Just minutes ago, South Congress Cafe was again cited by Austin's city code enforcement office, after repeated negotiations with Bouldin Creek residents and businesses went unresolved. As you might recall, the chic SoCo eatery (yeah, we said it) built an enormous deck where their back parking lot used to be, despite several stop-work orders from the city. Given the scarcity of nearby lots, this enraged nearby residents, as diners took to parking on the small......

What's the deal with "wartime" and comfort food? Clearly that's a rhetorical question, but look around and you'll see a preponderance of eateries offering retro cuisine - fresh, cold wedge salads, big honkin' messes of macaroni and cheese, peppery thick-cut onion rings and piles of thin pork chops with apple sauce - that hearken back to a mythical time of air-raid drills, movies about large menacing nuke-yu-lar bugs and innuendos about milkmen. And what's......

Grrr. Are you one the impassioned, musical South Austinites who hate the deck attached to the South Congress Cafe? Is it totally violating your rights, like, right now? It is? Then today, dear misbegotten neighbor, is your lucky day. It's your chance to avenge yourself against those who have wronged you. And you get to exact your revenge through song. Oh, the joy. Tonight, at the climax of First Thursday -- at the height......

Doesn't that drink look yummy? Or at least cold? You know how hot it will be in your car, on the way home from work. Why not take a short trip to the South Congress Cafe Beer Garden? You can wait out the traffic with our good looking contributors and a cold drink in hand. Let's not forget sparkling conversation. Austinist Happy Hour South Congress Cafe Beer Garden 5-ish Be There.......

Yeah, that's right. Tomorrow is First Thursday, and we're going to be holding our happy hour right in the middle of it. We're not scared and you shouldn't be either. We're not ashamed to tell you that we only recently discovered the neat beer garden behind South Congress Cafe. They have lots o' beers but they also have something called a Cuban Martini, which is a cousin of the Mexican Martini. (South Congress Cafe......

South Austin is starting to really shape up as an interesting part of Austin with the new-ish Opal Divine’s at Penn Field, the potentially swanky new shops at 3100 S. Congress, the mysterious new place next to Five Oceans and more. However, some local homeowners seem to want to stem the tide of coolness. After reading this Austin-American Statesman article on the subject, we can’t quite put our finger on what some South Austin......

Hello readers! We're going to have another one of our super fun happy hours this week! This time, we've chosen the surprisingly delightful outdoor beer garden at The South Congress Cafe. We haven't decided on all the details like, you know, what time and what day it will be, but we wanted to give you advanced warning so that you could pencil us in. We are fun and only a few of us bite!......