Back to our old form. We hoisted nineteen articles up this week as the Austin food scene went absolutely bonkers over Summer dissolving into Fall and patios once more becoming inhabitable for our ritual eating of the queso and drinking of the tequila.

Without further ado; our weekly top 5 Austin Texas food stories, as always, determined by page views.

We accepted the prospect of complete failure as a massive storm cell squatted down over East Austin and our most recent pop up restaurant but y'all came through in a big way. Field report: http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/17

John Lewis, former pit boss at Franklin Barbecue, has switched camps http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/22

Murder on 6th Street http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/20

We celebrated National Cheeseburger Day the only way we know how http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/18

Our series of reports on the status of Austin's craft coffee scene has a new entry http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/19

Last week's top 5 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/9/17

Thanks for the patronage y'all. We're closing in on visitor number 1 million on this site.

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