{"conf": "restaurants", "generated_at": "2026-04-26T08:00:02.954878Z", "threads": [{"num": 1, "subject": "let's get to know each other", "response_count": 101, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (15:44)", "body": "Not just a goer, but an employee. Hi, everyone, I'm the kitchen manager of an Italian restaurant here in Austin, 30 years old, and married with two children. Hope to see others here soon, WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (22:53)", "body": "What are the top 10 Italian restaurants in Austin?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (11:26)", "body": "Is this a trick question? I'm looking for the web rating now, and will bring back an answer as soon as I can. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (22:25)", "body": "No tricks!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "genaXtex", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (13:54)", "body": "Is BASILS still there...is was my favorite when I lived there?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (16:23)", "body": "You know, I don't know. But I can check. [pops open business pages]: Basil's --- Restaurant 900 W 10th St 78703 477-5576 Sure enough."}, {"response": 7, "author": "genaXtex", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (15:09)", "body": "I remember it as being really good northern italian, great service, an \"ambiance\" kind of place...for a dress-up date. Nice wine, waiters in tux's, etc. They didn't take reservations however (the only bad point I could identify)."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (22:17)", "body": "Gena, we're (uh) waiting on KitchenManagers listing of the top ten Italian restaurants in Austin. He may be getting back to us on this and I'm real interested in his rankings. We'll see if Basil's ranks up there with the best. If you make it to Austin again, I'd love to take you out to Basil's."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (13:16)", "body": "Me, again. Sorry I've been gone so long. Problems have ranged from upgrading to Windows95 at work to three of the wife's friends dying to not being able to log on to some sites. Oh, well. Not quite ten, and each is on for different criteria. If you feel any is in error or that I have left someone off, please respond here or e- mail me and I will compile a new list. In no particular order, the restaurants are: Olive Garden Mezzaluna Maccaroni Grill Mama Mia's Little Italy Carmelo's Brick Oven Sfuzzi Spaghetti Warehouse Hill Country Pasta House Italian Garden I'll be waiting for those responses. WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (14:29)", "body": "What about ranking them. At first I thought you had Olive Garden at number one. A couple to consider are L'Opera at Lakeline Mall and the Italian restaurant at the corner of Mesa Drive and Spicewood Springs road (the name escapes me, it may even already be on your list). What do you think of the Olive Garden (I like them for their copious bread and salads)?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "That unknown one at Mesa and Spicewood Springs is Little Italy. As to ranking them, that would be difficult by myself as I work at one of the one's on my list. Be back soon, I gotta run. WER"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (21:34)", "body": "Then put it number one or leave it off the list and put an asterisk by it!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:07)", "body": "Guess I've already covered my opinions on Austin restaurants in the Austin conference. Maybe I just had a bad experience, but I really hate Olive Garden--just smacks of chain restaurant to me (friends rave about the bread but I wasn't thrilled). On the other hand, I used to love Macaroni Grill.... So I'm a poor but snobbish gourmand, I guess. I used to eat out a lot more when I lived in Austin but I can't afford to now in Dallas. And you don't care about Dallas restaurants anyway!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:30)", "body": "I can handle the Olive Garden occasionally. But by the time I get done with their never ending breadsticks and huge all you can eat salad, I'm ready to put the main course in a doggie bag."}, {"response": 15, "author": "crazyj", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (10:25)", "body": "Hey everyone, it's CrazyJ here. Listen up. I'm looking for a good place to eat. I don't care what kind of food it is, just give me some good grub and a nice atmosphere. Is that too much to ask for?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (12:10)", "body": "assuming your in Austin... Nice atmosphere: casual, Shady Grove, Hyde Park Grill Nice atmosphere: kinda chi chi, Hyde Park (again), Mushashino (sushi) Best chef: Little Italy on Mesa drive"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:15)", "body": "Thanks, stacey. How much do I owe you? WER"}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:09)", "body": "a tiramisu when I come to visit!!!!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (23:37)", "body": "It's yours, baby, just tells me when! WER"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (11:00)", "body": "Will do! Certainly sometime in December."}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 18, 1997 (00:11)", "body": "It's on the calendar. WER"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (01:20)", "body": "Hey, terry: .......... How come I get different descriptions from my two different accounts? And neither one gives me the you are a host sentence? WER"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (07:32)", "body": "What do you mean different descriptions?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:00)", "body": "In one he's THE MAN and in the other he's KING SHIT!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:00)", "body": "This one says welcome to the restaurant conference (these aren't verbatim) and the other says welcome, WER is new host, and has on the job experience WER"}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:01)", "body": "Oh, yeah, stacey, My! What language WER"}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:46)", "body": "Did I offend your delicate sensiblities?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (23:44)", "body": "Not yet, but you can try if you like. WER"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  1, 1997 (20:01)", "body": "Really, give it the old college try, Stacey, what a challenge!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (08:39)", "body": "FYI-The results of the Chronicle's Restaurant Poll should be in this week's (Nov. 7) issue. WER"}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (09:02)", "body": "Is that the \u0002est of Austin\" issue?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (09:07)", "body": "Nope, that issue has already come and gone. WER"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (01:15)", "body": "It'll probably take me a couple of days, but I'll stick in the readers' and the critics' choices in the correct topics, where applicable. wer"}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:33)", "body": "Ambitious of you! Let us know how we can help *smile*"}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:34)", "body": "WER did great!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:58)", "body": "Thanks dude!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 10, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "\u001b[1~That you're feeling better."}, {"response": 40, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (18:30)", "body": "I didn't know you could get bronchitis in your brain? Imagine that!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (10:06)", "body": "Me too! We'll be in Austin sometime after the 26th, I suppose I'll call the restaurant?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (18:42)", "body": "Only have email at work so's ya best give it to me soon! (ooh, just WHAT did she mean?!?!?)"}, {"response": 45, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 19, 1997 (00:47)", "body": "Be sure to call me when you get in, Stacey."}, {"response": 46, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Dec 19, 1997 (14:24)", "body": "will do Paul. You listed?"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 19, 1997 (23:44)", "body": "Yep, on the webpage. 303-4000."}, {"response": 48, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan  5, 1998 (10:08)", "body": "I had fun!!!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (20:50)", "body": "After this week, I have no nerves left... can you say frazzled? I thought you could."}, {"response": 53, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "oh man. sadly enough the massage sounds better than anything right now. It isn't often that my sex drive falls victim to stress but 'fraid tis true today."}, {"response": 55, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan  9, 1998 (18:21)", "body": "whew... this is making me sit up straight!!! sorry i dropped off last night -- 7pm meeting and it didn't end until 9:15. After all that I only wanted to go home!"}, {"response": 57, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (17:52)", "body": "please do!"}, {"response": 59, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (17:44)", "body": "certainly"}, {"response": 61, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:25)", "body": "(really need a massage today) (huge tension)"}, {"response": 63, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:52)", "body": "yes. (yesterday) yes. (today)"}, {"response": 65, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (09:12)", "body": "you already provide the best listening... the rest can't be taken care of virtually"}, {"response": 67, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (09:39)", "body": "I took a personal day in the afternoon and sorted a few things out. Feel much more centered now!"}, {"response": 69, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "and happy. I feel good today. I'm sending you a hug, mostly because I finally feel really strong and capable again but also because I'd like to see you smile! *hug*"}, {"response": 71, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "(like the eye wrinkles) *smile*"}, {"response": 74, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:09)", "body": "*smile* let's tickle each other and see who has the most control (put up a good front WER, I like a challenge!)"}, {"response": 76, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (17:53)", "body": "gotta be simeltaneously..."}, {"response": 77, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (17:54)", "body": "and what's with the time and date?!?!? Paul?!?!? tis freaking me out!"}, {"response": 80, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Feb  3, 1998 (22:25)", "body": "am gonna hound you til you talk *grin*"}, {"response": 81, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Feb  3, 1998 (22:28)", "body": "(jist kiddin' *hugs*)"}, {"response": 84, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (17:21)", "body": "here i am! (feeling licentious?!?!?)"}, {"response": 86, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (15:42)", "body": "*smile* not feeling 'back' yet, but good to 'see' you again."}, {"response": 88, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (00:32)", "body": "wer, did you notice anything new when you logged in to this conference this time?"}, {"response": 89, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (09:20)", "body": "like your name in lights..."}, {"response": 90, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (21:27)", "body": "and bet you never thought that would happen-well, here's your 15 minutes worth of fame! *grin*"}, {"response": 91, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (22:33)", "body": "Wm's still in stunned silence over this."}, {"response": 94, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "again, I can only see response # 93... is your request/command to anyone in particular and what is the thread?"}, {"response": 97, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (09:23)", "body": "whoa nelly! no harm done (especially as I read #95 and #96 on Monday!) I've a whole list of problems with you being host but I'll keep them to myself!) *smile*"}, {"response": 100, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (00:13)", "body": "purely personal... we can work them out later!! *smile*"}, {"response": 102, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (16:39)", "body": "your memory is short! *smile*"}, {"response": 103, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (10:49)", "body": "be that as it may... hey, everyone, any ideas on how we can inspire acitivity in this conference again?"}, {"response": 104, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (13:57)", "body": "ummm... eat out more?"}, {"response": 105, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "you always have such excellent suggestions, Stacey!"}, {"response": 106, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "*laugh* Feeling kinda goofy..."}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:23)", "body": "can I check for myself?"}, {"response": 108, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (16:56)", "body": "hi ho, hi ho, it's out to eat i go with my friend in tow here we go, hi ho hi ho hi ho (low bloodsugar)"}, {"response": 109, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:01)", "body": "buon appetito!"}, {"response": 110, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (20:23)", "body": "Hi all! Yeah, me. Have I told you my sex restaurant story yet? Feel free NOT to read it, but it's true. When I first came here five years ago now, a nineteen year-old straight from the Namibian bush, I was walking through the streets of Z\ufffdrich one day, and felt in the mood for some ice cream. Not noticing that the colourful candles in every second shop window was actually plastic neon lamps in the shape of willies, or that I was in a redlight district, I popped into the nearest place that looked like it might have some ice cream. First thing I noticed as I was placing my order, was that there were only men in the restaurant. Second thing was that they were staring at me. I thought, $hit, what?! Never had a whole room full of men stare at me all at once. Then the banana split came . . . with an upright banana . . . and no spoon to eat it with. So I called the waiter. I got a little bit worried when he seated himself beside me, explaining that these bananas don't get eaten with spoons, and that telling me something about how 'good' I was. Didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him to explain himself. And he said something about 'dusguishion' - disguise, it turned out to be. (I did not speak German back then.) So I asked him again what the hell he was talking about. Then he grabbed my crotch! Turned out to be a gay bar of course, and he thought I was a transvestite!!!!! Foul, hey?! But I guffawed when he told me!"}, {"response": 111, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (13:56)", "body": "roflmao!"}, {"response": 112, "author": "spew", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "Lookit me! Telnetting over AOL...albeit slower than the web..."}, {"response": 113, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (04:27)", "body": "How'd you figure it out? Are you using SecureCRT?"}, {"response": 114, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (10:24)", "body": "nope...some 16 bit combo package of WinNet and FTP Pro that I finally found a reference to working with AOL..."}, {"response": 115, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "My grandma is doing well too, thank you."}, {"response": 116, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sun, Nov 15, 1998 (13:22)", "body": "Was your grandma sick?"}, {"response": 117, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:00)", "body": "No. I just thought I'd mention it. Yours?"}, {"response": 118, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:36)", "body": "One grandmother dued in 1981. The other one is recovering from a bout with cancer, and actually doing quite well. She is 97 and still out and about on her own. She has no problem dancing to rock music, and her eyesight and reflexes are still excellent."}, {"response": 119, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:37)", "body": "I meant to say died in 1981."}, {"response": 120, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:25)", "body": "It's okay, my computer does that too sometimes.... Your grandma sounds cool! My grandma is 71, and an old bitch - love her!"}, {"response": 121, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:04)", "body": "My grandmother is kind of set in her ways, but she has always been that way. I wouldn't describe her as a bitch though. She's just a little hard headed."}, {"response": 122, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:29)", "body": "No, mine's a real bitch. She gossips, lies, trashes people behind their backs, blackmails them, lives excessively in every respect - I find it very amusing! She has 'strictly confidentially' promised her fortune to my brother, my sister, and me, because 'the other two aren't worth it'!!"}, {"response": 123, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "I had a grandmother like that. After she became an invalid, and was confined to a nursing home, I gave her a series of police whistles, to attract attention when she wanted help. The staff had no sense of humor. they kept taking the whistles away. So, I started bringing her three and four at a time. When she died, the staff had taken away over 200 of them, Some people never learn. Toward the end I was also supplying whistles to 3 other patients."}, {"response": 124, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:48)", "body": "ha-ha! Whistler Tim - THAT'S what they'll call you someday!"}, {"response": 125, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Apr 19, 1999 (15:07)", "body": "I would like to invite all visitors of this conference to the International Conflicts conference here on the Spring: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/InternationalConflicts/all This new conference is dedicated to the disputes between groups all over the world, be that social, cultural, political or ethnical differences."}, {"response": 126, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (20:15)", "body": "And...after they have posted in your conference I hope they visit and post in Geo...wherever they might find something of interest. http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/geo/all/"}, {"response": 127, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:36)", "body": "Hi, I'm your shot takin' restaurant critic, what would you like to order tonight? Care for something to drink?"}, {"response": 128, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:12)", "body": "Whatcha got? (Terry, I am laughing so hard at some of your posts. I did not know you had a personality like that...I though you were mild mannered and quiet. Are we seeing your alter ego? This Terry is so much fun...let him out more!!! Oh - I am an ice water drinker - I am funny enough just the way I am!"}, {"response": 129, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:09)", "body": "Ice water coming right up. Crushed ice or cubed? We only serve the best, purest spring water."}, {"response": 130, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (18:32)", "body": "Barton Springs, of course! Charming wait-staff you have here... I am enchanted"}, {"response": 131, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (18:35)", "body": "Oh, and cubes are just fine, thank you!"}, {"response": 132, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:25)", "body": "Cubes it is."}, {"response": 133, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (12:03)", "body": "Have a sliver of lime to poke in there? Not necessary of course, but it does make the water taste wonderful - even if it is not straight-from-God Hawaiian water. Mahalo Mucho! This place deserves 5 stars for accomodating staff, for starters! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 10, "subject": "Indian", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:50)", "body": "Too bad the old Taj Mahal on IH35 South burned down a few years ago, there's never been anything to match it since. The current winner has room for improvement."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:45)", "body": "Better Indian food in Denver IMHO. Passage to India being one of the best."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:38)", "body": "I won't argue."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:01)", "body": "Resistence is futile..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:18)", "body": "Resistence is fertile you mean?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:34)", "body": "no... when you give in is when you've got those fertility problems."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:45)", "body": "So, would you say fertility is futile?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:55)", "body": "ick... sticky situation."}, {"response": 10, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (16:20)", "body": "From eatin' with ya fingas, I presume!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul  2, 1999 (15:02)", "body": "presume away! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 11, "subject": "Oriental - Asian", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:50)", "body": "What's up with these guys. An Indonesian (partly) place that's never heard of tempi. Sheds another tear for Martin Brothers."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:46)", "body": "I thought they were Thai."}, {"response": 4, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (17:51)", "body": "The best asian place I've been to is on Anderson lane. They have japaneese, chineese, thai, and korean dishes on a large buffet all at the same time."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (16:18)", "body": "I'm usually not too keen on places that claim to cook several different ethnic varieties authentically... they rarely rise to the occassion"}, {"response": 6, "author": "PT", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "These people are actually real good. Not fantastic, but real good. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 12, "subject": "Best restaurant period", "response_count": 16, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:02)", "body": "Here are my votes (my rank first then the Chrons): 1 28. Mother's Cafe & Garden 2 14. Kerbey Lane Cafe 3 6. Trudy's 4 Little Italy 5 18. Jeffrey's 6 9. Threadgill's 7 26. Pappadeux Seafood Kitchen 8 27. Satay 9 31. Manuel's 10 32. Kim Phung 11 35. Hula Hut 12 4. County Line 13 8. Hut's Hamburgers 15 2. Z'Tejas Grill 15 15. Roppolo's Pizzeria 16 5. Chuy's 17 7. Eastside Cafe 18 3. Castle Hill Cafe 19 19. Houston's 20 23. Romeo's 21 34. Fonda San Miguel 22 1. Louie's 106 23 10. Sullivan's Steakhouse 24 11. Frank & Angie's 25 13. Mars 26 16. Chinatown 27 21. HighLife Cafe 28 17. Mezzaluna 29 22. El Sol y La Luna 30 24. Gilligan's 31 20. City Grill 32 30. Curra's Grill 33 33. Dan McKlusky's 34 25. G\u00fcero's 35 29. Hickory Street Bar & Grill 36 12. Al Capone's What are your rankings?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:58)", "body": "From memory... Magnolia Cafe (warmth, comfort, eclectic and yummy) Mars (spicy, romantic, delicious wine) Dog&Duck Pub (friendly, low-key, outdoor patio and great beer) Tiny Mexican dive on SOUTH, SOUTH Congress (cheap and delicious) Kim Phung (best dang Vietnamese food this side of Ho Chi Minh and BYOB) Martin Bros. (too chocked up to comment... *sob*) Trudy's (great Sangrita swirls, lots of green chile and chipotle and fun) Mezzaluna (excellent wine, appetizers and desserts) Romeo's (relaxing, quiet, good pizza and good memories) Little Italy (most irreverent chef *smile*) Jazz on 6th (lassiez buon temps roulez!) Kerbey Lane on Kerbey Lane (one of few places I'd wait an hour and a half for a table! Great grilled veggie sandwiches EXCELLENT Chipotle mayo!) Korea House (delicious no frills sushi) That place on East 26th with their own garden (Artihoke-chipotle enchiladas) Landry's (decent food, great view good memories) Thai Kitchen (more bean thread noodles please, Extra spicy!)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:39)", "body": "What a great roundup, I will print this and make a wallet card out of it!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:02)", "body": "Awwww, and carry me with you everywhere."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:18)", "body": "OK hop on."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:34)", "body": "Don't think I'll fit in the wallet."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:45)", "body": "Too bad."}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:40)", "body": "semantics! what a difference they can make."}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (14:12)", "body": "Speaking of...this year the Chronicle readers voted this way... 1. Castle Hill Cafe 2. Chuy's 3. Zoot 4. Z'Tejas Grill 5. Eastside Cafe 6. County Line 7. Trudy's 8. Louie's 106 9. Fonda San Miguel 10. Las Manitas 11. Threadgill's 12. Koreana 13. Hyde Park Bar and Grill 14. Pizza Nizza 15. Shady Grove Cafe 16. Suzi's Chinese Kitchen 17. Hut's Hamburgers 18. El Sol y La Luna 19. Kim Phung 20. Kerbey Lane Cafe 21. Jeffrey's 22. G\ufffdero's 23. Houston's 24. Thai Kitchen 25. Korea House 26. Mars 27. Mezzaluna 28. Curra's Grill 29. City Grill 30. Manuel's 31. Sullivan's Steakhouse 32. Romeo's 33. Mother's Cafe and Garden 34. Frank and Angie's 35. Veggie Heaven"}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:08)", "body": "Weird. I would have thought that vegetarian would rank top. My sister says there are MANY MANY MANY strict vegetarians in America. She also says there are alot of obese people in America. That sort of puzzles me."}, {"response": 13, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:51)", "body": "Both ends of the spectrum. The US is becoming a country of extremes, with less and less middle ground."}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:28)", "body": "Sounds like it. Looking forward to seeing for myself."}, {"response": 15, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:14)", "body": "We look forward to your visit. When are you planning to come over?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "tami", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (10:49)", "body": "Actually, America has MORE 'middle' these days. Lots of extreme eating here. ,"}, {"response": 17, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (01:41)", "body": "What sort of extreme eating, Tami?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:41)", "body": "Guero's has moved up to the top spot on my chart, mostly for ambiance, it's in the middle of the near to town South Congress scene. The most \"Austiny\" part of town. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 13, "subject": "bakery", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:19)", "body": "I used to like Texas French Bread, but mostly because they were near my house and I could walk over for my Sunday morning baguette. Plus they had excellent chocolate cake. There used to be a good one on 6th in that \"Pecan Street\" whatever complex (they had a screen door, over which they had a sign that had their name, what was their name, aaaugh!), but last time I was there I think Sweetish Hill had driven them out. Which is too bad, but SH isn't all bad, either!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:36)", "body": "Pecan Street is still there and I had one of my more memorable meals there about atwo montsh ago. It's very comforting there, definitely the top restaurant on music row."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (19:49)", "body": "I generally prefer the bakery at Central Market. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (21:09)", "body": "Speaking of Central Market (and a bit off topic), do you feel the restaurant there has gone down hill in the last month?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "Actually, the only food that I usually get from the restaurant are the prepackaged dishes, especially the smoked pork loin, and a pizza that I haven't seen there in a while. It was pesto, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, and feta. WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (09:26)", "body": "My experience was that they raised their prices, cut the specialy restaurants from 5 down to one (they had several \"theme\" areas, and, worst of all, cut out my favorite dish."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (23:53)", "body": "Martin Brothers did that to me when they quit serving their club sandwich. WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:13)", "body": "Again... I miss the groovy Austin yum houses! Paul, what was your favorite Central Market dish? Funny story... my family came to visit one holiday while I was living in Austin and I took them to Martin Bros. My dad eats meat, my grandfather eats meat. They wanted a Coke. We ate (I think they had a chicken dish) and on the way back they had to stop at Burger King. I've never been allowed to pick a restaurant again."