All-beef chili with no beans and no tomatoes, built on chunks of chuck and a dark chile paste of ancho, guajillo and pasilla chiles, beef stock, cumin and Mexican oregano. Texas state dish since 1977.
Chili con carne traces to the San Antonio chili queens of the 1880s, who set up open-air braziers in Military Plaza serving meaty stew to railroad workers. Texas codified the no-beans rule in 1977 when chili was named the state dish. Austin's chili cook-offs and the Original Terlingua International Championship 4 hours west established the modern competition recipe.
3 editor picks for Texas Chili Con Carne in Austin, ranked by editorial score. All Austin signature dishes · Texas Chili Con Carne across every city.
Dai Due ★ 4.6
manor-road · 2406 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722
Dai Due in Austin is Jesse Griffiths's butcher-shop-and-supper-club on Manor Road, a Bib Gourmand kitchen built on Texas farms and wild game.
Matt's El Rancho ★ 4.3
south-lamar · 2613 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Matt's El Rancho in Austin is the Martinez family's South Lamar Tex-Mex room, opened in 1952 and home of the canonical Bob Armstrong queso dip.
Cisco's Restaurant Bakery & Bar ★ 4.0
east-austin · 1511 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702
Cisco's in Austin is Rudy Cisneros's East 6th Tex-Mex breakfast counter since 1948, the room that ran the city's politician breakfasts and helped make huevos.