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Get your sweet fix at Sugar Addict Bakery, where delectable pastries and coffee are what’s on the menu. Take a trip to New Orleans’ French Quarter with a plate of hot beignets, those delicious pastries doused liberally with powdered sugar. Other varieties include a Nutella and strawberry beignet and a Nutella and banana beignet.

Despite the name, not everything at this bakery is sweet. The two-egg breakfast beignet is a savory and satisfying choice for your morning meal. Other options include stuffed beignet balls with cheese and your choice of chicken or pastrami, the rotisserie chicken Beignet with creamy havarti cheese, and a smoked pastrami beignet with organic spring leaves.

Take home a dozen or two of the delectable cupcakes swirled with vanilla or chocolate icing.

Sugar Addict Bakery is open Wednesday through Sunday.

Sugar Addict Bakery
4001 Medical Parkway
Austin, TX 78756
(512) 568-7330
sugaraddictbakery.com

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Austin's Blue Star Cafeteria is more bistro than cafeteria, offering upscale comfort food in a vibrant, modern setting and serving brunch, lunch, and dinner. Stop by on Saturday or Sunday mornings to enjoy a mimosa alongside eggs Benedict, vanilla battered French toast, or quiche lorraine.

Blue Star's lunch offerings include oysters and chips, crab cakes, burgers, grilled cheese sandwiches, and coconut & cornflake chicken tenderloins. Dinnertime is a great time to try one of the Blue Star Platters like meatloaf with mushroom gravy, honey glazed grilled pork chops with mac & cheese, or garden vegetable bowls with cheese grits.

If you're craving something sweet at the end of your meal, you can order a dessert like buttermilk pie, chocolate cake or homemade fruit cobbler.

Blue Star Cafeteria
4800 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78756
(512) 454-7827
http://www.bluestarcafeteria.com/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/blue-star-cafeteria-austin

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