Lunch Specials in Austin

Chef Reina Morris's all-day Argentine room. The empanada flight is the quickest way to taste the kitchen without ordering the lomito.

The Odd Duck team's all-day market and bakery. Order at the counter, eat on the patio, no reservation, no fuss. The hot chicken at $13 is the most-ordered.

A Manor Road soul-food room that has fed UT and the eastside since 1998. The vegetable plate is the value play; the chicken-fried steak is the reason most regulars come.

A Clarksville sister to Jeffrey's that the regulars use as their lunch counter. The Italian hoagie is the order.

Hyde Park's long-running neighborhood trattoria, and one of the few places in central Austin that still treats weekday lunch as its own service rather than an extension of brunch.

Aaron Franklin and Tyson Cole's smokehouse runs the cleanest fixed-price lunch in town. Fifteen dollars, in and out, and it's still their pork.

A French gastropub a block off the Drag where the Pascal Burger has held best-burger lists for six years running. Cheaper at lunch than at dinner, and quieter.