Top Restaurants in Austin

Aquarelle
Location: Downtown Austin
Cuisine: French
Price: $$$$
Ambience: Dressy

With authentic French cuisine prepared by Executive Chef Jacque Richard, the award-winning Aquarelle restaurant gives visitors a chance to eat at one of the best French restaurants in all of Texas. With a seasonal menu and elegant surroundings, Aquarelle is located in a turn of the century home right in the heart of downtown Austin. The menu offers "La Carte" and "Pre Fix" items for those sticking close to their budget, though the menu's regular fixtures are so succulent it's difficult to say no to more.

Driskill Grill
Location: Downtown Austin
Cuisine: New American
Price: $$$$
Ambience: Dressy
Sample Items: Cinnamon Dusted Duck Breast, Dark and Milk Chocolate Terrine

A five star, award-winning, internationally known restaurant, the Driskill Grill is not your mother's grill. Truly an elegant experience, the restaurant gives the visitor the very best to choose from in both food and wine selection. There's a reason this restaurant often makes the top list, and there's only one way to savor it -- in person.

Café at the Four Seasons
Location: Downtown Austin
Cuisine: New American
Price: $$$
Ambience: Casual
Sample Items: Dover Sole and Jumbo Shrimp Piccata

It's often said that the devil is in the details. At the Café at the Four Seasons, each dish, setting, dessert, drink and other minutiae are carefully laid out and prepared. It's truly a unique experience watching the masterful team work at this five star restaurant. With an ambience that features dim lighting and fresh flowers and the very finest in cuisine, the Café at the Four Seasons is an Austin restaurant that always delivers the best in every detail.

Jeffrey's
Location: Downtown Austin
Cuisine: New American
Price: $$$$
Ambience: Dressy
Sample Items: Stilton Mousse, Black-Currant Port Sauce, Szechuan Peppercorn Tuile

Regional fare is re-imagined in the hands of Executive Chef David Garrido into something unique. Jeffrey's brings a Mexican flair to the menu that creates not a typical Tex-Mex but something that truly must be experienced to be described.

Uchi
Location: South Austin
Cuisine: Japanese, Sushi
Price: $$$$
Ambience: Dressy
Sample Items: Bluefin Tuna Sashimi, Walu Walu Oak-Grilled Escolar and Hamachi Baby Yellowtail

Colorful and truly artful sushi is created by Uchi's owner-chef, Tyson Cole, chosen by Food & Wine magazine as one of 2005's best new chefs. Cole's approach is to make sushi accessible to all, and he admirably succeeds with flying colors. The wait is well worth it at this Japanese-cum-Americana Austin staple.