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Old 02-20-2014, 11:24 AM
 
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Looking for an amazing Italian food experience in Austin. Il Mulino is our favorite, and I'm looking for something similar. Suggestions? Thanks!!!
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:32 AM
 
Location: central Austin
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good luck with that!
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:36 AM
 
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I know from asking around there isn't a carbon copy, just looking to get as close as possible.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:09 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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Austin has never been a destination for Italian food! Very very few Italian immigrants. The quality of Italian food has improved immeasurably over the last 20 years but that is off a very very low base.

Your basis for comparison is one of the very best Italian restaurants in New York! Which is to say, one of the very best in the entire country. Nothing in Austin even comes close. Don't even bother trying.

I save my "amazing Italian food experience" for when I travel! New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis or Italy! I would recommend not even bothering to try to find an "Il Munio" experience here.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Jollyville, TX
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Ditto what centrala says - I grew up on the East coast and there is no Italian food that comes anywhere close in Austin. I'm not even sure if you'd find it in Houston or Dallas. The only Italian place I've tried that is slightly above average is Andiamo Ristorante and even then you have to get past the strip mall atmosphere.

If you want an amazing food experience, it won't be Italian.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:17 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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Exactly! Don't even try, instead enjoy some place like Qui!

Qui! FIRST LOOK - "GQ'S Alan Richman names the most outstanding restaurants of 2014" - Release: "GQ has announced 'The 12 Most Outstanding Restaurants of 2014' in the March issue, ... on newsstands [next] Tuesday. ... Taking the list's top honors is Austin's Qui, a high-end restaurant with Asian and Texan influences on the east side of Austin that Richman dubs, 'the most fascinating new restaurant in America.'

Italian is what you eat when you aren't in Austin!
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Old 02-20-2014, 01:55 PM
 
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The best Italian restaurant in the state of Texas that I have found and God knows I have looked is Osteria Il Sogno in the Pearl Brewery district of San Antonio. It is worth the drive. Italian restaurants in Austin run from mediocre - Vespaio, Mandola's, Andiamo, Olive and June (probably the best one) to the atrocious - way too many to mention.

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Old 02-20-2014, 02:56 PM
 
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In our household we joke that whenever we prepare Italian we are enjoying the best Italian dinner in Austin on said evening.

But the BBQ is awesome!
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Old 02-20-2014, 04:44 PM
 
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The sheer volume of new exceptional restaurants opening in Austin *could* mean that there is something better than mediocre Italian already here now. Frankly, the booming restaurant scene is difficult to keep up with. If not now, I'm sure in the near future, Austin will have an exceptional Italian restaurant.

So don't give up hope. It may be that you just have to find it.
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Old 02-20-2014, 06:40 PM
 
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its driving me nuts that every chef new does nouveau american and there is still no good italian. The italian here is just plain bad. Even the expensive places are almost the same as maggianos (not as bad as olive garden)

My wife ate at josephine house and they had a good italian meal with fresh properly cooked pasta. However I dont actually know what kind of restaurant they are (tiny).

I just started making my own pasta again.
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