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…
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Aspen: Ute City Bar & Grill
With my parents in town for just two nights, we decided to hit the town one night and cook one night. On our night-on-the-town, we debated heartily before settling on Ute City Bar & Grill because its menu looked good, it was expensive but not outrageous, and its location is on that strip of see-and-be-seen…
Aspen: 50% off Kenichi TONIGHT and 520 Grill Opens!
Austinites, I know we have one too, but this ONLY applies to the ASPEN Kenichi. From EatAspen Blog: Kenichi Sushi is hosting a fund raiser for Mountain Rescue (you know the crew that may just save your butt) Thursday night May 20th. Make any dollar donation to Mountain Rescue and you get 50% off your…
Austin: Taste North Austin at the Domain
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…
Austin Restaurant Week picks
Austin Restaurant Week can be intimidating … there are so many good restaurants to try! Basically, RARE media gets all the restaurants together to host fixed-price meals for two weeks, Sunday through Wednesday. This year, it’s February 28th – March 3rd and March 7th – 10th. My top ten picks: Baby, you got options: Chinatown…
VIP at The Carillon
For once, I’m not talking about me being VIP. Wait, yeah I am. Well, I mean, I was, when I was there (again) last night sampling some of the new menu. And there was magnificent pork belly, being prepared in the open kitchen: Put together to look like this: That’s thinly-sliced pear on top. Absolutely…
My Fit Foods Update – Open & Huge Discount!
My Fit Foods’ Westlake location finally opened last Friday (here’s my previous coverage of My Fit Foods), and today a fantastic Groupon arrived in my email box: $15 for $40 worth of food – that’s 64% off! I immediately bought it. My Fit Foods is prepared foods that are healthy in the real way (low…
My Fit Foods to Austin
Just minutes after a grueling Fight Gone Bad session, I could barely think about eating, much less actively putting a gluten-free, 93% lean ground turkey taco with low fat cheese into my mouth. But when my very favorite spectator insisted we try them, I got one, and told him “I don’t think I can eat…
Green Pastures: to Peacocks and …
… we can’t remember what else we toasted to. But sporting my peacock-print dress, my lovely date and I went to Green Pastures. We started with a peacock sighting–look closely and you’ll see a baby in the righthand corner! Unfortunately, the “outdoorsy” man was afraid the peacocks were surrounding us (they were) and about to…
This is Life in Austin Restaurant Week Picks
Austin Restaurant Week (which is really two beginning-of-the-weeks, Sept 13-16 and Sept 20-23) kicked off last night, so being the procrastinator I am, while fellow foodies headed out to Hudson’s on the Bend and other fine establishments, my handyman and I were just sitting down to choose our own adventures. We employed colored sharpies and…