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Fourths Opens on South Congress With Drive-Thru Handcrafted Burgers and a Beer Garden

July 15, 2026

Fourths Handcrafted Burgers has recently opened on South Congress, offering their take on fast casual burger joint in Austin. South Congress has needed another real burger joint for a while now. After Hopdoddy...

Grey Orchard Is Bringing Modern American Cooking With an Asian Accent to Round Rock This July

Hayden Walker

July 9, 2026

Dining, New Restaurant, Round Rock

Round Rock is getting a new restaurant, and this one didn't come out of a corporate test kitchen. Grey Orchard is set to open in July 2026 along the IH-35 corridor at 2700 North IH-35, and it's the kind of ind...

Austin Mac & Cheese Festival 2026 Returns as Camp Mac and Cheese

Hayden Walker

July 7, 2026

EVENTS, Featured, Food Festival

Every fall, Austinites drives out to a ranch in Bee Cave to eat mac and cheese out of cast iron skillets next to a campfire. This will be the third year they've done it at Star Hill Ranch, so at this point it'...

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Honest Mary’s Opens First Downtown Austin Location in Seaholm

Hayden Walker

July 7, 2026

Dining, Downtown, New Restaurant

Honest Mary’s cafe is heading downtown. The Austin born grain bowl restaurant will open its new Seaholm location on Tuesday, July 14, at 222 West Ave., Suite 120. It marks the company’s sixth Texas restaura...

The Complete Austin BBQ Guide 2026: Every Spot Worth the Smoke

Hayden Walker

July 7, 2026

Barbecue, BEST SPOTS, Eating Guide, Featured

Austin might not be the birthplace of Texas barbecue, but it might be the captial depending on who you ask. The birthplace honors belong to small towns like Lockhart and Taylor, where German and Czech butchers...

Where to Find Austin’s Best Burgers, $10 and Under

Hayden Walker

July 1, 2026

BEST SPOTS, Burgers, Eating Guide, Featured, News

Here's the trick nobody tells you about eating well in Austin on a budget: some of the best burgers in the city aren't at the cheap spots. They're at the nice ones, during the one hour window where the kit...

Original Black’s Barbecue Announces New Location in the Old Trudy’s Space in Austin

Hayden Walker

June 29, 2026

Barbecue, News

One of Texas barbecue's most respected names is planting a bigger flag in Austin. The Original Black's Barbecue is set to open at the former Trudy's Texas Star location on West 30th Street, giving the long-vac...

ThoroughBread’s New Mueller Concept ThoroughFare Is Already a Neighborhood Institution

Hayden Walker

June 24, 2026

Bakery, Central Austin, Shopping

The team behind one of Austin's most decorated bakeries didn't open a second location. They built something bigger. ThoroughFare, the new bakery, café, deli, and grocery hybrid from ThoroughBread co-founder...

Best Fourth of July Events and Parties in Austin 2026

Hayden Walker

June 24, 2026

EVENTS, Holidays, Travel

The Fourth of July lands on Saturday this year, which means the whole city gets a three-day running start at the holiday. That alone would be worth noting. But this July 4th is also America's 250th birthday, a...

Nothing Bundt Cakes Is Leaning All the Way Into the Fourth of July

Hayden Walker

June 22, 2026

Holidays, Holidays, Takeout

America turns 250 this summer and Nothing Bundt Cakes has decided that is a perfectly reasonable excuse to put cake at the center of every cookout, block party, and road trip cooler between now and July 4th. ...

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