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (18:54)", "body": "It was the baked chicken. It was made Italian style with seasoning and came with broccoli rice casserole from Threadgills. But they dumped that and all their other low cost dishes and \"upscaled\" it for more expensive tastes. Too bad!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:03)", "body": "Sweetish Hill. OK. This may be one area where Austin has a relative paucity of choices. Do you think?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:58)", "body": "as long as they're good I don't care! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 14, "subject": "patio beer garden", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:04)", "body": "Shed a tear for the Armadillo. Such a tearful day, pass the handerchef again."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "Got to be that place next to the Crown and Anchor... they've got pinball!!! But I'm pretty partial to the Dog & Duck!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:40)", "body": "But who do you like the best? The Dog or the Duck?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:40)", "body": "Is it always about control?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:26)", "body": "Sadsadly I must agree."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:50)", "body": "She's ducking the question."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "Am I dogging her again?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:41)", "body": "What in the hell was the question anyway? *smile*"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:45)", "body": "I forget."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "(LOL)"}, {"response": 16, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:42)", "body": "That was quite an exchange back in 97. Beer gardens. My new fave has to be Shady Grove. It's down on Barton Springs road and expect to see me there on occasion this summer. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 15, "subject": "best service", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:05)", "body": "Wrong, says John McLaughlin, with emphasis. It's . . . Hooters (not). It's the Waterloo Ice House on Burnet road."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:00)", "body": "cute."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:40)", "body": "Yes, the waitresses there are cute too."}, {"response": 5, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:43)", "body": "All the old waitresses at Waterloo are gone. The best service I've experienced is at Jeffrey's in Clarksville, Mothers, Trudys and the Omlettry. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 16, "subject": "best atmosphere & decor", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:05)", "body": "It was Central Market till they messed it up."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:03)", "body": "oooh, really depends on what kind of mood you're in."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:42)", "body": "What kind of mood are you in?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:07)", "body": "I bit frisky actually! The snow does that to me."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:19)", "body": "You bit frisky! Bad girl."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:35)", "body": "never bad..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "OK then, good girl. What's with all these girrrrl type words these days, have you noticed that? Like the webgirrrls, a popular local group."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:56)", "body": "Grrrls are usually pro feminist and lesbian. That's USUALLY."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:59)", "body": "Where does that term come from?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:02)", "body": "feminists, lesbians or odd terminology?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:22)", "body": "The term grrrl. What does it mean to you?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:40)", "body": "... not in Denver."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:57)", "body": "Riot Grrrlz? Whazzzat? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 17, "subject": "Sunday Brunch", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:06)", "body": "Wrong! says John McLaughlin again. It's Mothers tied with Kerby Lane Cafe on North 183."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:07)", "body": "Nyet! The Guest Quarters Hotel on 15th has a champagne buffet brunch to die for!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:42)", "body": "Don't go there, we want you alive Stacey. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 18, "subject": "fast food", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:08)", "body": "Give me the Super Tex Mex with no meat please. Was that no meat sir? Yes, no meat. Are you sure? Yes, no meat. On everything? Yes, everything? OK sir, drive up to the window."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:08)", "body": "Got to say Taco Hell -- 7 layer (doesn't have meat, thereby eliminating confusion)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:43)", "body": "First AOhell now TacoHell."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:41)", "body": "too realistic for me"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:26)", "body": "Not when reality is better than your wildest dreams *giggle*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:44)", "body": "All you would've had to do was ask (okay, maybe beg) and I would've *giggle*d days ago!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "What's your wildest dream Stace? So we have a benchmark."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "Yep, we'll let ya."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "Wildest dream about what? Fast food? Life goal? Vacation spot? Sweet spot?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:45)", "body": "All of the above."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "Again... I've an active imagination and depending on my mood, the 'wildest' sometimes varies."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:09)", "body": "We want details."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:51)", "body": "My, my... I never realized you were such a detail-oriented man."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:26)", "body": "Yes, I need details!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:44)", "body": "Still waiting for Stace's wild dream . . . restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 19, "subject": "take outs", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:09)", "body": "They haven't been there lately then."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:08)", "body": "Thai Kitchen! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 2, "subject": "Italian", "response_count": 146, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (15:01)", "body": "My wifey's are Carmello's Little Italy Olive Garden Bodega della Pasta It's hard for me to say because I work at one and eat at not that many more. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (13:16)", "body": "XL ent. ranks Mezzaluna and Sfuzzi as the best two, by a half star. WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (19:44)", "body": "What? Doesn't anyone else on here eat Italian food at restaurants? WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:04)", "body": "In Denver: Pasta J's, The Bent Noodle and my very own Italian kitchen!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (23:20)", "body": "How do I beg for recipes? (Especially in a way that will work!) WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:22)", "body": "I guess you could call them up and ask?!? I don't do the recipe thing, if I try it at a restaurant I try to discern the ingredients, usually I have to try it at least twice, then I go home and experiment!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:18)", "body": "Exactly. Drives my wife nuts when I make something she likes, then asks me if I wrote down the recipe and I tell her, \"Nope.\" WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:10)", "body": "*giggle* Makes life an adventure doesn't it?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (23:39)", "body": "Something like that. WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (12:03)", "body": "How's our fave Italian chef these days?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (12:57)", "body": "I don't know that I can type for that long! At the moment I have a melatonin hangover and accompanying lack o' caffeine headache. So, how's teach? WER"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (12:59)", "body": "Sounds like I'm better off than you. The flat tire this morning, crappy admin mtg and caffeine overdose, notwithstanding! *smile*"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:02)", "body": "* smile * WER"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:04)", "body": "Pissing your day off away or do you have great plans with which to make it fly quickly by?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:08)", "body": "Yapping on here, doing some html later, going to the park with my daughter, parent/teacher conference for my stepson, buy more cigs, maybe eat sometime. And you? WER"}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:13)", "body": "\u001b[BALPAS testing going on today, so no student contact today. I should be getting caught up on some paperwork but obviously, I have chosen to slack. Excuses include: rough morning, need some food, pretty days make me unproductive... the list goes on. Where do your kids go to school? I did my student teaching at Doss Elementary on Far West Blvd. Still chilly in Austin? Enjoy the park, I am envious."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:14)", "body": "Stepson goes to Brentwood. Daughter is almost 4, no school yet. WER"}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:17)", "body": "Names???"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (13:22)", "body": "Taylor Charles Shumer Zoe Jessica Roland WER"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (09:18)", "body": "great names! (back to conference subject) do they like Italian food?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (12:53)", "body": "Zoe will eat most anything, but she likes the meatballs best from work and Taylor likes the pizza. WER"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (13:04)", "body": "Mmmm. Making me hungry. Wish I could \"cash in\" on my tiramisu early..."}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (13:18)", "body": "Unless I've got the wrong plug-ins, I can't send it to ya online. Sorry WER"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (11:22)", "body": "It'll wait."}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:43)", "body": "Till the tiramasu plug-in is released?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:45)", "body": "Or until I come visit, whichever comes first!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (00:22)", "body": "I that some sorta zen question? Who came first, Stacey or the Tiramisu plug-in for IE? WER"}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (09:40)", "body": "You're thinking a 'bit' too deep."}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (23:01)", "body": ".......... Yeah, like I have a choice. WER"}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 31, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (00:21)", "body": "So, toots, why ain't cha posted in the innuendo topic in the sex conference? WER"}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (09:57)", "body": "I'm not a member. Maybe I should investigate though."}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (21:03)", "body": "May I see your id please?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (22:52)", "body": "And I'd like to see your super ego... WER"}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (05:09)", "body": "Rename this the Freudian Italian Restaurant topic."}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (08:40)", "body": "And I'd like to see... damn. wrong topic again."}, {"response": 37, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (11:58)", "body": "And how would you like that served, Mother? WER"}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:54)", "body": "Does your outfit deliver? What's the number to call?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (00:06)", "body": "Eat Out In, but I don't know the number off the top of my head. WER"}, {"response": 40, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (07:33)", "body": "And where are you located?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:03)", "body": "Spicewood Springs and Mesa, right across the street from BCSI WER"}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (18:22)", "body": "One of these days we'll get your takeouts? What do you recommend for lunch? XY ``"}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (12:11)", "body": "Ciao Signor WER! Is today your day off?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (13:22)", "body": "I still have my Little Italy salad from yesterday in the 'fridgertator."}, {"response": 45, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (22:57)", "body": "Wednesday, stacey, Wednesday. WER"}, {"response": 46, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (10:38)", "body": "Happy day off!!! (At least I think it's Wednesday) I've been so discombobulated lately... I spent Monday thinking it was Thursday."}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:13)", "body": "Nice try!"}, {"response": 48, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (13:25)", "body": "Yeah, but that can make for a very long week. WER"}, {"response": 49, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (12:04)", "body": "sometimes coming to work can make for a very long week."}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (16:02)", "body": "Sometimes? WER"}, {"response": 52, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:43)", "body": "And the runner up is???"}, {"response": 54, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (18:45)", "body": "Do you agree with these selections?"}, {"response": 56, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:35)", "body": "Mezzaluna was one of my favorite places. But I also enjoyed that little Italian place on 5th and (?) Red River? somewhere around there."}, {"response": 57, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:34)", "body": "Hmmmm?"}, {"response": 58, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:17)", "body": "Happy Day Off, WER!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:30)", "body": "A lazy day at the park with your daughter?"}, {"response": 62, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:35)", "body": "Your wife or your daughter? Just kidding. Is it rainy? A good paint by numbers day! Warm? A good go-outside-and-kick-a-ball day! Cold but sunny? A perfect walk-around-the-block day! I'm just making myself envious now! Funny, I'm NEVER envious of your 10 hour days!"}, {"response": 64, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (10:35)", "body": "The mountains give me perspective, that's for sure. In fact, I'm taking a solo weekend jaunt tonight (if it doesn't snow). A mini vacation down to Glenwood Springs to ease my mind."}, {"response": 66, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (10:55)", "body": "Oh, the coworker? I get frustrated but never ruin my own weekend over it. Relationship and family problems are the ones that have the potential to really get me down. Stupid coworkers... eh? What can you do?"}, {"response": 68, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 24, 1997 (12:19)", "body": "Had a fabulous Italian dinner on Friday night with an old friend. Josephina's in LoDo. The bread was served with a tomato-garlic pesto that I culdn't get enough of until the portabello mushroom came in its reduction sauce! For dinner I had grilled eggplant with polenta. So much I couldn't finish it all. And for all those who haven't gotten to watch me nosh my body weight at dinner (like Paul), not finishing a delicious meal is darn near unfathomable for me! After dinner we went to Enoteca for another bottle of Merlot and after an hour I was ready for the bruschetta with roasted red peppers and chevre! A truly enjoyable dinner and OOPS! I forgot to mention the tiramisu at Josephina's. Eh, it wasn't THAT good. I'm holding out for Little Italy!"}, {"response": 69, "author": "katrina", "date": "Fri, Dec  5, 1997 (23:44)", "body": "When are you going there?"}, {"response": 70, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (18:00)", "body": "I'll be in Austin after Christmas and until New Year's day. So, sometime in between. To meet a WER and eat a tiramisu."}, {"response": 72, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (10:17)", "body": "As soon I typed it... I recognized the options! *smile*"}, {"response": 74, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (18:17)", "body": "oh, no... I appreciate a good innuendo."}, {"response": 76, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 10, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "Yeah right! *giggle*"}, {"response": 78, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (18:30)", "body": "*giggle* *smile*"}, {"response": 80, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (10:09)", "body": "When is your new day off?"}, {"response": 83, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (11:51)", "body": "The food was great! But the conversation was so good that it absorbed much of my attention."}, {"response": 85, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (20:52)", "body": "*blush* food was great wer. somehow I'd like to combine the marsala part o Paul's meal with the big mushrooms in mine! and letsee... tiramisu was yummilicious. I too enjoyed the conversations immensely..."}, {"response": 87, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "of course!!! I'll cook!"}, {"response": 89, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan  9, 1998 (18:21)", "body": "*smile*"}, {"response": 91, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (17:52)", "body": "for???"}, {"response": 93, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (17:45)", "body": "WER, you've got some fairly serious self-depreceating techniques. Why for?"}, {"response": 96, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "feeling the ugly monster coming on again?"}, {"response": 98, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:54)", "body": "Don't let it control your life, WER. You don't have to fight it either. Just realize it's not strong, and it's your creation. You can just lay it to rest (or kill it, if that makes you feel better!)"}, {"response": 100, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  2, 1998 (19:17)", "body": "I saw a Top of the Mark while crusing around frisco yesterday. That's where he got the idea for Top of the Mark, from the place above the Mark Hopkins hotel in SF."}, {"response": 101, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:50)", "body": "... never kloses!"}, {"response": 102, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (11:03)", "body": "Ate at Paggi House Thursday night... either I'm jaded or they deserve their reputation... the food, for the most part, was good I just don't see the need to pay that much for presentation, as the service wasn't up to par, either."}, {"response": 103, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:00)", "body": "never very fond of Paggi House. Favorite Austin Italian spots... (besides the ones on my body) Carmelo's Mezzaluna and then there's this cook at a place called Little Italy... if you touch the right places... well..."}, {"response": 104, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:00)", "body": "(apologies Kitchen Manager, I realize you are trying to elicit serious banter here!)"}, {"response": 105, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (22:24)", "body": "s'okay... meant to say up there (response #32) that they don't deserve their reputation... no need to apologize, you just have to show me those spots... (you rank Carmello's and Mezzaluna above my Marsala and Tiramisu? now the truth comes out...)"}, {"response": 106, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:24)", "body": "twas the paranoid man inside you who suspected I was ranking! But I'm fairly certain other visitors don't get the same 'special sauce' and I wouldn't want to sign you up for more than you bargained for! *smile*"}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:13)", "body": "Paul Terry Walhus ate at the restaurant last night."}, {"response": 108, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (16:54)", "body": "with company? who WAS she?!?! *giggle* (can't wait to tease!)"}, {"response": 109, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (21:00)", "body": "(I've noticed...)"}, {"response": 110, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (00:21)", "body": "Jon Penner ate at the restaurant tonight."}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (09:07)", "body": "Jon does the windsurfing site that the Spring hosts, he lurks here sometimes."}, {"response": 112, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (08:25)", "body": "Hi all. Good to meet km the other night. Another great dinner (as usual). Talk about tough working environment for the km; it must have been at least 110 F. Coming home from that, setting the AC at 90 would feel cool! Debate for dinner place that night was Gators or LI; no question in my mind. I ordered the spaghetti w/ spicey Italian sausage. Used to be on the menu a few years ago, but still get it anyway. What do you think is the *best* thing on the menu?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "hey WER, is your name anywhere on the menu? *smile*"}, {"response": 114, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (23:54)", "body": "not for the general public, just a few select diners... (but thanks for asking!) Let's see...Stacey's had the de Pino and the Tiramisu, Terry has had the Veggie Deluxe Pizza, Chicken Marsala, Shrimp Parmesan and Tiramisu, and as for me..."}, {"response": 115, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (15:18)", "body": "yes?"}, {"response": 116, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (11:54)", "body": "Made it to LI last night (Wed). Had the Chicken Marsala, it was great! Checked with the waitress & the KM was off. I keep forgetting to bring the free dinner coupon I won, I'll remember one of these days. Was at Mezzaluna's the other night for the first time, Lamb rack was good, almost as good as the stuff I had in New Zealand in February. Actually had Tiramisu for the first time ever there. I'm usually too full to order desert... Stacey, Did you get any of that snow I've been hearing about in Denver?"}, {"response": 117, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (18:12)", "body": "nope. the snow was strictly reserved for the 'high country' (above 9,000 feet). In fact, the weather has been BEAUTIFUL here. 80s in the day and back down to 50s in the evening. I love being able to bring a sweater everywhere I go but not having to wear a coat! And the mornings are always so new and fresh smelling... No eat-in restaurants lately... lot of delivery and take out. Jade Dragon -- schezuwan (yeah,yeah,yeah, whatever) bean curd and shrimp fried rice Fazoli's -- baked spaghetti Blackjack -- pizza how'd ya get a free coupon for Little Italy?!?"}, {"response": 118, "author": "wer", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (18:22)", "body": "Jon found hidden treasure... if'n I heard correctly, he ate there last night, also..."}, {"response": 119, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (18:36)", "body": "Follow those links, never know what you might find/win! I guess I need to pick non-Wednesday nights if KM is going to do the artwork. Sorry, haven't been on for a while. Work... ya know. Temps have been in low 100's the past few days."}, {"response": 120, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (16:13)", "body": "uggghhoo! (don't like 100 degrees!) (where do you work jon?)"}, {"response": 121, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (17:17)", "body": "I think he works up near where we used to work, Stace."}, {"response": 122, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (01:08)", "body": "hell?"}, {"response": 123, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "sort of... more like the purgatory between Austin and Round Rock... (Remember when we had to drive all the way to the Arboretum for lunches Paul?) (Wait... were you there when the upstairs first opened?)"}, {"response": 124, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (21:35)", "body": "I was there when the upstairs was in the final stage of completion. When they built the rabbit compound. I haven't heard from Bill for a long time. I heard Kim moved on. I heard Tom Vu got hooked up with Stacy, the blond who worked for Richard. That was kind of a strange scene."}, {"response": 125, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "A rabbit compound?!?!?! To keep the frying pans going? THAT's a strange scene!"}, {"response": 126, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (15:37)", "body": "Yep, Round Rock (Hell - at least since Dell moved here). Used to be able to cruise out here or back to town (opposite of IBM-Georgetown traffic). Only good thing that has happened out here in the last 10 years is more eating places. El Arroyo, La Margarita & tons of new ones I can't even name around WallMart. Went to Indian place down from Souper Salads yesterday, not bad. I saw a new Itailan place there too."}, {"response": 127, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (15:49)", "body": "An Italian place?!?! Sounds weirder by the minute. Weirder? More weird? This language gets weirder by the minute too!"}, {"response": 128, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (20:45)", "body": "I received an email from Tom Vu awhile back... he and Stacy (Baden???) were living together... Mike just left the rabbit and joined a travel agency that may send him out to San Francisco (where he has wanted to be for years!) Freddy was still working there with his CNA certification and sounding really centered. I heard Bill left the company to pursue the electronic commerce... Yep... been a long time in only two short years!"}, {"response": 129, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (00:13)", "body": "Stacy is working at Tivoli, saw her name on the employee list, Stace. I see Bill has moved to North Lamar and is doing something with web based customer prospecting. I thought I saw Kim pull out of Lanier High out of the corner of my eye the other day, maybe it was her. I hope you drift back in! Italian. Back on topic. wer, that brione was fabulous the other night. Thanks again for the pass! Can you pass along the recipe for the sauce or is it a trade secret? And the same with the coffee . . . what is your favorite brand/flavor? Yep, shrimp brione. Very tasty! We kept hoping you would make an appearance but the reports were that you were very backed up in the kitchen. One of the waiters may have known Kristen, he sent her a desert! That tiramisu you made was so rich I had to order the coffee to finish it, the coffee revived my appetite for it by counterbalancing the sweetness. Does werwife still rate Carmello's as number one? Jon, are you getting back on track with the website? What do you need from us? Keep reminding me ok?"}, {"response": 130, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (09:11)", "body": "what other dessert did you all have?"}, {"response": 131, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (21:19)", "body": "Some desert that one of the waiters gave to Kristen. I don't know what it was. I had some ice cream. You're sidestepping my recipe request, okay, okay, must be a trade secret!"}, {"response": 132, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (08:33)", "body": "yep, sorry..."}, {"response": 133, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (08:44)", "body": "Kristen's still scratching her head trying to find out who gave her that desert. Parachuting buddy. And she's scratching her head about a comment of yours, too. She can't figure it out."}, {"response": 134, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "which would be? (I don't know anyone here that parachutes...as there were only two waiters on that night, was it your's, or the other one?)"}, {"response": 135, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 20, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "The other one, I believe."}, {"response": 136, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Sep 21, 1998 (07:56)", "body": "yep, he thought Kristen was so irresistably gorgeous that he just had to buy her dessert..."