Restaurants we'd send our parents to, breweries we'd send our brother-in-law to. Filtered by quadrant where it matters — sun on the dock at six, dinner by seven.
A 30,000-square-foot outdoor restaurant on a bluff 450 feet above the lake, marketed as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" for its terraced west-facing decks — American and Tex-Mex, and the largest outdoor restaurant in the state.
A full-service, upscale-casual restaurant at Volente Beach Resort & Waterpark — burgers, wings, pizza, and entrees on the shore of the lake's northern arm.