Hope Farmers Market is putting on Praise, Pies & Pinatas during the regularly scheduled market time, 10am-2pm, Sunday, June 26. There will be a FREE Pie social, with coffee and ice cream, pinata workshops and smashing, and praise music from Son Armados and Anthropos Arts! Also, proceeds from donations will benefit Out Youth, a non-profit…
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Austin: Easy Tiger (or, another 24 Diner post)
I leave for a just a bit and return to a dino bone parking lot under 35 and more bars and food trailers in Rainey than I can count. Downtown is sprawling, and come May, there’ll be this year’s Eastside Showroom, a bakery and beergarden called Easy Tiger, sure to be the foodie-and-mixologist crowd’s new fave. At 709…
Austin: La Pâtisserie Opens with Macarons
Have you ever been watching Blair nosh on authentic French macarons during a Gossip Girl episode and wish you were doing the same? Thankfully, La Pâtisserie by Luxe Sweets opens today to fulfill those needs! There’s a Parisian touch into every last detail of La Pâtisserie by Luxe Sweets. Whimsical art work by local artist Graham Franciose will…
Austin: New Restaurant backspace means pizza
I get a lot of press releases, and a lot of food-related press release (something about loving to eat …?). Anyway, a lot of times I save them until I can go visit the restaurant in question, using the info to write a photo-filled blog post about what I liked and didn’t. Rarely do I…
Austin: Johanna Esper Beauty Grand Opening
Johanna Esper Beauty, part of the Daisical Industries Grand Opening Party this Saturday, May 29. Noon – 10p. Everyone knows how much I love Johanna–well, join her in celebrating the grand opening of her new space, and receive a special discount coupon to use at your next appointment! Daisical Industries is a cooperative comprised of…
Austin: Saturday East Sixth Barhop for the Birds
Saturday from 7-9p at the East Sixth Birds Barbershop, there’s an art show-ish party featuring photos of happy clients over the past few months as they walked out of the salon–looking their best, natch. To show off their handiwork, Birds is having this partay with Cruz Tequila, a dancefloor mixtape by Tackybuns, and tasty snacks…
Only in Austin: Balcones Burner Bash
Early alert! Balcones Recycling is throwing a crazy-cool only-in-Austin graffiti art contest on March 6. It’s at their recycling facility on east 6th and a dozen artists will each get half of a railcar to create a mural with an environmental theme–created with choices from 250 colors of donated spray paint. The cash-money winner will…
Red House Lounge – Stortini + Stortini’s pizza = Red House Pizzeria
It’s a confusing bit of mathematical dining calculations, but basically Stortini’s lounge in the back–the Red House Lounge–was a much bigger success than the restaurant she sat in. So they closed Stortini Bistro. Then, the popular neighborhood bar stole the finer points of its sister restaurant, uh, the pizza, and expanded into the entire space.…
Man v. Food: Austin Edition
Man v. Food is Travel Channel’s new series where the host travels the country in search of big, bad food challenges, and it comes to Austin tonight at 10pm on ET. From the channel: In this week’s episode host Adam Richman is about to find out just how “big” food can be in Austin. His…
FREE everything at Progress Coffee!
Progress Coffee is giving away FREE EVERYTHING tomorrow! I’ve never heard of such a thing! But from 6:30am to 7pm tomorrow, Thursday, everything on the menu at Progress is FREE. That’s free drinks, pastries, waffles with nutella, salads, paninis and wraps! They are asking that that customers consider making a donation to Bread for the…