Everything posted by AustinMT
- Austin Airport Parking
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Charlotte v. Nashville - To Live
I like Nashville, and go there for work 3-4 times a year (was there last weekend). It’s more like Austin a few years ago, not the 80s (having lived in Austin in the 80s and again since 2000)
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SF, Napa, Carmel in October
I would go to Domaine Carneros, which is between Sonoma and Napa
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Texas BBQ
Had to go to Tyler today. Stopped by Stanley’s for the Four Meat Sampler plate:
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BYOB Austin Restaurants
I do buy wine, and not inexpensive wine, off the list often because I don’t have a choice in Texas. I don’t have an issue with a restaurant making money by making up the bottles. As the poster above notes, if the business model is to gouge by doing a 3 to 3.5x markup, which is the steakhouse standard, that’s a business model I won’t support. I’m nit interested in paying $450 for a $150 bottle of wine. The wine culture is so different in other states, especially California. You make sure the wine isn’t on their list, make sure it is a nice wine, and they open it without acting like you are doing anything wrong. I’ve also done this recently in a few other states. Pro tip: assuming you’ve brought something really nice, give a taste to the somm or waiter and talk about the wine.
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BYOB Austin Restaurants
Uh, no, not in Texas. If they serve spirits, BYOB (even wine) is prohibited. Thanks TABC. If they are a beer/wine only place, or they don’t serve anything, it is up to the establishment
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Airport bars
“I’’l have a bowl of gumbo and 4 double bourbons, please”
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Poona Ford
The name grandma names you when you tell her to stop calling you Pooh. Wrong. See Nice Guy Eddie’s response, supra
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All Things Brisket
How long was the smoke time?
- Poona Ford
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Poona Ford
What kind of name is “Poona?”
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Client dinner for 10 in downtown/short drive Austin
That’s a good choice. Like others, I like Roaring Fork, but it’s pretty basic. Fixe has some interesting, yet recognizable, upscale Southern cuisine, and good steaks if they want one. Wine list is much better than RF if they want wine. Get the biscuits to start, and maybe some pimento cheese.
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Client dinner for 10 in downtown/short drive Austin
Fixe. And yes, they take reservations. Great part is they can get a steak if they want, or pork, or fried chicken, etc. Roaring Fork is fine. North location is better IMO If you want a true steakhouse, they are all pretty much fine -- Capital Grill, Fleming's, Perry's, Bob's, III Forks. Lonesome Dove is good as well, and they can go straight steak or fish, or get game
- Texas BBQ
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Texas BBQ
By the way, Hays Co. may not the the best in Texas, but it’s very, very good, and it’s consistently very good.
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Popeye's chicken sandwich
A chicken glove for our six-finger friends
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Popeye's chicken sandwich
This is classic marketing. They are creating an artificial shortage to increase pent-up demand and “buzz.”
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All Things Brisket
Pre-Law, pre-Med, what’s the difference?
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Texas BBQ
Stopped by Hays Co on the drive back from SA to Austin today. Always good. I left this on the paper just for Champ
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Wine
I wouldn't waste Coravin gas (which is expensive) on a Meomi Pinot. To OP --no offense, I'm just not a Pinot drinker. I will say that Meomi = former Wagner wine = sugary. For starting out, try some different varietals or blends and see what you like. If you don't want to jump headlong into Napa cabs, go to Costco and get a couple of Bordeaux reds (which are blends and will be softer than most Napa cabs) and work your way up from there.
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Your unpopular food opinions
That’s really more of an Unpopular TV Opinion
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I'm retarded: going to Disney in 2 weeks.
yes
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Wine
Mr. Saturday Night Special
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Texas BBQ
Yikes! What was wrong?
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Yellowstone
Plane blows and the cliffhanger is whether he was on it or not (????)