Close-by Coffee & Dining
Need a place to grab a quick bite or meet with a fellow SALALM member? Here are our recommendations:
Within several blocks of the conference center:
- Cypress Bend Café
(dorm store with breakfast, lunch and coffee)
Monday – Friday, 7AM – 2PM
In the San Jacinto Dormitory and Conference Center - Texas Expresso Cucino
(coffee shop and quick breakfast and lunch)
Across the street from the San Jacinto Dormitory and Conference Center in the Texas Exes alumni center - Jester Dining Hall
(Massive dormitory food court with different restaurants and dining options – the food is much better than typical dorm food)
Jester is the dorm across the street from the PCL (the main research library on campus)
Nearby restaurants:
- Clay Pit
(Indian food, buffet, vegetarian options)
.7 mile from conference center, buffet is amazing and $9.50 weekdays, $10 weekends - Carillon
(AT&T Center, the conference hotel, restaurant)
.5 mile from conference center, $18.95 for buffet - El Mercado
(TexMex)
.6 mile from conference center, $8-15 lunches - Texas Chili Parlor
(TexMex, American, Chili, famous old Austin restaurant)
.7 mile from conference center - Scholz Garten
(Traditional German, over 100 years old, also location of new member happy hour)
.4 mile from conference center
Restaurants at 20th Street and Guadalupe:
(5 blocks West of the conference center, is the start of “The Drag.” Multiple dining options exist within one block of that point include the following, all decent college student-type food.)
- Thai, How are you? (Thai)
- Teji’s (Indian)
- K-Bop (Korean)
- Look Noodles and More (Poke and Ramen)
- CoCo’s Café (Taiwanese noodle and rice, bubble tea)
One mile west of the conference center, past the Benson and East of I-35, is another set of great establishments, including:
- El Chile Café y Cantina (Mexican, aka ‘Benson East’)
- Hoover’s Cooking (great Southern comfort food)
- Amy’s Ice Cream – famous local ice cream store
- Haymaker (sandwiches and craft beer)
- School House Pub (bar food, great drinks)
- Dai Due (upscale farm-to-table that consistently tops Austin restaurant lists)
- Patrizi’s (Italian food truck, dinners)