The other restaurant week, not the one that just ended. So confusing, I know, we had no restaurant week and now we have two?! For the “official” Austin Restaurant Week, over 50 restaurants will provide $25 and $35 three-course prix fixe menus to diners for eight nights. A list of participating restaurants will be released…
Category: Eating
Free Dinner at Roux!
Sweeeeet! Sign up for Roux’s mailing list and you get free dinner [ok, I got my coupon … it’s for $15 off an entree. I think you can use two together though, which would make for mostly free dinner, right?] for their one year anniversary! Click the box on the right side of the page…
Theatre AND free burgers?! So Austin.
Only in Austin would a respectable theatre company, The City Theatre, offer free burgers with their summer production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The last weekend to catch the show is this weekend, August 14 – 17, starting tonight. Shows run Thursday – Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 5:30pm. The free burgers…
Polkadots Cupcake Factory
When I heard about this company called Polkadots Cupcake Factory suddenly sponsoring all these happy hour-type events, I had to see what the deal was. Plus, the cupcake trend has gotten so out of hand, and these places are cropping up everywhere. A friend and I split two cupcakes: the cookie dough, and the chocolate…
I <3 Mangia Pizza
I freakin’ love Mangia Pizza. Large whole wheat Chicago-style crust with spinach and mushrooms, please! The other night after volleyball, we went to the Draught House to check out the (512) beers. The Wit was much lighter and smoother than the Pale, though both had pretty good flavors. But that’s not the point, the point…
Saturday: Austin Ice Cream Festival
The Austin Ice Cream Festival sounds like a pretty, um, sweet way to chill out on Saturday. Friends, family, and even dogs are invited to the 2nd Annual Austin Ice Cream Festival. The event include lots of games, activities, contests and live music. Waterloo Park, August 9th from 10am – 7pm, $2 for adults, kids…
(512) Brewery Grand Opening + Tasting
The initial reports on the new (512) brews at Draught House and Uncle Billy’s have been good, saying the beer is smooth and very drinkable. This Saturday from 1-4 is the free tasting and tours! I’m going to be in Dallas and I am so jealous of everyone here in Austin who can go to…
Restaurant Week = $25 three-course meals!
Restaurant week … all the other cities have them, and I earlier this year I wrote about rumors of an Austin Restaurant Week in October. Well, KGSR has apparently beaten Rare magazine to the punch, as the radio station that brings us free live music events Blues on the Green, Unplugged at the Grove, and…
Moonshine Brunch
So I’ve been talking about Moonshine’s brunch for over a month now, and finally went yesterday. It was awesome! We arrived around noon (the brunch runs 10-2:30), and they told us the wait would be about 45 minutes to an hour for a table of 5. We snagged spots at the bar and were seated…
Super Sports Saturday – Free Bikram, Running, Volleyball
Saturday mornings aren’t for sleeping in anymore! Here’s the lineup for this weekend: 8 am: Nike+ Human Race training run at Starbucks (24th & Guadalupe) … run 3 or 5 miles, drink coffee, hydrate with lots of water 10 am: FREE Bikram Yoga at Barton Springs Pool, southside, off Robert E. Lee. … bring a…