}, {"response": 137, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (05:24)", "body": "so, what comment of mine had the birthday girl scratching her head?"}, {"response": 138, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (06:31)", "body": "Something about an invite to dinner, can't locate it now. Speaking of birthday girls, happy birthday Kristen!!! So, what does brione mean?"}, {"response": 139, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (06:55)", "body": "last name of the guy who created the dish, from what I understand..."}, {"response": 140, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Thu, Sep 24, 1998 (14:13)", "body": "Was in LI Monday night, finally figured out NOT to go on Wednesday as it is WER's day off. Had the Lasagna which was fantastic as usual. I'm just finishing the leftovers now as I type. (Paul, the http://access.spring.net/~awc web site is back on the air. Thanks!)"}, {"response": 141, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (12:55)", "body": "Wow, they give wer a day off?"}, {"response": 142, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (12:58)", "body": "so-so...actually, I was in for several hours before the place opened, but I did have all the hours we were open off..."}, {"response": 143, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (14:00)", "body": "How ironic."}, {"response": 144, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (14:03)", "body": "never thought of it as ironical..."}, {"response": 145, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (16:32)", "body": "That the chef works when there are no customers? It's not as if you're a pastry chef (although you may do that as well--forgot about all that tiramisu!)"}, {"response": 146, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (09:47)", "body": "Better something, Better Crust?"}, {"response": 147, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (12:10)", "body": "You lost me, Terry..."}, {"response": 148, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (17:31)", "body": "Name of the folks that make the bread sticks for Olive Gardin."}, {"response": 149, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (17:26)", "body": "gotcha..."}, {"response": 150, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (17:39)", "body": "Do you think she really meant to say Butter Crust and not Better Crust? Does Butter Crust make Italian bread sticks? Does the Lil Italy bake it's own breadsticks?"}, {"response": 151, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (17:46)", "body": "Butter Crust might...especially for a deal like that... And, yes, we make our own bread from scratch at the restaurant..."}, {"response": 152, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 30, 1998 (00:43)", "body": "Any tips on making bread sticks? Or any brand you recommend?"}, {"response": 153, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 30, 1998 (10:38)", "body": "lemme think on that one..."}, {"response": 154, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 30, 1998 (16:03)", "body": "pause for a deep thought break."}, {"response": 155, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (15:14)", "body": "This year's Chronicle Readers Poll for Best Italian says: Basil's Runners-up: Romeo's,Mezzaluna Honorable mentions: Carraba's Italian Grill, Carmelo's, Olive Garden, Pizza Nizza The critic's list says: Best Gelatos e Sorbettos--Milano's Best Italian Potential--Vespaio Best Spaghetti and Meatballs--Treehouse Italian Grilll"}, {"response": 156, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (16:03)", "body": "I've been to Romeos but not Basils. What's so great about Basils. And boo, no LI mention!"}, {"response": 157, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (09:04)", "body": "I gotta vote for Carmelo's!"}, {"response": 158, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (08:55)", "body": "(oh, how far I have slipped!...) These things be not Italian Caesar salad Anything parmigiana other than eggplant Grated cheese on seafood (there a few exceptions but they are very few) Espresso with a lemon twist Architectural food Pasta \"swimming\" in sauce Parsley as a garnish Olive oil as a dip for bread Warm goat cheese Ricotta cheese in lasagna Balsamic vinegar on salad"}, {"response": 159, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "If it tastes good, Eat it."}, {"response": 160, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "and sometimes, If it looks good, Eat it!"}, {"response": 161, "author": "PT", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (13:07)", "body": "Or at least try it, anyway."}, {"response": 162, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (23:56)", "body": "I pretty much make it a rule to always swallow."}, {"response": 163, "author": "PT", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (12:35)", "body": "You have to be really careful what you put in your mouth, if that is the case."}, {"response": 164, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May  7, 1999 (02:17)", "body": "read Dale Rice's latest review of Little Italy at http://www.austin360.com/entertainment/dining/reviews/littleitaly.html"}, {"response": 165, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, May  7, 1999 (02:44)", "body": "What does he mean by \"relatively attentive\" - service didn't always reply his e-mails? ;=}"}, {"response": 166, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May  7, 1999 (03:19)", "body": "very nice...fortunately, he only communicated with me by phone..."}, {"response": 167, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, May 11, 1999 (08:48)", "body": "...ok, that !WAS! ghastly, I'm sorry. Wait - this guy calls in, and then writes a review? Wow. That's how to do it! Bet they sell zillions of copies. Doing it the honest way just doesn't pay, but I don't know any other."}, {"response": 168, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 11, 1999 (10:45)", "body": "he was fact checking for the article...had already eaten there..."}, {"response": 169, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:48)", "body": "Italian Restaurants are on the rise. My favorite of course is Little Italy because they are so well managed in their kitchen. Famous for tiramisu! I wonder how late they stay open? Chronicle Readers don't agree with me, however. The envelope please. Thank you, tears open envelope, the winner is . . . Vespaio Huh? Never heard of this dive. Carmelos and Mezzaluna came in next. Isn't Mezzaluna where Nicoel Got error 2 (No such file or directory) in out of time(null) baldur:~ $ Carmelos and Mezzaluna came in next. Isn't Mezzaluna where Nicole and OJ used to hang out? Romeos, Treehouse Grill and Cafe Spezzano get honorable mention. And the so called critics didn\ufffdt even include Italian as a category. Do you spell Austin Chronicle \ufffdhaphazard\ufffd? Maybe I just didn\ufffdt see it. I can't believe these so called critics can\ufffdt have an Itialian restaurant pick. And maybe Vespaio isn't a dive after all."}, {"response": 170, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:12)", "body": "Sorry, but if/when I get to Austin I eat Italian in One Place Only. Knots in the tummy and all... All the stars are in my eyes? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 20, "subject": "delivery services", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (19:36)", "body": "I've got to say Eat Out In, simply because it is the one we use at the restaurant. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (21:09)", "body": "I've used it and they're pretty good. They deliver Mothers."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:14)", "body": "Pizza and Chinese food. That's as far as I've evolved with the delivery thing. I actually enjoy cooking so, not too much use for the services."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:37)", "body": "There are at least half a dozen here in Austin now. They're great for when you're working a fat contract and it costs more to go out to eat than it does to order out."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:10)", "body": "Mt Gattis is a pizza place, they're not primarily a delivery place. For a food place that delivers, it would have to be Rocket. For a just delivery type outfit it would have to be Eat Out In, after all they brought me Little Italy the other day."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:09)", "body": "No!! Shoot, I can't remember the name of the place with the best pizza.. some cheap college version. Not Gumby's, not Pizza Pros... damn, I'll think of it."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:43)", "body": "She's thinking hard . . ."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:09)", "body": "smoke coming out my ears..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:20)", "body": "The smoke alarm just went off, I can tell."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:35)", "body": "pizza classics? hmmm... I think that's it. Look up they're phone # and I'll be able to confirm."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "Remind me to do that later."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:02)", "body": "I think it's 320-8080 but it's been over a year so I may be wrong!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:23)", "body": "That's it! Pizza Classics."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "What a f****** memory! I tell ya, if it's imprinted w/ food, I AM THERE! *giggle* everyone must think I weigh 200 lbs."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "I know better, you're skinny."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "good of course. With good points and all. And no hip points."}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "I'm round in a couple of key places, I suppose. I still have no frigging clue what 'hip points' are."}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:56)", "body": "What of? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 21, "subject": "The best chef", "response_count": 33, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:38)", "body": "Chef Tel? Martha Stewart? Julia Childs? Who would that be?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (23:29)", "body": "On TV right now, that would have to be... Emeril Lagasse. WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:25)", "body": "Is it true that the difference between cooks and chefs is that cooks do their own dishes?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:23)", "body": "(defers to kitchenmanager)"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:24)", "body": "Well, none of my cooks do their own dishes, but they do have to clean up the equipment, floors, etcetera. I refer to myself as a kitchen manager and not a chef because I have neither the paperwork or labor card, nor do I have the breadth of experience to not need the former. WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:11)", "body": "fair enough."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:11)", "body": "Never heard or him or that place. It has to be (the envelope please), whoever cooks at kitchenmanagers joint."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:10)", "body": "I prefer the irreverent type."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:44)", "body": "The irreverent chef?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:09)", "body": "yes, I'm getting a mental pic now..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:21)", "body": "What does the pic look like? Can you post it as a gif?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:36)", "body": "very personal, thank you."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "too personal, oops."}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "Ooooh! I love secrets! (actually that is a bold faced lie, but it sounded good)"}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:27)", "body": "hey, you'll be giving me a bad wrap with all that poor English floating about!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:45)", "body": "in something edible."}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:44)", "body": "whoever is doing the nibbling gets to choose (unless there's some great allergy or psychosamatic reaction associated w/ something in particular)"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:56)", "body": "oooh, tough one."}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (00:37)", "body": "Whose choice of utensils? (you still need to answer the garnish/presentation question, also...)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (17:19)", "body": "I thought you had gourmet hands... in that case, who needs utensils?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (23:55)", "body": "not I, just didn't know if you would..."}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (19:45)", "body": "I understand this conference is under new hosting powers. Might that mean we stay on topic and actually talk about chefs...or whatever...?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (19:47)", "body": "Has the opinion changed as to who is the best chef since last year? And, is this from the entire world or Austin or on TV or where?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:05)", "body": "Hawaii has dozens, if not hundreds of fine chefs with international reputations due to the visitor industry here. Many are from Europe: Jean Marie Josselin (Michel's and Chez Michel), and Walter Jaite (Kilauea Lodge), Peter Merriman (Merriman's); or Asia: Keo (Keo's Thai Cuisine). But my two favorites are local guys: Sam Choy (two restaurants in Honolulu, two in Kona, one on Maui, one on Guam, on in Tokyo, and one in New York) and Roy Yamaguchi (Roy's in Honolulu and New York). Sam Choy is on a roll no . Not only does he have that many restaurants (all successful, many different themes), he also has a statewide TV cooking show and his restaurants prepare the first class meals for United Airlines flights between Honolulu and the mainland."}, {"response": 31, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:06)", "body": "Check out Sam at http://www.samchoy.com"}, {"response": 32, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:13)", "body": "Thanks for the local plug, John. I could never have come up with such a list. Good old Sam is quite a guy - and a friend of the Vulcans, too!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:17)", "body": "I met Sam in 1987 when I first came to the Big Island from Honolulu and was emceeing comedy night each Friday (except for game nights) at the Kona Hilton (he was the executive chef there). One of things I loved about Sam was he thought my name was \"Taste this!\""}, {"response": 34, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:21)", "body": "*LOL* That's funny!!! I imagine you obliged him each and every time!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (22:42)", "body": "Are you kidding? I was looking forward to the food as much as the comedy!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (23:35)", "body": "And, you never bit the hand that fed the face, did you?! It is always a great thing for a cook to have an appreciative audience - even just one!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Fri, Oct  1, 1999 (02:25)", "body": "He's got a whole lot bigger audience than that."}, {"response": 38, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Fri, Oct  1, 1999 (21:23)", "body": "This is a really terrific thing. The Hunger Site at the U.N. This is a really cool website. All you do is click a button and somewhere in the world some hungry person gets a meal to eat at no cost to you. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors. All you do is go to the site and click. But, you're only allowed one click per day so spread the word to others. Visit the site and pass the word. http://www.thehungersite.com"}, {"response": 39, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (23:38)", "body": "Speaking of chefs in Hawaii, Georges Bouillion, a world-class French chef living in Honolulu, has just opened a French cooking institute here. If you would like to study French cooking in Hawaii, details are available 1 (808) 528-5627. When the students become advanced enough, Bouillion intends to open a relatively low cost French bistro run by his students. Stay tuned! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 22, "subject": "best wine list", "response_count": 20, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:38)", "body": "Should we ask John Mackovic?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Oct 14, 1997 (23:53)", "body": "Anyone would be better than me. Not much of a wine person. WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:27)", "body": "Mezzaluna had a pretty good list as I recall. So did Louie's off of Congress. There used to be a fabulous little underground place called the wine cellar. No food just spirits... closed down in '92 I believe. They had everything."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:24)", "body": "Hmmm, never heard of it, where was (is) it?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:12)", "body": "downtown off of Congress somewhere"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:31)", "body": "Near anything?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (12:29)", "body": "it's been so long... um. All you could see from the street was a door. Then you had to walk down a flight of stairs to get to the entrance."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (13:37)", "body": "That will be hard to find. Hey, I got a press pass to the MTV games, Sharon Jones just called. These are the extreme games in Zilker park. So look for another photo slide show on http://www.spring.com sometime soon. I wish you could see these Stacey."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (23:42)", "body": "How does one go about getting press passes? WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (00:33)", "body": "I'm getting mine from Sharon, but she only has three. If I hear of another, we'll have to press you into service as a reporter for the Spring."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (11:01)", "body": "When are the games?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (12:28)", "body": "Today, Saturday and Sunday. I'm going to Midnight Madness at UT tonight: women's volleyball and mens basketball playaround at midnight."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (13:01)", "body": "that usually happened on Halloween..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Oct 19, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "No, I meant in general. How does one apply for them. I already several places that I can report for, I just don't know the dynamics of applying for press passes for specific events. WER"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 19, 1997 (09:18)", "body": "I'm not sure, you have to know the right person. Just call the organization till you find the person in charge of passes."}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 20, 1997 (09:31)", "body": "you can always try and convince someone you freelance for a small publication and see where it gets you. But I'd agree, once I got out of reporting, \"who you know\" became the key element."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 20, 1997 (23:39)", "body": "ok WER"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:11)", "body": "Whenever I hear that I think of OJ."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:11)", "body": "sick sick man!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (05:57)", "body": "From Bob and Leighton, who are helping me to pull this one off. This may be *the* ultimate party of the summer. So don't miss it! Hi, Just got this invite email to a party. Thought I'd pass it on. Pool, music, dancing , free beer and margaritas. I will be there and you're invited. Ps. My party is still on the spring.net web site with sound if you have too much free time on your hands. Greetings! I just wanted to let you know that you are invited to a GALA DANCE BLOWOUT... This Saturday PM....starting at 6pm+...till 2AM It is brought to you by Myself and Paul Walhus...and is celebrating Paul's new house.. Serious dance music of the world....Britpop...Female Rockers...SKA....Mambo....Salsa.... Euro Techno.....Swing!.....Zydeco...Blues... And Yours truly is the DJ.... So..bring nothing but yourself...your friends..and your bathing suits (Big built-in pool!) Work up a sweat then pop in the pool...then dance again! We will provide beer and Margaritas. Instructions: Going north on 183 (lower level) make a right at Target (Payton Gin Rd.) Go down past Lanier High School and about 200 ft past is the Meat Store (look for Beef Jerky sign) This is Quail Creek. Make a left and go down 10 houses on the right. 9011 Quail Creek 303-4000 672-0405 Stop by for as long as you can! Thanks- Bob _____________________________________________ Bob Nagy / Chief Eng. KVRX FM / KVR-TV9 Amateur Radio - AB5N 442.15/R 1292.3/R www.botany.utexas.edu/facstaff/stfpages/bnagy ---------------------------------------------- restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 23, "subject": "Beer.  Who has the best selection?", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "Chris's Number 2?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:28)", "body": "Sounds cheesy but it depends on whether you want bottles or pints. Those chain restaurants with \"round the world\" beer tours usually have quite a few but they are all bottled. Double Dave's and Bennigan's both did that."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:28)", "body": "Chris's probably ranks up there with Fiesta and Central Market. And, hey, I'm a Double Dave's global beer expert. Got it in College Station. WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:12)", "body": "Gingerman?????? What's that?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:12)", "body": "Expensive joint downtown next to a coffee house. I think it's on fifth and the coffee house is Ruta Maya."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:45)", "body": "How many hip points have you accumulated at Ruta Maya, Stace?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:09)", "body": "Huh?!?!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:21)", "body": "Hip points."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:37)", "body": "I got hips but they ain't pointy."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:48)", "body": "Come to think of it. You have no points, just in the hip area though."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:03)", "body": "huh? again."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:23)", "body": "I didn't say that right, should I quit before I say the wrong thing?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "Or learn how to express yourself better in text! *grin*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "I'll work on texpression then."}, {"response": 17, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:44)", "body": "Er, textspression. We drowned in innuendo on the hip points comment. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 24, "subject": "buffet", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:12)", "body": "They've never been there, they just picked up on the name."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:12)", "body": "REALLY CHEAP and NASTY if you ask me!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:45)", "body": "Now, let's not get nasty."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:10)", "body": "In my experience, gross food that's sat out WAY to long."}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:45)", "body": "Luby's or Furrs. Which is best? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 25, "subject": "upscale", "response_count": 32, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (19:51)", "body": "I wish I had enough money to answer this one! WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (21:10)", "body": "Have you heard any rumors?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:24)", "body": "I can't even afford those, Terry! WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (09:28)", "body": "Well, I went to Jeffrey's twice during very flush times. It is definitely upscale with prices to match. They serve exotic birds that you may never have heard of, and their are candles at every table. The menus were hand written. And no one's in a hurry."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (23:57)", "body": "We have candles on our tables, too! WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:29)", "body": "I don't get to frequent \"upscale\" places but in Denver they have \"the Fort\" on the foothills."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:13)", "body": "Does Jeffrey's ... or any upscale place ... have private rooms where you could have sex while you eat?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (18:46)", "body": "I did once in Louisville at a restaurant that had private rooms."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:13)", "body": "Not ever under the table at Mr. Gatti's?!? just teasing. FYI, I musn't be 'upscale' I've never been to any of the aforementioned restaurants."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:45)", "body": "Never even thought of it till you mentioned it. Have you?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:10)", "body": "Not at Mr. Gatti's!! Have you SEEN how dirty their floors are?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:22)", "body": "Yup. You have a good point. Where would you suggest?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "a clean thick pile carpet with long opaque tablecloths so as not to encourage voyuers,"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:24)", "body": "Which upscale restaurant has this?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:44)", "body": "Like I said... I really don't qualify as 'upscale' so I'm relegated to have sex in other places. C'est la vie."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "Alright let's talk any which scale, can you comment on that?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:46)", "body": "Actually having sex in a restuarant doesn't really appeal to me. UNLESS of course we're talking one of those I'm so f****** worked up and anyplace is a good palce as long as it's NOW. Then, heck... anywhere with a clean floor... or table... or bathroom... or kitchen counter... or patio... or balcony... Whooo! I'm thinkin' all sorts of things again!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:43)", "body": "NOW? As in right this red hot second?"}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:57)", "body": "Arousal is my favorite sport! And yes, Paul, I get to chatting away and get too worked up for a day at work!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:10)", "body": "Should we start a topic in sports called arousal?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:52)", "body": "Probably not... the food conference usually does it for me."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:27)", "body": "Does it? Details?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (09:53)", "body": "of course! Heck, half the time, this is what keeps me coming to work!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:25)", "body": "Speaking of your day... going to work today? Feeling better?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:34)", "body": "Sorry and sorry. C'mon man... someone's going to have to whip you in to shape! Or spank you. Or fondle you. Or, I'd better stop here."}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:03)", "body": "*smile* what an invite. the best offer I've had all morning!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:11)", "body": "I enjoy it personally, that would be why I carry on so. I could not answer as to your purposes, reasons and/or intents."}, {"response": 38, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:31)", "body": "Thank you, affirmation is nice. Besides it's one of the first semi-complimentary things I've heard all morning (directed toward me or anyone else for that matter!)"}, {"response": 40, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:52)", "body": "You, sir, are crusin' for a virtual brusin'!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (10:48)", "body": "WooWoo! WER is back! Thanks for the virtual groping!"}, {"response": 44, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (10:56)", "body": "(LOL) You'll have to catch me (running around the virtual playing field) first! *flirty giggle*"}, {"response": 46, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (11:12)", "body": "You're chasing me around cyberspace and when you catch me (if you can) all hell is sure to break loose. We might have to go into seclusion for that event though -- this \"other people wacthing\" thing isn't really a turn-on. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 26, "subject": "comfort food", "response_count": 20, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:40)", "body": "Threadgills probably. Central Market just dropped out of the compeition in my book."