Dining

  • Chill the Shrimp, Damnit!

    So if you’re hosting a cocktail party, the last thing you want to do is poison your guests, right? Perhaps not everyone is aware that shellfish and seafood should be kept chilled (on…

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    Hopfields Gastropub in Midtown.

    First and foremost, if you try to find this place coming from the South, don’t listen to your car’s navigation. The restaurant is not anywhere close to where you’re told to go. However,…

  • A Changing SOLA: Welcome “EL Burro”

    Bwahhaaaa… the place is already closed and gone.  Awaiting the next iteration.     Last month, South Lamar (SOLA) lost a 15+/- year old dining establishment. A a “cheap and cheerful” go-to spot…

  • After the Holiday Shopping

    Wine. Weather. Weird. That pretty much sums up Fredericksburg, Texas;  a strange little anomaly in Central Texas. It used to be quaint and loaded with shabby chic stores filled with dead animals turned into furniture, but…

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    Just the Chop

    We all know that Austin’s East Side dining is all the rage and there’s always something going on from what’s changing at Qui to Jacoby’s and the delicious, but peculiar, Sawyer. However, the…