In the direction of the tip of 2022, Eater requested a trusted group of pals, business insiders and native bloggers to share their ideas on final yr’s culinary expertise in Austin. All solutions shall be revealed earlier than the yr is over — lower and pasted, (principally) unedited, in no explicit order. Query quantity 9:
Have been any new progressive concepts born this yr that you just hope will final till 2023?
Editor-in-Chief Chris Hughes austin month-to-month
A spot that touches a number of passions, together with Classic Books and Wine Bar. A bookstore/wine store? Give me extra of such singular visions.
Melanie Haupt, meals editor, austin chronicle
Though it has been round since late 2020, Too Good To Go appears to be a reasonably accessible strategy to get restaurant meals for reasonable this yr whereas additionally serving to scale back meals waste. It may be crap at occasions when it comes to what meals you get and in what kind you get it, however I feel it is an effective way to deal with two completely different points directly.
Renee Dewi @eats_n_noods and Eater Contributing Author
I’ll proceed to make use of concepts we’ve got tried to arrange and assist companies and communities come collectively, equivalent to non-profit fundraising efforts.
Jane Ko, Blogger, style of coco
The rise of recent meals vans serving actually good meals — La Santa Barbacha, Ensenada, Pinches Tacos, Oye Chico [Ed. note: Oye Chico has since closed]I am trying ahead to seeing extra new meals vans in Austin.
Pat Sharpe, Govt Editor and Meals Author texas month-to-month
Good to see eating places cost a “well being and wellness” price and add a compulsory service cost with a purpose to pay all their workers an affordable wage and supply medical insurance. Birdie’s is one in all his exploring this feature, and there are others. A restaurant is a spot the place we go to have fun pleased events in our lives. We must be prepared to pay individuals to make it doable.
Darcie Duttweiler, Freelance Author, Eater Contributing Author
I respect a chef’s tasting menu that enables me to finest get pleasure from what the chef needs to share with me (and never should make too many choices). It is not essentially new or progressive, but it surely’s nice to see individuals on this city implement their concepts and make them their very own.
Erin Russell, Deputy Editor of Eater Austin
Thank goodness for eating places that put numerous effort into making nice mocktails—you’ll be able to’t make a mocktail by mixing a lot of fruit juices collectively!
Eater Austin editor Nadia Chowdhury
Cooks taking up challenges and doing their very own factor is nothing new in Austin, but it surely’s been on the rise this yr, and we’re hoping this continues in 2023.