}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:30)", "body": "mashed potatos are the ultimate comfort food. If you add cream and garlic they are simply the ultimate food!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:25)", "body": "Mashed potatoes are very comforting. As are French Fries."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:31)", "body": "Dot's Place WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:32)", "body": "I ate there! Dots place is good! Get there a little late or early to avoid huge lines. And sometimes this doesn't even work. It's the North Austin answer to the once popular Virginia's in South Austin. (no longer around)."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (12:30)", "body": "I ate at Dot's once and had a yucky experience with their salad bar. Food poisoning according to the doc!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (13:37)", "body": "This was not good. I had a much better experience there with all american greasy food."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "Magnolia's got the comfort thing going for me. Do most people eat when they need comfort? When I'm upset I can't eat anything... sadly enough days on end went by in college. When I'm upset I exercise (and don't eat) it makes for a grizzly combo -- no fuel/expending tons of energy. Eight of ten times though, I'd feel better with the exercise in a few days and everything would right itself."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "These days I find the most comfort at the icehouse."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "Not at the Q?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:43)", "body": "The Q too."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:57)", "body": "My comfort place... St. Mark's Coffee house in LoDo. Of course, that's if I'm feeling like leaving the comfort of my own home."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:10)", "body": "What place comforted you the most in Austin?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:53)", "body": "Flipnotics in the summer. MOJO's in the winter. -- I don't KNOW why! I also really enjoyed a quick jaunt through Zilker and the Greenbelt on my MTB or an easy jog around Town Lake (dawn or dusk, never in between)"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:28)", "body": "You don't know WHY?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (09:55)", "body": "I don't really know why I prefered one in the summer and another in the winter but, tis true -- you did not find me at MOJO's in the warm months. In retrospect, most of those months seemed warm compared to here. The weekend high was 14 degrees and we were at a football game!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (13:48)", "body": "Which game? Bronchos?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:04)", "body": "Nope. The AirForce Academy vs. Wyoming."}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "What was the outcome?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:12)", "body": "AirForce Academy won. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 27, "subject": "best late night, all night", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "Katz's comes to mind."}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:32)", "body": "magnolia on S Congress. Why am I still chatting about Austin places?!?! THe ultimate all-nighter place here is the Broadway Cafe. Super seedy, dive diner. We've had some scary moments at that place but they're up all night when we are so... and fabulous egg sandwiches."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:26)", "body": "In Bastrop, there's the Texas Grill. Not a great place, but after all, there's not much else in Bastrop."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:34)", "body": "Partial to Kerbey Lane on Kerbey Lane. WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:14)", "body": "good call! Although it had gotten super crowded before I left Austin."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:33)", "body": "I'm partial to Kerby Lane on 183 North, being that I spend most of my time in N Austin these days."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (12:30)", "body": "I really didn't like the north location but maybe it's improved."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "They have a nice sitting area with couches where you can hang out and drink coffee and socialize while you wait for a table. But they did put up a car wash about 3 feet away, and this really messed up the view where there used to be trees and brush. I love their baked potato omelette. Good stuff. And their coffees pretty decent."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (23:47)", "body": "Only eaten at the central one. WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (00:34)", "body": "The North location is like something you would expect to see in S Austin, a definite anachronism for the neighborhood. It's almost slackeresque in it's laidbackness."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (09:05)", "body": "It's the tiramasu plug in for Stacey that she's after, possibly."}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "Hadn't thought of it quite that way, I must have been really tired. WER"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "What are Starseeds and Highlife? New?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:43)", "body": "I was wondering too."}, {"response": 16, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:46)", "body": "There's a new restaurant poll issue out, so I'll have lots of comments after I go through it. Things have changed. Best Late Night has to be Kerbey Lane still. I don't know about Star Seeds and HighLife, they may not even be open now. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 28, "subject": "How many restaurants are there in Austin?", "response_count": 25, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (15:05)", "body": "From my perspective, Too Darn Many! WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (12:38)", "body": "Over on http://austin.citysearch.com/ they list how many restaurants there are per each of their categories. There are 35 Italian listed, but I haven't had time to add up all the categories, and cross check for multiple listings. Sorry. WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "That's probably conservative. How many total restaurants do they list? I'd be curious to see the stats in each category."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (10:33)", "body": "On page http://austin.citysearch.com/Austin/Eat_and_Sleep/Restaurants/ it lists 1,271 locations, at least 100 are pizzas. WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (11:10)", "body": "That's probably about a third of the actual restaurants in Austin?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (20:52)", "body": "Ah, but there is only one that really counts...*smile*"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (11:40)", "body": "gosh... who cares how many?!??! just gimme the good ones! Man I miss Kim Phung!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (13:39)", "body": "Kim Phung is great, and it's right down the street from my house in town. I had an awesome diner at Trudy's last night. Beans, rice, chalupas, the works. And a marga reeta."}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (14:14)", "body": "Terry, if you are into beans and rice, would you ever fit right in here in Hawaii. Everything is served with rice - stew and rice, beans and rice...but so far I have not seen spaghetti and rice...and it is served with every meal. Marga Reeta gets around. I have seen her name at watering holes around Hilo, too *grin*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (16:02)", "body": "next time you go Paul... have a Sangrita for me please!!! Trudy's was a weekly spot for me... TWO kinds of salsa... great patio... *sob* the memories..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (17:29)", "body": "OK Sangrita. Woo Hoo!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:47)", "body": "Are they still eating lotsa beans and rice out there in HI."}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (14:08)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:25)", "body": "Oh Yes!!! It is not my favorite by any manner or means - but it works well for really runny chili and to feed huge hungry crowds. Since it is political season it will become the staple of open houses along with stew and rice. Absolutely everything is served with rice here - with the exception of pasta..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:18)", "body": "I just realized that there was no Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll in 1998. Those dogs! How dare they skip a year like that! There's no way you can skip a year and keep up with the volatile Austin restaurant scene. The dismal Italian restaurant scene (ok, Lil Italy excepted) has become a bright spot with the arrival of Vespaio, Bellagio, Siena, Cippolina, and Cafe Mia). And three new French places, Chez Noux, Jean Lucs French Bistro and Sardine Rouge with Aquarelle around the corner. Vietnamese and Mexy places sprout up like mushrooms in a cowpasterure after a heavy Austin Spring rainstorm."}, {"response": 16, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:31)", "body": "And Castle Hill got voted this years best of all. It's a \"date place\"."}, {"response": 17, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:17)", "body": "Is that if you are a weathy businessman or dating one? Or is it reasonable to expect college kids on s special date to be able to afford it without taking out another student loan? Whatzit like?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:18)", "body": "Since you are talking about the restauants in Austin, I will not add my favorites to the list from Kona and Hilo..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:10)", "body": "Sure, Hawaii's restaurants are fair game. Maybe we can pit our finest against your best? How many restaurants are there on the Islands?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (18:42)", "body": "How many? I have no idea - but with 4000 sq miles on this Island alone, there are more than a few. I would guess Hilo has perhaps 15 really nice ones and dozens of local food and fast food establishments. All of the big and really plush hotels on the Kohala Coast and in Kona have at least one excellent dining room. One is a complex of 5 different-theme hotels each with its own very lovely dining rooms - very expensive and very good food. Since I hear everything is BIGGER and better in Texas, I would be surprised to find anything from one of the smallest states equal to your finest. Sadly, there are not many of the top categories that I have dined in since my dad died. He afforded me that pleasure whenever he visited."}, {"response": 21, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (20:32)", "body": "Per John's suggestion, I counted the entries in the yellow pages and came up with roughly 300 on this island - at least those with phone numbers. However, some fine dining rooms in hotels are lumped together under one hotel phone number...so it is just a rough guestimate."}, {"response": 22, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (20:34)", "body": "Perhaps that is balanced out by the fact that Subway Sandwiches is listed in there, too. I don't consider that a restaurant, even though you CAN eat there..."}, {"response": 23, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:27)", "body": "Yeah, I eat at Subway sometimes, it's a pretty healthy meal and low cal. They're running ads about how some 300 lb guy ate nothing but Subway sandwichs for a year and lost an incredible amount of weight. But boring? Yes. Austin has about 600,000 people now in just the city limits, I would guess the area has about 2 to 3 thousand restaurants. If I do an http://www.infospace.com search on restaurants, it gives me 1,134 restaurants in Austin. What happens if you do that for Honolulu or Hawaii? I get 1,059 for Honolulu. And 106 for Hilo. It won't let me do a search on Hawaii. What are the other big cities there besides these two?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:46)", "body": "So Honolulu and Austin are fairly comparable, I wonder what the census will show the population to be in 2000?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (12:33)", "body": "Interesting about Honolulu and Austin. I'll have to check the website. The second largest city in Hawaii is also on Oahu and is Kailua (different from Kailua-Kona) Also Waimanalo and Kaneohe on Oahu. On this Island, try Kamuela where the Parker Ranch is. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 29, "subject": "Dim Sum", "response_count": 45, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:48)", "body": "I'd have to agree, although this is the ONLY place I've ever had Dim Sum."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:43)", "body": "Define dim sung please someone."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:50)", "body": "Dim sung or dim sum? \u001b[1~Dim, the Elvis impersonator sung at the Copacabana before his operation to become a Barbara Striesand lookalike. Dim Sum is a Vietnamese (?) brunch event where the waitress rolls a cart around with all sorts of edible delicacies and you take what you want, when you want. The most famous Dim Sum dish would be chicken's feet. Something about good luck I believe. If you go to Tien Hong, there is plenty of veg food to keep you busy! I think the whole affair is most fun when you go in a large group."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:44)", "body": "Barbra, I'm so veklempt!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "veRklempt!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:11)", "body": "Now, I'm really verklempt."}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:54)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:28)", "body": "*tickle*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (09:55)", "body": "*smile*"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:25)", "body": "Where are they wandering?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:30)", "body": "If I'm lucky, I may know before I'm told!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:36)", "body": "Yes, there are always choices. That's why you shouldn't find yourself \"in a bad place\" for too long. You can fix it. You can't control some situations though, so the \"fix\" isn't always what you'd hoped for. Now... back to those wandering hands. Do you believe me about the panties yet?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "tisdel", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (16:20)", "body": "What are we talking about?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (18:25)", "body": "Dim Sum restaurants. Know any good ones? Hey, welcome by the way."}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:05)", "body": "Indecent Exposure again today. Trust me, te undies thing is a preference -- much too restrictin at times."}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "I went Dim Sum last night on my date. To Pacific Moon at 2712 Bee Caves Road. The food was awesome. I had a salad, with mushroom soup for an appetizer (the soup was made with Chaterelles and Shitake, it was the *best* soup I've ever had), and I had the seafood sampler for an entree. When I first walked in, the decor was that of a very upscale whorehouse, bright red Victorian furniture in a living room setting that didn't look very restauranty at all. But very comfortable. They had a scrapbook that I looked through of their previous incarnation in Little Rock, AK. My date, an extremely attractive blond, was great company and just happened to have a gift certificate from her movie producer friend. I'll have to send him a thank you note. Great dining experience. Dim Sung at it's best."}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "Is this the same date as last week (movie night)? Or are you \"playing the field\"?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:14)", "body": "Same. But I play on the field also."}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:53)", "body": "outfield, infield? Any preferences?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (13:28)", "body": "Prefer the female players."}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "Not a switch hitter and no plans of becoming one."}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (10:49)", "body": "Prim and not-quite proper today!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (11:08)", "body": "Where were you kissing? *giggle*"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (11:23)", "body": "Auctions are said to become a declining segment of ecommerce in the stats I looked at yet you guys get ever more wildly successful. It's great to hear your success story."}, {"response": 35, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (11:25)", "body": "Hey Paul, you lost?? You just bardged in to our virtual bedroom!!! *laugh*"}, {"response": 37, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (22:08)", "body": "I just got these Dim Sum frozen tofu/veggie wraps with sobaya kamut/buckwheat noodles from the food co-op. The kids can hardly wait...."}, {"response": 38, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "well... how were they?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jun  8, 1998 (16:59)", "body": "made by a company called Dim Sum?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (19:24)", "body": "No, they're from Health is Wealth. Haven't had 'em yet, though--saving them for a Wednesday night (the girls eat at my parents' on Wed.)"}, {"response": 41, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (20:30)", "body": "that would be tonight"}, {"response": 42, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (13:51)", "body": "Yeah, but my husband's out of town. I hate to dim sum alone, don't you, wer?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (16:01)", "body": "never dim sum-med, actually..."}, {"response": 44, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (19:32)", "body": "dim was sum good times i had with Dimmie. towards the end of our friendship, tho, she beat me to death several times with a turnip. but she only snapped my arm off twice. if she'd call me tonight to eat out with her, i'd jump at the chance, put on some icecream, drive over and pick her up, all within like 20 minutes probably."}, {"response": 45, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jun 15, 1998 (13:09)", "body": "You are too much!! :-)"}, {"response": 46, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jun 15, 1998 (16:37)", "body": "Isn't he?!?! I have never met anyone quite so confusing as Jim Gross, and that's the honest truth."}, {"response": 47, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (13:58)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 48, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (21:43)", "body": "He probably feels the same way about you, Riette! :-D"}, {"response": 49, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (23:51)", "body": "Wednesday, again, did you et dem dim sum, hon?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (00:06)", "body": "Good one, wer! Nope. He is in a frenzy getting ready for this vacation, and I ate leftovers and went to Wal-Mart. How's that for quality time?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (00:11)", "body": "depends, what did you get at Wal-Mart?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (00:15)", "body": "Birthday gift for my nephew (like, one hour before the party!)--art supplies."}, {"response": 53, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:57)", "body": "It's because of people like you that people become artists and biologists. Mum's best friend always forgot our birthday, then she'd rush to the nearest supermarket and get us art supplies, because all kids like to draw. As did I, but Sonja liked disecting dead insects, so she'd take the little sharpner apart, and use it as a scalpel, while the paint brushes became poking instruments. In the end I became an artist and she a biologist . . . so last minute gifts truly have their uses, you see."}, {"response": 54, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (00:00)", "body": "Yeah, imagine what your you'd be doing with your life if she'd bought you Safari Barbie."}, {"response": 55, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "He could brush her hair, undress her everywhere . . ."}, {"response": 56, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:47)", "body": "What does Dim Sum mean. Keep going Riette. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 3, "subject": "Mexican", "response_count": 34, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "This one's easy... Arranda's and Curra's Grill. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (13:54)", "body": "Location?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (11:26)", "body": "The Arranda's I go to is #3 over here on Burnet across from Academy. Curra's is on Oltorf(sp?) but I don't remember the address off hand. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:11)", "body": "Never even heard of them--after my time, obviously. Will give them a try. Seis salsas chicken mole, may I reiterate, es muy fabu. I think my choices may be a bit more low-brow since I'm poor? Anyway, in Dallas, Avila's chicken mole rules. can you tell chicken mole is all I eat at mex rest?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:12)", "body": "Never even heard of them--after my time, obviously. Will give them a try. Seis salsas chicken mole, may I reiterate, es muy fabu. I think my choices may be a bit more low-brow since I'm poor? Anyway, in Dallas, Avila's chicken mole rules. can you tell chicken mole is all I eat at mex rest?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:34)", "body": "El Azteca is before, during and (probably) after your time. Great place. Why can they ever get it at the Mexican drive up that I got to that I really don't want the Super Tex with meat, I want it without meat. I drove up today and said, numerous times, *no meat* *no meat* as in *N*O**M*E*A*T* and when I got to the window they had two orders with meat. This happens every time I go to Taco Cabana, not matter which one I go to. But they finally end up getting it right and it's a but above Taco Bell for drive through fare. Ooops, I'm drifting to fast food, I'll carry on in the fast food topic in the future."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (20:47)", "body": "Possible es necessario para usted decir \"Sin Carne, Por Favor\" cuando usted quiera comida para llevar. Man, I hope I said all that close to correctly, WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:08)", "body": "I meant \"cut above\" not but above."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (14:06)", "body": "Sorry WER... no carne for me either. Mexican food in Denver has not impressed me. ... Taco Bell notwithstanding!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Oct 14, 1997 (00:22)", "body": "I know, wrong topic, wrong conference, but that's what I ate today, Taco Bell. WER"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 14, 1997 (07:08)", "body": "I like their 7 layer and their veggie wrap, but it's been a while. I just haven't been able to work up a taco bell moment lately."}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (10:24)", "body": "I had a seven layer on Saturday before the ride! Instant and long lasting energy."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (14:23)", "body": "Wow, a taco bell moment!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (10:10)", "body": "Had another one yesterday before my ride too!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:44)", "body": "I'll have to try it, has anyone here ever tried it?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Sun, Nov  9, 1997 (19:53)", "body": "I've been to Fonda San Miguel a couple of times. It was real good, I thought. Not cheap. The food is definitely interior. Haven't had anything like it around here. You really need to try it at least once. Good for special occasions. Drop in a Quarter, first time caller, finally posted!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:36)", "body": "Great Mexican place here in Denver (but don't go for the food!) is Casa Bonita. Cliff Divers, liters of beverages, puppet shows, magicans and all u can eat sopapillas!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:36)", "body": "Jon! Welcome first time caller. I'll fill you in on Jon. He's a big time surfer, ham radio operator and knows something about UNIX (a big plus in my book). He's got this cool website at http://access.spring.com/~awc"}, {"response": 21, "author": "jpenner", "date": "Tue, Nov 11, 1997 (15:41)", "body": "Thanks for the plug. Actually it's _wind_surfing. I wish I was good at surfing too. I tried surfing for the first time last month in L.A.. Lots of fun (and work). Just got back from lunch at La Margarita's in Round Rock (I35, N of Hwy 79). Their fajitas are great. Handmade tortillas & they bring you fresh, warm ones as you consume them. I eat there weekly. Three can easily feast on the \"fajitas for 2\". The smoked chicken ones are the best (if you eat chicken). Ask for a table in Ginger or Chuy's section (no relation)."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 11, 1997 (17:02)", "body": "I'll be interested in hearing about your windsurfing adventures in the appropriate topic."}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (10:38)", "body": "Mmmm... I like hearing about the MExican food!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (11:38)", "body": "Last night I went out for a beer and chips and salsa with a friend. We ended up eating an entire meal at the Bluebonnet Cafe in Denver. The chips were delicious and fresh the salsa was spicy and had a lot of cilantro BUT the onion chunks were to large for an onion hater. My cheese enchilada was okay, the bean tostada (chalupa) was excellent -- the beans did it! BUt the chile relleno was an anomoly. Actually, compared with other Denver rellenos, it was normal BUT... it was slices of green chilles packed in o a wonton wrapper w/cheese and red sauce and deep fried. Good but just not the same. I do like the fact that every year Denver is privvy to the Hatch green chiles from NM. In Texas poblanos were usually as close as it came and green chiles were only foound in cans. In the fall you can buy fresh roasted chiles from street vendors -- heaven on a stringer!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (18:45)", "body": "Just about any mexican restaurant east of I 35 is a good place to eat."}, {"response": 26, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (08:06)", "body": "Last night I went out for a margarita and Mexican dinner at Guero's on South Congress. The frozen margarita's were excellent, the salsas were fine and the chips were fresh. The atmosphere there is superb, it's set in a former feed mill and some of the trappings of those days still hang on the wall. There's a lively, vivacious crowd there. It feels like the place is alive. We sat in the back, and there were pictures of two of Clinton's visits to Gueros on the wall. We had a saucy, blond waitress with tied back dreadlocks who told us stories of celebrity sitings, just two nights ago Neve Campbell was through there with some equally spectacular male movie star (forget the name though). I ate enchiladas smothered with cheese, no sauce and a salad and pinto beans. The food was fresh and delicious. The atmosphere, as I've described, was out of this world quintessential South Austin. Highly recommended."}, {"response": 27, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (13:48)", "body": "But, did you go to Little Italy as the topic title implies and did you do what I requested? If not, I'm not gonna like you anymore!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (13:49)", "body": "...Or are you the poster boy for LI?! Some times it is difficult to tell..."}, {"response": 29, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:54)", "body": "This will be my last shot of the night, because writing about these restaurants is making me hungfier and hungrier. I\ufffdm going out to eat! In fact, I can\ufffdt write one more comment. It would be excruciating with this hunger build up. So you\ufffdll just have to wait. I\ufffdm not finished, you see. I will be back with more biased opinions on the rest of the topics in this conference. Besides, I\ufffdve got a cramp in my leg from sitting here writing about these restaurants. Time to get up and moving about and get some good grub. Tomorrow you will learn more and you will even find out where I went for dinner. Can you handle the suspense?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:56)", "body": "I'll try - house male is making dinner this evening and it is always an \"adventure in eating.\" Enjoy, Terry! I'm starving, too!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jun 16, 2003 (09:48)", "body": "Went to Guerro's and Curra's during our stay in Texas... OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEE! We don't get anything like that up here in Colorado!