ACL's food and drink vendors

From Stubb's jalapeno brisket to Hudson's hot-and-crunchy chicken cones to Sweet Leaf Tea, a festival that tastes like Austin

By Mike Sutter
AMERICAN-STATESMAN RESTAURANT WRITER
Thursday, October 01, 2009

If ever the food at an outdoor music festival tasted like its host city, the jalapeño 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 1 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 Café 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

Jalapeño cheese tots, $5

• The Best Wurst

Grilled sausage sandwich, $6 (bratwurst, smoked pork Italian, all-beef, jalapeño)

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

• Louie's 106

Chilled penne pasta primavera, $5

Chilled penne pasta with chicken, Thai peanut dressing, $6

Chilled penne pasta with pulled pork, mango chipotle mayo, $6

• The Love Shack

Burgers by Fort Worth celebrity chef Tim Love (menu unavailable at press time)

• 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 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

Jalapeño 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 Café

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

Açaí bowl (Amazon berry sorbet topped with granola and bananas), $6

Organic açaí 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)

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