The Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide

Fearless Critic restaurant guides offer brutally honest reviews from undercover chefs and food nerds dining incognito and are totally supported by user funding rather than paid advertisements. The Fearless Critic is utterly unique in its candor, its rigor, its irreverent lack of deference to the sacred cows, and its devotion to finding a city's best food, wherever it may lie. Each review is a full-page long and includes a food rating out of 10, a feel rating out of 10, and practical information about the restaurant. The handy reference section lists all restaurants by cuisine, neighborhood, and special features and offers a specific guide for vegetarians. More than just entertaining reads, these are essential references for anyone who eats out. Covering 250 places to eat across Austin, the suburbs, and Texas Hill Country, from power lunch spots to quirky wine bars, Round Rock Sushi to Lockhart BBQ, this guide provides dozens of little-known bargain finds, from taco trucks to Korean groceries, ribs to tibs.

Brutally honest, cheeky, and fiercely independent, Fearless Critic, the definitive restaurant guide to Austin, Texas, is back in a brand-new third edition—bigger and better than ever, now with 500 reviews, completely revised and updated, and 75 brand-new places to eat since the last edition!

• A definitive reference: covers 500 places to eat across Austin, the suburbs, and Texas Hill Country, from power lunch spots to quirky wine bars, Round Rock sushi to Lockhart BBQ

• Helps you dine better for less: dozens of little-known bargain finds, from taco trucks to Korean groceries, ribs to tibs

• Comprehensive and easy to use: 80 pages of detailed lists, plus special vegetarian and late-night dining guides

• Trustworthy: by a panel of undercover local critics who dine incognito, don’t accept freebies, and don’t pull punches

Alexis Herschkowitsch has written and edited for the Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide and The Wine Trials, as well as Fodor's guides to Mexico, El Salvador, and Thailand. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and has a WSET advanced wine and spirits certificate.

Robin Goldstein is author of The Wine Trials and co-author of The Wine Trials 2010 and The Beer Trials. He is a contributor to the New York Times' Freakonomics blog, and has written for more than 30 Fodor's travel guides, from Italy to Argentina to Hong Kong. He has an A.B. in neuroscience and philosophy from Harvard University, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a certificate in cooking from the French Culinary Institute in New York City, and a WSET advanced wine and spirits certificate.