📍 Downtown Austin, Austin
32 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 32 Restaurants
Downtown's rooftop cocktail bars, sports-bar crowds, and New American kitchens run from dive-bar cheap to $$$, with a halal gyro window for late nights.
Top 10 in Downtown Austin
1
Upstairs at Caroline
Upstairs at Caroline is the rooftop bar stacked above its namesake restaurant on Congress Avenue, run as a walk-in-only backyard party rather than a reservations room — there's no ...
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2
Edge Rooftop
Edge Rooftop sits on the fifth floor of the JW Marriott Austin, reached by the hotel's public elevators past the spa and pool deck to a rooftop that opens onto the full length of C...
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3
In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight is a tiny, walk-in-only cocktail bar tucked into a Downtown Austin storefront, built around European-style drinks rather than the usual Tex-heavy bar menu. The Infat...
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4
Gyro Express Halal
Gyro Express Halal is a late-night gyro and shawarma stand on East 6th Street, in the middle of Austin's bar-heavy entertainment district — the kind of counter that exists mostly t...
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5
Caroline
Caroline occupies a three-story stretch of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, running one shared kitchen across three separate rooms: the ground-floor dining room, the rooftop bar...
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6
Sapori Italian Roots
Sapori Italian Roots began in 2019 as a food trailer on South 1st Street before moving into a permanent Downtown Austin space on Brazos Street in summer 2023. The menu draws on fam...
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7
Thistle Cafe
Thistle Cafe is a basement-level breakfast-and-lunch counter tucked below street level in a Downtown office building on 6th, easy to walk past if you don't know to look for the sta...
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8
Modern Bar
Modern Bar occupies 90 Rainey St. with a dressier, more grown-up register than the flip-flops-and-frozen-drinks scene that dominates the rest of the street — The Infatuation descri...
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9
Mort Subite
Mort Subite is downtown Austin's dedicated Belgian beer bar on Congress Avenue, pouring roughly 30 Belgian beers on draft plus a deep bottle list, all imported directly from Belgiu...
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10
Seven Grand
Seven Grand is the Austin outpost of a small whiskey-bar group with sister locations in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Denver, set inside a 7th Street building downtown with a hunting...
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All 32 Restaurants in Downtown Austin
Saturn
88
Friends Bar
86
San Jac Saloon
86
Bull and Bowl
86
The Drafting Room
86
Swift's Attic
84
Shiner's Saloon
84
The Backspace
84
Little Brother
84
Eureka!
82
Speakeasy
82
TenTen
82
Revolución Coffee + Juice
82
Buckshot
82
Gnar Bar
82
Victory Lap Rainey
82
The Jackalope
80
Little Woodrow's - West 6th
80
The Dizzy Rooster
80
Powder Room
80
Crazy Conchaz
80
Little Lucy's Mini Donuts
78
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