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The dessert sausage plate at Goldis.
The dessert sausage plate at Goldis.
Photo: Robert J. Lerma

Here are 27 of Austin's Most Extreme Meat Dishes

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The dessert sausage plate at Goldis.
| Photo: Robert J. Lerma

Austin is a town deeply devoted to meat, but even the most intense carnivores get stuck in a brisket rut. Here are 27 meat dishes off the beaten dining path, from the chicken skin dumplings at Dumpling Happiness to Goldis Sausage Company's sausage desserts. See an extreme meaty dish missing? Hit the tipline or in the comments below.


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Wild Bubba's Wild Game Grill

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Everyone’s wild exotic meat in burger form needs are met at this grill in a former gas station, from buffalo to kangaroo, and more.

QUI Restaurant

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Qui has lots of fun with meat at their restaurant, and the ever-evolving dinuguan blood stew stands out as one of their most creative dishes.

First Chinese BBQ

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Leaving no part of a pig wasted, First Chinese BBQ offers up both marinated pig intestines and marinated pig stomach, ears, and tongue.

Llama's Peruvian Creole

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The Peruvian trailer dishes out anticuchos, which are beef heart skewers, along with grilled potatoes and Peruvian corn.

Wurst Tex

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Russian House

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Casino El Camino

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Contigo Austin

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Tongues is a serious obsession for Contigo, where you can opt for an ox tongue slider, or, for brunch, the beef tongue hash.

Frank Restaurant

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Ho Ho Chinese BBQ

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Goldis Sausage Company

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Meat? Good. Ice cream? Good. Together? Perfection. These can be found in sundae and ice cream sandwich form at the truck.

Hudson's on the Bend

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[Photo: Aron Y./Yelp]

Swift's Attic

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Din Ho Chinese BBQ

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Another Chinese restaurant with every sort of intestines, tripe, liver, tongue, marinated or covered in sauce.

Barlata

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The tapas bar dishes out grilled beef hearts with white beans.

Salty Sow

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The Tavern

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Gourdough's Public House

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Szechuan House

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Salt & Time

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A + A Sichuan China

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Three Little Pigs

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Evangeline Cafe

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The Louisiana-inspired cafe presents the best of the bayou’s meats: gator bites and frog legs.

Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden

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[Photo: Christina T./Yelp]

Noble Sandwich Company

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[Photo: Christina T./Yelp]

Dumpling Happiness

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[Photo: Mike B./Yelp]

Stuffed Cajun Meat Market

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[Photo: Jennifer Y./Yelp]

Wild Bubba's Wild Game Grill

Everyone’s wild exotic meat in burger form needs are met at this grill in a former gas station, from buffalo to kangaroo, and more.

QUI Restaurant

Qui has lots of fun with meat at their restaurant, and the ever-evolving dinuguan blood stew stands out as one of their most creative dishes.

First Chinese BBQ

Leaving no part of a pig wasted, First Chinese BBQ offers up both marinated pig intestines and marinated pig stomach, ears, and tongue.

Llama's Peruvian Creole

The Peruvian trailer dishes out anticuchos, which are beef heart skewers, along with grilled potatoes and Peruvian corn.

Wurst Tex

[Photo: Doug C./Yelp]

Russian House

[Photo: Russian House/Facebook]

Casino El Camino

[Photo: Kristie A./Yelp]

Contigo Austin

Tongues is a serious obsession for Contigo, where you can opt for an ox tongue slider, or, for brunch, the beef tongue hash.

Frank Restaurant

[Photo: Katie C./Yelp]

Ho Ho Chinese BBQ

[Photo: Z.Q. W./Yelp]

Goldis Sausage Company

Meat? Good. Ice cream? Good. Together? Perfection. These can be found in sundae and ice cream sandwich form at the truck.

Hudson's on the Bend

[Photo: Aron Y./Yelp]

Swift's Attic

[Photo: Jamie G./Yelp]

Din Ho Chinese BBQ

Another Chinese restaurant with every sort of intestines, tripe, liver, tongue, marinated or covered in sauce.