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Full Restaurant List

Name	Staff Opinion	Staff Rating	Your Rating	Reviews
A la Carrera	Decent, with Issues	0	+2	5
Amaya's Taco Village	Frontage Road Tex-Mex	+2	+2	14
Bear Rock Cafe (closed)	Nothing Special	0	+2.5	28
Billy's On Burnet	n/a	-	+2	3
Bone Daddy's	Skanky	-1	+2	36
Burger House (closed)	Lawry's Style	0	+2	6
Burger Tex	Burger Dry	0	+0.5	9
Cafe Java	Nice spot	+3	+2.5	13
Camino Real	Me Gusta	+2	+2	11
Casino el Camino	n/a	-	+2	12
Charlie's Steak House	Throwback	+3	+1.5	12
Clay Pot	n/a	-	+2	3
Conans Pizza	Good Buffet Deal	+2	+2.5	6
Culver's	Damn good ButterBurger!	+2	+1.5	11
Dog Almighty (closed)	Dog Disappointing	0	+1.5	1
Dot's Place	Home Style	+2	+1.5	21
El Matador	Ho Hum	0	+3	2
Elevation Burger	Better than Expected	+2	+1	4
Enchiladas Y Mas	Too Glop	0	+1	3
Firehouse Subs	Steamy	+2	+1	2
Five Guys Burgers and Fries	Mighty Fine, heh heh	+1	+2	2
Food Shui	Tasty	+3	+2.5	26
Fuddruckers	Fresh but Pricey	+1	+1	12
Gabbi's Burgers and Dogs (closed)	Another Dry Burger	0	+3	9
Guadalajara	Stringy	0	add review	1
Hat Creek Burger Company	n/a	+2	+1	2
Highland Lanes	Not Spare!	+2	+2	2
Hill-Bert's Burgers	Decent/Filthy	+1	+1	11
Jardin Corona	Poorly Structured Lunch Specials	0	+2.5	23
Jersey Mike's Subs	Do it Mike's Way	+3	+2	13
Jim's	Cheap Grits	+2	+2.5	4
Kerbey Lane Cafe	Dry Migas	0	+1.5	8
Kiefer's Cafe	Friendly Place	+1	+2.5	16
La Morada	Ni Bueno ni Malo	0	+1	10
Los Portales	Chip Recylers?	-1	+1.5	7
Los Reyes	Mucho Queso	0	+1	2
Lucky's Chicago Style Grill	Authentic	+2	+2	13
Maudie's North Lamar	Ho Hum	0	+1.5	3
Mighty Fine Burgers	Burgers	+1	+1	19
Mike's Pub	Austin Grease Pit	+1	+1	2
Mongolian Grille	Eh	+1	+1	6
Moonies Burger House	Hefty burgers	+2	+2.5	9
Mooyah Burgers & Fries	Zzzzz	0	+1.5	4
Ninfa's (closed)	Still Good, but Odd	+2	0	4
Original Pancake House	A Little Disappointing	+1	+2	11
Red Robin	Ornithological Burger	+1	+1	14
Riata Bar and Grill	Boring Bar Burger	0	+2	7
Ryan's	Awful	-1	-0.5	9
Saccone's (closed)	Good Thin Crust	+2	+1	6
Sambet's Cajun Deli	n/a	-	+1	20
Schlotzsky's	Good hot sandwiches	+2	+1.5	9
Sunflower	n/a	-	+2	1
Taco Shack	Decent Tacos	+1	0	3
Tacodeli	I Don't Get It	0	+1.5	28
TerraBurger	Earthy	0	+1	10
Texadelphia	Used to be Better	+1	0	9
Texas Roadhouse	Western	0	+2	2
Thundercloud Subs	Good solid subs	+1	+1	20
Top Notch	Greatness	+3	+2.5	11
Trudy's	n/a	-	+1	5
Water Tank	Bar Food	0	+2	2
Waterloo Ice House	Overpriced and Underflavored	0	0	10
Which Wich	Shiny	+1	+2	26
Willy O's (closed)	Grill-Free Zone	+1	+1.5	8

AusLunch News

Moved Hosts

10/14/2009

Last night I moved auslunch.com to a new host, which has been great so far--Webfaction (I've already got some other sites running there. Their Django support is great. So is their Wordpress support).

Auslunch was down for about 8 hours Monday with no action by my previous hosting provider. Moving to Webfaction was pretty painless.

Yet More Burgers Coming to Town

03/13/2009

Just read online that Atlanta-based "Flip Burger Boutique" is eyeing an Austin location. Looks like a high-end burger experience, manned by none other than Top Chef's Richard Blais. Should be interesting.

Check their edgy site here: Flip Burger Boutique.

Looks a bit too hi-tone for me, but we'll see.

Austin Burger Updates

11/10/2008

Five Guys has opened! I have not had a chance to check it out yet though. And the TerraBurger site is now online, providing more insight into this new local burger chain. The North Austin location should open in December according to the site.

Another Burger Option

10/14/2008

Noticed a sign on the 183 frontage road (northbound) near Braker for "TerraBurger", coming soon. Found this website, which does nothing to clear up the mystery: http://www.terraburgerrestaurants.com/

Mooyah Now Open

10/05/2008

Mooyah finally opened its doors. See how it fared in our review. Hint: I'm looking forward to the opening of 5 Guys :)

New Burger Options Coming Soon

08/20/2008

There is discussion on Chowhound about two new burger places opening soonish here. First is Mooyah, a Dallas-based chain. It is due to open any day now at Burnet and 183 (has been under construction forever) Their thing is "Just burgers. Just fries. Just better." Yelp reviews for the Dallas locations are mostly positive.

Next is Five Guys, which I read about on some NY burger blogs--A Hamburger Today and George "Hamburger America" Motz's Hamburger America blog. Sounds promising. Just received confirmation from the company on location and date: It does look like we will have a store to be located at 3208 Guadalupe Street in Austin, TX. Its projected opening date looks to be on or around the first week of November.

Forum Taken Down

08/03/2008

I have removed the forum from the site. It became nothing more than a spam magnet. I am going to move the old forum posts over to this blog format once I get it fully implemented.

Great Cheesesteak

07/24/2008

I had heard good things about Hog Island Deli, a downtown-ish Austin sandwich place, and finally had a chance to try out their much vaunted (on Chowhound if I recall) cheesesteak. I must say, it's the best cheesesteak I've had in a while. Much better than the now-mediocre Texadelphia, and better than the pretty good cheesesteak at Jersey Mike's. Hog Island's cheesesteak was so tasty that I had three of them in a span of 4 or 5 days that I had the rare opportunity to be close to downtown.

I only wish they had a location up north.

Site Update

11/15/2007

I overhauled the design of the site for the first time since its launch. Was time for an upgrade. At least we hope it will qualify as an "upgrade". Anyway, a few more changes are on the way, including making this little bit of the home page a "live" blog. And of course we need to go out and hit up some new restaurants...it's been a while.