Taste North Austin is an all-day family event Saturday from 11am to 5pm in the original Domain. The Domain will also host a post-party from 5-7pm in the new-ish Domain II with desserts, drinks, and music by T Bird and the Breaks. To sample bites from all the restaurants, you buy a $20 tasting wristband…
Category: Eating
Austin: Win dinner at TRIO for a whole year!
My love for TRIO is well-documented here on this here blog … now you can visit as often as I do, by entering to win dinner for a year!! To celebrate the launch of its new standalone restaurant website, TRIO at Four Seasons Hotel Austin is offering the chance to win dinner for two for…
I love my mom
Happy Mother’s Day! And I hope you all love yours too. My mom eats healthy, but LOVES a buffet. She doesn’t want to go to brunch unless it’s all-you-can-eat. Nevermind that she won’t eat all that much, she wants OPTIONS, people. (I mean, the woman went to Berry Austin and didn’t put a single cookie…
Yay #9!
Mad props to my lovely friend at A Perfect Insane, not only for the mention, but for a great photo, of her blurb in Austin Monthly! http://aperfectinsane.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/feeling-fine-at-number-9/ Sorry I haven’t called you back yet — I will! 😉
Snap Kitchen
In Austin, we’re all busy, we’re all super active, and we’re all worried about our health. Sure, we love our queso and margaritas and gourmet doughnuts and cupcake trailers, but on the regular we like to eat right. Snap Kitchen is a new chef-prepared, healthy take-out food concept that is opening not one, but TWO…
Fonda San Miguel Happy Hour
Long the hidden hipster hot spot (celebs flock to the dark corners when they’re in town), Fonda San Miguel’s new Happy Hour in the Patio Bar should introduce the venerable interior Mexican restaurant–it’s been around for 35 years–to a younger Rosedale crowd. HH features $1 off tequila, $4.95 house margaritas, $5 House wines by the…
Free Sugar Mama’s Cupcakes!
Y’all all know that Sugar Mama’s are my fave cupcakes in town. Tuesday night, you can snag some free ones alongside tea, coffee, and some world famous t-shirt designer named Johnny Cupcakes. Johnny Cupcakes (http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/) sells t-shirts out of a van. He’s touring the country, making stops at the best art galleries, coolest retail spaces,…
Calorie-Free Cupcake Cuteness
Austinite Jennifer Ross spent well over a year testing cupcake recipes, interviewing bakery owners and collaborating with a professional baker to create her own confection, a debut novel: THE ICING ON THE CUPCAKE. This is the story of a young woman’s decision to leave everything she knows behind and start a new and delicious life…
South Austin Sushi: Yanagi
GREAT GREAT sushi. Terrible service. It’s a shame. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about service in Austin restaurants, but I don’t usually share their sentiments. However, Yanagi’s service was bad, and worse than that, when confronted about it, they acted clueless as to what went wrong. (Clue: ordered appetizer sea bass at the…
Mmmm free Champagne Mango milkshakes
K&N Management, owner and creator of Mighty Fine Burgers, Fries & Shakes, made history by being the first restaurant group to receive the prestigious Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE). To celebrate receiving the state’s highest recognition for quality, Mighty Fine Burgers, Fries & Shakes will have in-store celebrations and offer free “champagne” hand-dipped shakes made with peak-of-season champagne mangoes…