Stars Cafe

Anyway, it’s a real locals spot which ya won’t find in top Austin musts, but it does it’s job as a local diner. It’s a 24 hour authentic diner in a town that caters to the hip and new. It’s not a modern chic diner, but it does have cool art and a good atmosphere. If you’ve been on a road trip and stopped in a small town diner, or have a spot back home where you’re from that really only people from the town know about then you’re picturing this place accurately.

Stars Cafe is okay with accepting its identity. It’s a place to grab some munchies when you’ve been out on the town or partying and it’s a good spot for some coffee and surprisingly good breakfast tacos before work starts.

Everyone at my table enjoyed their order. The Tex-Mex omelette was pretty dang good in my opinion. The mimosa was 2$ and despite none of the plates looking particularly amazing all the food was the bomb dot com. It had us full, didn’t cost an arm and a leg, and was a good spot for the friends to socialize and catch up. It doesn’t pretend to be bougie, it’s just a local diner and that’s what it wants to be. It’s not amazing in the grand scale of Austin eating and if it was going for that I wouldn’t give it 5 stars.

But it’s just being stars cafe, the place you stopped by when you were drunk DT or needed a place with coffee to study at that’s 24/7. It met all my expectations EXCEPT for the side of sweet potato fries, that’s not a lot of fries for a side, but besides that the omelette were good, the hash-browns surprisingly tasty and everyone else enjoyed their food and the impromptu mimosa (for 2$ we had to get one). We’ll all be back here sometime.

If you’re looking for a fine dining experience this isn’t your spot, but if ya want some good grub, that’s reasonably priced with cool/friendly employees, and an old school Austin vibe, the “weird” that everyone originally moved to Austin for, then you’re in the right spot!