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jun 24, 2003 (23:40)", "body": "They're both great, so is El Sol y La Luna. Anyone one of these makes a great occasion."}, {"response": 33, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (04:48)", "body": "XLs 2003 best Mex. LATIN AMERICAN \ufffd Do\ufffda Emilia's. Cheese bread, fried yucca and empanadas are part of the Colombian fare served at this small, colorful eatery. 1411 E. Seventh St.; 478-2520. \ufffd Elsi's. Distinct spices mark the Salvadoran fare from the Mexican served here. 4708 Burnet Road, 454-0747. \ufffd Habana. Ropa vieja, a large mound of shredded beef cooked in tomato sauce with Spanish spices, stars in the Cuban and Caribbean lineup. 2728 S. Congress Ave.; 443-4252. \ufffd Sampaio's. Traditional Brazilian fare includes feijoada (a black bean and meat stew) and pao de queijo (cheese bread). 2809 San Jacinto Blvd., 469-9988. MEXICAN \ufffd Angie's. A popular spot with a winning lunch combo: taco of ground beef in a thick, homemade corn tortilla, two chicken enchiladas in spicy sauce, rice and beans. 900 E. Seventh St.; 476-5413. \ufffd Antonio's Mexican Restaurant. Hefty Tex-Mex in Round Rock from a local chain with more than three decades of experience. 16912 N. Interstate 35; 238-8969. \ufffd AusTexMex Cafe. Jorge Arredondo and family turning out Jorge's longtime Tex-Mex fare. 2804 N. Interstate 35, 479-0288. \ufffd Chuy's. See Austin classics. \ufffd Curra's Grill. The northern location of the longtime South Austin institution offers the same tasty dishes such as cochinita pibil, a pork item from the Yucat\ufffdn. 6801 Burnet Road; 451-2560. Also 614 E Oltorf St., 444-0012. \ufffd El Azteca. Family-owned for more than 40 years, with spicy Tex-Mex, including a beef chile relleno topped with zesty ranchero sauce. 2600 E. Seventh St.; 477-4701. \ufffd El Meson. Remarkable little breakfast-and-lunch spot with delicious items such as squash blossom quesadillas. 5808 Burleson Road, 416-0749. \ufffd Evita's Botanitas. Interior Mexican fare includes chicken breast stuffed with chorizo, mushrooms and cheese and jalape\ufffdo-stuffed shrimp. 6400 S. First St.; 441-2424. \ufffd Garibaldi's. A mix of interior and border food includes a fiery fish soup, cochinita pibil and delicious chile relleno. 4201 S. Congress Ave.; 326-9788. \ufffd Las Palomas. Try the broiled fish with chipotle sauce served by the Corona family for two decades at their West Lake Hills spot. 3201 Bee Cave Road; 327-9889. \ufffd Las Palmas. Top-notch enchiladas, including avocado-chicken and spinach from the Cantu family. 1209 E. Seventh St., 457-4944.Read more about Las Palmas. \ufffd Manuel's. Strong flavors penetrate virtually every bite, with an emphasis on interior fare. 10201 Jollyville Road, 345-1042. Also 310 Congress Ave.; 472-7555. \ufffd Matt's El Rancho. See Austin classics. \ufffd Taco X-Press. Some of the best tacos in town at Maria Corbalan's popular South Austin joint. 2529 S. Lamar Blvd.; 444-0261. \ufffd Tres Amigos. Longtime Austin chain produces several Tex-Mex dishes, such as the chicken flautas, that are mild enough to serve spice-avoiding visitors. 1801 S. Capital of Texas Highway, 327-1776. \ufffd Trudy's South Star. Food, including the mushroom enchiladas, so good that it often produces a long wait. 4141 S. Capital of Texas Highway; 326-9899."}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:12)", "body": "My vote still has to be El Azteca, Trudy's for noise and excitement, Curras for exotica, Chuy's for atmosphere, and I guess Gueros is a no show (surprising)."}, {"response": 35, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Dec 15, 2006 (17:33)", "body": "i like gringo's and mamasitas here in S.A."}, {"response": 36, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sun, Dec 24, 2006 (11:47)", "body": "from http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/RestaurantPoll?display=Readers&Year=2006 (Chronicle restaurant poll) Mexican Not Tex-Mex Fonda San Miguel Runner-up Manuel's Honorable Mention Curra's Grill, El Chile Cafe y Cantina, Las Manitas Avenue Cafe Tex-Mex Chuy's Runners-up Maudie's, Trudy's Honorable Mention Matt's El Rancho, G\ufffdero's Taco Bar Taqueria Tie: Changos, Taco Shack Runners-up Taqueria Arandas, Tacodeli Honorable Mention El Chilito Tacos y Cafe, Maria's Taco Xpress, Tamale House and that's your 2006 Chronicle reader's poll picks. Do you agree? What's your list? I'd agree with G\ufffdero's Taco Bar and Matt's El Rancho. It's been a while since I've been to Fonda San Miguel. My favorite, as always, is El Azteca. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 30, "subject": "Best restaurant to take your kids?", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:48)", "body": "Oh man! Give kids more credit than that! I have to add that no one does French Fries like McDonald's though."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "Wrong."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:51)", "body": "Well, Hyde Park Grill notwithstanding."}, {"response": 5, "author": "tisdel", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (16:24)", "body": "I think the best place to take your kids is Chucke Cheeses. I know if I ask around I will get a 90% cheese's.You should ask around yourself?Chucke gets my vote?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:06)", "body": "What's Hang Town?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "Hangtown Grill, I haven't been there yet. But I'm going out to dinner tonight."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "But, as we know, you didn't go to HangTown!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:16)", "body": "Nope, nada on Hangtown. Went to the aforementioned Pacific Rim cuisine place called Pacific Moon. Collin Lius is a chef of 25 years there. It used to be the old Chinatwon location on Bee Caves. They have a special veggie menu too. Great place. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 31, "subject": "Best place to take your parents?", "response_count": 14, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:49)", "body": "Ewwwwwww! County Lune IMHO is an overpriced Bill Miller BBQ."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "What about the Iron something place downtown. Best in my book."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:51)", "body": "Dunno what you're talking about."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:45)", "body": "It's the Iron something, help me kitchenman"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "Man, that would've been a freat opportunity to start making up names!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "*smile* \"great\" smartass! I meant \"great.\" *giggle*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:11)", "body": "Wow, what a frenzy of mirth."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:55)", "body": "Ooh! 'Frenzy' There is a word I will try to work in to my conversations at least three times today. I'll let you know how it goes."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:29)", "body": "How did it go, with your frenzy of using the word frenzy?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (09:56)", "body": "Only used it twice before I zoned out on my purpose. Damn."}, {"response": 14, "author": "tisdel", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (16:29)", "body": "I think you homosapians are defeating the purpose of this room?=)We are suppose to be chating amongst ourselves in a fashionable mannor. Why be so uncooth? Just ask yourself,does this affect my character? I always take my parents to the Drake to eat!!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (18:25)", "body": "What's the Drake?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:07)", "body": "No Brian, sadly enough (from your perspective, maybe) this does NOT affect my character. It pretty much goes hand and hand with it!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "She's a character. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 32, "subject": "Romantic hot spots", "response_count": 30, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:12)", "body": "Do you want to describe yours, stacey, or just leave it to our imaginations? WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (10:38)", "body": "*giggle* I'm sure your imagination will be sufficient!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "Romantic hot spot: Mt Bonnell."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:17)", "body": "Yes, but it's difficult to find a tim when there are not a few dozen other people squaking about!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (14:26)", "body": "How about one of the islands out on Lake Travis?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (09:29)", "body": "never been"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (10:36)", "body": "Pretty romantic, especially if you swim to them from a sailboat. Along with that moonlight swim."}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (12:04)", "body": "oh my! My imagination's running wild with possiblities."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (13:53)", "body": "Let it run wiiiild!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "Well, there's that place just behind my ear, kinda of toward the top of my neck..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "Now that's a hot spot if I ever heard of one."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:51)", "body": "I like Castle Hill, the food is delicious but I don't agree with the romantic label. And yes, WER, we've been through this before! *smile*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "deja vu time."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:52)", "body": "If it was good the first time, I usually don't mind going back."}, {"response": 18, "author": "tisdel", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (16:37)", "body": "\"caughs\" \"looks around\" Well the hot spot for me is the Virgin Island's resort. While you listen to the romantic music,sitting in the hot tub.Under the moonlight,with a bottle of champaigne on ice. With a beutiful women next to me as I stroke her wet hair......."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:12)", "body": "*still laughing* Brian, if you have ever tried, you MUST know wet hair is very hard to \"stroke.\" A pretty scenario though. I gotta laugh because most of the seemingly sexiest places/situations are, in reality, not so great. For example, sex on the beach -- can you say \"ouch?\" Tiny, grainy pieces on all those soft parts is NOT fun. There are ways around this of course and making love in the mountains requires only a bit of foresight to be just as 'romantic' in reality as it is in theory. WER, as I said before (when we were talking about thunderstorms, torrential rains and balconies) my fantasies and ideal hot spots change with my moods. Some of the buttons on my body never do though! Sorry, Brian... welcome to the restaurant conference!!!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "How about sex in the surf? At the beach."}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "Those waves bring in lotsa scratchy sand!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:16)", "body": "But they clean you off too!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:53)", "body": "there are places I'd rather not be exfoliated!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (13:29)", "body": "So, a solution, a blanket beach party!"}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (13:30)", "body": "*grin* you just won't quit will you?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (15:49)", "body": "Not when it comes to the beach!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:48)", "body": "I'm going to check out Castle Hill next."}, {"response": 29, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (14:08)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 30, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:31)", "body": "Um...let us know how it is. (I was warned by a certain person dear to me to stay out of this conference. I thought I knew why - I was right...he was right!)...but to answer Terry, I dodge stuff I druther not read..."}, {"response": 31, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:34)", "body": "...where are you when I need a hug?!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:38)", "body": "There are so many romantic places here to \"eat\" that it would not be easy to choose just a few - but the scenery I prefer is overlooking a live eruption (can tell where my mind is - I typed that as love eruption the first time...)"}, {"response": 33, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:21)", "body": "OK the winner is. The envelope please. Basil's! Mirabelle, Carmelos Chez Nous are runners up. Honorable mention goes to Mars, Ararat, and Vespaio. What! No mention of Jeffreys! What a disgrace!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:49)", "body": "Nah! Volcano House overlooking Kilauea Caldera restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 33, "subject": "Best place out of town (inside 60 miles)", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:45)", "body": "Hmmmm, maybe. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 34, "subject": "Best restaurant in the world", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 22, 1999 (16:56)", "body": "on a routine search for parrot salami, this site came up... http://www.lyoba.ch/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 22, 1999 (17:10)", "body": "i like the gravity-defying cows... restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 35, "subject": "best restaurant in your town (outside of Austin Texas)", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:29)", "body": "I've been sprinkling references to Dallas restaurants throughout this conference. Sorry!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:38)", "body": "No sweat, Dallas folks are welcome. Dallas restaurants are fair game, any restaurants anywhere are ok to talk about."}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (20:20)", "body": "Don't think there is one on this side of the island - they are all acceptable and pedestrian...the really nice ones are on the Kona side and are costly, as well. Great scenery and surroundings which you cannot eat but pay for, anyway."}, {"response": 4, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (21:11)", "body": "Sam Choy owns and operates several of Hawaii's finest restaurants, including two in Kona. Then there is Peter Merriman (Merriman's) in Waimea, and Walter Jaite (Kilauea Lodge), all fine dining on this island. Hilo used to have a wonderful Cajun/Creole restaurant, Roussel's, but there are not enough fine dining types on this side of the island to support such a place."}, {"response": 5, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Fri, Oct  1, 1999 (21:25)", "body": "This is a really terrific thing. The Hunger Site at the U.N. This is a really cool website. All you do is click a button and somewhere in the world some hungry person gets a meal to eat at no cost to you. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors. All you do is go to the site and click. But, you're only allowed one click per day so spread the word to others. Visit the site daily and pass the word. http://www.thehungersite.com"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (11:42)", "body": "Wild Ginger's got to be one of my faves here!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (23:41)", "body": "Georges Bouillion, a world-class French chef living in Honolulu, has just opened a French cooking institute here. If you would like to study French cooking in Hawaii, details are available 1 (808) 528-5627. When the students become advanced enough, Bouillion intends to open a relatively low cost French bistro run by his students. Stay tuned!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:50)", "body": "Did John attend this French cooking school? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 36, "subject": "best waitperson", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (14:59)", "body": "I say, the ladies of the ice house."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:52)", "body": "you would."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:45)", "body": "But it would be tough to pick one."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (12:59)", "body": "The one with the biggest boobs, tightest butt and naughtist smile, I'm sure!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "Woo Woo!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:11)", "body": "Woo woo alert."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (00:33)", "body": "BRAVE NEW ORDER By Jack Mauro A man I worked for, a maitre'd/restaurant owner of the Old School, once told me that he always ignored resumes and applications when hiring servers. He'd nod, make polite noises as the applicant presented himself, and then he'd ask the person to bring a folder or a sheet of meaningless paper over to the bar. He would watch how the person walked, moved, and generally performed this relatively simple task. And he would base his decision to hire primarily on that. On first sight, this is a pretty flimsy, if not downright pompous, sort of interview procedure. But there's wisdom to it, and it's at least as sound as the stats listed on any application which can tell you nothing of how this person carries himself; which, in turn, is pivotal in getting a sense of what this character is all about. That man has since retired, although \"retreated\" might be the better word. It seems he was hiring fewer and fewer people towards the end. The walks he witnessed had become struts, and badly dressed kids, who swore they needed a job, regarded the request he would make to carry over the paper as burdensome. I don't know what happened to the waiters of my youth. I only know they are, for the most part, gone. I was their busboy. I respected, liked, feared, and damn near killed myself for them. They combined humor, energy and common sense with that most priceless of commodities a waiter can possess - a sense of urgency. They were not stupid, mind you, and knew no life was hanging in the balance during the average lunch shift. But they knew as well that, to a good waiter, getting those dishes down on time was as crucial as spinal surgery. There were exceptions, naturally. The trade of waiting can be compared to show business (it can, you know), and there's rarely been a dearth of lousy actors. But the difference between then and now, between the restaurant servers of twenty years ago and the tragically void blondes in khakis you try to wave down today, is not cosmetic. No, no. Nor is it a difference created by my aging eyes and distorted memory. It is that the bad ones, in those days, didn't last. Today, they last. They reign, in fact, and the general standard of service is not merely lower: it is a new beast altogether. And it ain't pretty. OK. Take that as a given, if only as a courtesy to me. I have worked in this business for quite a long time, and seen...well, much. Now comes the more difficult part, the part I should evade. The part Oprah and her panels of waiters and unhappy customers never seem to resolve. Namely: who's to blame? My dear restaurant owner - you are! You have made the same mistake parents make when they try a little too hard to understand their offspring. And the same error other businesses make when they ride the societal tide of humanizing corporate life, and end up accomplishing nothing but the creation of a rather lazy work force bursting with self-esteem and an astronomical assessment of its own merits. It's the sad horror of believing you will get more by giving more. In a word, you have mistaken your business for all the other businesses out there. You now allow room for individual concerns and needs waiters in the past dealt with by themselves, because you have been encouraged to view your staff as other businesses see their own people. You try to not bully anymore. You do not fire the no-show. You nurture. And God help you, one may as well equip coal miners with steno pads. I deplore many of the kids I work with. They astound me. They accept as their due, large tips, and are genuinely outraged when they must work, and work hard, to get them. Yet the bottom line is that no standard of quality service could have fallen unless you, the owner, allowed it. And you allowed it the first time you turned to shake your head when you saw that new waiter adjust himself in that currently prevalent, awfully personal way in front of his table. Sure, good people are hard to find. They always were. But you have settled for bodies, often when all you needed to do was remove your coat and bus the table yourself. More appallingly, you are telling your staff that they are salespeople, a trend as numbing and omnipresent as David Lynch lighting schemes on mustard-colored restaurant walls. I could sully hundreds of pages with Why That Is Wrong (the sales thing). But I'll summarize, and give you Bottom-Line Two: any waiter who approaches his table consciously anticipating a tip amount is no waiter. And this is precisely what you encourage when you tell these kids that they're salespeople. Yes, we're in it for the money. Of course we are. Any decent server in any decent house, house knows he's going to make good money. The waiter with the dollar signs in the eyes is a different animal. You can see it in the toothy smile when he describes the expensive appetizer. A true waiter is the Inn, offering comfort and a fine meal. The salesperson waiter is Vegas. Owners, managers: hearken unto me. You'v"}, {"response": 10, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (00:40)", "body": "I'll have to wait till I've been ... restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 37, "subject": "I sure do wish _____________ were still open!", "response_count": 23, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:30)", "body": "Well, I guess Chez Zee/Fred, tho it got a little hoity-toity for me in its later years."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:39)", "body": "Virginia's home cooked place that used to be on First Street. Ever heard of it? The Armadillo kitchen. I'll think of more. Give me time."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (16:00)", "body": "Tears for Les Amis and Martin Brothers. The booths from Les Amis are at my house and cottage! And assorted salt shakers, etc."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:01)", "body": "Les Amis? Skyline Grill? And Coyote Cafe already??? oh, so sad."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "The great ones are biting the dust!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:00)", "body": "Oh.. the memories. D'ya know. Les Amis was the LAST place we ate in Austin as we left on our way to Denver? We met a friend there for lunch on our way out of town -- car fully loaded and all."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (16:12)", "body": "Well, when you come back you're welcome to sit at my Les Amis booth once more."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (10:55)", "body": "Would you happen to serve their soups and crusty bread as well?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:30)", "body": "Perhaps we can dig up a recipe, do you want a total holodeck recreation with Margaret Flynn and Connie as waitresses as well?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:57)", "body": "Why on earth would you want a holodeck recreation? Heck, you've got the benches... go get the waitresses!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "OK now we're talking."}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (10:28)", "body": "Martin Brothers. The Armadillo World Headquarters. Nighthawk. Can we have a moment of silence please?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (10:29)", "body": "And Grace's Home Cooking. Pass me the handerchef."}, {"response": 15, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (21:02)", "body": "***sniff*** Here, use mine! I know....I miss Dick's Coffee House. *sigh*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (23:23)", "body": "John wrote: I miss \"What's Cookin?\" an inexpensive, but good quality Italian restaurant that has been replaced by Pescatore, a good quality but pricey Italian restaurant. I also miss the old Paramount Grill and \"the best fried rice in Hilo.\" But, on the plus side, Luquin's in Pahoa is the best Mexican food in the state and can rival most Mexican restaurants in California and Texas."}, {"response": 17, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (04:28)", "body": "Is Pahoa an Island or a City?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (13:06)", "body": "Pahoa is a tiny little town on a secondary road on the way to the former Kalapana Black Sand Beach. Former, because it was covered up by a lava flow. It is on Route 137 for those of you with maps (or those of you who know where the ones are that I have posted.)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (19:29)", "body": "This is the place with the 39 restaurants?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (20:21)", "body": "Nope. Pahoa is just a little spot in the road on the way to lower Puna. I'd be surprised if it had 5. I think Kamuela had the 39."}, {"response": 21, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (09:14)", "body": "7 according to Infospace, any comments on these: Godmother Restaurant 808-965-0055 15-2969 Government Rd Pahoa, HI Go Go Pizza 808-965-0698 15-2929 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI Jahmani 808-965-0200 15-2941 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI Luquin's Mexican Restaurant 808-965-9990 Pahoa Government Rd Pahoa, HI Pahoa Chop Suey House 808-965-9533 Po Box 427 Pahoa, HI Paolo's Bistro 808-965-7033 333 Pahoa Rd Pahoa, HI Sawasdee Thai Cuisine 808-965-8186 15-2955 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI"}, {"response": 22, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (15:08)", "body": "That figures! It is the pot-growing capital in lower Puna and one gets the muchies smoking pot, I hear. I asked John for his opionions on these eateries. I've only been to Godmother's and if it is the one I think it is, they serve excellent deli style sandwiches."}, {"response": 23, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (15:59)", "body": "From John Burnett Godmother Restaurant 808-965-0055 15-2969 Government Rd Pahoa, HI As Marcia said, a sandwich shop with etched glass windows. Not bad, but Manono Mini-Mart and Freddy's in Hilo have better sandwiches cheaper. Go Go Pizza 808-965-0698 15-2929 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI Have not eaten there. Friends tell me it is \"acceptable\" or \"okay,\" but most Pahoa residents I know will drive the 10 miles to Keaau to eat at Chief's Pizza, which has the reputation for being the best pizza in East Hawaii (an area that includes Hilo, Keaau, Pahoa). Am not even sure Go Go's is still in business. I will drive the 6 miles from Hilo to Keaau to get Chief's pizza as well, as Pizza Hut is the best pizza in Hilo. A travesty for a town of 40,000. JB Jahmani 808-965-0200 15-2941 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI A hangout for the hippies, rastas and burnouts. Believe it to be a vegetarian joint. Have not eaten there and will not. JB Luquin's Mexican Restaurant 808-965-9990 Pahoa Government Rd Pahoa, HI Luquins is the finest Mexican food in the state. The brightly colored, cantina-style bar and restaurant is clean, cozy with moderate prices and terrific service. The homemade red salsa is the best on the Big Island and the only restaurant in the state with salsa as good is Eggs 'n Things (a breakfast-only restaurant in Waikiki). Red Hook IPA Ale and Steinlager on draft. Moderate prices. If more people in Hilo were not so distrusting of Pahoa in general, Luquin's quality would put the popular but dingy and dirty Hilo bayfront Mexican restaurant Reuben's out of business. To me, Reubens is proof that Hawaii health inspectors can be bribed or bamboozled. Mama's Mexican Kitchen, a BYOB joint on School Street in Honolulu is excellent. Luquin's is even better. JB Pahoa Chop Suey House 808-965-9533 Po Box 427 Pahoa, HI Like most Chinese restaurants in Hawaii, the food is cheap, plentiful, and good. Not much for atmosphere. Service acceptable. A good addition to Pahoa restaurants, but unlike Luquin's, not worth driving from Hilo for, since there is no shortage of good Chinese restaurants in Hilo, most notably Sun Sun Lau and New China Restaurant. JB Paolo's Bistro 808-965-7033 333 Pahoa Rd Pahoa, HI A relatively new Italian restaurant right across the street from Luquin's. The food is delicious, but like Pescatore in Hilo, way too pricey. But at least the portions at Pescatore are decent. You can easily drop $60-70 for dinner for two and leave Paolo's still hungry. If you must have Italian food in East Hawaii, I recommend Topo Gigio's in Hilo (which may be changing it's name because they are being threatened with a lawsuit for using the name by someone associated with the old Ed Sullivan show) or Cafe Pesto (if you can't beat the yuppies, join them). JB Sawasdee Thai Cuisine 808-965-8186 15-2955 Government Main Rd Pahoa, HI Have not eaten there only because Hilo has several excellent Thai restaurants, most notably Royal Siam, but both my cousin Tom and my author friend Alan both give it a thumbs-up, and I trust their judgment. JB Terry: a note on Pahoa Town in general. It is a flashback to 1968. Ten years ago before the crackdown on the marijuana growing industry in the Puna district of the Big Island, it was like Dodge City on a Saturday night...and I'm talking about on noon Wednesday. Locals, hippies, rastas, bikers, burnouts and the occasional tourist make Pahoa a picturesque blast from the past. Ten years ago, you would see people both smoking and dealing herb openly on the street. There is a brand spanking new police substation in the middle of town and the law has cracked down on the obvious, but it is still a haven for \"characters.