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Slow Down, Breathe Deep

Finding Stillness at Casa de Luz East Words Codi Chen | Photo Baptiste Despois Situated just off MLK, Casa de Luz East feels like an unexpected retreat from the constant movement and noise of the city. Walking down the stone path toward the entrance, framed by growing bamboo plants and a natural wood pergola, visitors...
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Farm to Fork

A Fight for Healthy & Local Living Editor Eastside Staff |  Photos Baptiste Despois Boggy Creek Farm isn’t just one of the few urban farms left inside Austin’s city limits—it’s a living, breathing piece of Texas history, still thriving in a city that seems to reinvent itself every few years. But the folks at Boggy...
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2025 Top Chefs Issue Local + Native Knowledge

6 Best Social Club

Community in the Making Words Deven Wilson Making connections in the digital age requires more than good WiFi. Whether you’ve lived in Austin since birth or just moved here yesterday, meeting new people in this digital age can be difficult. Thankfully, in East Austin, plenty of groups organize clubs and get-togethers to foster a sense of...
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2025 Top Chefs Issue 6 Best

Secrets Uncovered

Sit down with East Austin’s Top chefs as they reveal their faves Words Abby L. Johnson | Photos Baptiste Despois & Ashley Haguewood “Good food is very often, even most often, simple food,” opined the late Anthony Bourdain in his beloved memoir, Kitchen Confidential. The leaders of East Austin’s culinary scene know this all too...
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Feels like Family

Where Filipino Roots Meet Texas Heat Words Codi Chen | Photos Baptiste Despois Stepping into OKO Austin off East 6th Street, the intimate ambiance, welcoming bar, and generous staff instantly make guests feel excited about the culinary journey that’s about to happen. This is a place where Filipino and Southeast Asian cuisines collide with a...
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2025 Top Chefs Issue Sip+Taste Taste

Chef Brian Batch {Bird Bird Biscuit}

Practiced hands, a serene mind, and a palate highly attuned to the nuance of a seemingly simple staple in Southern cuisine birthed the blue-ribbon biscuits that hold Bird Bird Biscuit together. The fast casual eatery led by chef Brian Batch is now itself a celebrated staple in the Austin food scene. Chef Brian prides himself...
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Chef Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel {Birdie’s}

Not every neighborhood in East Austin can claim walkability to a Michelin recommended restaurant, but Rosewood residents of the 12th Street block know that an exceptionally crafted seasonal meal is just a breezy stroll away. Chef Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel runs a scrappy kitchen at Birdie’s, the counter-service eatery that, in just under five years of operation,...
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Chef Kazu Fukumoto {Fukumoto}

Chef Kazu cut his teeth in the thick of the dish pit, working his way up to head sushi chef of Austin restaurant Musashino Sushi Dokoro. He led the charge there for a decade before launching Fukumoto, a sushi and yakitori destination modeled after Japan’s izakayas. The casual pubs, comparable to a modern tapas bar,...
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Chef Fermin Nunez {Suerte, Bar Toti, & Este}

Perhaps one of the most well-known faces of Texas cuisine for his appearance in Netflix’s Taco Chronicles, chef Fermin Nunez brings the flavors and traditions of his native Mexico to a ravenous American public at two Michelin Guide recommended restaurants. The sister concepts, Suerte which focuses on contemporary Mexican cuisine and house-made masa and Este...
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Chef Sonya Coté {Store House Market & Eatery}

Sustainable agriculture advocate chef Sonya Coté connects people with their environment through vibrant plates plucked straight from the land. After the pandemic-induced closure of Eden East, the restaurant she opened on Springdale Farm in 2013, Sonya didn’t allow her concept to wither away. Today, she runs Store House Market & Eatery in Bastrop. Though a...
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