Celebrated barbecue restaurant Interstellar BBQ opened a South Texas taco truck in October, parked at Austin Beerworks’s second location up in northeast Austin. The lunch and dinner menu includes tacos with smoked chicken, brisket, and lamb as well as quesadillas, crispy dogs, and aguas frescas. There are indoor and outdoor dining locations at the brewery.

The brand-new intimate Japanese restaurant — helmed by three Uchiko alums — opened in the Rosedale neighborhood in early December. The thoughtful 20-course omakase spans simple yet exquisite nigiri as well as composed cold and hot dishes like the tuna tartare tart and a shrimp bisque. And rounding out the dishes are sake- and wine-based cocktails, as well as sakes, beers, and wines. Reservations have to be made online; there are indoor dine-in services. S

Shuttered FIlipino Vietnamese truck Fil N’ Viet came back as a pop-up restaurant in North Loop in mid-November. East Meets Wings is all about pan-Asian chicken wings in flavors like Indonesian ayam goreng and Thai tamarind-basil. The six-month pop-up is the first tenant of new restaurant incubator Playground ATX. Takeout orders can be placed online; there are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

All-vegan fine dining restaurant Fabrik opened in August with influences from Japanese, Italian, and Nordic cuisines. Its ever-rotating tasting menus include dishes like parsnip cappelletti and pickled and smoked tomatoes with cultured cashews and compressed koji melons. Everything from the pasta to the tofu to the infused vinegars is made in-house. There are indoor dining services.

The team behind stellar Italian restaurant Intero opened this new Italian cafe inside of the Frances Modern Inn in Central East Austin in early December. This means a daytime menu of egg dishes like arancini with poached eggs and Florentine tarts; sandwiches; and dinner-time pastas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The New York City Chinese restaurant expanded with its first out-of-state location in downtown Austin in early November. The star of the menu is its famed Peking duck, alongside lots of dumplings, and other entrees. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Okay, so while cocktail bar Daydreamer opened earlier this fall, it is now home to the city’s second location of the newly anointed Eater Award-winning Allday Pizza as of early November. The East Cesar Chavez neighborhood iteration of the pizzeria dishes out those beloved New York-style slices. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

New York City chefs Simone Tong and Matthew Hyland made Austin their new home and opened their own modern Chinese restaurant in the Zilker neighborhood in early November. The menu makes ample use of its inherited on-site smoker, which means items like sticky barbecue pork ribs and skewered meats and vegetables. There’s also a centerpiece smoked dry-aged duck with sliced breast meat and a whole duck. Don’t miss out on the noodle dishes either. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

This Mexican restaurant opened in October with a gluten-free menu of dishes from Yucatán, like grilled shrimp, sikil pak (a pumpkin seed salsa), and coconut flatbreads. Nomade comes from the team behind popular South Congress sushi spot Lucky Robot. It has indoor and outdoor dining areas.

Former pop-up Elementary opened a restaurant on South Lamar in July for chef and co-owner Colter Peck’s New American fare. That means dishes like ramen risotto and a banh mi eclair along with great cocktails and wines from the full bar. There are indoor dine-in services.