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177 restaurants in Austin that pay inKind

inKind pays inKind Cash at these restaurants on top of whatever your card earns. Join once, link a card, and pay with it — values below are what each card earns here. Top neighborhoods: Austin (11), Downtown (11), and Zilker (10).

177 restaurants

Restaurants
177
Neighborhoods
75
Cuisines
63
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
6

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Austin

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. inKind (177 restaurants) and AAdvantage Dining (38) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 177 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in Austin

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

63 cuisines in Austin

127 neighborhoods in Austin

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

Editorial disclosure: CardRewards.ai is an independent comparison service. Card data comes from issuers' published terms; catalog last published October 12, 2026, and each card page shows when its terms were last checked. Card issuers do not influence our rankings or content.