Not a diner anymore, just a generic picture on your Uber Eats app now, I guess. Wish I read the reviews before driving here.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Brian Strait
This is ghost kitchen. There is no longer a sit down restaurant. It’s for pick up orders only.
Luis Santamaria
I used to love star seeds and got disappointed when they rebranded to Stars Cafe. I was very excited to see this pop up but the review is from the fact that you're using the name for a GHOST kitchen. I hope people see this review and stop going. The rebranding was when y'all messed up.
Michael Haertel
This is now a ghost kitchen not Star Seeds Diner. Do not support this trash! Keep Austin Weird and go to Magnolias or 24 Diner.
Luke Schneider
Got my Uber order completely wrong
jack west
True true old world Austin you got to try it before they run them out we've been fighting to keep them going but they're going to lose to the expansion
Dana Gonzalez
This place does not exist
Dylan
Both times I visited Austin i ate here many times. Phenomenal vibes, great food. Good prices. Homey. What more could you want. Plus Geoff likes it so 🤷♂️
Christopher Hanna
Stars Cafe has closed. I was there to meet friends, and other would- be diners arrived as confused as we were. We went to Dennys.
H M
Reading through years of reviews for this iconic spot, I’m struck by how much Star Seeds has meant to so many people. As a freethinking outcast who grew up in suffocating, bigoted small-town Texas and found refuge in Austin—the “promised land,” the safe zone for people like me—I can’t help but feel deeply about how things have turned out.
If there’s anyone still holding on, still fighting the good fight, it sounds like Star Seeds is it. The rest of Austin folded to the yuppies and white-toothed gentrifiers, selling out like the hospitable Southerners they are.
These newcomers didn’t bring real money to Texas—they brought debt, “buy now, pay later” schemes, and smoke-and-mirrors economics that will cost this city more than its soul. When they pull up anchor and move to the next fair-weather location, they’ll leave behind pollution, traffic, homelessness, and misery in their dust.
Dealt the worst card of all, Star Seeds continues to stand tall. They’ve defined resilience—pulling themselves up by the “bootstraps” without selling out or losing their identity.
Hats off to Star Seeds for sticking it out. I hope they rake in every last dirty dollar before the highway buries them in cement and turns their legacy into nothing more than postcards and fridge magnets.
Very kind from the moment you arrive. Cozy atmosphere you'll love.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Queso
Tori Trimarco
Can’t speak on the food or service because we almost immediately turned around and left. Everything was sticky and gross. Menus left residue on my fingers, were all stained and torn and a substantial amount of cheese stuck inside??? All tables were gross, waitress wiped the table but the rag she used smelled like mildew…. was dark and dank and honestly horrifying. I fear I’ve contracted some kind of disease. :(
Atmosphere: 1
Audrey Glodt
A little part of me is dying inside because this treasure is going away. 24hrs a day 7 days a week you could get the best chocolate chip pancakes. Softest biscuits and some amazing people watching after your grueling night shift. Thanks Star Seeds for feeding us service industry people for all these years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Leo
We just went there and they didn’t give us straws and when we left because they took forever they said we still had to pay for the orange juice we didn’t drink or touch and then the waiter gave us the middle finger and before we waited almost 20 for our food so I can’t even rate the food
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Jake Parker
Got breakfast for pickup and it was throw haphazardly into a bag, beans spilling out into it. Eggs, sausage, and toast were just sort of tossed into a small box. No hashbrowns but I think there should've been. Took one bite of the breakfast sausage and decided it'd be safer not to eat any of it.
Walked in and the kid behind the counter didn't look until I said good morning to him. He seemed either really tired or stoned.
Not a diner anymore, just a generic picture on your Uber Eats app now, I guess. Wish I read the reviews before driving here.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
This is ghost kitchen. There is no longer a sit down restaurant. It’s for pick up orders only.
I used to love star seeds and got disappointed when they rebranded to Stars Cafe. I was very excited to see this pop up but the review is from the fact that you're using the name for a GHOST kitchen. I hope people see this review and stop going. The rebranding was when y'all messed up.
This is now a ghost kitchen not Star Seeds Diner. Do not support this trash! Keep Austin Weird and go to Magnolias or 24 Diner.
Got my Uber order completely wrong
True true old world Austin you got to try it before they run them out we've been fighting to keep them going but they're going to lose to the expansion
This place does not exist
Both times I visited Austin i ate here many times. Phenomenal vibes, great food. Good prices. Homey. What more could you want. Plus Geoff likes it so 🤷♂️
Stars Cafe has closed. I was there to meet friends, and other would- be diners arrived as confused as we were. We went to Dennys.
Reading through years of reviews for this iconic spot, I’m struck by how much Star Seeds has meant to so many people. As a freethinking outcast who grew up in suffocating, bigoted small-town Texas and found refuge in Austin—the “promised land,” the safe zone for people like me—I can’t help but feel deeply about how things have turned out.
If there’s anyone still holding on, still fighting the good fight, it sounds like Star Seeds is it. The rest of Austin folded to the yuppies and white-toothed gentrifiers, selling out like the hospitable Southerners they are.
These newcomers didn’t bring real money to Texas—they brought debt, “buy now, pay later” schemes, and smoke-and-mirrors economics that will cost this city more than its soul. When they pull up anchor and move to the next fair-weather location, they’ll leave behind pollution, traffic, homelessness, and misery in their dust.
Dealt the worst card of all, Star Seeds continues to stand tall. They’ve defined resilience—pulling themselves up by the “bootstraps” without selling out or losing their identity.
Hats off to Star Seeds for sticking it out. I hope they rake in every last dirty dollar before the highway buries them in cement and turns their legacy into nothing more than postcards and fridge magnets.
Keep giving ’em hell, Star Seeds. They earned it.
Restaurantji Recommends
Very kind from the moment you arrive. Cozy atmosphere you'll love.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Queso
Can’t speak on the food or service because we almost immediately turned around and left. Everything was sticky and gross. Menus left residue on my fingers, were all stained and torn and a substantial amount of cheese stuck inside??? All tables were gross, waitress wiped the table but the rag she used smelled like mildew…. was dark and dank and honestly horrifying. I fear I’ve contracted some kind of disease. :(
Atmosphere: 1
A little part of me is dying inside because this treasure is going away. 24hrs a day 7 days a week you could get the best chocolate chip pancakes. Softest biscuits and some amazing people watching after your grueling night shift. Thanks Star Seeds for feeding us service industry people for all these years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We just went there and they didn’t give us straws and when we left because they took forever they said we still had to pay for the orange juice we didn’t drink or touch and then the waiter gave us the middle finger and before we waited almost 20 for our food so I can’t even rate the food
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Got breakfast for pickup and it was throw haphazardly into a bag, beans spilling out into it. Eggs, sausage, and toast were just sort of tossed into a small box. No hashbrowns but I think there should've been. Took one bite of the breakfast sausage and decided it'd be safer not to eat any of it.
Walked in and the kid behind the counter didn't look until I said good morning to him. He seemed either really tired or stoned.
Overall, sucked.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
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