in the mobile food-vending trend of recent years. The Best Wurst has been voted “Hands down, the best street food in Austin” by the Chronicle and recognized by the Food Networks Guy Fieri, Rachel Ray, featured on the Tonight Show, MTV and National Public Radio, and highlighted along with Paul Qui’s Eats Side Kings in critic Heather Shouse’s Food Trucks.
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If you abide by one rule at ACL Fest it is this: you cannot leave the festival without eating a Hot N’ Crunchy Cone. Created by the chefs of Hudson’s on the Bend, The Mighty Cone has been known as a necessity of the ACL experience since its inception in 2002. The cone comes with your choice of chicken, shrimp or avocado, fried in the infamous Hot N’ Crunchy batter and served in a flour tortilla with mango jalapeno coleslaw and our secret sauce on top.
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The Peached Tortilla brings traditional Southern cuisine with an Asian flair to the streets of Austin. The innovative menu has brought The Peached Tortilla well deserved attention and acclaim: Eater Austin crowed The Peached Tortilla as 2011 Food Truck of the Year; Restaurant Hospitality recognized founder Eric Silverstein as one of the four New Stars of Street Food; the Austin Food Blogger Alliance named The Peached Tortilla Best Downtown Food Trailer 2012 and Best New Food Trailer 2012; and the famed Peached sliders were voted one of the best sliders in the U.S. by Food & Wine Magazine.
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In 1967, Scott’s father Thurman who was known for his delicious barbecue at family reunions, decided he would cook meat for paying customers. Thurman and his son, Scott, built a huge, stone barbecue pit which is still used to this day. Thurman would go to the pit on Thursday night and start cooking. He stayed for the weekend, sleeping on a cot, until all the meat sold. He kept coming home earlier and earlier. After a few months, Scott and Thurman built a little screen porch around the pit and grew from there to what it is today!
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Tiff’s Treats started right here in Austin, TX. Co-founded by Tiffany Taylor-Chen and her husband-Leon Chen-as sophomores at The University of Texas, Tiff’s Treats has expanded their original warm delivery concept to Dallas and Houston in recent years. Tiff’s Treats cookies are hand-delivered warm and fresh from the oven of a nearby store.
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Tinos Greek Cafe is a local Austin Company that started in 2003, with one goal in mind; to bring fresh, affordable, delicious and fast cafeteria style Greek food to Austin. Each day we hand prepare authentic greek dishes made with fresh ingredients to satisfy both the meat eater and the vegetarian. We believe in big portions and allowing our customers to choose what’s on their plate by offering a “make your own” lunch or dinner plate. Thanks to our customer’s loyalty, we have continued to grow offering Tinos greek food in six locations in Austin serving north, south, and central.
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Torchy’s Tacos started in 2006 with a mobile trailer, a Vespa, and a man with a passion for good food. Seven years ago, Mike Rypka left an executive chef position to chase his dreams by investing everything he had into Torchy’s Tacos. With a menu ready to serve but no mouths to feed, Rypka jumped on his scooter and started throwing out samples in an attempt to draw customers to his trailer. Before he knew it, people were rallying beside the taco stand hollering, “damn these tacos are good!” and so the legacy began. Today, Torchy’s operates 20 locations.
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The Wahoo’s story begins in 1988, when three brothers, Wing, Ed and Mingo, combined their love of surf and food to create a restaurant with an eclectic Mexican/Brazilian/Asian menu and a Hawaiian north-shore vibe. Today you will find over 50 Wahoos’ all throughout California, Colorado, Texas and Hawaii. Wahoo’s Texas provides quality, healthy, affordable food, great service, and a fun, unique atmosphere loyal to our Southern California roots – with a true Texas twist. Come visit us at 6th and Rio Grande St. downtown or at our South Congress and Annie location.
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