Diners slide their trays down the cafeteria-style line to order quiches, salads, soups, and sandwiches on croissants or dense homemade bread.
This restaurant, opened for business for over 30 years, is still serving up delicious Interior Mexican in a lovely setting. The empanadas, frijoles a la charra, beef tenderloin, and anything with the mole sauce is not to be missed. Also check out the extensive gluten-free menu.
Los Pinos provides a balance of Tex-Mex and Interior Mexican cuisines. Be sure to try the fish borracho: tilapia swimming in chipotle-cream sauce, corn, and mushrooms. The tortillas and aguas frescas are made fresh daily.
Everyone will find favorite dishes on this enormous menu. Try the Neptune Platter.
This popular chain offers an Italian kitchen specializing in pizza, pasta, and sandwiches, a prepared food case, and a small grocery of imported goods.
You may crave a conventional Margherita pizza or something really wild like the Mother Lode – a combination of pepperoni, sausage, ground sirloin, bacon, onions, mushrooms, and green and red bell peppers.
The menu here features old-fashioned combination plates, but also offers interior specialties such as carnitas and carne guisada tacos.
Nothing tests the mettle of a musician like having to compete with the best sunsets in Texas. Opened by Beau Theriot in 1982, the Oasis has grown from a remote ranch house on the western edge of town to a four-tiered food and entertainment fortress overlooking Lake Travis with a capacity of 2,500. Neither a 2005 fire nor the 2010-13 drought stanched the venue’s momentum. During the spring and summer months, the Oasis features live music on weekends and select Thursdays. Frequent fliers include venerable all-purpose show band Rotel & the Hot Tomatoes and Eighties glam-metal specialists LC Rocks.
One of few Asian eateries in the Lakeway area, this Chinese restaurant offers daily lunch and dinner specials as well as delivery.
This unassuming storefront just uphill from the lake still offers the beloved crawfish cakes with Mermaid sauce, as well as a hearty gumbo, crusty po-boys, and a complete by-the pound menu.
Whether sweet or savory, the pies emphasize house-made ingredients and imaginative flavor combinations. The desserts are enormous, so don’t shoulder the burden alone.
The sister restaurant to Apis restaurant & Apiary features hand-milled sourdough bread, considered salads, and wood-fired pizza made from locally sourced and sustainable ingredients.
The themed dinner menu changes weekly here, and the wine list is perfectly chosen, with an emphasis on old world wines, as well as a few Texas vintages.
This happy marriage of quality and affordability boasts a menu that will challenge you to choose from exceptionally good entrées, like red-chile mole and Oaxacan-style tortilla soup.
Its big sister, Curra's Grill, is known for solid interior cuisine, and fans will find many familiar menu items. You'll also find 20 beers on tap, hamburgers, and an amphitheater.
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