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If you’ve lost a hubcap recently, Doc’s is the first place you should check.

Cheap beer, rock ’n’ roll, no frills.

The outdoor “amphitheater” has hosted a cavalcade of high-profile acts, and an indoor stage hosts local acts. Stubb’s is also, as the name implies, a barbecue restaurant.

Dog Almighty is all about serving cheap, delicious hot dogs.

The best time to go to this downtown Indian restaurant is when they’re offering the lunch buffet.

Let them eat cake in Hyde Park, too.

Huge portions of home cookin’ that really hit the spot, plus the smokiest queso in town

Famous for great live music and bathrooms that will haunt your oh-so-trendy nightmares.

Stop by for the Helldorado, a giant alcoholic drink that comes with plenty of straws for you and all of your thirsty friends to enjoy.

Award-winning burgers at an atypical Austin eatery.

After a long, exhausting week at the office, Tim Ashlock heads to his favorite Thai restaurant.

Live music and southern-fried everything.

Get your live jazz fix, Jack.

Liz Barksdale reviews Koriente.

A coffeeshop hangout by day, the Hideout hosts improv, sketch comedy, and stand-up comedy shows just about every night of the week.

Rich people are happier.

If you’ve lived in Austin for more than five seconds someone has already tried to shove Juan in a Million’s signature taco (the Don Juan) down your throat. The Don Juan somehow makes potatoes, eggs, bacon, cheese thrown into a tortilla taste different than any other tortilla with potatoes, eggs, bacon, and cheese thrown into it. Oh well. Everybody loves it.

Located downtown somewhere between Carmelo’s and Esther’s Follies, Chez Nous is a small little French café with the most polite waiters in town.

Assume the lotus position and stuff your face.