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...

Stalking Angie Harmon at Coal Vines

My husband always sits facing the television because facing the television is what manly men face when some kind of sporting event is being televised in a restaurant. Little did I know this was going to finally hurt my feelings for the first time ever. The hostess at Coal Vines did not tell us a super important celebrity was brunching at a ten-top table located in the back corner of the...

Poor People Can Eat Lobster Chowder at Vail Chophouse

Vail Chophouse sounds expensive. This restaurant’s title has the power to frighten commoners without even trying. We decided to read the menu inside the glass case out front for the fun of it. This is when a service industry worker delivered two bowls of chowder with lobster on top to a patio table nearby. Invading other people’s privacy with a secret walk-by lobster picture did not matter....

Freddy’s Frozen Yogurt

KANSAS – Everyone loves Freddy’s so much it hurts. We sometimes stop by Freddy’s on the way back to Texas from Colorado. Freddy’s has a veggie burger made with black beans on the menu. Since hardly anyone seems to take veggie people seriously when it comes to carcass touching our food, it has become necessary to pretend to have a massive, almost close to deadly food allergy. This pretend...