The Most Complete Guide to Late Night Food in Austin (Including Delivery)

Updated – Jul 1, 2020 (I’ve done ok, getting rid of places that have closed but keeping up with hours is tough.  Please check before you start walking or getting in car to go to these places)

For the purposes of this post, we are defining late night as after midnight.  We eliminated the places that have kitchens but don’t serve food after midnight. Let’s start with the places that are open 24 hours a day. Most of these places have multiple locations so you can click the links to learn more

Also, you should go ahead and bookmark/share with your friends cause you may not remember this when you need it the most.

24 Hours

• 24
• Austin’s Pizza (Campus location)
• Bennu Coffee
• Buzz Mill Coffee
• Epoch Coffee
• Jim’s Restaurant
• Ken’s Doughnuts and Pastries
• Kerbey Lane
• Magnolia Cafe
• Las Cazuelas (Thu-Sun)
• La Mexicana Bakery
• Star Seeds
• Strange Brew Coffee

Just to be thorough – here are the fast food chains that are open as well.

24 Hour Fast Food

• Denny’s
• IHOP
• Jack in the Box
• Taco Cabana
• Waffle House
• Whataburger

What if you can’t drive (or you just can’t bear to walk away from Conan or Letterman)?  Depending on where you live you could be out of luck.  All of these are accurate but they often have limited delivery area so check before you get too excited.

Late Night Delivery

• Chinatown until 2 (Thur-Sat)
• Hoboken Pie till 2:30
• Jimmy Johns till 3
• Pizza Paradise Till 1 (Fri-Sat)

The rest of the list is broken down by closing time and location.  Each entry goes like this:
Name of the place, (Days it is open till that time if not all week), Type of food if it isn’t obvious.

Open till 1 AM

Campus Area

• Amy’s Ice Cream (Fri-Sat) Most locations
• Thai Kitchen (Fri-Sat)
• Potbelly (Fri-Sat) Sandwiches

West Sixth

• Amy’s Ice Cream (Fri-Sat)

Rainey St.

• Via 313 (Thu-Sat) Pizza

Other areas

• Gourdough’s (Wed-Thu) Donuts
• In-N-Out (Sun-Thur) Burgers
• T&S Seafood (Thu-Sat)
• The Tavern (Thu-Sat) American
• Pizza Paradise (Fri-Sat)
• P Terry’s – North Lamar (Fri-Sat) Burgers
• P Terry’s – Research (Fri-Sat) Burgers
• P Terry’s – South Congress (Sun) Burgers
• P Terry’s – South Lamar (Sun) Burgers

Open till 1:30 AM

Eastside

• East Side King @Liberty (1:45) Asian
• Justine’s (Every day except Tues) French

Sixth Street

• Casino El Camino Burgers
• Chupacabra Cantina Tex Mex
• Jackalope Burgers, Pizza

Other areas

• In-N-Out (Fri-Sat) Burgers

Open till 2 AM

Campus Area

• Texas Chili Parlor
• Pluckers (Sun-Wed) Wings
• Trudy’s Texas Star (Fri-Sat) Mexican

Eastside

• Arlo’s (Thu-Sat) Vegan
• Las Cazuelas (Mon-Wed) Mexican

Rainey St

• Via 313 (Thu-Sat) Pizza

Sixth Street

• Easy Tiger Bakery
• Pizzeria Papparazi
• Shiner’s Saloon American/Bar Food

Warehouse District

• Chinatown (Thu-Sat) Chinese, Delivers

West Sixth

• One Taco (Sat) Taco Trailer
• Pacqui Tortillas Tex-Mex Bakery Trailer

Other Areas

• 888 (Mon-Sat) Vietnamese
• Aussies Bar Food
• Baker St Pub and Grill American Bar Food
• Big Daddy’s Burgers and Bar
• Mister Tramps American Bar Food
• Misung 888 Korean
• Pluckers Non-campus locations have different hours
  but most are open till 1 or 2. Serves Wings
• Sherlock’s American Bar Food
• Texican Sports Cantina (Thu-Sat) Mexican
• Trudy’s South Star (Fri-Sun) Mexican
• Trudy’s North Star (Fri-Sat) Mexican

Open until 2:30 AM

East Side

• Taqueria Selene (Wed-Sat) Mexican Trailer

Red River Area

• Hoboken Pie Pizza, Delivers
• Stony’s Pizza (Wed-Sat)

Open until 3 AM

Campus Area

• Jimmy Johns (Campus location only) Sandwiches, Delivers
• Pluckers (Thu-Sat) Wings
• Raising Cane’s (Thu-Sat) Chicken

Eastside

• Llama’s Peruvian Creole (Wed-Sat)
• Pueblo Vielo (Sat-Sun) Tacos
• Sam’s Bar-B-Que (Fri-Sat)
• Spartan Pizza (Fri-Sat)
• The Vegan Yacht (Fri-Sat) Vegan/Gluten Free

Rainey St

• G’Raj Mahal(Fri-Sat) Indian trailer

Sixth Street

• Austin Daily Press (Tues-Sat) Sandwich Trailer
• Best Wurst (Wed-Sat) Hot dog/Bratwurst Trailer
• Hoek’s Death Metal Pizza
• Hot Dog King (Thu-Sun) Trailer
• Kebabalicious (Thur-Sat) Turkish Trailer
• Roppolos Pizza
• Thai Passion
• Tienmans (Wed-Sat)

Warehouse District

• Lavaca St Grill (Fri-Sat) Burgers, Pizza
• Onion (Tuesday-Sunday) Pizza
• Roppolos (Thu-Sat) Pizza
• Turf N Surf Po’ Boys(Thu-Sat)

West Sixth

• Roppolos(Thu-Sat) Pizza

Other areas

• Chi’Lantro BBQ (Thu-Sat) Asian Fusion
  (Location varies check their Twitter feed)
• Gourdough’s (Wed-Thu) Donuts
• More Home Slice (Fri-Sat)
• The Peached Tortilla (Fri-Sat) Asian Fusion Trailer
• P Terry’s – South Congress (Fri-Sat) Burgers
• P Terry’s – South Lamar (Fri-Sat) Burgers
• El Tacorrido Mexican
• El Taquito (Tue) Mexican

Open until 3:30 AM

Eastside

• Las Cazuelas(Fri-Sun) Mexican

Other areas

• El Taquito (Mon) Mexican

Even later

Campus area

• Kismet Cafe 4AM Mediterranean

Eastside

• Reggie’s Soul Food 4AM Fri-Sat (Word on the internet is that their hours are erratic. Be careful)

Sixth Street

• Bar-B-Q Heaven 4AM (Wed-Sat)

Other areas

• El Taquito (4 Wed-Fr)(4:30 Sat) Mexican
• Mrs Johnson Bakery 8:40PM-12PM (That’s noon the next day)

Please leave a comment for whatever I have inevitably missed or gotten wrong.  I will continually update.  Also, may want to go ahead and bookmark.  You may not remember how to get here when you need it.