\" Haleiwa on Oahu and Paia on Maui are similar towns with similar seedy reputations, although Haleiwa is a surf spot and Paia has Ho`okipa beach, the world's most famous boardsailing beach. Pahoa is inland. There is a relatively new song out locally called \"Pahoa Town\" by Bruddah Kuz. It is a catchy little number that has become quite popular with our KWXX listeners. Marcia's note: It is a good song! John is on the internet live each weekend on webradio http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/"}, {"response": 24, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:21)", "body": "Dot's Place in Austin, Texas. Home cooked meals. Burned down. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 38, "subject": "Smokers restaurants", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "Don't know around here, but electronically the go to Cigar Aficionado at http://cigaraficionado.com WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (14:14)", "body": "Or maybe it's http://www.cigaraficionado.com (me again)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (16:01)", "body": "I would say Ruta Maya."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:46)", "body": "It may not qualify as a restaurant, but its smoky enough."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:09)", "body": "I thought Austin still had that no-smoking rule in restaurants."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "Doesn't seem to be in effect at Rutas, they have a big cigarette/cigar store on the premises."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:01)", "body": "oh. Boulder, CO is completely smoke-free. Only outside, if you can stand the public heat, can you smoke."}, {"response": 10, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (23:12)", "body": "All Maryland restaurants are smoke free (but not bars)."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (18:54)", "body": "So restaurants with full bars are exempt?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (18:54)", "body": "So long as either the bar or the designated smoking area of the adjacent restaurant is completely cut off from the rest of the restaurant. We're talking about a glass wall in most cases, not some cheesy partition. Not one iota of smoke can penetrate the main dining area. (But I can still look thru the glass and get a vicarious thrill!)"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (10:02)", "body": "LOL! Can't really comprehend the attraction to smoking but if the withdrawl is anything analogous to forsaking caffeine... I'm with ya!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:51)", "body": "Locally, it's Ruta Maya, but that's really a coffee house."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May  2, 2001 (06:41)", "body": "And there's this place down on Lamar across from Whole Foods, 'has to be the smokiest place in town, even the cooks and wait people smoke on the job. I avoid the place since my one smoke filled visit there."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb 11, 2004 (22:09)", "body": "Louisville is considering banning smoking in public places. My friend smokes which would mean we would never go anywhere. I wonder what smokers are supposed to do... No, I do not smoke. Never have, for that matter. NOTHING (which seems to amaze some people.)"}, {"response": 17, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:22)", "body": "They passed a blanket smoking ban in Austin! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 39, "subject": "-------------------------- best dishes below ------------------------", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 4, "subject": "Chinese", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:44)", "body": "I don't have enough experience with Chinese places to comment on this, where is Chinatown, if it's on Burnet road I may have been there and would have to concur with this choice."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:39)", "body": "It's off of Mopac between Far West and Steck! In the bottom is the sushi joint Mushashino I always mention."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:36)", "body": "Mush you?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:59)", "body": "No, mush a shin YOU!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (13:17)", "body": "Me?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:33)", "body": "*giggle* sure, Paul. Whatever. *smile*"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:44)", "body": "wow, we need to do that more often."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:54)", "body": "you're easy to please!!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:35)", "body": "Anyone been to China Cafe?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (18:18)", "body": "Is this the one off of Mopac, before you get to Steck? The one with Mushashino in the 'basement' area? If so yes... good food, okay prices but my advice is to eat in the basement... excellent sushi! Allright, allright, what the heck do I know, it's been years?!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (19:28)", "body": "I don't even though if that's still there, that post of mine was from May 2000, over two years ago."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (23:57)", "body": "And I was actually thinking of Chinatown... is that one still there?? It is the one with the sushi restaurant downstairs!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (12:03)", "body": "The one down on Sixth street, I'm not sure."}, {"response": 16, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Jan 30, 2006 (20:24)", "body": "i have to say that i love chinese food and the cheap buffets seem to have the best food!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 31, 2006 (08:17)", "body": "Buffet Palace is worth a visit every now and then. It's up by Frys off Mopac and Parmer Lane. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 40, "subject": "appetizers", "response_count": 56, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (01:04)", "body": "I can't tell for sure, but are we enjoying the appetizers now, stacey, or are we already in the middle of the main course? The other answer to this topic is Eastside Cafe's Southwestern Caponata. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (01:05)", "body": "Sorry, back in the middle again... WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:02)", "body": "No need to be sorry, I don't mind sharing the middle sometimes..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:20)", "body": "And at other times? WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:22)", "body": "And, hey, you never answered the first question! WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:22)", "body": "And at other times? WER"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:24)", "body": "Attention: Be careful with the back button. It does strange things sometimes. WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (10:39)", "body": "Sorry \u0017\u0005\u0012, what was the first question?!?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "What was the answer?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:17)", "body": "good. the answer was surely goo."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:18)", "body": "I meant gooD! Really, I did!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (13:28)", "body": "... WER"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (14:26)", "body": "Really? Come on."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (09:30)", "body": "aw man..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (15:01)", "body": "But it's too smoky there."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:46)", "body": "The Hula Hut is a kick, did you ever go there Stacey?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:10)", "body": "Oh yes! Happy hour central!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:47)", "body": "The Dallas Night Club has a good dollar buffet starting at 5 pm every night. It's a street persons dream come true."}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:01)", "body": "Is that a C&W joint? I think I have vague recollections of radio spots from them."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:12)", "body": "yes c&w all the way, right out of a John Travolta movie."}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:56)", "body": "huh??? John Travolta? Oh! Nevermind. I remember. duh."}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:30)", "body": "What was that movie called? They had a scene at Gilly's in Hoston."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (15:14)", "body": "Yup."}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 10, 1997 (09:45)", "body": "Damn! All those sound good at 7:30 in the morning even!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (11:07)", "body": "what's appetizing to everyone these days?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:03)", "body": "don't go there!!! (to vague... too much room for me to go 'off topic') The BEST calamari I've ever had... Fresh Fish Company off of Hampden in Aurora Colorado. Not little skimpy pieces... large , thick, meaty pieces, tangy breading and amazing curry dipping sauce!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (22:28)", "body": "since when did you start staying on topic? you sure are telling me a lot of places that I can't go these days, yet not once have you told me where I can go..."}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:25)", "body": "wanna catch a sore throat, larangitis, fever and/or chills?!?!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:15)", "body": "are you offering?!?!?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (16:55)", "body": "Actually I've been told of some 'homeopathic' remedies for sore throats that you just may appreciate!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (21:02)", "body": "really? do enlighten as I'm not sure where you're going with this one..."}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (17:14)", "body": "oh the old semen/sore throat remedy... you know."}, {"response": 37, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "didn't know that worked... thought it was just a one-sided joke/hope..."}, {"response": 38, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, May 17, 1998 (22:59)", "body": "yeah, guys love to perpetuate that one! How about semen as a moisturizer?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (17:20)", "body": "same sodium content as sea water anyway!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (23:57)", "body": "not moisturizer, it's an astringent..."}, {"response": 41, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (19:22)", "body": "anyway, why are the three of us discussing semen in the appetizers conference? (other than, maybe, response #39 is the chief quality I look for in an appetizer)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (08:58)", "body": "apologies, apologies, apologies... I obviously was thinking of the wrong kind of meal."}, {"response": 43, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (10:33)", "body": "didn't say anything about it being wrong, I was just curious...you know me"}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (18:59)", "body": "So, how do figs in balsamic vinegar sound?"}, {"response": 45, "author": "PT", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (19:57)", "body": "Figs in balsamic vinegar sounds really good. Where is it served?"}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (22:05)", "body": "nowhere that I know of...just contemplating another possible menu addition...wanted some feedback on the theory before I run the practical experiment..."}, {"response": 47, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (15:35)", "body": "Try it. It sounds really good."}, {"response": 48, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (18:27)", "body": "in the process of..."}, {"response": 49, "author": "PT", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (13:08)", "body": "How soon?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (23:57)", "body": "Thinking about running them for special for the next couple of weeks, starting on Monday..."}, {"response": 51, "author": "PT", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (12:38)", "body": "Let me know if you do I'll definitely come by to try that."}, {"response": 52, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (15:19)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 53, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:41)", "body": "Wonder how they tasted..."}, {"response": 54, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:24)", "body": "The envelope please. Z'Tejas Grill Ararat, Hulas Hut and Saba Blue Water Cafe runners up. Hon mention to Louies 106 Gilligans and Mars. I'd have to say that Bahama Breeze is conspicuously absent, this place has *great* appetizers. Not to mention outrageous magueritas and food and a wonderful island atmosphere. Z Tejas is fine, if you've got time to wait a couple of hours. It's hot, hot, hot among the trendy crowd that hangs down around West Sixth, me excepted of course."}, {"response": 55, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:33)", "body": "I've been to Ararat and Hulas Hut, these are ok choices. But I didn't have any appetizers. Ararat has belly dancing and exotic music, and you can sit withing inches of the floor, indian style."}, {"response": 56, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:06)", "body": "I noticed you liked the Hula Hut back a few years ago. All I can picture is plastic banana plants, paper crinkled flower leis and umbrellas in the drinks along with monkeys on cargo nets along the walls. Oh yes, we have them too - in the touristy places, but Hawaii is not quite like that - no monkeys and the plants are real."}, {"response": 57, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:15)", "body": "Hula Hut is down on Town Lake, on a dock, and it's enscounced among bookstores and trendy gift shops. Kind of a waterfront mini-mall. It's a great place for a wedding. Wow! I just remembered the last time I was there was for Melissa Petrek's wedding, she wrote the awesome article in XL about the Spring years back and was a very, very active and entertaining poster in GenX and other topics. Then she met the guy from Marfa, got married and hasn't been heard from since. Wow! I just remembered the last time I was there was for Melissa Petrek's wedding, she wrote the awesome article in XL about the Spring years back and was a very, very active and entertaining poster in GenX and other topics. Then she met the guy from Marfa, got married and hasn't been heard from since."}, {"response": 58, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (18:59)", "body": "Hmmm! Mafia I know. Marfa is new to me. Sounds interesting - glad it is on the water, at least. No Banana trees? Bamboo? Monkeys? One of the appetizers back a few years at the beginning of this topic, William mentioned one which sounded very local Hawaiian and is very good here. We call them 'pupus' and it is pronounced just like you were afraid it might be *smile* Ours are sufficient for my dinner usually - then they call them \"heavy pupus\""}, {"response": 59, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:31)", "body": "I still say Bahama Breeze has the best appetizers in town. In my very limited repetoir of restaurants, it stands up there. I found this place by having a friend poke at the yellow pages with eyes shut. It's a very \"islandy\" atmosphere and decor. A bit too trendy, but fun. Pupus. Be afraid?"}, {"response": 60, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (13:03)", "body": "Nothing to fear from Pupus - either heavy or light - and such an assortment of ethnic goodies are represented. Lots of KimChee, picked Japan-style veggies, cheeses plus local style meats and veggie combos and luau stuff. Like I said, it more resembles a buffet table than appetizers. no room when you have had your fill at the pupu table. Lately, Pot stickers are a big favorite, and I love them! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 41, "subject": "barbecue", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (15:12)", "body": "It's a comforting place."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:13)", "body": "Best Barbecue 2000 according to the Austin Chronicle. The envelope please. The Salt Lick."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:24)", "body": "The Salt Lick is where Sammy Allred got in trouble for parking his band truck in the way of the owners parking spot or something. I think they called the cops or something. Sammy Allread is on the famous morning Sam and Bob Show and Sanny is orneriest talk show guy you\ufffdll ever run into. If you call in, get ready to get your head bitten off. It\ufffds in a way out of the way country road out by Dripping Springs or Blanco somewhere. I hear it\ufffds good. I almost went there once. County Line (been there), Ruby\ufffds HHBQ and Rudy\ufffds (been there too) got runner up. Honorable mention: Sam\ufffds, Stubbs, and Green Mesquite (done that too). My vote would have to be a toss up between the County Line, Rudy\ufffds, and the Green Mesquite. Green Mesquite gets the most hip points, Rudy\ufffds is highest on the bubbaland pickup index, and County Line is off the trendy chart somewhere. If you came to Austin and asked to go out to a barbecue, I\ufffdd probably take you to the Iron Works down by the convention center or to the County Line if I wanted to impress you. County Line has a great view of the Hill Country and the sunset. It\ufffds second place to the Oasis on the best-place-catch-a-sunset index. Then there\ufffds Pokey Joes for mallbiance. I\ufffdm talking about the one at the Arboretum. I\ufffdm sure there are lots more great barbecue places in Austin."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (23:03)", "body": "If that's REAL aboretum, I'm for that. You can walk off the too-much-food you just stuffed in and weren't hungry for but it was there and was too good to leave. Barbecue here tends to be Korean or Japanese style. Teriyaki sauce is the accompaniment as well as the marinade. In the Parker Ranch area at Kamuela in the middle of the Island, standard mainland BBQ is served and a bath is needed thereafter. Ono grinds!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:36)", "body": "Infospace.com says Kamuela has 39 restaurants. Ono grinds? Yoko Ono? Translate this two word exclamatory sentence. I'm a slow catcher on-er sometimes. Careful when you cross Popoo Gulch."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (13:07)", "body": "Wow! 39?! It is not all that big but is a bedroom community for the big hotels on the coast. Ono grinds is localese for delicious food (ono=delicious in Hawaiian, and grinds is what your teeth do to the delicious food) PooPoo Gulch or have you found an obscure place in the island I have not heard about..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (10:15)", "body": "Yep, it was on the Infospace map. It's payback for all those great Austin tips you been putting out. Some payback, huh?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (12:41)", "body": "Tell me! Oh well, we do what we can... Did they feel threatened or especially clever that day?! Hmmm... I'll have to check their map then mine. Too funny!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (18:33)", "body": "You'll have to pay poopoo or whatever it was called a personal view and let us know how spectacular this stream rushing out of the volvanoes actually is. Or maybe I'm overhyping it?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (19:25)", "body": "I'll take along my digital camera and post it so you can see, too. We also have Peepee Falls...and, no, it is pronounced Pay-a Pay-a Falls. I have already posted a picture of the Pu'u (POO-oo) Sounds very excretory over here, doesn't it?!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (08:15)", "body": "Sure does, poobear."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (14:11)", "body": "Got some pix of the waves rolling into Puhi bay last evening in the area of the Hilo Yacht club and a distant one of me...posted in Travel / Hawaii restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 42, "subject": "hamburgers", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (15:12)", "body": "Wouldn't know. Great veggie burgers I hear."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:11)", "body": "Excellent veggie burgers!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (10:47)", "body": "I'm just not a hamburger expert."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:02)", "body": "Speaking of... when is Fuddrucker's going to get on the veggie &/or Black bean burger craze?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "Like I said I'm no expert."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:56)", "body": "Yeah, but you like to pull strings."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:30)", "body": "Moi?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:38)", "body": "The 2000 Austi chronicle Restaurant Poll picks Hut's as the best hamburger joint in Austin. I agree. And I order their veggie burger when I go there. These guys know how to make burgers and the place is packed. I've never been to burger tex but Mickey McInnis KB5YAC would probably say this joint is the best, judging by the frequency of trips he makes there. Runners up are Dirty Martins and Fuddruckers. Fuddruckers gave me my worst restaurant experience ever in Austin, it was the closest I've come to food poisoning and my date got really sick. And her kids got sick. Obviously and isolated instance, but there must have been something they served that night in the salad that wasn't good. Then we have the \"honorable\" Dan's Hamburgers (I think they serve breakfast thre too), Fran's and Casino El Camino."}, {"response": 10, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:24)", "body": "And yes, Dirty Martins is like it sounds."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (23:38)", "body": "If Dirty Martins is like it sounds, I'm not even gonna ask about Fuddukers. The scary part is that they made the best of list. I shudder to think of what the ones are like that did NOT make the list. Do you have a state inspection for cleanliness in Texas? Sheesh! You know, the guys with the certificates and the power to close you down..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:40)", "body": "They do inspections and the best and the worst every week end up on the news. The best get like a 90 something and the worst get a score in the 40s or 50s. Fuddrukers is very mainstream, family/kid oriented. It just feels like a lot could go wrong when you're in there. It's on my list of places to avoid, along with, I think I mentioned some of these places elsewhere in this conference."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (13:11)", "body": "Yes, I noted - and I'm with you. Do they ever print Dept of Heath citations or even close places down because of filth. It is done so appallingly rarely over here and I KNOW some places are absolutely disgusting. I will not even enter their doors! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 43, "subject": "steak", "response_count": 21, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (16:12)", "body": "No clue."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:11)", "body": "ditto"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (11:47)", "body": "We're just dittoheads today."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:03)", "body": "I'm kinda feeling dittoish."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (16:13)", "body": "ditto."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (10:57)", "body": "STOP! ENOUGH!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:32)", "body": "A friend of mine, Katrina, went out on a date and her friend took here to Dan McLusky's and they brought out a *raw steak* and showed it to them. Asked them if it was ok to cook. Now that's getting too carried away. My response would be \"get that thing outa here!\" She also noted, tres espensive."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "My friend Jennifer went out with this guy, Eric who, in trying to impress her, took her to the Black Angus (premier Denver steak establishment). After she ordered salad and baked potato, he caught on to the fact she doesn't eat meat. It worked out okay though and she spent the last weekend in NYC visiting him."}, {"response": 10, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:52)", "body": "How's Jennifer doing? Did her and Eric get hooked up?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (16:19)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:53)", "body": "We may never know. The best steaks come from range-fed Parker Ranch cattle here on the Big Island. I have promised such a steak but think it'll never be claimed."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:56)", "body": "Now, I'm gonna get out of this conference until I have someone to talk to and not have to read what I was not supposed to be reading...like he said."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:57)", "body": "Terry, you're on your own if you post in GenX... That is definitely off limits for me. Thank you very much."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:04)", "body": "It's \"off limits\" for me too, but I go there anyway. Are you ready for me to start taking \"shots\" at the Austin Chronicle Readers and Critics Best of choices this year? Should I tee off?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:11)", "body": "Please... be my guest!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:35)", "body": "OK, fasten your seat belts. To begin with, I don't eat steak. . . . except once in a Blue Moon. I'm not one for \"never\". But for you carnivores, the prize goes to Ruths Chris. Ya know I don't like this place and I've never even been there. I think it's because Rush Limbaugh endorsed it. Runner ups are Sullivans, Austin Land and Catttle (my uneducated choice for number one because I've been there), and Texas Land and Cattle. What's next, Bubba's Land and Cattle? Outback, Rays and Dan McLusky's get Honorable Mention. I'll stick with veggies."}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:44)", "body": "I'm actually an omnivore but a good juicy steak which \"tastes like a cut lip\" as my ex used to say is the stuff of dreams. So is prime rib - which, if I had my choice, I would order in a heartbeat over the steak. Terry, I am having severe problems accessing the posts in this conference. More than any other!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:47)", "body": "That's ok, grit your teeth and make one run through and then you'll only see the most recent of posts, which are of course my acerbic commentaries on the local restaurant scene. The journey has just begun."}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (22:52)", "body": "Yes, I see it has, and I think \"Romantic\" equates with \"Pricey\" so I'll pack a lovely picnic and have all the civilized amenities along with all the best food I can put in there - choose a lovely tree with large obscuring umbrella limbs and a view worth the walk to get there. No steak!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:24)", "body": "Austin's Best Steak Houses according to http://austin360.com/restaurants/ STEAKS \ufffd Alpenhof Steak Haus. Prime beef and European influence from the Kohler family. 16018 Hamilton Pool Road, Bee Cave; 263-9875. \ufffd Austin Land & Cattle Co. Can produce a tasty steak that's heavily charred outside, but rare inside. 1205 N. Lamar Blvd.; 472-1813. \ufffd Dan McKlusky's. Fresh-cut meat from a butcher shop on the premises. 10000 Research Blvd.; 346-0780. Also 301 E. 6th Street; 473-8924 \ufffd Eddie V's Edgewater Grill. Meat doesn't play second fiddle at this seafood specialty restaurant. 301 E. Fifth St., 472-1860. Also 9400-B Arboretum Blvd., 342-2642. \ufffd Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. First restaurant in the Southwest for this upscale national chain. 