With the birth of new venues, eateries, and east Austin growth about to run into 183 it’s safe to say Austin is expanding for the better.  While old Austin is replaced by condos and corporate retail chains the young Austin generations are now older entrepreneurs and most of all keeping Austin weird.  Although there are many bests of Austin we had to narrow it down based on our readers poll.

Best place to wake, bake, and chow after a Saturday night:

1.  Nomad Bar Sunday Brunch provided by Mark Rivas Catering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Your Mom’s Burger Bar

3.  Bacon

4.  Torchy’s Tacos

5.  Fricano’s Deli

 

Best place to get sloppy drunk:

1.  Side Bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Barfly’s

3.  Liberty Bar

4.  Nomad Bar

5.  Violet Crown Social Club

 

Best place to buy cool shit really cheap:

1.  Frock On Vintage

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Citywide Garage Sale

3.  29^th Street Yard Sale at Spider House

4.  Trailer Space Records Trailer Trash

5.  Green House Austin

 

Best drunken social activity:

1.  Thursday Night Social Ride

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Karaoke Apocalypse

3.  Geeks Who Drink Pub Triva

4.  WAKA Kickball

5.  Libertine Social Club

 

Best local festival that took your bank roll:

1.  Fun Fun Fest

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Austin City Limits Festival

3.  Austin Pysch Fest

4.  Austin Vintage Style Fest

5.  Nocturnal Fest

 

Best “new” concert venue:

1.  ACL Live

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Emo’s East

3.  Empire Automotive Bar

4.  Frontier Bar

5.  ND at 501 Studios

Best locally made product consumed on the reg:

1.  Tito’s Vodka

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Beanitos

3.  Tommy’s Salsa

4.  ARRR Squeeze

5.  Rockstar Bagels

 

Best local band of 2011 that will most likely disband or change its name in 2012:

1.  The Blind Pets

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Not in the Face

3.  The Boxing Lesson

4.  The Black and White Years

5.  The Pons

 

Best place to drop the kids off downtown:

1.  Valhalla

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Not Red 7

3.  Side Bar ladies room

4.  Not Barbarella on Tuesday night

5.  Nomad Bar

 

Best bullshit to be called out on of 2011:

1.   Rick Perry

 

 

 

 

 

2.   Danzig

3.   Occupy Austin

4.   Extending downtown parking meters until midnight

5.   “I’m moving to New York.”