Dallas, Houston and Austin all had thriving restaurant scenes. Don't know what it's going to look like this year.
Texas BBQ is brisket or sausage, they don't do pork well. If they do seafood well, it will cost body parts because it is very overpriced. The Tex-Mex is good as is most of the Asian and fusion. Good steak joints.
Austin is the hip liberal city and second only to LA in food trucks and most of the ones I've been to are excellent. It is also the prettiest of the major metropolitan areas and second in technology only to Silicon Valley.
If I were to move back to the DFW area, I would definitely take Ft. Worth over Dallas. Dallas is the keeping up with the Joneses city of Texas and they take themselves too seriously. They really have no reason to be that large. Dallas is the largest city in the world without a port. They're such morons they tried to call the largest truck stop in the state a Super Port. The city council was too stupid to get the Cowboys stadium and tear that pos Cotton Bowl down.
Unfortunately, Austin is taking a sharp turn downward like San Francisco.
Worst city in Texas for homeless....needles, poop, etc. Crime going up, etc.
Sad, because they had a good thing going.
My daughter was looking at UT, but got so turned off by the mess there, she changed her tune. Oh well.
Great food trucks selection in Austin though
And yes, Ft Worth is pretty cool
