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The Neighborhood Joint Perfected: Billy’s On Burnet

Posted in Burgers, Food, tagged on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The neighborhood bar holds a kind of mythic status. It’s an archetype that is in most of our heads, but few of our actual neighborhoods. I must have driven by Billy’s On Burnet a hundred times, often wondering what it was like inside. Having finally ventured inside, I think we may have discovered the perfect [...]

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Anthony Bourdain Presents: Q&A With the Sad and Desperate

Posted in Food, Happenings, tagged , , on June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »

There’s nothing worse than audience Q&A at public events. The worst strain of Q&A, though, is Q&A with celebrities. I learned this tonight at the Paramount Theater, where the profane, skinny-legged, and utterly likable Anthony Bourdain appeared. I usually make a quick exit whenever an audience Q&A begins, but unfortunately this event was almost nothing but Q&A. After [...]

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Charm School: Texas Rib Kings, Austin TX

Posted in Barbecue, Food, tagged , , , , , on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On September 6th 1995, I began to realize that professional photography wasn’t my calling. That was the day that Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s “Iron Man” record, playing his 2,131st consecutive game. I wasn’t exactly a big baseball fan, let alone an Orioles devotee. This was the pre-Nationals, post-Senators days, when the Orioles were [...]

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Austin Food Truck Roundup: Asia Edition

Posted in Asian, Food, Trailer Food, tagged on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve had some photos stacking up lately, but no time to do proper writeups. So here’s a nice copout: a breezy tour through some of the recent additions to the food truck scene in Austin. Oddly enough, all of them are Asian food. A better title for this post might have been “How We Tried [...]

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Bouchon, Los Angeles CA

Posted in Fancy, Food, French, Travel, tagged on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There are a lot of things that you can do with $50. If you find yourself in Beverly Hills with $50 to burn, one thing you should probably do is purchase the fois gras appetizer at Bouchon. Bouchon is the brainchild of Thomas Keller, the man behind a famous restaurant called The French Laundry. Apparently, this [...]

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