Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide, 2nd Edition (Fearless Critic: Austin Restaurant Guide)

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• Author: Robin Goldstein
• Publisher: Fearless Critic Media
• Publication Date: December 1, 2008
• Condition: New

• Price: $5.19

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  Brutally honest, cheeky, and fiercely independent, the definitive restaurant guide to Austin, Texas, is back in a brand-new second edition—bigger and better than ever! Acclaimed critic Robin Goldstein and his team have created a 512-page blockbuster of a book, covering every corner of Austin's eclectic dining scene, from the power steakhouses to the Hill Country BBQ shrines. Fearless Critics dine incognito, accepting no free meals or restaurant ads. Prepare to be shocked by the results: this is a new breed of food writing.

Customer Reviews

• August 31, 2009phone adapter

  I had a hard time finding a replacement for my adapter. Checked online and found this web site. To my surprise the adapter arrived on Saturday. It fit and now I have working phones. Thanks for the prompt service.

• August 17, 2009even better than the (great) first edition

  fearless critic is pretty much the only reliable restaurant guide to austin. this is because the critics are almost always spot-on, the writing is clever, and they don't take restaurant ads or identify themselves at restaurants.
  
  if there's a bias, you could say they favor the hidden ethnic value restaurants--ethiopian, korean, vietnamese--but i think that's right. we could all stand to read fewer reviews that overrate overpriced celebrity chef restaurants.
  
  there are more than 100 new restaurants since the first edition, i think, and a lot of them fall into the hidden-value category (cupcake and taco trucks and such). there's also more coverage in dripping springs and other suburbs, and a lot more texas hill country bbq reviews. of course they cover all the trendy/hot new places as well, and they do it as carefully as ever.
  
  if you live in austin or visit the city frequently it's a no-brainer.

• May 24, 2009great gift!

  I gave this as a gift to my dissertation supervisor at the Texas Department of State Health Services. She loved it, and now keeps it in the front near the administrative assistant's desk so everyone on the team can refer to it when choosing restaurants.

• March 4, 2009A good read

  so far, so good. 50/50 on the accuracy of the review, but definitely helps on narrowing down choices to eat at.

• January 7, 2009Limited range but accurate

  Neat little book. Very honest opinions and we have found that the authors views pretty much mirror our own. Not in all cases though, we have restaurants that we love that they rated poorly and vice-versa.
  
  That said, it's a very useful book and has brought several restaurants to our attention that we didn't know about or didn't know enough about.
  
  Obviously, you have to live in one of the cities that they publish but if you live in one of the target rich environments like Austin, it's a handy guide.
  
  I'd also reccommend their other book, "The Wine Trials". These same authors did blind taste tests with 507 testers in a variety of cities, testing wines that ranged in price from under $10 to over $200. They then tabulated the results and published a list of cheap wines that beat the big boys. VERY INFORMATIVE. Fool your wine snob friends by decanting some of the top ranked cheap wines and telling them you paid a wad for them.