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Z'Tejas Jumps on the Green Chile Bandwagon and the Austinist Staff Nerds Out Over Veggies
If Central Market and Chuy’s haven’t provided you with enough green chile madness, local southwestern trend-o-mat restaurant Z’Tejas presents a special green chile menu with some proceeds benefiting the Sustainable Food Center. The cause is good, and if the ubiquitous Navajo Eggs and requisite Bloody Marys are any barometer (and if you don’t hate trendy southwestern American kitchen fodder) this one is probably worth the effort.
Z’Tejas 1110 W. Sixth St and 9400-A Arboretum Blvd
A recent recounting of a “vegetarian unfriendly” craft services moment during a local video shoot got us thinking about just how easy it is to find good vegetarian food in Austin. Whether you’re ovo-lacto, vegan, or only eat meat at What-a-Burger at 2am after a night of binge drinking with the guys, here is the Austinist hot list of vegetarian favorites:
Bouldin Creek Coffee House
1501 S 1st St
The menu at this South Austin standard is full of delicious little surprises, but their vegetarian chorizo is a modern culinary masterpiece.
Veggie Heaven
1914 Guadalupe St Ste A
Yes, the dining room is beyond cramped, but the proprietress not only serves an amazingly good steam bun, she is also, according to the restaurant’s propoganda, some sort of intergalactic diety and supermodel. Enough said. Enjoy.
Wheatsville Food Co-op Deli
3101 Guadalupe
We’ve said it before: Vegetarian Frito Pie. Get your own, we’re not sharing.
Casa De Luz
1701 Toomey Rd
Hippie, trippy, and - holy shit – a place that truly is helping to keep Austin weird! Casa de Luz is an exercise in remembering how unprocessed food tastes.
Mother’s Café and Garden
4215 Duval St
Here’s the real deal - if you can remember to avoid the bizarre ketchupy swill they tout as vegetarian BBQ, just about everything on the menu is just what the doctor ordered. No need to get fancy or think too hard, a simple dinner salad with a bowl of rice and beans and a nice glass of white wine is a staff favorite.
Whole Foods Salad Bar
525 N Lamar
Is there crack in the tamari baked tofu? Because we can’t stop eating it.
Mr. Natural
2414-A South Lamar and 1901 E Cesar Chavez
Mr. Natural is seriously back-in-the-day middle school cafeteria gone healthy. Yogurt dressings, black bean tacos, veggie gyros … it’s almost junk food. But it’s not.
Cosmic Café
1110 W Lynn St
It’s hard to believe that this little gem of a restaurant in the former West Lynn Café location has it’s genesis in, you know, Dallas. Stir fries, tofu pies, we ain’t got no alibis – we love it. The menu is one of the most diverse in town. Don’t forget to bring your own wine.
Kim Phung
7601 N Lamar Blvd Ste I
Again with the tofu. If you haven’t had the tofu-garlic-lemon grass-hot pepper vermicelli bowl, we doubt your vegetarianism.
Baby Greens
2316 S 1st St
Owner Sharon Mays, whom we interviewed a few months ago, is as delicious as the Green Goddess dressing people can’t stop eating. The cool thing about Baby Greens? It’s fast food and it’s salad … without the shaker.
