Where You Should Dine for Austin Restaurant Weeks

One of my favorite events is back – Austin Restaurant Weeks, happening August 29 – September 14, 2025. Keep reading to see my picks of where to dine.

Austin Restaurant Weeks

This annual event is a way for the community to give back while dining out. Eat at a participating restaurant during the two weeks, and a portion of your meal cost will be donated to the Central Texas Food Bank. Restaurants are offering pre-fixe lunch and dinner menus with your choice of dishes. It’s a great way to support your favorite restaurant or try a new restaurant while giving back to the food bank.

In Central Texas, 1 in 5 people, including 1 in 4 children, don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and Texas ranks 2nd in the U.S. for food insecurity. Those stats are appalling and embarrassing for one of the fastest-growing economies in the country. Being fed is a gateway to a better life. You’re more able to work and learn to improve your life. But hunger is keeping many of our neighbors behind.

The Central Texas Food Bank helps community members with all types of needs. Here are some of their stats:

• 93% of clients are not homeless
• 34% of clients are children and teens
• 64% of client households have at least one working adult
• 20% of client households include grandparents caring for grandchildren

The food bank does an incredible job working with partners, pulling in resources, and implementing innovative ways to meet their needs, but they still need more support. Every bit of this Austin Restaurant Weeks campaign helps!

Where to Dine

There are 100 (and counting) places participating in Austin Restaurant Weeks. Restaurants will have $25 lunch options and $40, $50 or $75 dinner options. Some restaurants and breweries will also have drink specials. Here are some of my recommendations on where to go.

If you want to try newer Austin restaurants, here are the ones to visit:

• Aris
• Loudmouth
• The Guest House
• Siti
• Electric Gravy
• Teddy’s Restaurant and Bar
• Rose Gose
• Casa Bianca

Here are some Austin staple restaurants you should try:

• Dai Due
• Old Thousand
• Lenoir
• Odd Duck
• Comedor
• Intero
• Foreign & Domestic

These are the menus that look the tastiest to me:

• Intero: $75 4-Course Dinner
• Thai Fresh: $25 2-Course Lunch
• Cinful Sweets: $35 3-Course Dessert Menu
• Old Thousand: $40 4-course Dinner
• North: $25 3-Course Brunch
• Peached Tortilla: $40 3-Course Dinner

See all the restaurant options on the Austin Restaurant Weeks website.

I hope you get out and dine for Austin Restaurant Weeks! Let me know where you end up going.

2023 Preview Dinner

To celebrate the launch of Austin Restaurant Weeks in 2023, I joined the Central Texas Food Bank, Chef Philip Speer from Comedor, and Chef Dan Kennedy from Vixen’s Wedding (now closed) in a special dinner for partners and media. The pictures from this post are from that dinner. The six courses combine what both chefs do best, and wow, it was good! Here’s what we enjoyed and what you see pictured:

• Course 1: Tuna Crudo, Compressed Melon, Tomato, Herb Oil, Crispy Rice
• Course 2: Ensalada Verde, Lightsey Farm Peaches, Salsa Macha Vinaigrette
• Course 3: Poached Shrimp, Preserved Lime, Shrimp Curry, Shrimp Crackers
• Course 4: Elk Picadillo Tamal, Mole Anaranjado
• Course 5: Peri Peri Poulet Rouge, Basmati Rice, Heirloom Masa Tortillas
• Course 6: Pavlova with Bouldin Food Forest Melon Sorbet