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Austin: Buenos Aires Cafe

Oops. I ate my whole dinner before I could take a pic! I have a foodie friend who has been RAVING about Buenos Aires Cafe for months, admonishing me with disbelief that I haven’t visited. I went for lunch a little while ago, and finally rounded up the fam, grabbed my restaurant.com discount certificate, and…

Austin Restaurant Week 2, Round 2

Round two of Austin’s second Restaurant Week is NOW, March 8-11, so try a restaurant on the cheap with prix-fixe $25 or $35 menus. My G and I tried Jeffrey’s last week and were pretty happy. I went with beet salad, gnocchi (pictured), and chocolate cake. He went crispy oysters, ribs (pictured), and crepes. Luckily,…

Visit a farm!

I had lunch today with my absolute favorite foodie friend–the kind that will harangue waiters to find out where a vegetable was procured from, who can sniff a mulberry from a blackberry even smushed into gelato, and has the ability to detail how and where a cheese was made simply by looking at it (yes,…