Sometimes, after a long week of elections and rain, comfort food cravings kick in. What fills this need can be anything — soup, fried chicken, a pie, chocolate cake, burgers, or whatever else makes you feel good.
Our favorite recommendations:
🐔 Fried Chicken From Top Notch Hamburgers
Yes, we’re recommending that you get chicken from a burger place. The fried chicken at the iconic Top Notch Hamburgers, 7525 Burnet Road, is just that good. Get the two-piece dinner ($11.49) that comes with mashed potatoes, gravy, cole slaw, and Texas toast.
🥣 Tom Kha Soup From Sap’s Ver Fine Thai Cuisine
The Tom Kha soup ($13) from Sap’s Ver Fine Thai Cuisine, 4514 West Gate Blvd., has been there for this writer through bad days, rainy weather, and when my allergies are acting up. The Thai coconut soup comes with lemongrass, magrood, galangal, Thai pepper, lime juice, mushrooms, and cilantro. Add your favorite protein and get a side of white rice. Dip a spoon full of rice into the soup and you’ll have the perfect bite!
🥧 Chicken Pot Pie From Colleen’s Kitchen
We’d be fools not to include chicken pot pie on this list. It’s the quintessential comfort food! Head to Colleen’s Kitchen, 1911 Aldrich St., for the chicken pot pie ($15). City Cast Austin podcast host Nikki DaVaughn highly recommends it!
🥞 A Blueberry Pancake From Counter Cafe
OK, listen. Go to Counter Cafe, which has two locations, and order whatever savory dish you want. The eggs benedict is pretty dang good. Add a blueberry pancake ($12) for the table to share. Voila, you have a table pancake! A pancake for the table! It’s a perfect invention and Counter Cafe does a really great — and really big — pancake.
🌮 Birria Tacos From Palo Seco 512
A plate of birria tacos ($3 each) from Palo Seco 512 is enough to make you forget your troubles, we swear it. Perfectly juicy, the tacos are filling and have the ideal amount of crunchiness to them. Grab a Coca-Cola from the gas station next door, sit outside, and you’ll be comforted in no time.
