Breakfast Tacos, BBQ and Beer in East Austin

Austin is known for a vibrant food scene and this East Austin trek covers several of the city’s greatest hits with a few surprises.

Theme: Food & Drink
Location: East Austin, Austin
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Designer: Uptaste

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Experience

We’ll start at Cuvée Coffee for nitro cold brew before chowing down on breakfast tacos made by a talented Mexican woman honoring her heritage at Granny’s Tacos. Next up is Micklethwait Craft Meats, where the smokey BBQ is guaranteed to induce meat sweats. If you’re not in a meat coma by now, continue to Easy Tiger where there’s more smoked meat, but also great Old World bread and craft beer if your body needs a break. Relax outside in the spacious beer garden before finishing the day with a sweet and refreshing scoop of gelato at Gelateria Gemelli a few blocks away.

Route

Cuvée Coffee

Craft coffee pioneers in Austin since 1998 and inventors of canned nitro cold brew.

Granny’s Tacos

Maria Rios pays homage to her grandmother’s tacos with her down-to-earth and delicious taco shop in East Austin.

Micklethwait Craft Meats

Pitmaster Tom Micklethwait serves oak-fired Central Texas BBQ from a vintage Comet trailer, specializing in smoked meats by the pound and creative sausages.

Easy Tiger

This bake shop and beer garden features Old World hearth breads, soft pretzels and European style pastries baked fresh daily, along with locally produced sausages and smoked meats.

Gelateria Gemelli

Gemelli makes the best gelato in Austin, crafted in small batches with organic local dairy.

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About

This route was designed by Uptaste.

Uptaste

What is Uptaste? We’re something like a travel agency business (although we don’t sell flights or hotels). Instead, we specialise in finding the right place to eat, wherever and whenever you are, using location intelligence combined with expert and community curation. Uptaste destinations will rarely be restaurants; they’ll be shops, they’ll be street traders, they’ll be local markets, or some other easy-to-miss but hard-to-forget place.

https://www.uptaste.com