We had a group of six going to a show at Moody theater. Because it was a Friday night in downtown…read moreAustin, we decided to have dinner at Fareground. Everyone could pick exactly what they wanted to eat, and there's plenty of seating available. Of the six of us, we tried four different restaurants. Everything we have was delicious. There is a bar so you are able to order a cocktail with your dinner. It is easy to get in and out, and close to the venue if you're going to see a show at Moody theater. There was lots of staff throughout, keeping the place, clean and tidy.

Great vibes and great reality. Conference had an after party where they rented out the entire…read morecomplex, so that was pretty epic. Small bites from every shop in the Fareground, so plenty of top notch food. From French rotisserie chicken, Mexican desserts, arepas, shawarma, burgers and others, there's something for everyone. Also outside is a great area for just chilling. Some greenery in the concrete jungle is honestly quite impressive.

This is an attractive park-like compound with multiple food trucks featuring different cuisines…read more When I was there on a Saturday, a craft fair was featured as well. I enjoyed a Kerlache kolache! The park is about a 20 minute leisurely walk from Plaza Saltillo. Google Maps on my iPhone guided me well. There are other establishments adjacent to the food truck park that you might also like to visit.

Conveniently located close to work and the office, as you can imagine, I spend a lot of time here…read more There are some really great food and coffee trucks to choose from. My go-to for the first break I take at work in the morning. Very clean park with ample outside patio seating. Something for everyone.

One coffee truck and they call this a food court?…read more **************** I am unimpressed.

Rating this 5 stars for two trucks and two trucks only--Song La and Don. *chef's kiss*read more

The food hall is great. I like the vendor options available from Japanese food to barbecue, pizza,…read moreand a couple of others. The food vendors have good prices and pretty decent food. The food hall seating area is not large yet still spacious. The tables and floors are always clean (huge plus for me). The bar service is fast and friendly. You can get just about anything within reason at the bar. I love the daily bar specials-you can get some great cocktails for just five bucks. Pretty rad.

Amazing lobster rolls with an amazing price. Looking forward to trying more variations.read more

Waah. Development…read moreand gentrification are destroying the great food truck courts of First Street. Many of the finest ones have either closed or are draining out. What's the issue? Landlords want the land to build new high density apartment buildings. * * * Double Waah. The Bouldin Creek Food Park is still around. Bouldin Creek Food Park is probably the worst of the traditional First Street food courts. It is the northernmost of the First Street food courts - the one nearest to Palmer Auditorium and downtown. It is on a teeny tiny strip of land between First Street itself and the gulch of East Bouldin Creek. The lot is too narrow and oddly shaped to permit high density development. So the landlords are going to leave this place alone. Just as there is precious little room for development, There is also precious little room for the food trucks and the parking. So simply from lack of space, the customers sit practically on First Street itself. The eating tables get the full blast of First Street traffic. The eaters get the noise and the carbon monoxide. They also get the uncompromising blast of the Austin summer sun There is one exception to the rule. If you look carefully, you will find exactly one table in the back that is rustic, quiet and pretty. The East Bouldin Creek Gulch runs there. The gulch has lots of shade and really nice rock cliffs. Picnic heaven? No such luck. The back is where they dump the detritus and spare junk from the food trucks. The back has pallets, framing and extra plastic bottles the carts don't have room for. You are in a eating in a trash pile, a shady trash pile but still a trash pile. * * * Life gets more interesting if you have to go to the bathroom. The bathroom literally is a porta-potty. To be fair, they empty it frequently, so it is not too gross. However, there is no running water to wash your hands after you do your business. Not being able to wash your hands is not great if you intend to eat food afterwards. * * * If the food trucks were absolutely marvelous, one might tolerate the bad location and set-up. The trucks they have are run of the mill. Dawa is better than run of the mill. The rest are ho hum. All of these trucks would be more pleasant in a nicer location. Mueller for example would be a huge promotion for any of them. If you have a food truck you adore, and Bouldin Creek is where it happens to be, all power to you. Enjoy your meal. Enjoy watching the cars drive by. Be sure to go to the bathroom before you leave the house.

Love this food park. The trucks are so yummy. I think I've ordered from everyone out there. You…read morereally can't go wrong. Yummy food all around. I will definitely be back, this time I'm bringing guest..

A fun restaurant with a quirky vibe. They have an all in one TV/VHS combo above the bar playing old…read moremovies which is a fun little touch. Service isn't the fastest, but our waitress was pleasant and friendly, and had good suggestions about the menu. The food is very tasty, and we especially liked the brisket fried rice and the chili wontons. The Jalapeño popper rangoons were more like dumplings. I've made reservations both times we visited, which are easy to get last minute. I'd recommend a reservation to ensure you don't have to wait to get seated.

I'm a harsh judge when it comes to Chinese food, because I'm trying to find the perfect upscale…read moreChinese. Something that feels & tastes more elevated and doesn't leave you feeling heavy & tired. Old thousand is close, but doesn't quite hit the mark for me. There were some positives: Our service was great, the staff was very nice & friendly. I also can appreciate that they have validated parking. I just overall wasn't impressed with the ambiance & the food itself.

We started off strong. Got seated right at our 8:30 reservation time which is always good. All of…read moreour food was great, pho beef dumplings, shrimp and crab fried rice, and four seasons duck. All amazing! Timing and tempo could have been better. My meal came out around 5-10 minutes after my dates meal. His was cold by the time mine came. We were done with our meals for quite a while before the server checked on us about dessert. We were told we only had 3 minutes to order dessert which was a bit off putting considering we had been ready to order at least 15 minutes prior. We got our dessert shortly before 10, and at 10:02 the house lights came on glaringly bright - aka time to get out. We hadn't even gotten our check yet. Overall the back end of the night felt rushed which put a damper on the experience. I would come back maybe during social hour or earlier in the day.

