My New Book Is Here! Austin Food Crawls 2nd Edition Is Out Now!

Hi friends!

I’m so excited to finally share this with you—the second edition of my book, Austin Food Crawls, is officially out in the world! 🎉✨

If you’ve been following along for a while, you might remember when the first edition came out. I poured so much love into that book, creating neighborhood food itineraries that highlight the best tacos, burgers, cocktails, barbecue, and hidden gems around Austin. And now, after several years (and a lot of meals later), I’ve updated the book with a brand new edition to reflect everything that’s changed in our city’s food scene.

Austin’s culinary landscape has evolved a ton over the last few years. Restaurants have come and gone, new neighborhoods have grown into hot spots, and the dining scene has gotten even more creative, vibrant, and delicious. I wanted this second edition to reflect all of that—so I revisited each crawl, added new spots, shuffled a few routes, and included lots of fresh recommendations. If you’re looking for the most current, fun, and tasty way to explore Austin one bite at a time, this book is for you.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

🍕 Curated food crawls organized by neighborhood—each with 4-7 must-visit stops.
🍹 Libation recs for cocktails, craft beer, and coffee.
📍 Tips on how to navigate the city like a local (yes, even with our traffic).
🍽️ A mix of iconic Austin institutions and new places I’m loving right now.
🛵 And plenty of bonus bites, personal favorites, and foodie facts!

Whether you’re planning a date night, entertaining visitors, or just want an excuse to try a new restaurant or two, this book is designed to make eating your way through Austin even more fun and delicious.

You can grab the new edition here:
👉 Order on Amazon

And if you’re local, keep an eye out—I’ll be announcing some pop-ups and book signings soon!

Thank you SO much for all your support over the years. Sharing Austin’s food scene with you through this blog (and now through this book!) has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done. I can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!

Happy crawling,
Kelsey 💛

PS: I wanted to share this little snippet that I wrote for y’all back in 2019. I had just finished writing the first edition of this book and wanted to share a little bit about the writing process. Enjoy this peek back in time to summer 2019 and what I had to say about the writing process of my first ever book, Austin Food Crawls, 1st Edition (2019): 

About the writing process:

I mean…it’s been a whirlwind! I’ve had a blast writing this book, and I’m still kind of pinching myself that the publication date is almost here!

Here’s a timeline (from the very beginning!) of what’s been going on:

• October 2016: Nate and I were engaged and checking out a restaurant called Emmer & Rye (still one of my favorite Austin restaurants. Here’s the blog post from our dinner that night…it’s one of my first blog posts I ever wrote!) to celebrate the fact that I had just finished paying off $15,000 of student loans in 11 months. I told him the main reason I had hustled so hard to pay off my loans: I planned to start an Austin food blog, and I wanted to be 100% debt-free when I started it so I could fully invest in this blog.
• November 2016: SoMuchLife.com was launched! After years of eating around Austin and giving restaurant suggestions to friends, I had tons of information in my head that I was eager to share on my blog.
• 2017: Lots of hustle, lots of fun!
• January 2018: As the page views and social media accounts grew (yay!), I knew I had to take a big, scary leap and hire web designer to give my blog a facelift. I asked Madison at Grace + Vine Studios to create a custom logo, new fonts and colors, and a completely new web design. It felt super scary to invest that much money in a redesign when I was hardly making enough revenue to even call my blog a “side hustle,” but it turned out that taking that leap in faith was the best thing I’ve ever done for my blogging career.
• April 2018: I got an email from an acquisitions editor at Globe Pequot Press saying she had found my blog and liked the easy writing style and fun photos and….had I ever considered writing a book?
• May 2018: I wrote an outline to Austin Food Crawls and pitched it to the team at Globe Pequot. They loved it, sent me a contract, and I signed! (Easiest HELL YES decision ever!)
• June 2018: Sooo many restaurant visits! I already knew the restaurants I wanted to include in each neighborhood chapter, but I had to set up a lot of visits to interview chefs, take more photos, and do some field research.
• December 2018: I submitted the final manuscript to my editor. Honestly, the months of June-December were whirlwind. And so much fun. Aaaand I’m very happy that I didn’t get pregnant and deal with the first trimester nausea/fatigue until the book was submitted. 😉

One more thing: getting a book deal is the goal that almost every blogger dreams about in the back of her head. I had definitely thought about it, and I hoped it might happen down the road (like if I ever made it through 10 years of blogging!), but I didn’t expect a book deal to land in my lap 18 months after launching SoMuchLife.com.

I feel ridiculously thankful to everyone who reads this blog and follows the instagram account. It’s really fun to have a food blog as a creative outlet, but the meaningful part comes from knowing that I’m helping hungry, adventurous foodies find the deserving chefs and restaurants in Austin. I love supporting the local food scene and the creative chefs who run it, and I love getting messages from y’all when you tell me that one of my blog posts helped you find your new favorite restaurant in town.

See Austin Food Crawls here: 

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