It’s baaaaack … Austin Restaurant Week (ARW). For the next two weeks some of Austin’s finest restaurants offer special prix fixe menus for $10-$15 for lunch and $25-$35 for dinner … Sunday September 19 through Wednesday Sept 22, and Sunday September 26 through Wednesday September 29. Here were my Spring SRW picks. My advice this…
Category: Eating
Austin: Finally, Uchiko “I even ate one of those little buggers”
A confession, y’all. I’ve eaten at Uchiko twice now, and not blogged about it. I KNOW it’s the It restaurant, I know everyone wants to know how it is, but I just had a terrible, no good, very bad experience during their soft opening and I could not get over it. The food was delicious.…
Austin: Truffle Oil, Blood Orange Oil and Fig Balsamic … Oh My! [UPDATED]
[UPDATE!] This dinner was postponed to October 13 AND still has seats available–snatch one up today!! For my birthday, a lovely friend of mine got me a bottle of white truffle olive oil. Can you imagine? I am obviously now obsessed. So when I got an email about a FINO’s Chef’s Table Series dinner with…
Aspen: Off-Season Eatin’
One of the best things about off-season in Aspen (the time between summer and winter where no one comes here because it starts to snow but not enough to ski, so it’s supposedly just miserable … I’ll keep you posted) is the amazing deals the usually too-expensive-for-my-budget restaurants have. Check out EatAspen‘s full list of…
Austin: FREE Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Some day, I’m going to stop apologizing for always posting on Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. It’s just that they’re so GOOD, and so easy to work at or meet friends at or stop in at … I just freakin’ love them. Stop by after work today–or, if you’re like me, for your mid-day pick…
Aspen: Fine Line Bar & Grill
Fine Line Bar & Grill is a new bar, restaurant, grill, hangout in El Jebel/Basalt that’s reasonably-priced, has GREAT happy hour food and drink specials from 3-6pm daily ($2 Bud & Bud Light Drafts , $3 New Belgium Drafts, $10 Bucket Of 6 Coronitas, $5 Tuaca & Soco Lime Shots), plus special deals for each…
Aspen: BBQ … srsly, it’s so Texas up in here
The First Annual Big Aspen Barbecue Block Party takes place at the base of Aspen Mountain this Saturday and Sunday, August 28 – 29, 2010, from noon – 7pm. The sister event of New York City’s much-beloved barbecue extravaganza that includes food, music, seminars, and more. There are a bunch of big names serving up…
How to Lick a Bowl
Dad sends me the “awwww cute puppies/kittehs/baby animals doing cute things!” emails about once a week. I usually delete them. This one, however, struck a chord. What I REALLY thought was: “hey! that’s what I look like when I bake!” flb
Austin: TnT Brunch is Dynamite!
OK, that was the obvious pun, right? But brunch at Tacos n Tequila, in the Gables Pressler on 5th Street, is THAT GOOD. This is my plate at TnT.That’s ceviche, salad, fruit salad, mushrooms and yellow squash, polenta, migas, guacamole, and teeny-tiny homemade flour tortillas (heaven). These are the homemade sweet potato chips. Yep, sweet…
Aspen: Bentley’s Bloody Mary Bar
You take this: Add what you want from this: And you get: Oh, there’s no photo. Because I ate too many pickled things (Dilled brussel sprouts? Texas pickled okra? Pickled garlic? Spicy pickled pickles?) and drank just one Bloody Mary and got tipsy. The Vermonster has been telling me I shouldn’t go to Bentley’s since…