Elizabeth Street Cafe / Austin

Elizabeth Street Café is a neighborhood Vietnamese café and French bakery in South Austin, known for its croissants, bánh mì on freshly baked baguettes, spring rolls, pho, spicy curries, and house cocktails and punches. The menu also includes tropical-flavored macarons, and the café serves breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner.

The café has sunny dining rooms and a shady garden patio, and it offers takeout and online ordering. Weekend brunch runs until mid-afternoon, and happy hour on weekday afternoons includes discounted specialty cocktails and half-price appetizers. The adjacent Croissant Room, next door, has a full bar and a courtyard patio and hosts private dinners, cocktail parties and corporate gatherings. The restaurant is at 1501 South First Street.