Dining
BY DACIA GARCIA
Banger’s Sausage House & Beer Garden features 20 sausage varieties at any given time.
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Banger’s Sausage House serves up sausage, beers Banger’s Sausage House & Beer Garden is maintaining its classic charm while in the midst of rapid change in the Rainey Street District. The backstory Banger’s owner Ben Siegel came across The Best Wurst sausage cart one night as a The University of Texas at Austin student. While waiting in the cart’s extensive line, Siegel wondered why the business didn’t open a brick and mortar. Years later, while on a plane from a friend’s wedding in December 2010, Siegel had an epiphany to move back to Austin and work on his restaurant idea. “That moment for me was very much that shift in my own system of, ‘Hey, this is something that I want to do. This is something I am going to do,’” Siegel said. What’s changed Since its launch 13 years ago, Banger’s has expanded in a few ways from opening a sandwich shop, a sausage house, a meat processing facility, a pickling facility, a curing facility and a smoking facility—all on the same property. The eatery features 200 beers on draft and 20 varieties of sausage on the menu at any given time. Looking forward Siegel said the restaurant is taking its bites on the road with the upcoming launch of its catering operation, Bangers Cowboy Kitchen.
Appetizers include the Fried Cheese Curds.
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Ben Siegel launched the restaurant 13 years ago.
COURTESY BANGERS SAUSAGE
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79 Rainey St., Austin www.bangersaustin.com
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NORTH CENTRAL AUSTIN EDITION
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