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The lobster meal special at Garbo’s.
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The Best Austin Restaurant Weeks Deals

Which prix fixe menus offer the most bang for your buck, all to benefit the Central Texas Food Bank

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The lobster meal special at Garbo’s.
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The annual Austin Restaurant Weeks kicks off this late August, where participating local restaurants will offer prix fixe lunch, cocktail, and/or dinner specials. These sales will partially benefit the Central Texas Food Bank. It runs from Friday, August 30 through Sunday, September 15.

Currently, there are over 100 Austin restaurants and bars taking part in the event. Some offer new dishes while others combine popular choices for set meals. Eater combed through all the deals to find the most exciting and best bang-for-your-buck offerings. This includes steaks from Carve American Grille, many summery options from Italian restaurant Intero, and great chef’s choices of nigiri sets from Lucky Robot and Ebisu.

Lunches and brunches are $20 for two to three courses, whereas dinners are either $40 or $60 for three to four courses. There may also be $12 cocktail specials or wine/beer selections available, as well as beerflights at participating breweries.

Many of the participating restaurants haven’t finalized the offerings yet, so watch this map for potential updates. (While the names are very similar, this Austin Restaurant Weeks isn’t related to Austin Restaurant Week, which was last held in 2014.)

This map was originally written by Erin Russell.

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The casual Anderson Mill Japanese restaurant’s four-course $60 dinner special includes a 10-piece chef’s choice nigiri array, wagyu sushi pieces, and bluefin tuna sashimi, for a really great deal. There are indoor dine-in services.

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Indulge in lobster at the seafood restaurant’s North Austin and Dripping Springs restaurants during the weeks with its $60 dinner. The meal centers on its typically $52 whole lobster plate, which comes with one and a half pounds of shellfish with a choice of sides such as fries, salads, chips, or jalapeno slaw. There’s also shrimp cocktails and a slice of its key lime pie. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

L'Oca d'Oro

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The Mueller Italian restaurant is offering a $60 meal available in its dining room. Choose from mozzarella with fig agrodolce and mint or fritto misto; campanelle with clams or pork short ribs, among many other delicious choices. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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Restaurant Weeks is a good opportunity to check out West Campus steakhouse within the Otis Hotel, especially when its seven-ounce strip steak is part of its three-course $60 dinner menu. The meal is bookended with creamy burrata on sourdough bread and bread pudding topped with caramel ice cream. There are indoor dine-in services.

Carve American Grille

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Carve, the live-fire sibling to steakhouse Perry’s, has both $20 lunch and $60 dinner options for Austin Restaurant Weeks at both locations (this one at Baron Creek and the other near Rosedale and the other out in Barton Creek). From the dinner menu, given that the 8-ounce bacon-wrapped filet is $49.50 on its own, this is one of the better deals — and that flaming lemon bar sounds intriguing. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The dependably great East Side Italian restaurant has a $60 four-course dinner menu with a couple of options. The first course is focaccia with ricotta and honey or lemony-dill-y grilled potatoes; then either marinated cucumbers or summer melon; and then the hearty entrees (making the deal well worth it) include options like risotto with grilled quail, smoked beef sausage with eggplants and chickpea, bucatini with charred corn, or vegan pasta. End the meal with brown butter cake, peach sorbet, or the restaurant’s excellent chocolates. There are inside and outdoor dine-in services.

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The Zilker Spanish restaurant’s $60 dinner menu is a whooping five-course affair, full of mushrooms with sunchoke miso hummus and paratha; options like ceviche hamachi or salad and pan con tomate or ham-chicken croquettes; patatas bravas or adobo-marinated fried calamari; and really huge paellas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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The Bouldin Creek Japanese restaurant’s $60 dinner menu includes a chef’s choice of eight dry-aged fish sashimi (which is typically $65 on its own), sushi rolls, crispy pork belly, and crudo. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Nomade Cocina y Raw Bar

