🍽️ Best Fine Dining in Austin
41 fine dining spots in Austin, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Fine Dining Spots
1
Emmer & Rye
Chef Kevin Fink's Rainey Street tasting-menu destination and a Michelin Green Star awardee for sustainable gastronomy. The dim-sum-cart format wheels seasonal Texas-terroir plates directly to your tab...
98
2
Hestia
Live-fire downtown room from the Emmer & Rye team, built around an open hearth that every dish on the menu passes through on its way out. Hearth-roasted carrots are the unexpected anchor; the wagy...
97
3
Uchi
Tyson Cole's James Beard Award-winning Japanese restaurant — the hama chili, machi cure, and omakase are the reason Austin gets taken seriously on the national fine dining circuit. The original South ...
97
4
Barley Swine
Bryce Gilmore's North Lamar tasting room — the more serious, more deliberate counterpart to Odd Duck — where the menu rewrites itself around what the farms are sending that week. Smoked pork belly, se...
96
5
Craft Omakase
Twelve seats on North Lamar, 22 courses, and a Michelin star earned inside the first year — the kind of trajectory that doesn't happen by accident. Seasonal nigiri, A5 wagyu, a uni course that defends...
96
6
Birdie's
Counter-service prix fixe in East Austin from Arjav Ezekiel and Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel. The menu changes daily, drawing from regional European traditions. Dinner runs multiple courses with a natural w...
95
7
Kappo Kappo
French-Japanese omakase from twin chefs Gohei and Haru Kishi at the Austin Proper Hotel, with 25 seats built around a chef's counter. An 11-course tasting spotlights A5 wagyu and the day's market fish...
94
8
Otoko
South Congress omakase room running a BBQ-kaiseki fusion that nobody else in Texas is actually attempting — seasonal nigiri and the multi-course omakase laid over Texas pit influence, which sounds lik...
93
9
Le Calamar
South 1st French bistro that figured out how to put a serious prix fixe on the table without the downtown price tag — duck confit, steak tartare, chocolate souffle, all served in a small Bouldin room ...
92
10
Uchiko
Hai Hospitality's farmstead-leaning sibling to Uchi, parked on North Lamar with the same precision applied to a more seasonal, vegetable-forward register. The P-38 Lightning and Hachi Maki are signatu...
91
All 41 Fine Dining Spots in Austin
Red Ash
91
Lutie's Garden Restaurant
91
Foreign & Domestic
91
Tsuke Edomae
91
Wink
90
Soto
90
Jeffrey's
90
L'Oca d'Oro
90
Sushi|Bar ATX
90
KANE
90
Sushi by Scratch Restaurants: Austin
90
Garrison
89
Arlo Grey
89
Restaurant François
89
Lenoir Hot Weather Food
89
Fonda San Miguel Brunch
89
Comedor
88
Perry's Steakhouse & Grille
88
Eberly
88
Bureau de Poste
88
Fixe Southern House
87
Bob's Steak & Chop House
87
III Forks
87
Eddie V's Prime Seafood
87
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse
86
Ruth's Chris Steak House
86
Tillie's
86
SP Brazilian Steakhouse
86
Truluck's Seafood, Steak and Crab
85
The Roaring Fork
84
Laurel Restaurant
82
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