ACL Festival 2024 Food Court Offers New Options and Plenty of Tacos

The Austin City Limits Music Festival announced its vendor list for the upcoming festival on Thursday, featuring both old favorites and plenty of exciting newcomers.

The park itself will be divided into seven main areas for food, beverage and merchandise. Bambino, the venue formerly known as Barton Springs Beer Hall, will now serve pizza alongside craft beers and draft cocktails, and La Pachanga Eatery, curated by Taco Mafia, are both new to the festival.

Elsewhere in the park, ACL Eats and ACL Sweets offer most of the food options. Barton Beach Club and Tiki Bar and El Patioville are the places to go for drinks, and both also offer light snacks.

Finally, ACL Market is the best place to buy merchandise, art and clothing. This year, there are three new vendors.

With ACL coming up quickly, here’s everything you need to know about what the park has to offer this year.

Taco Takeover of ACL Fest

Tacos are a staple of Texas cuisine, and at this year’s edition of ACL Fest, they’ll be more present than ever. That’s because the festival teamed up with Taco Mafia, a group of friends and entrepreneurs from the Austin area, to bring some of the best eateries to the festival.

The vendors they selected will be featured in “La Pachanga Eatery” and are as follows: Con Todo, Cuantas Hamburguesas, Discada, La Santa Barbacha, Norte ATX, Paprika ATX, Vaquero Taquero and Veracruz All Natural.

This is the first time these vendors will be present at ACL and you will find them between the main tent and the IHG Hotels & Resorts stage.

ACL Fest will feature a host of new food stalls

In addition to the eight Taco Mafia selections, there will be a dozen new vendors at ACL Fest. Six of them will be in the ACL Eats section: BBG’s, CM Smokehouse, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, La Taquicardia, T-Loc’s Sonora Hot Dogs and The Wurst Place.

ACL Sweets will be offering three new selections, all serving variations of ice cream. These vendors are: CVT Soft Serve, Dulce Amor Mio, and Gelato Paradiso.

ACL Market, comprised of art and clothing vendors, is introducing Holo Eyes, Roommate Collective and Uptown Cheapskate to its ranks.

Local favorites return to festival grounds

Although many of the stalls are making their debut this year, the festival has ensured that many of the familiar dishes that have become a permanent part of the festival have been retained.

These vendors are local to Austin, giving visitors to the city the opportunity to experience the festivities and Austin’s famous food scene. Some of the regulars that will be there include smoothie shop JuiceLand, Korean-Tex-Mex fusion Chi’Lantro, Austin’s Pizza and The Original Black’s Barbecue.

These dishes can be found in the ACL Eats section of the park, which is also the largest food court at ACL Fest.

A complete overview of all selections can be found here.

Beck Andrew Salgado covers trending topics in Austin’s business ecosystem for the American-Statesman. To share additional tips or insights with Salted, email [email protected].