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Originally Posted by Bunk
Was there for a day recently too
Eat at Franklin's BBQ - but go early if you can. Big line ups.
Go see:
- South Congress Ave
- Downtown East 6th Street (night in particular)
- Rainey Street Historic District
- Along the downtown Riverfront (lots of nice areas to stroll)
- LBJ Presidential Library (University of Texas Campus)
- Texas Capitol Building tour
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If you only have 1 days, I'd probably skip Franklin's. We tried on day 1, but got there "late" (10ish) and missed the cut off. Day 2, we got there at 8 and were pretty close to the front (this was after getting home at 3 am the night before). We were lucky since our place was only a block away.
So apparently there's a clean and dirty side of Downtown 6th. East = dirty and West = clean I think. Anyways, it was pretty crazy and worth a visit if you're into that kind of stuff.
I really like Rainey Street though. Much quieter. Odd ball type bars. Our AirBNB host worked at Half Step which is/was this house turned cocktail bar.
The capitol building is nice and we also did a quick tour around the U of T campus.