LOCATIONS

Trace at the W Hotel

200 Lavaca, 512/542-3660

photo by John Anderson

You know any restaurant with its own on-staff forager will make innovative use of farm-to-table ingredients, and Trace doesn't disappoint. The menu changes with the seasons; our reviewer loved the risotto.
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Chronicle Reviews

Trace at the W Hotel

Food so local it could run for City Council

Kate Thornberry, April 7, 2011

First Plates Awards

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