breakfast tacos: Tamale House on Airport. Get the Migas and wrap ’em up as a bfast taco. That’s some meat free goodness right there.

smoothie: In your own kitchen. Banana, almond milk, peanut butter, blueberries, yogurt, lil bit of oatmeal, protein powder and vanilla. Or for winter, heat up milk in sauce pan and blend with a banana and nutmeg. If you want a ‘healthy’ green smoothie, blend spinach and berries with either water or some kind milk sub. IMO the best tasting daily-juice/ juice-land smoothies are so good because they have some kind of nut butter in them but they’re usually not worth the $$.

pizza: East Side Pies, Salvation, and Homeslice are all badass. Then again, walkable drunken pizza tastes excellent, no matter where it’s from. Austin’s Pizza is good too.

hamburger: Casino El Camino or Jackelope
Hut’s is the old school choice, 2 for 1 on Wednesday.
Dans/ Frans are ok for the traditional frozen burger.
If you want exotic go for Bubba’s game Burgers in Elroy
Hopdoddy

bbq: franklins brisket, rubys brisket sandwhich with creamy coleslaw

tex-mex: Habanero on oltorf. Hands down the best. It has weird hours, so check before you go.. polvo’s on south 1st is also the shiz. Get a pitcher of their frozen margaritas and the camaron diablo or the fish a la plancha

vegetarian: Casa de La Luz, Bouldin Creek, Mother’s, Wheatsville, Whole Foods.
Also, Beets on 5th street is a living foods place, and Tom’s Tabooley has a tasty falafel. P. Terry’s has an excellent vegetarian (but not vegan, it has cheese in the patty) veggie burger.

pho: pho dan, pho saigon, or hai-ky if you don’t want to make the trek up north

sushi: uchiko, Bar Chi is awesome and delicious! It’s on 2nd and Colorado, I believe. They have late-night happy hour on the weekends and are consistently good and cheap.

seafood: Perlas hands down, Quality Seafood Sarket

coffee: Strangebrew, Cafe Medici

best bars: highball, violet crown (cheap and stout), Shangri-La, lustre pearl, black heart

karaoke: egos, austin karaoke, highball

watering holes: deep eddie, barton springs (duh), green belt,