re: Traveling to Austin - The official thread

I'd add a few things to the list...

Fonda San Miguel for old-school, interior mexican. It's an Austin classic & amazing meal every time. ATXCocina downtown is amazing. Fancy, but amazing. For something lower maintenance, try Trudy's or Maudies for Tex Mex. We like our breakfast tacos here. Veracruz, which was mentioned earlier, is bomb. Tacodeli and Torchy's are also both great as well for tacos.

We like our healthy options around here. 24 Diner downtown is great. I'm personally a fan of Honest Mary's as well. You can always do a chain like True Food Kitchen or Flower Child as well to have something healthy.

BBQ game has improved a ton over the last decade, and you can get some excellent food at Black's a little north of campus, or La Barbeque, Stiles Switch, Lambert's downtown... there are a bunch of options which are miles ahead of anything you'd get in Louisiana. Get the beef rib if you are hungry.

I would not do Salt Lick unless you want the experience of being 30 mins outside of the city.

Austin is relatively safe compared to Baton Rouge (homeless ordinance notwithstanding), and traffic post-game flows better because the roads are mostly in a grid. I have walked from downtown to campus in the past -- younger, fit people should be able to do that.

You can pretty much walk anywhere for 2 miles in any direction and not be in danger. One caveat -- just avoid 7th & Red River/Neches/Trinity b/c that's where the homeless shelter is. It's called the ARCH. Stay away.