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New York Pizza Expert Brings Pizza Tour to Austin

Plus the winners of the Tastemaker Awards, and more news

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Julia Keim
Nadia Chaudhury is the editor of Eater Austin covering food and pop culture, as well as a photographer, writer, and frequent panel moderator and podcast guest.

Austin Pizza Tour
Popular New York City-based pizza exploration Scott’s Pizza Tours is bringing the circuit to Austin in May. Tour guides Scott Wiener and Austin Eats Food Tours’ Adam Boles will take participants to four pizza spots, including Neapolitan pizzeria Bufalina, there’s transportation, food, drink, and pizza journals. It takes place on Saturday, May 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $89.

Tastemaker Winners
The winners of the annual CultureMap Austin Tastemaker awards were announced this week. This includes restaurant of the year, which went to Southern restaurant Olamaie, chef of the year to Olamaie chef Michael Fojtasek, rising star chef of the year to Juniper’s Amanda Turner, and others.

Airport Grease Trap
Three people fell into a big grease trap at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport earlier this week. Two of those people were able to get out of it, but one experienced a cardiac arrest, and received CPR, as reported by KXAN.

Olamaie

1610 San Antonio Street, , TX 78701 (512) 474-2796 Visit Website

Juniper

8490 Sunset Boulevard, , CA 90069 (424) 281-1890 Visit Website

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

3600 Presidential Blvd, Austin, TX 78719 (512) 530-2242 Visit Website

Bufalina

2215 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78702 (512) 524-2523 Visit Website