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Hoover's Cooking vs Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
Hoover's Cooking and Lamberts Downtown Barbecue are both rated very highly by expert writers. Overall, Lamberts Downtown Barbecue ranks significantly better than Hoover's Cooking. Lamberts Downtown Barbecue comes in at 89 with approval from 8 sources like Zagat, Gayot and Rough Guide.
Hoover's Cooking
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2002 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722-2436
From $0 /night
Fodor's
"One of Austin's best comfort-food oases, blending mama's home cooking, diner short-order specials, Tex-Mex favorites, and Cajun influences."
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Frommer's
"This is down-home comfort food at its best."
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Travel + Leisure
"At this unassuming restaurant in Cherrywood, local chef-owner Hoover Alexander serves Deep South—style comfort food with Tex-Mex, Cajun, and Jamaican influences."
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Zagat
""Comfort food at comfortable prices" sums up this Cherrywood Southern mainstay near the University of Texas campus."
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BlackBook
"The brave, spicy taste leaves you salivating for more. But the gigantic size, enough for two, makes you wish you’d eaten less."
Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
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401 W Second St, Austin, TX 78701
From $15 /night
Fodor's
"On an up-and-coming block near City Hall, Lamberts draws businessmen, Web types, trenchermen, and foodies for its "fancy barbecue," aka stylish twists on Texas classics."
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Travel + Leisure
"Chase your bbq with a hoppy Lost Gold IPA from Blanco, Texas. The brisket is textbook: super-wet and judiciously smoked."
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Zagat
""Fancy barbecue" is the forte of this "classy" 'cue stop set in "gentlemanly" digs in the "historic" Schneider Brothers Building in the Second Street District."
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BlackBook
""Fancy barbecue" is not an oxymoron. So shows this brother of the sister who owns the eminently popular Jo's Hot Coffee."
Gayot
13.0
"This hip eatery next door to City Hall attracts throngs of downtown worker bees, politicos and the food cognoscenti looking for real Austin food."
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