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Happy Easter, Here's Where to Eat Rabbit This Spring

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Spring is here in Austin, and with it comes Easter and its faithful companion, the bunny. While devouring a chocolate bunny ears first is a singular pleasure, the non-chocolate variety is worth trying as well. Spring 2014 offers lots of options to get lapine.

This 2014 rabbit map update adds Wink's rabbit leg confit, a braised rabbit with hay mousse at Barley Swine, and more. Horrified by the words "cooked" and "bunny" together? This map has not one, but two vegan options.

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Lenoir Austin

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Tiny Lenoir on South First serves an ever-changing seasonal menu. This spring they've brought back their buttermilk rabbit, served this time around with curried sweet potato, radish, and carrot.

Frank Restaurant

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Frank's "Jackalope" sausage isn't music to large, furry ears, but it is to ours: "custom-made smoked antelope, rabbit, and pork sausage, cranberry compote, sriracha aioli, cheddar."

Parkside

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Parkside is known for its oysters, but chef Shawn Cirkiel embraces spring meats like lamb, 'spring chicken' and rabbit. His current take pan-sears the rabbit with malted barley, butternut squash, mustard greens, and tomatillos

Contigo Austin

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Chef Andrew Wiseheart's simple, flavorful rabbit and dumplings, a lapine take on the Southern comfort classic chicken and dumplings, is one of the restaurant's signature dishes.

Hudson's on the Bend

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Hudson's on the Bend has been serving gorgeous food in the gorgeous Lake Travis area for decades, with a menu featuring game meats as well as more familiar classics. In their mixed grill: venison and rabbit tenders.

QUI Restaurant

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Qui's ever-changing menu is hard to predict, but their Rabbit 7 Ways was so beloved the staff got matching tattoos. Rabbit is currently on the menu with "hen egg, garden greens, uni bottarga."

Cafe Josie

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Newly revamped Cafe Josie features a rabbit confit as an appetizer, which includes "whole grain mustard, shaved red onion, parsley salad, crostini"

Barley Swine

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Any reason is a good reason to enjoy a meal at Bryce Gilmore's flagship. Their tasting menu currently features "braised rabbit, hay mousse, turnips"

[Photo: Clarissa R/Yelp]

Red Rabbit Bakery - Mueller Farmers Market

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For the non-animal-consuming crowd: the worker-owned Red Rabbit Bakery makes some of the finest donuts in town, and won't anyone even mind that they're vegan. Find their trailer at 701 East 53rd Street, or track down their donuts at hippie-friendly cafes and groceries around town.

400 Rabbits

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For those who prefer to drink their rabbit, Alamo Slaughter's bar will serve up tequila and mescal-based cocktails. The name is derived from the Centzon Totochtin (400 Rabbits) of Aztec mythology, who are the gods of drunkenness.

Lenoir Austin

Tiny Lenoir on South First serves an ever-changing seasonal menu. This spring they've brought back their buttermilk rabbit, served this time around with curried sweet potato, radish, and carrot.

Frank Restaurant

Frank's "Jackalope" sausage isn't music to large, furry ears, but it is to ours: "custom-made smoked antelope, rabbit, and pork sausage, cranberry compote, sriracha aioli, cheddar."

Parkside

Parkside is known for its oysters, but chef Shawn Cirkiel embraces spring meats like lamb, 'spring chicken' and rabbit. His current take pan-sears the rabbit with malted barley, butternut squash, mustard greens, and tomatillos

Contigo Austin

Chef Andrew Wiseheart's simple, flavorful rabbit and dumplings, a lapine take on the Southern comfort classic chicken and dumplings, is one of the restaurant's signature dishes.

Hudson's on the Bend

Hudson's on the Bend has been serving gorgeous food in the gorgeous Lake Travis area for decades, with a menu featuring game meats as well as more familiar classics. In their mixed grill: venison and rabbit tenders.

QUI Restaurant

Qui's ever-changing menu is hard to predict, but their Rabbit 7 Ways was so beloved the staff got matching tattoos. Rabbit is currently on the menu with "hen egg, garden greens, uni bottarga."

Cafe Josie

Newly revamped Cafe Josie features a rabbit confit as an appetizer, which includes "whole grain mustard, shaved red onion, parsley salad, crostini"

Barley Swine

Any reason is a good reason to enjoy a meal at Bryce Gilmore's flagship. Their tasting menu currently features "braised rabbit, hay mousse, turnips"

Wink

[Photo: Clarissa R/Yelp]

Red Rabbit Bakery - Mueller Farmers Market

For the non-animal-consuming crowd: the worker-owned Red Rabbit Bakery makes some of the finest donuts in town, and won't anyone even mind that they're vegan. Find their trailer at 701 East 53rd Street, or track down their donuts at hippie-friendly cafes and groceries around town.

400 Rabbits

For those who prefer to drink their rabbit, Alamo Slaughter's bar will serve up tequila and mescal-based cocktails. The name is derived from the Centzon Totochtin (400 Rabbits) of Aztec mythology, who are the gods of drunkenness.

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