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GUS’S WORLD-FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN – Austin, Texas

November 23, 2018November 29, 2018 - 4 Comments.

When I told my friend Carlos my Kim and I would be enjoying Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken during our trip to Austin, he quipped “when did Los Pollos Hermanos open a restaurant in Texas?”.  …

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Dog Friendly / Pizza / Rated 25 / Texas / United States

Via 313 – Austin, Texas

November 23, 2018November 29, 2018 - Leave a Comment

It’s oft been said that among males (we’re such children), insults are a form of intimacy.  Perhaps because of societal expectations, many men aren’t comfortable expressing affection toward other males in physically demonstrative ways (even in …

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Barbecue / Dog Friendly / Texas

Black’s Barbecue – Lockhart, Texas

November 21, 2018November 27, 2018 - 7 Comments.

Yabba-dabba-doo!  After finishing another day of toiling at the quarry, Fred Flintsone rushes home to pick up his modern stone-age family for a drive-in movie, an exclusive one-night only viewing of The Monster.  Courtesy of …

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American / Dog Friendly / Donuts / Texas / United States

Gourdough’s Public House – Austin, Texas

November 20, 2018November 22, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Donuts could have gone their entire existences fat, dumb and happy with a following–mostly cops, adult men my age (39) and households with annual incomes of less than $10,000–who expected nothing more out of them …

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American / Brunch / Chicken / Dog Friendly / Southern / Texas

Lucy’s Fried Chicken – Austin, Texas

November 19, 2018November 29, 2018 - 5 Comments.

“I‘m only eating the skins, so the chicken’s up for grabs.” ~Joey Tribbiani Several of my earliest memories of growing up in agrarian Peñasco, New Mexico involve chickens.  Some of those memories–such as getting viciously …

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American / Brunch / Dog Friendly / Texas

Contigo – Austin, Texas

November 18, 2018November 20, 2018 - Leave a Comment

There are a phalanx of “best of” lists online and in print publications that celebrate restaurants deemed true stand-outs worthy of accolades.  Such lists are obviously very subjective though by no means definitive.  That holds …

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Mexican / Texas

El Ranchito Cafe & Club – Dallas, Texas

May 30, 2004July 23, 2018 - Leave a Comment

In the Mexican neighborhoods of west Dallas, adventurous “gringo” diners who grew up on Tex-Mex cuisine have apparently discovered the wonderful cuisine of Old Mexico. On the night we visited, this was evidenced by the …

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Burgers / Rated 23 / Texas

Kincaid’s Hamburgers – Fort Worth, Texas

May 29, 2004July 23, 2018 - 1 Comment

Local, statewide, national and international acclaim for Kincaid’s Hamburgers places this former grocery and market in stratospherically elite company as one of, if not THE best hamburger restaurants in the world. In 2003, Michael and …

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American / Texas

Celebration – Dallas, Texas

May 28, 2004July 23, 2018 - Leave a Comment

To adventurous restaurant patrons, the term “foodie” is often used with derision to connote someone who won’t eat somewhere unless Zagat’s has proclaimed it fork worthy. In theory foodies won’t boldly go where Zagat’s (or …

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