Restaurants in Cedar Park

Campo Azul Bar & Grill's kitchen uses local and seasonal ingredients to recreate the cuisine of central Mexico. As you sip a signature drink such as the blue margarita, the staff will bring over plates of fajitas and queso flameado that sizzle directly on your table. The chefs can also grill quesadillas, roll up burritos, and knit a taco. Before calling it a meal, it's worth it to try one of Campo Azul's decadent dessert inventions, which includes the deep-fried cheesecake burritos.

Local musicians often play in the dining room as guests dine amid the exposed brick interior. There are also covered patios surrounded by cheery yellow walls, and you can email photographs of your leftovers to your house pet using the free WiFi.

At Las Lomas Tex-Mex, a mouthwatering menu of Tex-Mex treats and traditional Mexican meals entices diners with fresh, colorful ingredients, daily made dishes, and award-winning hot sauces. Guests happily paint stuffed chili rellenos with Diego Rivera–style murals using a choice of four colorful sauces, including chipotle, verde, and ranchero. As guests cheer on their favorite sports teams on Las Lomas’ multiple big-screen TVs, sizzling fajita skillets lift up savory scents of marinated chicken, beef, or shrimp while impersonating the hissing roar of a stadium crowd. Breakfast specials include migas, huevos rancheros, and breakfast tacos stuffed with eggs, chorizo, and beans.

The Emerald Restaurant's quaint cottage flings open its wooden doors to welcome diners into a fairy-tale-like milieu rich with Irish china, lace tablecloths, and fine crystal. Just like lunch in elementary school, most meals are presented on a silver platter, showcasing such staples as Irish stew, roasted duck, and sweetbread with bacon. The intimate space sets a romantic mood that frequently attracts wedding proposals and exchanges of everlasting-platonic-friendship rings.

Hatched from a simple creole cottage in Mandeville, Louisiana in 1996, Another Broken Egg Cafe has expanded to more than 20 locations in the South and California. The homey eatery flaunts more than 130 menu items that spotlight southern and creole twists on breakfast classics such as omelets, scrambles, pancakes, and benedicts. The Hey Ricky omelet, a Spanish-inspired creation filled with chorizo, avocado, green chilies, and house-made salsa, even caught the journalistic eye of the Dallas Observer, who named it Best Omelet in 2009. Another Broken Egg Cafe's French-country charm welcomes locals, tourists, and off-the-clock roosters from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. daily.

Carrying a pita, a diner approaches a salad bar brimming with pickled condiments, crunchy vegetables, and sauces. Without paying or even speaking to someone behind the counter, the diner lifts the spoon and festoons the pita with a pile of fresh toppings, ready to start the meal anew. At most restaurants, this could get you kicked out, but at Maoz, it’s not only overlooked, but also encouraged. After choosing from such vegetarian and vegan-friendly options as gluten-free falafel and fried eggplant, pita wraps or salads head to the stainless-steel salad bar. Belgian fries—a thick-cut, lightly battered version of their french cousins—and mounds of sweet-potato fries complement sandwiches and salads along with green-chili sauce, mayo, and salsa for dipping and boosting the self-esteem of napkins.

While feasting, diners sit atop benches at long, shared tables that emulate the communal lunch joints of old in the unabashedly modern chain of restaurants, founded in Amsterdam two decades ago. Mirroring the eatery’s fresh, stylish food, the interior at Maoz features green tiled walls and steel fixtures illuminated by hanging lamps and baby pictures of supernovas.

A mouthwatering aroma wafts from Thai Cuisine’s kitchen as chefs douse veggies, pineapple slices, and catfish nuggets in creamy curries. Fresh from the stove, oyster sauce glazes stir-fried beef, mushrooms, and broccoli. Colorful décor complements the menu’s bold flavors: Waiters shepherd brigades of noodle and rice dishes to tables swathed in blue, pink, and yellow, or to buffet tables set against crimson walls. TVs and wide windows occupy eyes during meals, and free WiFi helps mobile devices distract hands from sculpting wrist pillows out of soft tofu.