From: parkes@itp.ethz.ch (Andrew Parkes)
Subject: Re: Seeking veggie restaurants for Austin TX, USA
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:53:44 GMT


The promised summary of responses follows. 

I've tried to put it in order of "vegetarian purity" i.e. almost pure
veggie followed by veggie friendly and then "recommended, but may or may
not be veggie friendly".

Thanks to the following for replying
barber@cactus.org    Matt Barber
sowmya@cs.utexas.edu (Sowmya Ramachandran)
Suchitra Balachandran <suchitra@augustus.physics.unc.edu>
radhika@cs.washington.edu

Corrections,comments, additions are welcomed. Please email to

-- Andrew Parkes,  parkes@itp.ethz.ch 

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Mother's Cafe & Garden - 4215 Duval.  Austin TX  USA

 "almost exclusively vegetarian and is pretty good. Highly recommended."
 "This is a vegetarian restaurant that's been around for years.  Cool
    funky place to hang out on Sunday's."
 "A good vegetarian restaurant is Mothers."
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Mr Natural -                Austin TX  USA

 "owned by a husband & wife couple who specialize in Tex-Mex vegetarian
   food" 
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West Lynn Cafe - 1110 West Lynn St.  Austin TX USA

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Martin Bros Cafe -2815 Guadalupe St.     Austin TX  USA

 "vegetarian and non-red meat."
 "good vege place ....  Great tortilla soup"
 "isn't strictly vegetarian, but serves many such items"
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Most of the Mexican restaurants here have veggie items, enchiladas,
burritos and such like. I would recommend Chuy's on N. Lamar.

There are 2 Indian restaurants
  1. Bombay Grill 
  2. Taj Palace (2 branches, north and south)
which have a decent selection of veggie dishes.

Try Texas Star Cafe (also known as Trudy's) which is around 30th street
and between Guadalupe and Speedway (near the University)

Kirby Lane Cafe is very good

Italian places (Olive Garden) have something for veggies too.
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Bangcok Cuisine -- North Austin at 183 and Burnet road.  
 Good Thai restaurant with an all you get eat lunch buffet.

Well, I prefer Thai Kitchen (South Austin at I-35 and William Cannon).
Their food is better and I got food poisoning at Bangcok. :( If you go to
Thai Kitchen, definately order from the extremely hot food section of the
menu.  It really is that hot.

Pizza is definitely a personal thing.  I like Milto's on Guadalupe at
29th.  Good pizza (think and thin), great Greek salads.  You an also get
things like Gyros and eggplant sandwiches here.  Pizza Nizza on Barton
Springs Drive near Zilker Park.  Interesting tasty pizzas with 4 or 5
different sauces to choose from.  Olive's Gourmet pizza on West Sixth is
good too.  You usually order by the slice here and two or three slices
will kill you.  Try the roasted garlic pizza.  Two slices of this and no
one will come near you for days!

These are all good pizza places, and I also like Mangia's (now on W.
Anderson Lane close to MoPac).
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