Cannoli Joe’s
4715 U.S. Highway 290
(Between Westgate Blvd. and Brodie Lane)
Austin, Texas 78745
(512) 892-4444
A visit to Cannoli
Joe’s is an up-scale culinary trip to an Italian
villagio, complete with rustic decor, lively conversation and
seven uniquely themed dining areas. A stroll through the
winding villagio reveals a team of chefs preparing a gourmet
Italian buffet feast right before your eyes in the
restaurant’s demonstration kitchens.
With authentic
Italian dishes created by noted chef Robert Hauser, of New
York's acclaimed Culinary Institute of America, the expansive
menu items are created in small batches - all from scratch.
Sauces, soups, breads, dressings and desserts are all
made in-house each day.
The 50+ menu items
include numerous Italian salads, spicy sausage Cellentani, hand
rolled Italian meatballs, chicken Cacciatore, pork loin, ziti
primavera, rigatoni Bolognese and Frangelica bread pudding.
Chefs create artisan pizzas in the wood-fired oven, and
the dolce calda teems with dozens of ice creams, spumoni,
cakes, fruit crisps, and brownies.
Co-owner Don
“Skeeter” Miller recommends making several trips to
the villagio to sample multiple items. You can pick your
favorites or sample it all for one price.
On Monday and Tuesday
evenings, USDA choice beef Filet Mignon - grilled with a herb,
garlic butter - is added to the menu, along with all the
Italian favorites. And weekend dinner brings fresh
seafood, including grilled salmon over spinach and garlic orzo,
peel-and-eat shrimp, and fried calamari.
Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, the Tex-Italia Wine Celebration offers
diners live jazz music while sampling wines and spirits from
Texas' best wineries. Guests can also purchase featured wines
by the glass for only $4, or bottle for only $16. And all
of the wine proceeds are donated each week to local charities!
Located just minutes
from downtown Austin, Cannoli Joe’s is the perfect spot
for a gourmet pre-show dinner and drinks. And mimosas and
bellinis during the expanded Weekend Brunch combine beautifully
with any matinee performance.
“...the secret to Cannoli Joe’s
is that it’s not a buffet; not even close. It’s an
adventure, or as my Italian grandmother used to say, an
‘abudanza’ of riches.”
- Dining Out with Rob Balon
“Cannoli Joe’s is really
‘homemade’ Italian. It’s the first time
I’ve been able to have my kids try dishes from my
childhood that I forgot about (or lost the recipe). The
Parmesans, the pastas, and the peppers? Almost as good as my
Sicilian grandma’s. Not an easy task.”
- Nancy B.
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