New on Resy: Mia Italian Tapas, Drop Kick, Small Victory, and More

Chef Mario Medina’s star-studded résumé includes stints at restaurants run by Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina, Charlie Palmer, Gordon Ramsay, and José Andrés. Now, he’s crafting Italian small bites and pasta at this high-ceilinged spot in North Austin’s open-air Domain Northside shopping center. Pro tip: happy hour includes bargain-priced starters and craft cocktails.

Settle into this bright, minimalist all-day and all-night café from the team behind TenTen and Devil May Care for delicious, flavorful, and healthful fare crafted by a chef and a nutritionist. That means no gluten, soy, refined sugar, or GMOs.

Look closely or you’ll miss the entrance to this little jewel box of a bar with its plush blue banquettes, baroque wallpaper, and wood-box back bar framed in blue and brown subway tiles. Classic cocktails are the specialty here — learn what a classic martini really should taste like here — and there’s cheese and charcuterie and other light fare on offer.

It’s all about the lobster rolls at Garbo’s — Maine or Connecticut style, plus a spicy variation (hey, this is Texas) made with Hatch chiles. Heidi Garbo started serving this definitive New England dish from food trucks, then in a small restaurant. Her sisters, Sam and Hannah, joined her and the three expanded to this 220-seat location, complete with a patio and lounge, where the rolls keep rolling out. Pro tip: visit on a Wednesday for $2 oysters fresh from Massachusetts.

This classy addition to the lively East Austin food and drink scene is creating a buzz. Think polished wood (even on the ceiling) and bright patterned surfaces, margaritas on draft, bites with Latin flavors (rockfish ceviche, chicken anticucho), and a crowd that’s always ready to celebrate.

From Viet-Cajun seafood boils and blue crab-and-shrimp dips to po’ boys and fish tacos, this new sustainable seafood restaurant from the team (Amir and Ali Hajimalek) behind District Kitchen and Oasthouse is, well, as the name suggests, a keeper.

You won’t find anything like this one-of-a-kind establishment elsewhere. Come for duckpin bowling (a more difficult variation on the standard kind), private karaoke rooms, billiard tables, signature cocktails, craft beers, and a menu ranging from charred pepper hummus to truffle filet mignon — and did we mention the mechanical bull?

Eldorado chef and co-founder Joel Fried has worked everywhere from Mezzaluna in Vail, Colo., to Angeluna in Fort Worth to Austin’s own Vespaio. The theme at this exuberantly colorful northwest Austin storefront is Mexican and other Latin-styled comfort food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Whatever you order, be sure to add a salsa sampler — five housemade salsas from mild avocado to fiery El Scorpio.