Salty Sow
American restaurant · Blackland
1917 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722
Highlights
Duck fat fries, rosemary honey chicken, blood orange margaritas
Duck fat fries, rosemary honey chicken, blood orange margaritas
"Harold Marmulstein’s Manor Road gastro pub strikes the perfect balance between fancy and casual. Typical to Austin, restaurant goers can be seen in flip flops and jeans or dressed up for a night on the town. Pair any one of their palate bombs with a local beer, vintage wine or signature cocktail. Their dinner menu is a one-sheet of hard choices including a flawlessly cured pastrami salmon, a buttery blackened redfish and a bone-in filet that could make a vegan salivate. For the ultra-causal patron, they also have an unreal happy hour featuring $2 off most drinks, and $5 tacos and shared plates that include pork belly tacos, truffled deviled eggs, and duck fat fries." - lookthinkmake
"A dinner-only restaurant located in Rosewood, about five blocks east of the University of Texas stadium, that has been operating successfully for over a decade. Noting an unused daytime parking lot, the owner and executive chef repurposed the space to host a collaborative pop-up, supplying the kitchen expertise for sides, desserts, and co-developed sandwiches while leveraging the restaurant’s established service and facilities. The team’s involvement has helped the visiting barbecue crew transition from trailer-based service toward a future brick-and-mortar operation." - Courtney E. Smith
"The rosemary-honey-dipped fried chicken at Salty Sow is a happy hour special worth a visit alone. The two pieces are tender, juicy, and fried to a crispy finish, and the honey they’re doused in is the equivalent of a sweet Southern hug. They also come with a biscuit that helps make this a pretty satisfying meal, as long as you don’t mind eating before 6:30 on a weekday. Or show up during dinner when you can get the same chicken served with neck-bone gravy for a more savory (and equally satisfying) meal." - nicolai mccrary
"This Southern-styled place has a lot in common with other restaurants that emerged during the early-2010s gastropub boom: elevated comfort foods with lots of meat, local ingredients, and a general farm-to-table approach. Dinner here is reliably good, but happy hour is Salty Sow’s main attraction. It happens from 4:30-6:30pm daily, and an order of crispy fried chicken with rosemary honey should fill you up for the night. 18 minutes on foot, 4 minutes by car Honey-rosemary-dipped fried chicken, duck fat fries, blood orange frozen margarita" - nicolai mccrary
"Grab classic New American pub fare and satisfying cocktails until 9 p.m. at this Cherrywood restaurant. There are also happy hour specials, including its famous duck-fat fries, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Order the rosemary-dipped honey fried chicken or the blackened Texas redfish for dinner; both are satisfying and decadent. While the dining room is more intimate, there’s also a festively lit covered patio and a huge picnic area under the trees." - Darcie Duttweiler