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The Bouldin Creek Mexican-by-way-of-the-Yucatan restaurant’s four-course $60 dinner menu is another really good deal, with crudo options, appetizers like grilled shrimp, and hearty entrees like fish in a coconut curry or wagyu sirloin bavette. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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There are lots of options at the Bouldin Creek Oaxacan restaurant that took over Enoteca Vespaio. The $40, three-course dinner menu is a chance to try already-popular menu items at a discount. Choose from appetizer options like memelas or yellowfin tuna tostada; entrees like chipotle-marinated chicken, grilled shrimp, or roasted vegetables in mole blanco; and tres leches cake or mango flan for dessert. There’s also a $20 lunch option. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Nadia Chaudhury is an editor for Eater Northeast and Eater New York and was the former Eater Austin editor, who often writes about food and pop culture.

Ebisu

The casual Anderson Mill Japanese restaurant’s four-course $60 dinner special includes a 10-piece chef’s choice nigiri array, wagyu sushi pieces, and bluefin tuna sashimi, for a really great deal. There are indoor dine-in services.

Garbo's

Indulge in lobster at the seafood restaurant’s North Austin and Dripping Springs restaurants during the weeks with its $60 dinner. The meal centers on its typically $52 whole lobster plate, which comes with one and a half pounds of shellfish with a choice of sides such as fries, salads, chips, or jalapeno slaw. There’s also shrimp cocktails and a slice of its key lime pie. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

L'Oca d'Oro

The Mueller Italian restaurant is offering a $60 meal available in its dining room. Choose from mozzarella with fig agrodolce and mint or fritto misto; campanelle with clams or pork short ribs, among many other delicious choices. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Acre 41

Restaurant Weeks is a good opportunity to check out West Campus steakhouse within the Otis Hotel, especially when its seven-ounce strip steak is part of its three-course $60 dinner menu. The meal is bookended with creamy burrata on sourdough bread and bread pudding topped with caramel ice cream. There are indoor dine-in services.

Carve American Grille

Carve, the live-fire sibling to steakhouse Perry’s, has both $20 lunch and $60 dinner options for Austin Restaurant Weeks at both locations (this one at Baron Creek and the other near Rosedale and the other out in Barton Creek). From the dinner menu, given that the 8-ounce bacon-wrapped filet is $49.50 on its own, this is one of the better deals — and that flaming lemon bar sounds intriguing. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Intero

The dependably great East Side Italian restaurant has a $60 four-course dinner menu with a couple of options. The first course is focaccia with ricotta and honey or lemony-dill-y grilled potatoes; then either marinated cucumbers or summer melon; and then the hearty entrees (making the deal well worth it) include options like risotto with grilled quail, smoked beef sausage with eggplants and chickpea, bucatini with charred corn, or vegan pasta. End the meal with brown butter cake, peach sorbet, or the restaurant’s excellent chocolates. There are inside and outdoor dine-in services.

El Raval

The Zilker Spanish restaurant’s $60 dinner menu is a whooping five-course affair, full of mushrooms with sunchoke miso hummus and paratha; options like ceviche hamachi or salad and pan con tomate or ham-chicken croquettes; patatas bravas or adobo-marinated fried calamari; and really huge paellas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Lucky Robot

The Bouldin Creek Japanese restaurant’s $60 dinner menu includes a chef’s choice of eight dry-aged fish sashimi (which is typically $65 on its own), sushi rolls, crispy pork belly, and crudo. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Nomade Cocina y Raw Bar

The Bouldin Creek Mexican-by-way-of-the-Yucatan restaurant’s four-course $60 dinner menu is another really good deal, with crudo options, appetizers like grilled shrimp, and hearty entrees like fish in a coconut curry or wagyu sirloin bavette. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Chapulin Cantina

There are lots of options at the Bouldin Creek Oaxacan restaurant that took over Enoteca Vespaio. The $40, three-course dinner menu is a chance to try already-popular menu items at a discount. Choose from appetizer options like memelas or yellowfin tuna tostada; entrees like chipotle-marinated chicken, grilled shrimp, or roasted vegetables in mole blanco; and tres leches cake or mango flan for dessert. There’s also a $20 lunch option. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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