A Guide to Eating in Austin by Adrian Quesada of the Black Pumas | Eater Austin
"[This restaurant] might be my favorite restaurant in Austin. I’d heard of it for a while after it first started, but after it reopened during the pandemic, I went, and it blew my mind. It still blows my mind to this day. It feels like elevated cuisine, but it doesn’t feel pretentious. It’s such a casual hang that, even though it’s a newcomer relative to how long I’ve been in this city, it feels like Austin to me. It feels like an extension of places I used to go in college. Everyone I take from out of town, it absolutely blows their minds also. It’s worth every bit of hype it gets. I usually get the duck fat carnitas, which are good. There’s also a cauliflower taco that’s good. When I was there last, they brought something from the kitchen I didn’t order, some kind of steak taco. I was already done eating, then I ate that, and it was so insanely good. Another thing worth noticing about the restaurant is that co-owner Sara Mardanbigi is of Iranian descent, and she hosts a lot of curated Persian-influenced meals that my wife and I go to whenever we can make it. You can taste a lot of her influence on the menu." - Courtney E. Smith
