# Food & Dining search demand in Austin THE SEARCH LEDGER · AUSTIN, TEXAS · FOOD & DINING Every month Austin types 3,053,930 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/austin/food-dining#colophon) 905 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026 3,053,930 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026 $2.1M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.35 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Austin searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in OCT and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 82, February 83, March 98, April 95, May 98, June 93, July 92, August 97, September 95, October 100, November 96, December 84. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Austin — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Austin pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 905 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“888 restaurant austin”** at $1.79. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,500,000 | $0.56 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | coffee shops near me | 165,000 | $0.39 | 0 | transactional | | 3 | breakfast near me | 165,000 | $0.44 | 23 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 110,000 | $1.30 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 110,000 | $0.41 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | mozart cafe austin | 49,500 | $0.56 | 23 | commercial | | 7 | franklin barbecue austin | 49,500 | $1.56 | | branded | | 8 | bouldin creek cafe austin | 33,100 | $1.04 | 7 | commercial | | 9 | la barbecue austin | 27,100 | $0.44 | | branded | | 10 | good restaurants austin | 22,200 | $0.92 | 33 | commercial | | 11 | elizabeth cafe austin | 22,200 | $1.62 | 9 | commercial | | 12 | 888 restaurant austin | 18,100 | $1.79 | 0 | commercial | | 13 | austin restaurants | 14,800 | $1.14 | 13 | commercial | | 14 | austin brunch | 14,800 | $0.59 | 4 | commercial | | 15 | 24 diner austin | 14,800 | $0.28 | 10 | commercial | | 16 | foodheads austin | 12,100 | $1.14 | | branded | | 17 | terry black's bbq austin | 12,100 | $0.84 | 11 | commercial | | 18 | clarks oyster bar austin | 12,100 | $0.85 | | commercial | | 19 | top bbq in austin | 9,900 | $0.23 | 12 | commercial | | 20 | mexican restaurant austin | 9,900 | $0.44 | 41 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Austin food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 1,500,000/mo · $0.56 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Casino El Camino 4.5★ 4,500 - 2 Burger Bar Congress 4.6★ 1,900 - 3 Roppolo’s Pizzeria 4.2★ 1,200 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 tripadvisor.com - 2 austin.eater.com - 3 ubereats.com - 4 alexreichek.com - 5 yelp.com pizza near me 110,000/mo · $1.30 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Roppolo’s Pizzeria 4.2★ 1,200 - 2 Jack Pizza Company 5★ 23 - 3 Hoboken Pie 4.1★ 1,200 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 austinspizza.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 locations.papajohns.com LOCAL - 4 tripadvisor.com - 5 jetspizza.com LOCAL Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Austin The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Corner Restaurant | 4.8 ★ | 18,278 | Restaurant | YES | | #2 | Caroline | 4.8 ★ | 15,443 | American | YES | | #3 | Home Slice Pizza | 4.7 ★ | 11,091 | Pizza | YES | | #4 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 10,181 | Brazilian | YES | | #5 | Upstairs at Caroline | 4.8 ★ | 6,920 | American | YES | | #6 | Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que | 4.4 ★ | 6,721 | Barbecue | YES | | #7 | Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken | 4.6 ★ | 6,012 | Chicken | YES | | #8 | Home Slice Pizza | 4.7 ★ | 5,291 | Pizza | YES | | #9 | Pinthouse Pizza | 4.7 ★ | 5,146 | Pizza | YES | | #10 | Champions Austin Restaurant & Bar | 4.8 ★ | 4,613 | American | YES | | #11 | Perry's Steakhouse & Grille - Downtown Austin | 4.6 ★ | 4,592 | Steak | YES | | #12 | Iron Cactus Mexican Restaurant and Margarita Bar | 4.1 ★ | 4,067 | Mexican | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Austin searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. franklin barbecue austin 49,500/mo la barbecue austin 27,100/mo foodheads austin 12,100/mo black's barbecue austin 9,900/mo mozart's coffee roasters lake austin boulevard austin tx 6,600/mo arpeggio grill austin 6,600/mo monkey nest coffee austin 6,600/mo terry black's barbecue barton springs road austin tx 6,600/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Austin asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Austin food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat places in Austin? What are some hidden gem restaurants in Austin? What are some good restaurants in far south Austin? Where can I find the best lunch place in Austin? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? What are the best pizza places in Austin? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? What is the best pizza in Dayton, Ohio? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Austin metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Austin search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Austin, Texas · Food & Dining · 905 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 905 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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