Wimberley has long been a popular central Texas tourist destination, offering a slow pace, cowboy-hippie culture, quaint country charm, lovely folk art, plenty of shopping, and Market Days, the second largest flea market in Texas. Tourists thirst for a visit to the Blanco River, eager to alternate days of tubing or sunbathing on sleepy banks with cooking classes and shopping. In the last 10 years the cuisine of Wimberley has grown into its britches, appealing to Austin foodies who long to experience the local fare. The Wimberley culinary tourist trend was greatly influenced by its inclusion in the list of top 10 small towns in America by Travel Holiday Magazine. The high regard for Wimberley did not escape the notice of local entrepreneurs and an array of lovely restaurants began to spring up to meet the needs of weekend visitors. Visitors soon began to encourage Wimberley cooks and authors to publish books aimed at local cooking and life and arranged for experts such as Terri Burney-Bisett and Mark Malowski to set up cooking classes to teach and promote hill country cuisine. USA Today named The Blair House Bed and Breakfast one of the top 10 cooking schools in the nation and Austin American Statesman food critic Dale Rice calls the Cypress Creek Cafe’s chicken fried sirloin “the epitome of classic fare”. The result of this explosion of quality eateries is that culinary vacations are now among the most sought-after and savored Texas vacations.
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