320 E. Second St.; 457-1500. \ufffd Houston's. Outstanding prime rib, flavorful meats from the oak-fired grill. 2408 W. Anderson Lane; 451-7333. \ufffd Ray's. The 6-foot-4, 350-pound Ray LeMay Jr. sends a full meal to the table, included in the price of each steak. 3010 Guadalupe St.; 478-0000. \ufffd Ruth's Chris Steak House. The best in town; aged prime beef from an 1,800-degree broiler in an art deco setting. 107 W. Sixth St.; 477-7884. \ufffd Saltgrass. Tender Angus steaks from a Texas-based chain. 2300 N. Interstate 35, Round Rock; 238-0091. \ufffd Sullivan's. The flagship of the national chain, this New York-style steakhouse turns out admirable meat and good sides. 300 Colorado St.; 495-6504. \ufffd Texas Red's. A basic meat-and-potatoes spot in an old cotton gin. 120 Grove St., San Marcos; (512) 754-8808. \ufffd Texas Land & Cattle Co.. Mesquite-grilled meat at a place that straddles the casual-upscale line. 1101 S. MoPac Blvd., 330-0030. Also 6007 N. Interstate 35, 451-6555; 14010 N. U.S. 183, 258-3733; 5510 S. Interstate 35, 442-6448."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:19)", "body": "Austin Land and Cattle. Texas Land and Cattle. Houstons In that order. I don't eat much steak though. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 44, "subject": "chicken and fried steak", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "But they don't serve baked chicken at Threads. Does your outfit, km?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "How about a recipe for Italian baked chicken in food? Are you up to this?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "Cool deal."}, {"response": 7, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:54)", "body": "Best Chicken Fried Steak 2000 Chronicle Poll. Threadgill\ufffds. I would have picked Threadgills without seeing the poll. And I\ufffdm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Austin Chronicles are piled to the ceiling in this place. They have great chicken fried chicken, well, near great! They have some of the best cooked veggies in town to go along with it. This is the onetime hangout of Janis Joplin and folksinging great Kenneth Threadgill (who I met because he lived next door to an old girlfriend of mine who was a nurse, that\ufffds how I know about these things. He lived on a street with a park out his front door). Hoover\ufffds Cooking got second place. I\ufffdm embarassed to have never eaten at Hoover\ufffds because I walk by there a lot and I\ufffdve thought about it. Hoover\ufffds has the presumed best chef in town and is located in the onetime cyber cafe building on Manor Road. Maybe I have a subconscious resentment of the cyber cafe\ufffds closing. It was such a bold, risky venture. Then there\ufffds Hut\ufffds and the Lone Star Cafe. I am more burned out on the Lone Star Cafe than any other Austin restaurant. It\ufffds just too mainstream for me and you probably won\ufffdt ever see me there again. I love Hut\ufffds for it\ufffds veggie burgers but again, I\ufffdm not a meat eater, so my opinions on these places are valueless. But that doesn\ufffdt stop me. What\ufffds next? Hmm. Best Chile Pepper dish. I\ufffdll have to make a new topic This topic should have read \"Best Chicken Fried Steak and Chicken Fried Chicken\"."}, {"response": 8, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:25)", "body": "Qualifier, I only eat chicken fried chicken on occasion, I've never had chicken fried steak, which is why I'm so eminently qualified to discuss this. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 45, "subject": "French Fries", "response_count": 25, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (20:38)", "body": "Shady Grove's cheese fries, and/or their green chili cheese fries. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:10)", "body": "Where is Shady Grove?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (23:29)", "body": "Down on Barton Springs between Lamar and Mopac. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (10:32)", "body": "OK, down in restaurant row. I've been to a few places along there like Baby Acapulco and there's a silvery diner like place that keeps changing, I wonder what's there now? What are your favorite places along this little corrodor? Is there still a little juice bar there? I was in the coffee shop there and had a good time in there. And I ate at a nice Italian restaurant called Romeos, very decent."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (01:00)", "body": "Currently, with what's open, it would have to be Shady Grove. Never tried Romeos, it being the competitor and all. What's your favorite dish of theirs? WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (19:56)", "body": "I was only there a couple of times for a lunch special. Believe me, I'll choose yours over theirs next time I have time to go to an Italian place. (that's your cue to put in a plug for your place). I had some kind of Primavera dish as I remember."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (00:58)", "body": "I was wondering when someone was actually going to ask! My home away from home is... Little Italy, on Mesa. Call to see if I'm there before you come in. 345-5761 WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (10:36)", "body": "I used to live on Far West and frequent Little Italy once or twice a month. !Groovy! French fry answer.... the ultimate fries, batter dipped at Hyde Park Grill! Paul, if you've never been to Shady Grove (a sin!) try the Hippie Sandwich! AND a Shady Thang! Oh... I'm so jealous again! Trying to remember what I tried at Little Italy -- eggplant parmesean, linguini with clam sauce, pasta primevera and some bowtie dish with mushrooms, I believe I love the bread, but anytime I get to slather butter over anything, I love it!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (14:27)", "body": "I hear Hut's has good fries to go with their (veggie) burgers, but it's been very crowded every time I've tried to go there."}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (10:14)", "body": "They used to have a 2 for one veggie burger nite -- Monday?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (10:34)", "body": "My friend Garrett mentioned that to me, it raves about their veggie burgers. Garrett told me about a great Tex Mex place at the foot of S Congress, but the name escapes me at the moment."}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (13:31)", "body": "Dos Hermanos?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:04)", "body": "Shady Grove's fries are pretty marvey when paired with a Shady Thang. But Hyde Park is in a realm all it's own with the batter dipped sensations!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (16:13)", "body": "This I must experience first hand."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (10:57)", "body": "Still never been?!?! Paul, I've been telling you about this place for a LONG time."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:33)", "body": "I know, keep after me. You can spank me if I don't make it there by New Years."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (11:00)", "body": "Careful, I might wash your mouths out with soap, before that happens! *smile*"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (11:26)", "body": "Uh Oh."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (14:48)", "body": "He's trying to get one."}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (11:50)", "body": "Whoa, I missed the relavent thought tether on that one ... what was the original statement?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 21, 1997 (12:09)", "body": "Ah, yes!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:52)", "body": "French Fries. Fados."}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (14:41)", "body": "Years ago, I must have disagreed and mentioned something about Hyde Park's batter coated fries... if I didn't, I am now..."}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (20:17)", "body": "Reallly, best fries in town right? I think they consistently win the Chronicle award for fries."}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (15:12)", "body": "And they consistently receive a visit from me whenever I make it that far north (from SA, that is!) restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 46, "subject": "chips and hot sauce - can't have one without the other", "response_count": 19, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:27)", "body": "Unfortunately, I'm going to have to say Seis Salsas again. And in Dallas, Gloria's (Salvadorian cuisine) has chips and a black bean dip-type-thing that's a meal in itself. Not that I've ever gorged myself on it and then not had room for the #9 special."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:40)", "body": "I like Seis Salsas with all them little cups of salsa to choose from. The place is usually packed. Very popular spot!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:05)", "body": "Trudy's has good stuff but I really like Chuy's fresh stuff. Alamo Cafe in San Antonio has excellent salsa as well."}, {"response": 5, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:46)", "body": "Best chips and hot sauce 2000. Trudy\ufffds No argument. Trudy\ufffds is great. I just had migas there yesterday and the green sauce they put out was better than I ever remembered it being before. The chips are really fresh and I would they\ufffdre locally made. Chuy\ufffds (\ufffdcheweys\ufffd), Cafe Serranos, and Hula Hut are the runners up. Guero\ufffds Taco Bar, Polvo\ufffds and Z\ufffdTejas Grill get Honorable Mention. I would have to toss El Azteca in as one of my personal favorites for chips, and they\ufffdre down on Seventh Street in the heart of the chip making district of Austin. They should have a category for who makes the best chips, I\ufffdm talking chip factories, but that may be too"}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (10:25)", "body": "El Galindos come to mind as a superlative chipmaker, though I have no idea if it's the best."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (00:11)", "body": "I gather these chips are various sorts of corn. Our best ones (and they are pretty pricey, as well) are Taro chips. So delicous with our cream. The best are made in Hilo by Atebara who makes all sorts of chips from sweet potato to regular potato ones. Tell me the various sorts of corn chips available. We get them imported from the mainland."}, {"response": 8, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (04:44)", "body": "The answer, from Infospace: C & C Bakery Incorporated 512-462-2277 3709 Promontory Point Dr # B Austin, TX Dos Hermanos Tortilla Factory 512-474-9655 2730 E Cesar Chavez St Austin, TX El Galindo Incorporated 512-478-5756 1601 E 6th St Austin, TX El Lago Mexican Foods Incorporated 512-476-0945 1700 E 4th St Austin, TX El Milagro Of Texas Incorporated 512-477-6476 910 E 6th St Austin, TX Fiesta Tortilla Factory 512-389-0389 3228 E 5th St Austin, TX La Monita Mexican Food 512-479-6566 2200 E 7th St Austin, TX Mission Foods 512-339-1247 9204 Brown Ln Austin, TX Romero Distributing 512-280-7088 130 Ralph Ablanedo Dr Austin, TX This is good information to have, now I can start a quest for the best corn chips in Austin."}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (05:04)", "body": "Do you notice a trend in these listings?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (14:17)", "body": "Yup! Precious few Potato Chips made locally - if any! Can't believe nobody in Austin is making anything but Corn chips! No taro? No veggie (which tend to be too hard on your teeth but are good dipping) at all other than corn? Curious! How far from that Border are you, anyway? Must be more than Mexican chippers out there somewhere - or are they all up in Dallas-Ft Worth?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (11:15)", "body": "We're right smack dab in the middle of the state o Texas. We're a few hundred miles from the border."}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (13:52)", "body": "Yeah, you really are, aren't you! Do potatoes grow in Texas or just corn? I can see where they might not be growing dry-patch taro to make chips, but there just has to be some alternative...doesn't there?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (19:30)", "body": "Potatoes grow here, of course. I just searched for corn chips, but I think these places predominate. Maybe Idaho would be the place to search for potato chip makers, close to the source and all."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (20:29)", "body": "They are famous for baking potatoes and other sorts. I guess every state grows their own - even Hawaii. We do import Idahos for baking though. Most of Austin's chips were of the silicon variety, I thought. No dipping them!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (14:44)", "body": "Don't visit Colorado for the chips and salsa... you'll be sadly disappointed. However, if you're cruising around and stop into El Tejado (S Broadway) or Casa del Sol (Colfax Ave) you'll luck into some pretty yummy stuff!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (20:18)", "body": "Trudy's serves pretty decent chips and salsa. And of course Seis Salsa is the be all and end of of salsas."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (15:14)", "body": "Is Seis Salsa a brand or a restaurant?? Where is it? (hoping, hoping, hoping we'll make it to Austin over Christmas time) I'm still quite partial to Chuy's very fresh stuff... at least in memory..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (15:40)", "body": "It's a restaurant with umpteen salsas as an offering. 2004 South First Street Austin, Texas 78704 Tel: (512) 445-5050 In one of the Austin Chronicle's \"best of\" polls they won this honor: Best Non-Alcoholic Drink Seis Salsas' Agua Fresca We are sitting at one of the lime-green tables outside Seis Salsas next to another lime-green table of people who are beginning to feel good. For their next round, they are ordering frozen and not, salted and without. When our drinks come - tall glasses of pastel pink and orange garnished with glistening slices of watermelon and canteloupe - we are smug. Our neighbors look over and exclaim in that too-loud happy hour way, \"What do they have?\" Agua fresca. Who can resist the urge to tease mere margarita drinkers with watermelon water? 2001 S. 1st, 445-5050"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (16:07)", "body": "Sounds wonderful! I'll add it to the 'i want to eat here' list that I always compile before a visit!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 2002 (08:53)", "body": "I'll have to do a reality check and make sure it still exists. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 47, "subject": "soup", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (14:05)", "body": "My house!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (11:32)", "body": "This year, Chronicle reader's say... Houston's Runners-up: County Line, Eastside Cafe, Las Palomas Honorable Mentions: La Madeleine, Hyde Park Bar and Grill, El Sol y La Luna, Korea House and from the Critics Poll Entire Soup Menu at Formosa"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (11:33)", "body": "I'm running a Tomato/Red Bell Pepper Bisque garnished with basil olive oil a couple a days a week at the restaurant..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (11:52)", "body": "El Sol Y la Luna is a place I've enjoyed going to for Sunday brunhes after Body Choir. The Body Choir folks favorite hangout."}, {"response": 6, "author": "tami", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (11:50)", "body": "Mmmmmm Basil!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (00:26)", "body": "Soup is viewed differently by consumers and restaurant operators, according to research sponsored by Land O' Lakes. Although 87% of operators surveyed said they view soup as a side accompaniment to a main meal, just 52% of consumers said they felt this way. Many operators may be pricing soups as sides rather than featuring them as entrees. More than two-thirds of operators said they believe customers want traditional, classic soups but only 43% of consumers agreed with this. Nearly one-third of consumers said they like to experiment with different soups and nearly one-quarter like to be able to choose between a classic variety and a more trendy one."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (10:31)", "body": "Souped Up Soup Kitchens Take-out \"restaurants\" continue to proliferate in cities across the country, although New York City, as with everything, has more of them than anywhere else. These spots are as different as the personalities behind the concept. They range from simple, store-front, just-soup joints, where the only amenity is a plastic spoon like Soup Nutsy and Soup Kitchen International in New York City, to free-standing establishments with tables, drinks, complimentary items such as bread, salad, and more substantial chilis and stews, like Boston's New England Soup Factory with two locations. --excerpted from the Dec 98 issue of FOOD ARTS"}, {"response": 9, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Dec  2, 2006 (19:34)", "body": "Well, since I make all of Tuscany's soups from scratch, and have for over a year now, I'd say ours are the best."}, {"response": 10, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sun, Dec 24, 2006 (11:49)", "body": "Soup Tie: Manuel's, The Soup Peddler Runners-up Whole Foods Market, Jason's Deli Honorable Mention Central Market Cafe, Cafe Caprice, Eastside Cafe, Houston's, Mirabelle Restaurant from the Austin Chronicle 2006 restaurant poll . restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 48, "subject": "salad days", "response_count": 22, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (00:02)", "body": "The West wasn't won on salad. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (09:15)", "body": "any place where they only give you two leaves of roughage (sp?)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (23:50)", "body": "When we want salad, we usually just go to Souper Salads. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (00:37)", "body": "I like that place a lot, I usually go to the Sooper Salads in the Arboreetum. I have this routine worked out. Big plate of veggies, light on the lettuce, lots of sprouts and sunnies, olives, shrooms, and avos. Then another plate of potato salad, cottage cheese and various crackers and sundries. They bring me lemons from the back for my glass of water (typical). And pudding for desert. Then they practically have to carry me out. Bob should have gotten an award one time we went for vertical height of a salad."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (11:09)", "body": "Souper Salads are cropping up around Denver too. I prefer them to some of these other places -- Healthy Habits, Denver Salad Co. Light on the iceberg, more red leaf, a little spinach, heavy on the kidney and garbanzo beans, tons of shrooms and peas, sprouts and both kinds of olives. Croutons on the side with a big HUGE thing of Honey-Mustard dressing (for dipping croutons and pouring on salad. YUM!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (12:29)", "body": "Cool, I'll have to try the Honey Mustard next time, I usually go for Blu Cheese or something traditional."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (13:02)", "body": "The honey mustard has more mayo than anything else probably but it's real good"}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:07)", "body": "Those are all chi chi salads w/ funky dressings. Souper Salad has all the fixin's no chi-chi haughty-taughtyness. And they JUST moved to Denver (and bought out all the Denver Salad Co.s)"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (15:14)", "body": "I'd vote souper salads!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:58)", "body": "Woo Woo! I'm bringing 'em over to MY side."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:33)", "body": "Woo woo woo woo. *chortle*"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:01)", "body": "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA! Oh my gosh, that was TOO funny! \"Did that hurt?\" Bah! Ha! *snort* *cackle* *giggle*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:13)", "body": "If this was your first clue, you obviously haven't been paying attention!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "Stacey is not an emotionless robot."}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "Thanks Paul, for letting everybody know."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:16)", "body": "No sweat emotion filled flesh based unit."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "too much Star Trek for you!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (14:58)", "body": "I just started serving a Cranberry Honey Mustard salad dressing at work. What are your all's thoughts on this concept?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (20:05)", "body": "Honey mustard salad dressing is my FAVORITE!!! A hint of cranberry sounds very piquant, and quite seasonally appealing as well."}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (19:31)", "body": "sounds yummy WER!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (12:53)", "body": "Chronicle readers this year said the best salad and dressing is to be found at Eastside Cafe Runners-up: Houston's, Ella's, Castle Hill Cafe Honorable mentions: Frank and Angie's, Pizza Nizza, Kerbey Lane Cafe and the Critics Poll claims the best dressed salad is Field Greens w/ Walnuts, Gorgonzola and Champagne Grapes in Tomato-Raspberry Vinaigrette at Blair House Runners-up: Any salad at The Bitter End and the Poblano Pecan Vinaigrette at Castle Hill Cafe"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (13:45)", "body": "I'd have to toss Olive Garden in the mix. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 49, "subject": "seafood", "response_count": 21, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:13)", "body": "There's a place here called the Fish Market. Delicious! I prefer to make my own again. Crab cakes, gravalox, pan-seared salmon with lime butter and julliened veggies, ANYTHING with crabmeat and/or scallops, seafood stuffed 'shrooms... Man, now I'm hungry again. Speaking of fish... Tuesday night I went to Happy Hour Sushi at Sonoda's in LoDo. Again, wonderful. Forgot to try the miso soup because I was so pysched about happy hour sushi prices."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (08:33)", "body": "Any good fish-eating stories recently, anyone?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (12:34)", "body": "No, but I had some very good castrated chicken in a magnificent restaurant yesterday. Does an interest in fish-eating stories mean your head is safer now, muffin?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (15:21)", "body": "nope"}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:47)", "body": "Good! I'd hate to think your head was getting safe when I like your unpredictability so much..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (22:20)", "body": "Went out for steamed crabs (delicious!) over the weekend, which were perfectly seasoned. Afterwards, our traditional ice cream to cool us off and serve as a balm to our little mouth smarts."}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (03:32)", "body": "Oh wowo, that sounds great! I've never had crab!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (05:11)", "body": "really? what, do you live in a foreign country or something?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "more like a foreign planet, if you ask me"}, {"response": 11, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (22:59)", "body": "How about lobster, mussels, clam, or oysters? I wouldn't want to live in a world without shellfish. :-)"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (23:27)", "body": "or scallops, abalone, or shrimp?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (23:35)", "body": "(pant, pant) You're making me hungry!! All I have is this watermelon salt water taffy."}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "I think we already covered that..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (00:16)", "body": "You must be screwed!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (12:09)", "body": "I think that's an accurate short summation..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (02:50)", "body": "I had K-rab Friday night, in a rendition of a seafood chimichanga... creamy and rich but not at all authentic..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (14:23)", "body": "You mean you ate a plastic crab?!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (11:45)", "body": "very similar..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "bally", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (11:53)", "body": "Wow, our first banner ad, Little Italy. I hope folks click through! And the background is tres chic. Purple with line drawings. You can tell I telnet in most of the time."}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (12:22)", "body": "Thanks for coming in from web... you oughta go check out art for the truly visual..."}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  8, 1998 (01:03)", "body": "Hi, Bally! (thanks, muffin) restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 5, "subject": "vegetarian", "response_count": 37, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:46)", "body": "No arguments. Sadly, Martin Brothers has closed their doors (pass me a hanky please). Jeff Martin is the guy with the monks outfit with a hood and two birds perched on his should in the Springs currently running front page slide show."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:40)", "body": "Oh, that is sad. Maybe you went around and told too many people they took you're favorite item off the menu! I liked that place off of 26th street, east of I-35 that had their own garden... the best chipotle-artichoke enchiladas!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:37)", "body": "What place was that?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:00)", "body": "Martin Brothers"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (17:50)", "body": "This year, Chronicle readers say: TIE: West Lynn, Mother's Cafe and Garden Runners-up: Mr. Natural, Veggie Heaven Honorable mention: Eatside Cafe, Manga, Central Market And the Critics Poll says: Veggie Heaven"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (19:44)", "body": "West Lynn and Mothers are owned by the same folks. Mr. Natural isn't in their league or even close. And Martin Brothers shut down, otherwise they would have been a contender."}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (09:50)", "body": "is the Eastside Cafe still around?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "Yessum!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (10:38)", "body": "MMMMmmmm. Artichoke, chipotle enchiladas were my favorite! And they had great carrot cake!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "jgross", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (11:21)", "body": "great hopscotch games outside, too, on the sidewalks between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon different colored chalk, differently drawn squares, goofy doodlings and kids from all walks of life lotta times they'd laugh when they was talkin' that's why I went there"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (11:41)", "body": "and, as long as I'm here... Chronicle readers picked the best vegetables at Threadgill's Runners-up: Eastside Cafe, Mother's Cafe and Garden Honorable mentions: Good Eats Cafe, Veggie Heaven, West Lynn Cafe, Luby's and the Critics Poll rated as the best vegetables... Eastside Cafe, with Laura's Bluebonnet Kitchen as the runner-up"}, {"response": 13, "author": "tami", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (19:38)", "body": ""}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (22:48)", "body": "Did we leave you speechless, Tami?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:02)", "body": "No, I think Terry did...."}, {"response": 16, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:41)", "body": "I was wondering when Y'all were going to figure that out."}, {"response": 17, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:26)", "body": "We always get there eventually..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:09)", "body": "That's true. I just did not want to say anything, at first, because I live in the same house, and I thought it might be a breach of privacy."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (20:55)", "body": "and, actually, we have ways of finding things out..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (21:57)", "body": "Well I'm glad it's out in the open."}, {"response": 21, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:42)", "body": "What is? No, just kidding! The thing with Terry is that one practically has to drag everything out..."}, {"response": 22, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:48)", "body": "Well I almost posted it, but thought better of it. I figured it would come out sooner or later. specially when she was using his logon from time to time, when she forgot to sign him off, and sign on, before using the same computer."