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Leander, TX · Lifestyle
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5 Best Restaurants in Austin, Texas You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Austin, Texas—where the sun bakes the limestone and the air hums with music, where murals bloom on every block and the scent of barbecue, chiles, and fresh tortillas drifts through neighborhoods stitched together by dreamers, old-timers, and newcomers alike. This is a city where the skyline is a patchwork—glass towers and painted bungalows, taco trucks and porch swings, each a testament to the city’s restless creativity and laid-back soul. Austin pulses with the energy of students, artists, techies, musicians, families, and old souls who remember when South Congress was just a sleepy street.
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This Classic Texas Burger Joint Has Been Serving Up The Same Delicious Recipe Since 1926
Nobody sets out to become a legend, but Dirty Martin’s Place in Austin, Texas, has managed it anyway, one burger at a time, for nearly a hundred years. If you’ve never been, that’s a situation worth correcting as soon as your schedule allows. The building on Guadalupe...
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Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen Expanding Into Central Texas
Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen is expanding into the Austin area with planned restaurants in Kyle and Leander, marking a larger move beyond its Houston-area base. The Austin Business Journal reported that the 33-year-old Tex-Mex chain selected sites along Interstate 35 as it continues growing outside its home market. The Kyle...
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Grass Carp Take on Hydrilla Battle in Lake Austin
For many visitors, Lake Austin’s underwater vegetation is out of sight and out of mind. But beneath the surface, city officials are engaged in an ongoing effort to manage hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant that can spread rapidly and interfere with recreation, water flow and the lake’s ecological balance.
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Clint Harp’s 100-Mile Mission: Supporting Immigrant Families from Waco to Austin
Former “Fixer Upper” and “Restoration Road” star Clint Harp is taking on a new kind of project: a nearly 100-mile run and ride from Waco to the Texas State Capitol to support local immigrant families. In this interview, Harp and Dr. Mary Landon Darden from HOTNIR—the Heart of Texas Network for Immigrant Rights—and its partner organization Refugia explain the challenges immigrant families are facing, how their groups provide support, and why Harp chose this effort now. They also share what Sunday’s run and ride will look like, how viewers can follow his journey, and how to donate to help fund their work.
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Mercer Restaurant Planned Inside Downtown Austin’s Thompson Hotel
A new restaurant called Mercer is on the way to Thompson Austin, the Hyatt-run hotel at 500 San Jacinto Blvd. in downtown Austin. Work on the 4,269-square-foot space is scheduled to begin in December 2026, with completion targeted for August 2027. The project will turn an existing restaurant space inside...
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Austin Area Halloween Events 2026
This is list is all about the Halloween gatherings in and around Austin. 5 Stones Brewery | Toby G’s annual release party, live music + Trunk or Treat. Vacancy Brewing | Scaryoke | 4th Annual Costume Karaoke contest if finally back!. The Brewtorium | Flights of Fright | 5...
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Dan Rather turns 95 this week: 'Here is my message to every eligible voter'
AUSTIN — As he turns 95 this week, Texas native Dan Rather is urging eligible voters to cast ballots in the midterm election in a Facebook post, regardless of their political affiliation. Here is my message to every eligible voter, whatever your political affiliation: If this worn and battered...
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Intero chefs launch new Austin steakhouse in abandoned restaurant space
Two highly regarded Austin Italian restaurants have a sister concept on the way. Emery, a new concept by chefs Ian Thurwachter and Krystal Craig of Intero and Poeta, is a new steakhouse opening Thursday, November 5. Emery is the odd one out as it's not an Italian restaurant, but it...
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Some Of The Most Unforgettable Meals In Texas Begin With These 10 Local Traditions
A three-quarter-pound chicken fried steak in Texas gets cooked on a grill instead of dunked in a deep fryer. That one detail made me stop and read the whole menu twice. Then the stories kept getting better, including a taco shell that puffs into a golden pocket and a trademarked name to protect it. Another kitchen helped make fajitas famous after starting in a little building in front of a struggling tortilla factory.
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Eater
Fire-Grilled Mexican Seafood Is Coming to South Austin
A new Mexican seafood restaurant, Mi Vecino, is opening in Circle C, courtesy of chef Amir Hajimaleki and his brother Ali Hajimaleki of Roya Hospitality Group. It’s slated to open between now and early 2027, per a release. The restaurant, Mi Vecino, will open at 5701 West Slaughter Lane, replacing another of the group’s restaurants, Keeper’s Coastal Kitchen, which closed Saturday, October 24.
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New Northwest Austin Bar Kindred Social Pours Cocktails, Stacks a Double-Patty Smash Burger
Kindred Social has opened at 7710 N. FM 620 in Northwest Austin, bringing a cocktail bar and dining option to the corridor. The restaurant’s menu includes a double-patty smash burger and shareable dishes, while its bar serves rotating draft cocktails. The restaurant held its soft opening Wednesday, Community Impact...
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Halloween specials and a new pizza spot reanimate Austin food news
As the veil lifts on Halloween weekend, things aren't looking so scary in Austin's food scene. We have news of two openings, prix fixe dinners, and some last-minute Halloween ideas, both for light planners and those going all-out. Openings and closings. Windsor Park, the neighborhood next to Mueller, has a...