The Most Fun Dinner Spots In Austin Right Now - Austin - The Infatuation
"Toshokan is an eight-seat omakase spot behind a bookshelf in the back of a mini-golf course in East Austin. First, take a second to unpack that sentence. Second, set your timer for the first of the month, because that’s when reservations go live, and to say they book up fast is an understatement. Dinner runs about 14 courses, varying from nigiri topped with bruleed brown sugar tangerine to a toasted marshmallow ice cream served with chocolate melted tableside—a s’mores version of raclette that instantly locks the eyes of all eight guests in the room. It’s an intimate atmosphere that feels a bit like you’re eating in Harry Potter’s cupboard under the stairs, if it had been decorated with a live-edge sushi bar and cute Japanese toys, and set to a soundtrack of old-school hip-hop. Tickets to Toshokan are released on the first of the month, usually at midnight (but occasionally at a different hour that they’ll announce on Instagram the day before). And if you want to snag a seat, you should probably start refreshing your browser right at 11:59pm—these go fast. And if you don’t manage to grab one right when the hour strikes, try again in about 10 minutes when unpaid shopping carts expire and a few stray tickets sometimes get re-released into the wild." - nicolai mccrary, matthew jacobs
