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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Austin
Food
Feel
Price
7.9
8.5
$35
American
Wine bar

Hours
Sun–Thu 4:00pm–10:00pm
Fri–Sat 4:00pm–11:00pm

Features Date-friendly, good wines, live music, outdoor dining, veg-friendly, Wi-Fi
Bar Beer, wine
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx

www.fionwinepub.com

Bee Cave
11 miles from Austin
11715 FM 2244
Bee Cave, TX
(512) 263-7988
Hours
Daily 4:00pm–10:00pm

Lake Travis Area
2900 N. Quinlan Park Rd.
Austin, TX
(512) 266-3466
Fion Wine Pub
A surprising selection of wine, beer, cheese, and cigars with better-than-usual pub grub

Fion Wine Pub’s two locations are in suburban areas that are more gated than geeky, yet there’s an impressive beverage program. The wine selection (in the several hundreds) isn’t necessarily well edited or even principled, but there are way more interesting bottles than at the surrounding “fine” grocery stores. You…

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