Matthew Jacobs

Spoilers for the end of The Substance follow. The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's outré satire about modern beauty standards, is a cautionary

How The Substance turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year's best movie monsters. MATTHEW JACOBS

The best bars and venues with live music in Austin.

Knuckle Sandwich punches far above their weight. The tiny trailer outside of Ants Beer Cave in South Austin has only four sandwiches on the menu (plus a couple of sides), but that’s all they need. Each will inspire that eyes-rolling-back-in-your-head sigh not often associated with bread and the things that go inside it.

This political season, like many before it, has no shortage of acrimony and division. Some prominent candidates inspire equally passionate devotion from their supporters and loathing from their critics – here among our UF community just as across the rest of our nation.

Alamo Drafthouse is a quirky dine-in movie theater chain that started in Austin.

You can do better than caesar salad in the dark. Here are our favorite foods at Alamo Drafthouse.

This year’s openings brought a slew of new restaurants, dining experiences, and even cuisines to Austin. We saw a meteoric rise in fancy pizza, sushi omakase, and smashburgers. Thai, Lao, and Filipino restaurants dominated our senses, and we crowned a new (old) barbecue champion in a city already so famous for smoked meats. Even a small sandwich truck blew us away. We ate at a lot of new places this year, but these 11 reminded us why so many people keep moving to Austin.

Here at The Infatuation, we eat out five or so nights a week, which means we’re front and center for every way Austin's restaurant scene reinvents itself. In 2024, we noticed that the masa movement has never been stronger, caviar never more abundant, and pizza never more expensive. The list goes on, so we thought we’d share with you several trends we noticed across this year’s dining scene.

These are the Austin restaurants where you’ll find great soup.