Had such a great night at 1618 Asian Fusion celebrating our 4-month anniversary! The food was…read moredelicious, but the bartenders made the night extra special. Abigail and Kathy were so friendly and welcoming, and Jay makes an amazing Matcha Espresso Martini! Highly recommend sitting at the bar--you won't be disappointed!

This is definitely one of my favorite places in Austin for Asian food and soup dumplings…read more Definitely need to make a reservation because this place is small and always packed. When you arrive, everybody is so nice you give them your name and they get you seated right away. I ordered a drink called a signature tingling Daisy and it was so good. I definitely could've had so many but I was driving so you gotta pace yourself. We started off with the soup dumplings, which are just phenomenal. It's a must when you go. Also, for appetizers, we got the spicy cucumbers which were divine and a hot and sour soup, which was perfectly balanced and not watery. We also got a beef fried rice and let me tell you that rice is so soft and delicious. You literally dream about it the next day. I also got the pecking duck which is delicious there the skin is nice and crispy and the meat on it taste so good. We also got the Kung pow shrimp with cashews, which was delicious and the pieces of shrimp were gigantic. We also got the green beans which is were delicious. I love ordering green beans when they're cooked just like the ones I posted in the photo. Then for dessert, we got the chocolate mousse which is that little dog cake. I know it's so cute and they made it a little hard to eat because you feel bad in a weird sense. It was delicious now I will say when cutting it and realizing the inside had a raspberry filling, made it a little more crazy cause it looked like blood, but it was still so good. This place is definitely an awesome staple and a must visit when you're in town or just always go and have food there whether it's date night or friends catching up or anything in general even on your own.

I made a reservation for two on Resy and discovered when we got there that it was for the bar for…read moresome reason. This could have been my mistake but I don't remember any choice in the matter. The greeter wasn't very friendly and borderline surly when I asked for more details about how to not book the bar in the future. Didn't get any explanation but fortunately, we won't have to worry about that... The food was just awful. We ordered 3-4 types of dimsum (onion pancake, soup dumplings, chu shou, fried shu mae) and three entries (orange beef, eggplant and their take on ma pao tofu) for the best tasting experience. The curry sauce for the onion pancake was probably the most flavorful dish of the night sadly. The onion pancake was way way over fried-- hard as a rock. If that's their take on onion pancake... well, it's just wrong. The soup dumplings were passable but a bit doughie and the filling was full of a lot of noticeable coagulated fat -- not clear and broth-y, with light surface droplets of oil as all delicious broths. My wife enjoyed the chu shou -- I found the filling much too overcooked and tough -- difficult to eat with chop sticks. Like a tough, overcooked meatball. The fried shu Mae were just plain inedible. My wife and I each ate one and left the rest. The included sauce was basic and too heavy. And again, over fried. There was a huge delay between our apps and our mains, like 40 minutes or so. Various bar staff apologized. It wasn't a big deal, we were in a good conversation and they were super busy but our mains were not at all worth waiting for. Small portions. WAY over sauced. WAY too salty. WAY too sweet. No distinct flavors at all. The ma pao didn't seem to have any Szechuan pepper at all. How do you miss that ? The plating of the eggplant dish was really creative but I don't eat with my eyes and it came with no instruction -- my first bite was just flavorless steamed eggplant cube -- second was mixed with one note sauce. One of the better mains IMO but it was still gloopy and pretty gross. Wife did not enjoy it. The orange beef was essentially just six or seven cubes of tough, fatty beef covered in over-the-top bitter orange peel. We each had a cube and left the rest. Honestly, give me Panda Express any day over this abject failure of a restaurant. Austin needs more Chinese but if it's anything like this place, forget it. I'd rather spend a 4h round trip to Houston and go to even a mediocre Chinese restaurant than endure another meal at this place. What a waste of $165. Edit: I wish I was making this up but I literally had to pull over to throw up on the side of the road on the way home. The food did not sit well with me. I have no underlying health conditions, am not on any medicine that would have this as a side effect and only shared one beer with my wife. It was just a very, very, disappointing and gross meal.

Seems like a very sweet family owned business! The gentleman at the front was very sweet. I was…read morelooking for some inexpensive dinner as my stove isn't working, and this spot seems to have some of the best prices in West Campus. I nabbed Japchae ($11) and Kimchi Fried Rice ($11), and barely made a dent in either of them. Just one would have totally lasted me for at least 3 meals. They taste clean and fresh, though I will admit I added some chili and soy sauce to the kimchi fried rice!

Ever since moving to Austin, I've been craving Asian food. I'm from Houston, which has a huge…read moreAsiatown and plenty of great Korean food, so I was excited to try this place. I went here for lunch with a friend on a Friday, and it wasn't busy at all, probably because most students were still in class. I ordered the spicy Neng Myun, which comes with cold vermicelli noodles, a sweet and spicy sauce, and various toppings. The noodles were cooked well and the portion was generous, but the sauce was overly sweet and didn't have much flavor beyond the gochujang. I was hoping for a stronger balance of spice and flavor, but the dish ended up being pretty underwhelming. Overall, I left feeling disappointed, especially since I've had much better Korean food back home in Houston. The portion was generous and the noodles were well cooked, but the lack of flavor in the sauce really brought the dish down. I'd be willing to try other things here, but based on this meal, I wouldn't go out of my way to come back.