Roger, I live here in Austin and hope to meet up with you. The best Hotels are the Four Seasons and the W downtown. As far as food, there are quite a few in the downtown area, depends what you like. Eddie V's , really great steaks
https://www.eddiev.com/, Truluck's for seafood
http://trulucks.com/pages/downtown-austin, Perla's for seafood
http://perlasaustin.com/, swift's attic
http://www.swiftsattic.com/desktop/, if you need anymore specifics, please PM me.
SW