Salt & Time

AUSTIN - After driving from Dallas to Austin for a super important Austin Food & Wine Festival press happy hour at LaV last Wednesday, I had six hours to waste waiting. Instead of going to Odd Duck for deviled eggs, I wound up getting lost on 6th Street. Please do not tell anyone. Sometimes being lost on 6th Street can be a good thing. Salt & Time soon appeared on 7th, forcing memories of...

Easy Tiger Bake Shop & Beer Garden’s Pretzel is As Sad As Saying Goodbye

Who parallel parks from the left? Austin citizens are friendly people who are probably talented enough to parallel park on the left. Try parallel parking on the left when you’ve only parallel parked on the right your entire life. Most people avoid the easier right side parallel parking at all costs, never considering a curve ball left side parallel park waiting in the streets of Austin. Feeling...

Franklin Barbecue

The guy across the street from Franklin Barbecue is called the chair guy. The chair guy probably no longer answers to his forced birth name, which was given before the chair guy had a choice. Who wouldn’t change their name to the chair guy when daily five dollar bills continuously bust jean pocket seams. The massive chair gig the chair guy snagged across the street from Franklin Barbecue is...

Sarcasm vs. Serious & the Torture of Writing About Paul Qui

I never said Paul Qui sucks. What the what is going on? This is like having a television dropped on your toe. Eater Austin just hired a new editor, so things have probably been busy. I imagined this while trying to imagine how anyone could think I think Paul Qui sucks. Don’t get me wrong. No one around here is trying to have beef with Eater Austin. I love all Eaters so much it hurts. All I’m...

Qui

The world shook with shock the second I realized not one person sitting at our four-top liked Qui. Before hardcore Austin residents demand my existence become non-existent, please know these people are from– Austin. This means Austin vs. Austin. There’s no Austin vs. Houston or Austin vs. Dallas this time. I’m not going downtown on the fast track any time soon either. No way. I’m safely...