Austin City Music Festival 2024 Food Lineup Includes Austin Tacos

Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) is back in fall 2024, featuring artists like Chappell Roan, Dua Lipa, and Something Corporate. Today, the two-weekend concert event announced its full food lineup. There are three major additions to note: a new taco court full of awesome Austin food trucks and restaurants, pizza in the beer hall, and the return of festival favorite Mighty Cone.

ACL’s La Pachanga Eatery area will feature many of Austin’s best taco spots serving up their wares for the first time at the festival. These include:

• Con Todo, the Eater Award-winning Rio Grande Valley taco truck in North Austin

• Cuantos Tacos’s hamburger truck, which, yes, is clearly not tacos, but Cuantos nonetheless, will be located in the main food court

• Discada, the Central East Austin truck that focuses on discada-style tacos

• La Santa Barbacha, the Cherrywood truck serving all kinds of barbacoa dishes

• Norte ATX, an Austin taco truck currently closed for public service but still hosting private events

• Paprika ATX, the Highland taco truck

• Vaquero Taquero, North Campus/downtown taco restaurant focusing on South Texas styles

• Veracruz All Natural, perhaps Austin’s most iconic tacos

This particular lineup was put together by Anthony Pratto of Discada and Beto Robledo of Cuantas/Cuantos of Taco Mafia, a group of Austin-based restaurant owners and friends. The field is located between the Barton Springs stage (also known as the IHG Hotels & Resorts stage) and the main merchandise shopping tent.

Todd Owyoung

That’s when ACL first changed the name of its main beer hall from Barton Springs Beer Hall to the Big Tent. Beers are still served, but in cans, as are cocktails on tap, and for the first time, real food. Austin restaurant Bambino (from the team behind Italian restaurant L’oCa d’Oro) serves 12-inch wood-fired pizzas with meat, cheese and vegetable toppings, as well as gluten-free and dairy-free options and desserts.

And finally, food stall Mighty Cone — which was established at the first ACL but skipped last year — is making a comeback under new ownership. Expect signature cone-shaped dishes topped with chicken, shrimp, and/or avocado.

Elsewhere, ACL will, as usual, have its two food courts, the main one and a smaller satellite one. Newcomers to that lineup include barbecue truck CM Smokehouse (perhaps it’ll make its own brisket crunchwrap), fried chicken chain Gus’s , multi-location taco truck La Taquicardia (though notably, it won’t be in the taco court), Austin seafood truck Huckleberry’s new sausage pop-up the Wurst Place , and Tucson-style hot dog truck T-Loc’s Sonora Hot Dogs.

Three closed (or, in the case of one, somewhat closed) Austin restaurants will be serving at ACL. There’s Koko’s Bavarian (the brick-and-mortar restaurant in Austin is closed, but it still has stands in stadiums and arenas across the country), New Texan’s butcher shop and restaurant Salt & Time (which closed in July), Mama Fried (the fry truck run by barbecue truck LeRoy & Lewis, which closed by the end of 2023), and vegan bakery Skull & Cakebones (which closed its brick-and-mortar bakery in Dripping Springs in 2022, but is still offering wholesale orders).

Taylor Regulski for ACL Fest 2023

ACL Sweets — the festival’s special dessert section at the T-Mobile Stage — is returning for the second year. Newcomers include Los Angeles-based soft-serve truck CVT Soft Serve (which actually serves its frozen treats in bags), new Austin Mexican ice cream truck Dulce Amor Mio, and mini-ice cream chain Gelato Paradiso.

And just like last year, Austin-based Hawaiian restaurant Poke-Poke will be serving its signature item at the Barton Beach Club Tiki Bar at the Barton Springs/IHG stage. Tex-Mex restaurant El Patio will also be setting up its El Patioville truck, serving nachos, dips and chips.

ACL Eats 2024 Full Lineup

* indicates newcomers

• Amy’s Ice Cream (Candy)
• Austin’s Pizza (food court)
• Bananarchy (candy court)
• BBG’s* (food court)
• Blenders & Bowls (food court)
• Burro Cheese Kitchen (dining venue)
• Candy Cloud World (candy court)
• The Cavalier Party Dogs & Tots (food court)
• Chi’Lantro (dining establishment)
• CM Smokehouse* (dining facility)
• Con Todo* (taco dish)
• Cuantas Hamburguesas* (taco dish)
• Cuantos Tacos (food court)
• CVT Soft Serve* (sweet dish)
• Discada* (taco truck)
• Dulce Amor Mio* (sweet dish)
• East Side King (food court)
• The Patio (The Patioville)
• Flyrite Chicken (food court)
• Four Brothers Venezuelan cuisine (food court)
• Gelato Paradiso* (sweets)
• GoodPop (candy court)
• Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken* (food court)
• Happy Chicks (eatery)
• Holla Mode (candy court)
• Hawk’s Hot Chicken (a restaurant in Waco) (food court)
• Homie Fries (the fries truck from Burro Grilled Cheese) (food court)
• JP’s Pancake Company (candy)
• JuiceLand (food court)
• Kababeque (eatery)
• Koko’s Bavarian (food court)
• La Santa Barbacha* (taco lane)
• La Taquicardia* (restaurant)
• Lambas Indian Kitchen (dining establishment)
• Lonesome Dove (dining venue)
• Mama Fried (eatery)
• Micklethwait Craft Meats (food court)
• The Mighty Cone (dining venue)
• Mmmpanadas (eating place)
• Nacho Dady & Tenders (run by San Antonio chef Jason Dady) (food court)
• Nervous Charlie’s (food court)
• North ATX* (taco track)
• The original Black’s Barbecue (food court)
• Paprika ATX* (taco dish)
• Pelons Tex Mex (food court)
• Poke-Poke (tiki bar)
• RedFin (food court)
• Salt & Time (food court)
• Shawarma Point (dining venue)
• Show Me Pizza (food court)
• Skull & Cakebones (food court)
• Sno-Beach Sno-Cones (candy track)
• Southside Flying Pizza (food court)
• Steamies Dumplings (food court)
• T-Loc’s Sonora Hot Dogs* (food court)
• Taco Bronco (Micklethwait’s taco truck) (food court)
• Tiff’s Treats (candy court)
• Tiny Pies (food and snack bar)
• Vaquero Taquero* (taco dish)
• Veracruz All Natural* (taco dish)
• Wholelly Cow Burgers (food court)
• The Wurst Place* (dining venue)

The ACL Music Festival will take place in Zilker Park from Friday, October 4 through Sunday, October 6 and from Friday, October 11 through Sunday, October 13.