April 2nd Blog
Austin Chefs Rock at Food Festival Event, Estancia Churrascaria, Chicago Style Italian at Botticelli’s on S. Congress
March 23rd Blog
Fogo de Chao, Beau Knows Villas, Goodbye and Hello at the Driskill Grill, Airports to Avoid: Mexico City
David Bull Exits Driskill: Josh Watkins Named New Exec Chef
When David Bull took over the helm at the Driskill Grill seven years ago, the restaurant was in such desperate straits that it had resorted to hosting those dreaded mystery dinners. Seven years later, The Driskill is a permanent resident of our Top 20 restaurants, indeed our Top Five restaurants. This is all thanks to […]
Rob’s Recommendations for Fried Catfish
We get a lot of mail from readers asking where my favorite catfish restaurants are. So I thought it appropriate to give you some of the ones that I like to go to. Pacific Star Oyster Bar: two locations on 183 and off Highway 79 in Round Rock. Dry Dock at Canary Nest: at Burnet […]
Cutest Restaurant Baby of 2007
Dave le Blanc at the Boiling Pot serves up great crab feasts. He and his wife also do pretty well at turning out lovely little daughters!!!
March 9th Blog
I managed to make it unscathed through three days of hosting the Jeff Ward Show on 590 KLBJ-AM earlier this week. Aside from the usual 4-page, invective laced single-spaced email from someone with more time than sense, the feedback was good. Topics ranged from HPV vaccinations to the latest blunder by the Texas Supreme Court, […]
March 2nd Blog
For those of you who are fond of the genre of talk radio you can catch me next week on 590 KLBJ-AM on Monday-Wednesday (March 5-7) from 3-6 pm. Those are the hours normally occupied by Jeff Ward. Hosting a live call-in talk show is an absolute blast. But it is also one of the […]
February 26th Blog
Our Gonzo Gourmet Club dined out Sunday night at Fleming’s Steakhouse downtown at 2nd St. We had a superb meal in every sense of the word. Fleming’s has the most amazing BBQ Shrimp in the area. The rib eyes were delightful as was the salmon. But I must share with you one genuinely embarrassing and […]
February 23rd Blog
I was the MC last night at the Busby Foundation’s fund raiser for ALS. I personally picked a dozen of Austin’s finest restaurants for a Taste of Austin event including Jeffrey’s, Mirabelle’s, Chinatown, III Forks, Eddie V’s, the Roaring Fork, McCormick and Schmick’s, Sicola’s: A Culinary Experience [private dining], Moonshine Patio Bar and Grill, Kenichi, […]
February 14th Blog
Happy Valentine’s Day. While the origins of this day remain shrouded in mystery, many scholars attribute the impetus to St. Valentine, a christian martyr who died around 300 AD. The roman emperor at the time had apparently decided that single men made better soldiers than married men. So, in the true style of Rome, he […]
February 5th Blog
Booking a restaurant for Valentine’s Day continues to be a total freak show. I’ve gotten hundreds of emails from a variety of panicked men who thought that calling Eddie V’s or McCormick and Schmick’s two weeks in advance was more than enough time. No way Holmes. Basically, at this point, the downtown restaurants are full; […]
February 1st Blog
One of the more rewarding aspects of being a food critic is the often fascinating people I get to meet who run restaurants. I don’t often get to write about them because I tend to concentrate on their menus and service et al. But this blog gives me some more latitude. So I’ll tell you […]
January 29th Blog
Saturday night was fun. We went to Café Mangu in Pflugerville with our friends Carol and Skip. Café Mangu, is in my humble opinion, the absolute best Caribbean fare in the Austin area. This place is hands down better than Habana. The flavors are more nuanced, the mojo is to die for, and the food […]
