A Balcones Drive bistro where the dessert menu runs pages
Dinner turns into dessert here, with a bakery list that runs pages and a live band closing out Friday nights.
Where dessert steals dinner 🍰
Chez Zee sits off Balcones Drive in northwest Austin, an art-filled room where Southern comfort cooking shares the table with a bakery that keeps its own following. The savory menu covers pasta, burgers, pizza, salads, chicken, and fish, but the dessert list is the reason regulars keep a table open, running several pages past the strawberry poolaza cake and the lemon rosemary cake. Weekend brunch opens at 9:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday, and the kitchen runs until 10:00 PM on Friday and Saturday. Friday adds a live band and a grown-up crowd, with seating that moves quickly even for larger groups. Bring a date, bring the whole party, and leave room for two desserts instead of one.
