James Beard Award-nominated chef Bryce Gilmore’s high-end Austin restaurant has a nine-course, $85 tasting menu showcasing seasonal flavors, with an optional $55 beverage pairing. Current dishes include dry-aged Akaushi ribeye with a cheese-laden potato and a celery sorbet. The tasting menu does require full table participation.

This North Loop favorite offers a $42 “nose to tail” tasting menu using oft-ignored cuts of meat from chefs Sarah Heard and Nathan Lemley. The four courses include dishes like pasta with goat heart bolognese and sweetbread roulade.

This tiny, excellent sushi restaurant in Mueller opened under chef Otto Pham, who handpicked chef Sarah Cook as his successor after he moved to Chicago. The restaurant has gotten a cozier new look, but still only seats six at a time. The omakase is $150, and reservations are required.

Offering fine dining for almost 20 years, Wink has a seven-course ($106) and five-course ($78) tasting menus centered on seasonal ingredients that can be customized based on diet, including items like duck fat scallops with beech mushrooms. Wine pairings are $54 and $42, respectively.

The downtown Fairmont Hotel’s flagship restaurant, known for its top-of-the-line service, has a new tasting menu of six courses, which comes along with a few surprises from chef Jason Purcell, for $95 (with optional $35 beverage pairing). Current dishes include tagliatelle with crab and a smoked tomato tart.

East Austin Italian restaurant Juniper has a six-course menu for $65 (with optional $35 beverage pairing) available only at the chef’s counter⁠ from Nic Yanes — reserving in advance is recommended. Recent dishes include a roasted snapper and pistachio gelato with macerated fig.

Walk through the dark and sophisticated South Congress Hotel to find the burst of hidden light at chef Yoshi Okai’s twelve-seat tasting table restaurant. Otoko only offers a $175 multi-course omakase. Tickets must be purchased in advance and are released monthly.