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Austin City Limits: The menu
If ever the food at an outdoor music festival tasted like its host city, the jalapeno brisket tacos from Stubb’s, hot-and-crunchy chicken cones from Hudson’s and veggie burgers from P. Terry’s at the Austin City Limits Music Festival would be that food.
The ACL audience is a captive bunch when it comes to food and drinks. The festival allows people to carry in just two factory-sealed water bottles (up to one liter each), an empty Camelbak or other empty plastic container (such as a Nalgene bottle) and ice in a soft-sided cooler or Camelbak. That’s it. Everything else you have to buy on-site, with cash in most cases. And you can’t buy food and drinks at the same booth. One line for corndog chicken tenders from Moonshine, another line for Sweet Leaf Tea.
But it could be worse. The festival asked a real-live chef — Jeff Blank of Hudson’s on the Bend — to be the food-court adviser, and he’s helped put together a roster that includes street-food renditions from white-tablecloth Austin standbys Aquarelle, Louie’s 106, Thistle Cafe and Restaurant Jezebel, along with the already street-legal Torchy’s Tacos, Boomerang’s and Best Wurst, among others.
Following is a list as complete as the festival can offer before the gates open Friday.
FOOD
• Aquarelle
Steak frites sandwich, $8
Spicy shrimp po’boy, $8
Parmesan fries, $4
• Austin’s Best Burger
Cheeseburger, $6
Veggie burger, $6
Cheese fries, $5
Cold watermelon, $3
• Austin’s Pizza
Pepperoni pizza, $7
Cheese pizza, $7
• The Belmont
Pressed Cuban sandwich, $7
Fajita steak-and-cheese sandwich, $7
Jalapeno cheese tots, $5
• The Best Wurst
Grilled sausage sandwich, $6 (bratwurst, smoked pork Italian, all-beef, jalapeno)
New York buttered salt-potatoes, $4
• Boomerang’s Gourmet Veggie & Meat Pies
Guinness steak and potato, $6
Southwest chicken, $6
Spinach and mushroom, $6
Curry veggie, $6
• Hudson’s on the Bend presents the Mighty Cone
Hot-and-crunchy chicken, shrimp or avocado cone, $7
Hot-and-crunchy chicken or shrimp cone with avocado, $8
Purple pig cone, $6
Death by chocolate, $5
• The Love Shack
Burgers by Fort Worth celebrity chef Tim Love (menu unavailable at press time)
• Louie’s 106
Chilled penne pasta primavera, basil pesto aioli, $5
Chilled penne pasta with chicken, Thai peanut dressing, $6
Chilled penne pasta with pulled pork, mango chipotle mayo, $6
• Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill
Corndog chicken tenders with honey mustard, $7
Zucchini fries with buttermilk ranch, $6
Crispy fried fish tacos with jicama slaw, $5
Lunar burrito with veggies or steak, $5
• Original Hoffbrau Steaks
Menu pending at press time
• P. Terry’s Burger Stand
Hamburger or cheeseburger, $4
Double-meat, double-cheese burger, $6
Veggie burger, $6
• Pluckers Wing Bar
Six chicken wings, $6
Four chicken tenders, $6
Fried pickles, $4
Fried Twinkies, $5
• Pureheart
Gyros (beef and lamb), $7
Souvlaki (beef or chicken), $7
Mediterranean gordita, $7
Greek salad, $7
• Restaurant Jezebel
Spicy Jamaican jerked pork skewers, $5
Mild chipotle marinated chicken skewers, $5
Tandoori-rubbed veggie skewers, $5
Cold pasta salad with mint-olive pesto and feta cheese, $5
• The Salt Lick Bar-B-Que
Sausage wraps, $5
Chopped beef sandwich, $6
Sloppy nachos, $6
Pulled pork sandwich, $7
• Solar All Natural Wraps and Hummus
Falafel wrap, $7
Chicken wrap, $7
Hummus wrap, $7
Hummus and chips, $5
• Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
Jalapeno brisket tacos with Fritos, $8
Pulled pork sandwich with Fritos, $7
Sliced brisket sandwich with Fritos, $7
Chopped beef sandwich with Fritos, $6
Add a sausage wrap, $3
• Thistle Cafe
Turkey wrap, $6
Chicken chipotle wrap, $6
Steak wrap, $7
Honey Dijon turkey melt, $7
Add a cookie, $1
• Torchy’s Tacos
Green chile pork taco, $4
Potato, bean, green chile taco, $4
Trailer Park taco (fried chicken), $4
• Wahoo’s Fish Taco
Menu pending at press time
DESSERTS/SNACKS
• Amy’s Ice Creams
Small ice cream, $3
Large ice cream, $4
Toppings, $1
Shakes, $5
• Children of the Kettle Corn
Medium kettle corn, $5
Large kettle corn, $7
• Nice Conez
Snow cone, $4
Stuffed with ice cream, $5
• Sambazon
Acai bowl (Amazon berry sorbet topped with granola and bananas), $6
Organic acai juice, $3
Amazon organic energy drink, $3
• Snowie
Snowie, $4
All-natural organic flavors, $5
Add cream, $1
SOFT DRINKS
• Fresh Squeezed Best Lemonade
Lemonade, limeade or strawberry lemonade, $4 (16 ounces), $5 (20 ounces)
• Maine Root All Natural Handcrafted Soda
Organic root beer, ginger brew and blueberry sodas, $4
Texas cactus juice agave lemonade, $4
• Sweet Leaf Tea
Sweet Leaf Tea or Lemonade, $3 (20-ounce bottle), $4 (32-ounce commemorative cup with ice)
BEER AND WINE
• Heineken, $5 (12 ounces), $8 (24 ounces)
• Heineken Light, $5 (12 ounces)
• Tecate, $5 (12 ounces), $8 (24 ounces)
• Lone Star, $8 (24 ounces)
• Santa Rita cabernet, $6 glass, $24 bottle
• Twin Vines vinho verde, $6 glass, $24 bottle
(American-Statesman photos of Austin’s Pizza, Hudson’s hot-and-crunchy chicken cone and $5 dishes from Restaurant Jezebel)
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