📍 Bouldin Creek, Austin
6 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 6 Restaurants
Bouldin Creek, just south of the river, runs on strong coffee, doughnuts, wood-fired pizza, and Yucatecan coastal Mexican — walkable and mostly cheap.
Top 6 in Bouldin Creek
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Pura Vida Brews
Pura Vida Brews pours Costa Rican specialty coffee from a stall at The Lawn on South Congress, working in limited microlots rather than a single house blend. The lineup runs toward...
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The Salty Donut
The Salty Donut traces back to 2014, when Amanda Pizarro and Andy Rodriguez started testing brioche doughnut recipes in Miami before putting school on hold and maxing out credit ca...
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3
Maaribu Cafe & Gifts
Maaribu pairs a small coffee-and-wellness counter with a curated home-goods and gift shop on South First Street. The cafe side focuses on gluten-free baked goods — cookies, cupcake...
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4
Dovetail Pizza & Bar
Dovetail Pizza & Bar opened on South First in 2022 from the team behind Salt & Time, Rosen's Bagels, Lenoir, Swedish Hill, and the now-closed G'Raj Mahal — a lineup that re...
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Nômadé Cocina
Nômadé Cocina brings coastal Yucatán cooking to Bouldin Creek's South 1st strip, from Austin restaurateur Adam Weisberg (Lucky Robot, Zen Japanese) drawing on trips through the Yuc...
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Walter's Tavern
Walter's Tavern took over the old Freddo coffee shop space on South Congress in February 2026, relaunching as a self-described haunted sports bar inside the Walter Tips House — a V...
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