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Austin Food Media Is Covering Tasting Menus and $15 Meals. Nothing in Between.

Eater, The Austin Chronicle, and The Infatuation all published spring dining guides the same week. The middle of the market didn't make the cut.

Eater Austin's spring heatmap added fancy bakeries Sugarwolf and Ciccio Bomba alongside a Rainey Street sushi spot. The Austin Chronicle reviewed two new upscale openings — a Mediterranean shareables concept at the Domain and a downtown chophouse — in the same editorial cycle.

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