107 "Casual Weeknight Dinner" restaurants in Austin.
A good casual weeknight dinner spot is hard to find. It’s a step above a make-your-own bowl place, but not somewhere you’ll need a reservation. It shouldn’t be too expensive, you should be able to talk instead of shout, and your dinner shouldn’t take more than an hour. These spots do it all.
Heo Eatery focuses on mostly-Vietnamese, Asian street food, with things like banh mi, baos, and boba tea.
Cuba Bakery & Cafe is a small shop in a Round Rock strip mall making excellent Cuban sandwiches, pastries, and coffees.
The North Austin restaurant Tomodachi on Parmer Lane has a small dining room and sushi bar, and they also run a very robust takeout operation.
Mikado Ryotei on Research Blvd in North Burnet is a sushi restaurant that hits in the center of the Venn diagram of affordable, fast, and quality.
Carnitas El Guero, inside the Stassney Foodmart/Texaco on Stassney in South Austin, serves excellent carnitas tacos.
R&B’s offers up excellent cheesesteaks and cheesesteak fries out of a food trailer on East Cesar Chavez.
