In Austin, most of the restaurants suck and are expensive. Even the pizza is terrible. Tacos are everywhere, but burritos not so much. There are a few good plac

In Austin, most of the restaurants suck and are expensive. Even the pizza is terrible. Tacos are everywhere, but burritos not so much. There are a few good places. But there's really no point when I can cook better than 99% of them. A similar situation is true with meal delivery because DoorDash and Favor drivers deliver cold, shitty, expensive food that's often wrong. They suck. Regular Amazon can barely deliver order 30% of the time, with most packages being stolen or discarded by the drivers, and 50% of the time they are delivered in the wrong place in public areas. So I don't use Amazon. Oh, and Whole Foods, despite being headquartered here, carries very little diversity of items. You can't even get actual pita bread or lavash at the Whole Foods' flagship store. It's bland and optimized for profits because most Whole Foods shoppers in Austin aren't all that sophisticated but have money to burn. H-E-B does a bit better, but it's essentially a big box store with aisles of unhealthy food in enormous quantities. Trader Joe's (Aldi Nord) is about the only decent grocer in town. California has infinitely more choices and there's nothing like Berkeley Bowl in Austin with Wheatsville being a tiny shop compared to the "Whole Earth Access"-adjacent Berkeley Bowl.