I just came back from Austin’s first Gypsy Picnic, a Trailer Food Festival. The concept of a trailer food festival is fantastic but it was crazy crowded with lines averaging 45 minutes long (and these were the short lines we cherry picked!) and vendors running out of food. I ended up discouraging some friends who [...]
7th & Trinity Austin, TX 78701 (512) 468-1065 www.austinkebab.com
1219 S Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78704 (512) 695-6922 www.farmtotrailer.com Saturday night, my friend Cindy was craving a Gourdoughnut. She is one of many friends I’ve turned onto Gourdough’s. As I’ve tried 13 of their doughnuts, I thought I’d skip out and try out Odd Duck. Odd Duck sits along side Gourdough’s in the same [...]
700 S Lamar Austin, TX 78704 http://bananarchy.net/ I took my little from Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America out to dinner last night and for dessert we tried out Bananarchy. She cracks me up because I try to take her to new places all the time, much to her chagrin, but after she tries [...]
1219 South Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78704 www.gourdoughs.com I went back for Round Trois at Gourdoughs. Putting my count of sampled donuts to a grand total of 11 Gourdough donuts (Gourdoughnuts?)! First trip I gleefully tried 7 different donuts. On my second trip, I tried two new ones (and retried 2 from my first trip). [...]
ChiLantro BBQ Austin, TX (512) 568-0256 www.chilantrobbq.com As mentioned, I’ve been drooling over ChiLantro’s menu for quite a while before actually getting a chance to finally try it. I went again this weekend and was reminded I haven’t quite blogged about it. I actually look forward to hitting up this trailer a little more than [...]
ChiLantro BBQ Austin, TX (512) 568-0256 www.chilantrobbq.com I’ve been meaning to try Chilantro and every time I see a tweet from them announcing their location (they rotate locations), I salivate in yearning. Alan who has no idea I’ve been stalking Chilantro by way of twitter, asked me while we were out drinking downtown last weekend, [...]
1600 S Congress Ave Austin, TX 78704 (512) 626-2321 www.mamboberry.com In five days, I’ve had frozen yogurt THREE times. I’m pretty yogurted out. Unless of course, fate invites me back to Mambo Berry. I finally got off my butt and took Peter’s (of Tasting Buds) advice he bestowed upon me nearly a year ago. That [...]
1603 S Congress Ave Austin, TX 78704 (512) 383-9609 www.mightycone.com I think food automatically taste better in a cone while eating outside… Maybe because it conjures up happy memories of my childhood when eating out of a cone meant you’re in the thick of summer and eating crunchy old school snow cones (the kind of [...]
1311 S 1ST The Trailer Park Eatery Austin, TX 78704 512-851-CAKE (2253) http://www.theholycacao.com/ The Frozen Hot Chocolate This past weekend, I hit up South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery, my main objective was to try Holy Cacao. I couldn’t help but dabble in another dog at Man Bites Dog, but Holy Cacao was my original [...]