{"id":880,"date":"2015-09-27T05:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=880"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"qui-is-curious-so-is-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Qui is Curious. So is the Food."},"content":{"rendered":"

On a recent Friday night, we decided to head out for an early dinner after attending an art exhibit\/opening. Already on the east side, we decided to venture\u00a0over to Qui<\/a>. Parking was surprisingly easy for the east side, but\u00a0Qui has quite a decent sized parking lot to accommodate most seats in the restaurant. For dinner, we opted out of\u00a0the 7 course meal and headed straight outdoors to\u00a0the patio bar area. The bar menu differs from the full restaurant menu, however the fusion inspired options were certainly in line with items I saw on the tasting menu.<\/p>\n

The tapas-sized portions were very tasty and well priced, but you had to get a lot of items\u00a0if you wanted to fill up. The wine selection was adequate but certainly sends the bill up to\u00a0the high end for a little pre-outing snack for two. Essentially $100 for very little food and only 4 glasses of wine. I always say, “Should have bought the bottle,” except for one of us was into dry white wine, the other a light red. No harmony there.<\/p>\n

To sum it up, the food was delicious and interesting as there was a lot of “fusion” going on. Wine; pricey for the caliber. Expect two for a light meal with drinks and tip to easily hit $80. The space is harsh on the outside, but quite intimate and inviting on\u00a0the inside. Staff was perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a recent Friday night, we decided to head out for an early dinner after attending an art exhibit\/opening. Already on the east side, we decided to venture\u00a0over to Qui. Parking was surprisingly easy for the east side, but\u00a0Qui has quite a decent sized parking lot to accommodate most seats in the restaurant. For dinner, we opted out of\u00a0the 7 course meal and headed straight outdoors to\u00a0the patio bar area. The bar menu differs from the full restaurant menu, however the fusion inspired options were certainly in line with items I saw on the tasting menu. The tapas-sized portions were very tasty and well priced, but you had to get a lot of items\u00a0if you wanted to fill up. The wine selection was adequate but certainly sends the bill up to\u00a0the high end for a little pre-outing snack for two. Essentially $100 for very little food and only 4 glasses of wine. I always say, “Should have bought the bottle,” except for one of us was into dry white wine, the other a light red. No harmony there. To sum it up, the food was delicious and interesting as there was a lot of “fusion” going on. Wine; pricey for the caliber. Expect two for a light meal with drinks and tip to easily hit $80. The space is harsh on the outside, but quite intimate and inviting on\u00a0the inside. Staff was perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,40],"tags":[93,227],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dining","category-lifestyle","tag-east-side-austin","tag-qui-ausitn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}