}, {"response": 23, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:49)", "body": "Not to mention the pure chemistry oozing from their every response..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:05)", "body": "That too. Although I had missed that, you ought to see it from this angle. she has him wrapped around her finger, she decides to do something, and he just goes along with it."}, {"response": 25, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:21)", "body": "And isn't that JUST the way it should be?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (02:26)", "body": "Yes, and no. When there has been enough history in a relationship, for mutual trust to develop, yes. When one partner is following the other around like a puppy dog, No."}, {"response": 27, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:02)", "body": "Yes, that is a good point. I wouldn't like that. Takes away the challenge."}, {"response": 28, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:02)", "body": "True, but you'd find challenge. Somewhere. Because you are not the type to be content with a complacent lifestyle."}, {"response": 29, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:35)", "body": "Nonsense, I'm the most homeley woman you've ever met, I bet!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (07:10)", "body": "There she goes again. Simply not the case."}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (07:45)", "body": "What??? I'm not going anywhere! I my sense of humour THAT pathetic??? How are you doing, Terry?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (07:53)", "body": "You have a great sense of humor, ree ree."}, {"response": 33, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "Thank you, Master. How have you been, Terry? I take it your silence is due to lots of love making?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (05:48)", "body": "Pretty perceptive Ree! I'm working excruciating long hours too, stacking up hours so I can take off a couple of days at Thanksgiving."}, {"response": 35, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (01:56)", "body": "Where are you going?"}, {"response": 36, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (05:24)", "body": "To dads place in East Texas."}, {"response": 37, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (11:18)", "body": "Well, I hope you have a really great time."}, {"response": 38, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:38)", "body": "We did had a good time as I remember, Ree. And a better time on our last visit. My sister Alice was there with her husband Don and dad talked about with exploits in the War (WW2). He's put golf on the shelf for a while while he heals up his leg. Back to vegetarian. Martin Brothers closed. But Mothers still trucks on. I need to revisit the East Side Cafe, it's moved way up in the Chronicle Restaurant poll and features it's own home grown produce. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 50, "subject": "pub grub", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:13)", "body": "Mmmm, we'll definitely have to do the Dog & Duck thing!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "bally", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (11:55)", "body": "Wow, Stacey talking Dog and Duck last November! Fados is my fave. Their fish and chips are great."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (12:24)", "body": "haven't eaten there myself, just drank and socialized with Terry and Stacey..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  8, 1998 (01:05)", "body": "English pubs are great. Five years ago when I was there for the first time, the food in pubs were horrendous. Nowadays you buy your best english meals in pubs. And I still maintain that English chips is the best in the world. All that oil and salt and vinegar - yum!!!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "osceola", "date": "Wed, Sep  9, 1998 (13:30)", "body": "Used to go to Crown and Anchor a lot when I was on UT campus more than I am now. I recommend it, especially Sundays when all imported pints are $2.30. Waterloo Brew Pub has good burgers and onion rings. Check out Shoal Creek Saloon on Lamar & 9th -- excellent lunch menu of Louisiana cooking."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep  9, 1998 (13:39)", "body": "thanks for the input, George"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep  9, 1998 (16:23)", "body": "That Shoal Creek Saloon's a new one on me, what's the decore there?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "osceola", "date": "Wed, Sep  9, 1998 (17:10)", "body": "It's just a beer joint with a good kitchen and a nice patio in the back. Lots of New Orleans Saints crap on the walls, more than you'll ever see anywhere else (including New Orleans). restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 51, "subject": "bagels", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:14)", "body": "Sadly enough, I concur. Eating for the man is almost as bad as working for him."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (16:03)", "body": "Sad. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 52, "subject": "sushi", "response_count": 28, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (10:08)", "body": "Best sushi in Denver... MORI. A tiny authentic restaurant buried within an old USO building downtown. Second best would have to be Sonoda's. They've the best scallops, ever. Having a craving... Best sushi in Austin was at the Korea House, IMO. Mushashino was good, but not as good. Best sushi in San Antonio... a little place off of Hildebrand called the Tokyo Inn, I believe. The first place I ever had sushi actually."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "Korea house, I may have been there once if it's the place on Congress. You sit on floor cushions there?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (13:18)", "body": "No, that was something different. Korea House is over by the Village Cinema."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (14:41)", "body": "OH, ok, I usually go to that other place over there. They have vegetarian night two times a week. Great oriental buffet. Then over to Texpresso for a pickemup."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "What Is Sushi? It's Not Raw Fish... Contrary to popular belief, the term sushi does not mean raw seafood. It actually refers to the specially flavored rice that accompanies vegetables or seafood. The common assumption that sushi is raw fish is a myth that everyone in the sushi industry - manufacturers and retailers alike - is trying to dispel."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (07:57)", "body": "Interesting... the name of the place I was groping for is Shanghai River, have you ever been there, anyone?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (09:36)", "body": "not I... This year Chronicle readers voted TIE: Korea House, Kyoto Runners-up: Musashino, Koreana Honorable mention: Tokyo Steak House, Seoul Restaurant and Sushi Bar, Buffet Palace and the Critics Poll picked Musashino"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "mushashino is delicious but really good and much less expensive is Korea House (IMHO!)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "jgross", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (11:34)", "body": "I like to swim with the dolphins in the Gulf. I stick my head in their mouth and they puke. now dolphin puke is very expensive in Korea. but it's free if you do it like me. but I don't think it's ever been called sushi. and I don't think the Gulf's ever been called a restaurant. there aren't any dolphins in the Gulf? oh. wait, I think there are. I hope this has been a helpful contribution to our delicious conversation"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (11:49)", "body": "and here is an offering from the first Italian Sushi bar... (nope, it's not located in Austin) Rolled steamed escarole, maguro tuna with sundried tomato wasabi, chilled saffron risotto and leeks Rice paper rolled with yellow tail hamachi, saffron risotto, watercress, and balsamic wasabi Pressed smoked salmon, potato crisp, avocado puree and crisp leeks Pressed sweet water shrimp, basil risotto, gaeta olive wasabi Pressed maguro tuna with pesto mayonnaise, balsamic wasabi and white risotto"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (18:09)", "body": "dophin vomit... hmmm. that seems as superfresh as it can get without having to kill the fish by yourself."}, {"response": 12, "author": "jgross", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (22:52)", "body": "plus, the dolphin might spell out its tiredness and wonder out loud about what it's like to live on land it could be one more way to make a really new kinda friend the dolphin might say (telepathically) something about the moon above the cliffs it might have some thoughts on rice with fish and it might ask to be sent the experience fresh the experience, that is, of riding a mountain bike in the wide open yonder and it might \"write\" mind letters too about what it's like to live without having to have a job or without having to have Joe Black around"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (22:57)", "body": "Hanover, Germany -- A restaurant that has decided to use nude women as platters has generated both revenue and controversy here. The owner of the unidentified restaurant -- written up in Bild, a German newspaper, said the women earn up to 800 marks, or US$500, a night for lying motionless on a table, wearing only veils on their faces and a \"thin floral decoration\" between their legs, wile diners feast on sushi piled on the \"platters.\" Sushi and caviar are placed on the women's bodies while bodyguards dressed like samurai warriors stand nearby to make sure diners touch only the food. A women's group is protesting the restaurant's unique sushi meals, calling them \"tasteless.\" So far, the restaurant's owner is ignoring the protests, preferring to focus on the popularity of the special dinner. He was quoted in Bild as saying the dinner, called \"sushi a la Jungfrau,\" is booked out weeks in advance, even at a cost of about 400 marks per person. Compiled by Paul King"}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:17)", "body": "Tasteless!! ha-ha!! The Germans are fine ones to talk about tasteless. They wouldn't know the meaning of the word 'taste' if it had subtitles! Silly buggers. I don't like sushi - tastes like unsalted jelly worms to me."}, {"response": 15, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:56)", "body": "I have never eaten sushi. I suppose I'll get around to it, eventually."}, {"response": 16, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:29)", "body": "Let us know what you thought!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:17)", "body": "I will. I'm pretty sure that ill like it though. I like vietnamese food and their salads contain some raw seafood."}, {"response": 18, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:19)", "body": "That is I'll like it."}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:46)", "body": "I didn't know sushi was a vietnamese dish - is that how it came to be known in America; you know, through the war?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (02:00)", "body": "yes and no. American military men went to Japan for R and R in both the korean and vietnam wars. sushi is of japanese origin."}, {"response": 21, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:56)", "body": "I see. You weren't in the war though, were you? Do you know anybody who was?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:25)", "body": "I went to Thailand during the Vietnam war. that was as close to a war zone as I ever got. I went there to meet my uncle who was on R and R there. I was almost 12. The summer of 67. June. He was a fighter pilot on the USS Constellation. On the way home they stopped me in Hawaii, so that I could accompany his body the rest of the way home. He was killed 10 hours after he left Thailand. Another uncle was on Corregador when it fell in WWII. He was in on the Bataan death march. He survived the war, but never completely recovered, he died when I was seven."}, {"response": 23, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "My God, I'm so sorry."}, {"response": 24, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (03:13)", "body": "There is nothing to be sorry about. Death is the risk you take joining the military. I declined to enter that war. Caught all kinds of hell about it. Volunteered to accompany the first B-52 mission carrying nukes, they shut up. I actually volunteered for desert storm, along with all of my desert rat friends from OPFOR. They turned us down, all of us. 175 desert rats, trained in the weapons that Iraq was using, actual weapons instructors, absolute experts in desert survival. We'd have been in Bagdad in a week, tops. Nobody could have stopped us. They knew it, and we knew it."}, {"response": 25, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:07)", "body": "Well, I'm glad you weren't in any wars. No country is that great that husbands, fathers, brothers and sons have to die for it - they're people, not expendable automatons."}, {"response": 26, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:07)", "body": "I wish that the world was full of people like you and that it was like that 100 years ago also. At the very least I wish the leadership of every country was like that."}, {"response": 27, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "My granddad was like that. He had to fight for UNITA against Angola (his country of birth), but always carried an unloaded gun. He said he never wanted to be in a position where he was the killer; he would rather be the dead man than the man to take a father away from his children."}, {"response": 28, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:54)", "body": "What's UNITA Ree? Funny Sushi commercial with Doug Flutie and Terry Bradshaw, it plays on guytype biases against tiny raw fish, \"we call this bait\". restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 53, "subject": "breakfast", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:18)", "body": "Waterloo Ice House on Burnet gets my vote for best breakfast."}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (10:21)", "body": "this morning I had an Asagio Cheese bagel with Salmon Schmear and a cup of Tension Tamer... not really feeling stressed this a.m. but I thought maybe I could use it as a preventative!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "What does Tension Tamer have in it? Just want to know what you're on z*/"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (18:05)", "body": "vitamin B!!! and mint."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (18:36)", "body": "uh huh! I'm a pretty happy camper!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Mar  7, 1998 (21:32)", "body": "stacey, you eat some of the strangest sounding stuff *grin* personally, i like brunch, that 10 am eat-a-thon...won't need a bite the rest of the day, haven't found a tolerable place yet......"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (02:11)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:24)", "body": "Austin used to have a really good Sunday brunch at the 15th Street Cafe (?) under the Guest Quarters Hotel. About once a month we have brunch with a group of friends, always potluck and at someone's house."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:57)", "body": "Sunday brunch at mothers is the mother of all Sunday brunches."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:04)", "body": "YUM! (good to see you paul, it's been awhile! how's the ham radio?)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:10)", "body": "Great stuff on the ham radio. One of my room mates, Garrett, and I have been talking up a storm all over town. We may put it out on the spring's realaudio server soon (our ham repeater). New room mates at our big house have arrived. Robin, who's bring a couple of travel trailers to park out on the land, Suzanne, who has posted a couple of times here, and Adelyn, who's a massage therapist for Apple Computer. We all get along great! I also just made contact with Pat Luppens, a high school friend, and Merle Busch, my high school physics teacher. There's a truly amazing story here about the times we had together with Jim Fox and Helen Huth, who both died. Believe me, it's amazing. And it's awesome that the Internet is bring us back together again. I just registered http://www.helenhuth.com but the website isn't built yet."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:12)", "body": "great paul, sounds like your life is 'coming up roses' at the moment. (imagining Austin late afternoon temps and breezes out on the 'new' land!)"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (19:16)", "body": "I'll be talking about this more. It's some very deep, philosophical stuff from my adolesence that cries to break into some coherent recounting. Helen Huth was one of those people whose memory flickers like an eternal flame. And Jim Fox has joined her. The events around Merle, Pat, Jim and Helen really shaped a lot of my feelings and had a deep impact on me personally. It's kind of awesome that Pat, Merle and I are talking via email again."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (12:41)", "body": "heard from an old friend of mine as well... now married, living in Houston, starting a family... back to breakfast... on Sunday had breakfast at the Harvest. Whole foods, earthy, lots of tofu, tempeh and seiten dishes. Reminds me of Austin's Martin Brothers (ah the memories!) and the BEST smoothies!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (18:00)", "body": "Too bad Martin Brothers shut down, I see Jeff Martin at parties pretty regularly."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar  2, 2002 (18:38)", "body": "Best breakfasts! From citysearch today. 1. Magnolia Cafe 2. Kerbey Lane Cafe 3. Taco Xpress 4. Dan's Hamburgers 5. The Omelettry 6. Trudy's Texas Star Restaurant & Bar 7. Cisco's Restaurant Bakery & Bar 8. Star Seeds Cafe 9. Taco Shack 10. Juan in a Million I thought the Omelettry would have been in the top spot with Kerbey Lane second and Magnolia third. How did Taco Express and Dan's Humburgers slip in to third and fourth? Never heard of Cisco's, Star Seeds is cool. Juan in a Million??"}, {"response": 20, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:26)", "body": "According to http://austin360.com/restaurants/ BREAKFAST \ufffd Chez Zee. The cr\ufffdme br\ufffdl\ufffde French toast is a sumptuously rich wedge of challah bread soaked overnight in cr\ufffdme br\ufffdl\ufffde custard and then baked. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 5406 Balcones Drive; 454-2666. \ufffd Cisco's. One of the city's most unusual breakfast items, the picadillos are rolls stuffed with seasoned taco meat. Opens at 7 a.m. daily; 1511 E. Sixth St.; 478-2420. \ufffd Dan's Hamburgers. The plate is filled by the two large, split, soft, homemade biscuits covered with smooth cream gravy and little chunks of sausage. Opens at 6 a.m. daily; 4308 Manchaca Road; 443-6131. Also 844 Airport Blvd., 385-2262; 5602 N. Lamar Blvd, 459-3239. \ufffd El Nopalito. The soft, savory strips of nopales (cacti) are a perfect partner for scrambled eggs. Opens at 7 a.m. Tuesday to Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2809 S. First St.; 326-2026. \ufffd Hot Jumbo Bagel. Greet each day with a wall of flavors -- jalape\ufffdo to sesame seed. Opens at 6:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday (closed the first Sunday of the month); 307 W. Fifth St.; 477-1137. \ufffd Juan In A Million. One delicious, zesty way to have eggs is scrambled with Mexican dried beef, called machacado, tomatoes, onions and jalape\ufffdos. Opens at 7 a.m. daily; 2300 E. Cesar Chavez St.; 472-3872. \ufffd Kerbey Lane Cafe. The size of saucers, the thick pancakes are winners, particularly the fresh-fruit daily special. Open 24 hours; 3704 Kerbey Lane; 451-1436. Also 12602 Research Blvd., 258-7757; 2700 S. Lamar Blvd., 445-4451; 2606 Guadalupe St., 447-5717. \ufffd La Fuente's. Tortilla chips meld with scrambled eggs, tomatoes, onions and green peppers to form migas, a cheese-covered Tex-Mex classic. Opens at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 6507 Circle S Road; 442-9925. \ufffd Little City. Steamed milk and chocolate syrup unite for a simple, sweet hot cocoa. Opens at 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 916 Congress Ave.; 476-2489. \ufffd Lone Star Bakery. Doughnuts of substance, not some thin wisp of sugar. 106 W. Liberty Ave., Round Rock; 255-3629; opens at 4 a.m. Tuesday to Sunday. \ufffd Magnolia Cafe. Home fries that are well-peppered chunks of red potatoes -- some soft, others crisp -- from the grill. Open 24 hours; 1920 S. Congress Ave.; 445-0000. Also 2304 Lake Austin Blvd.; 478-8645. \ufffd Mozart's. Lake Austin coffeehouse serving a rich brew from beans it roasts. Opens at 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. Friday and Saturday; 3826 Lake Austin Blvd.; 477-2900. \ufffd Omelettry. The large three-egg vegetarian omelette is stuffed with guacamole, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, peppers and cheese. Opens at 7 a.m. daily; 4811 Burnet Road; 453-5062. \ufffd Russell's Bakery. A fritter to savor, with a golden crust enveloping chopped nuts and apples. Opens at 6:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. Sunday; 3339 Hancock Drive; 419-7877. \ufffd Sweetish Hill Bakery. Wake me up with a mocha muffin, filled with chunks of dark chocolate in a coffee-flavored dough. Opens at 6:30 a.m. daily; 1120 W. Sixth St.; 472-7370. \ufffd Taco X-Press. Breakfast tacos in a variety of forms, including migas and eggs with chorizo. Opens at 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. Sunday; 2529 S. Lamar Blvd.; 444-0261. \ufffd Texas French Bread. Nuts and cinnamon swirl through yellow coffeecake topped with streusel and drizzled with icing. Opens at 6:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2900 Rio Grande St.; 499-0544. \ufffd Upper Crust. Peel the layers of flaky dough like an onion to unwrap, bite by bite, this nontraditional sugar-and-cinnamon roll. Opens at 6:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 4508 Burnet Road; 467-0102."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:21)", "body": "My picks in order. 1. Omelettry - head and shoulders above the rest 2. Trudys 3. Magnolia 4. Upper Crust The rest are a tossup. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 54, "subject": "migas", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (13:15)", "body": "Kerbey Lane's are pretty good but that little dive WAY down on S Congress is by far the best I've tasted. Alex Garcia's abulalita's notwithstanding."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (16:04)", "body": "What little dive?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (09:58)", "body": "South, south on the left side. Little white building, gotta walk throughthe kitchen to get to the potty."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (22:34)", "body": "Such attention to detail!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:01)", "body": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just UN-anal retentiveness."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:46)", "body": "What, no mention of Trudys? This is an outrage. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 55, "subject": "sandwich", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (01:11)", "body": "Apparently at whatever sports bar stacey is at... I like the torta cubana al pastor at Arranda's #3, the turkey with bacon and avocado at Thundercloud, the roast beef and Italian wedge at The Little Deli, and when they had it, the club at Martin Brothers. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:04)", "body": "Does a veggie burger count as a sandwich? And, any sandwich tastes great when you're in the middle!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:06)", "body": "And the tuna on an everything bagel from The Bagelry WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:56)", "body": "No more club, no more Martin Brothers, Stace' . . . though I still run in to Jeff Martin a lot at Leightons parties (he's in the band) and at the JimO potlucks (monthly). restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 56, "subject": "Time for *dessert*", "response_count": 27, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:24)", "body": "Well, mymymy, you have hit the spot. Dessert is the only reason to eat a meal, and chocolate is the only dessert. So we used to have Chez Fred/Zee, but I hear they're gone. Macaroni Grill chocolate cake with whipped cream is fine! TFB decadence cake has me running back for more. Amy's will do in a hurry, deep chocolate with red hots. More later--I'm getting too hungry!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:42)", "body": "The have a place now with nothing but deserts, but it isn't registering with me yet because I haven't gone in yet, it's down on Barton Springs Raod acroos from Baby Apaculco. Across the way, there's a place I can't think of. I met Stacey there after work one time. Stacey, help me on this one."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (11:52)", "body": "How do you know it didn't? You weren't around the whole time ya know."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (20:53)", "body": "*giggle* Did I have THAT much beer Paul?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (22:33)", "body": "Ya mean you don't remember the lap dance and jumping up on the table?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan  9, 1998 (18:21)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (17:53)", "body": "Another tiramisu and keep up the back rub..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (14:12)", "body": "Well...we're adding a chocolate mousse to the dessert menu at work..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Oct 25, 1998 (23:05)", "body": "cheesecake rules!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:18)", "body": "That and sticky toffee pudding - did you have sticky toffee pudding when you were in England, Autumn? I cannot get enough of it - wish I knew how to make it. Any ideas, Mike???"}, {"response": 17, "author": "tami", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (10:59)", "body": "Mmmm Cheesecake and backrubs! MMMMMMmm :)"}, {"response": 18, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "There speaks a woman in love! I love cheesecake too!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (02:15)", "body": "Well then, Riette, I'll have to make you some Strawberry cheesecake when you come over here."}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (01:58)", "body": "You can make strawberry cheesecake!!! I'm counting the days! But only if you let me help you. I can beat eggs and grate cheese, you know."}, {"response": 21, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (13:34)", "body": "It's a deal, Riette!! I don't use eggs in mine, so we will try it your way, and see what happens."}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (06:40)", "body": "I HAVE no way! I just assumed one used eggs! But I can beat butter or flower or whatever too!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (18:10)", "body": "OK, Riette, you can help. We'll have a time of it."}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (01:56)", "body": "I bet you're going to end up dirtiest!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (02:58)", "body": "Oh Riette, Now why would I not think that it was a good idea to take that bet?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (02:58)", "body": "Because you KNOW it's a good idea!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Dec  1, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "Riette, come to think of it, you are right."}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Dec  1, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "That happens sometimes, would you believe?!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Dec  1, 1998 (01:53)", "body": "More often, Riette, than would appear openly."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "You mean you're NOT as innocent as you seem? Tim, I'm shocked!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (02:20)", "body": "Riette, I never claimed to be innocent."}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Dec  3, 1998 (00:55)", "body": "You didn't? Where on earth do you think I got the idea from? Maybe my mind has started playing mind games with ME!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Dec  3, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "I'm sorry if I gave you that Impression, Riette, but it was purely Unintentional. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 57, "subject": "finger food", "response_count": 28, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:02)", "body": "This would be the wrong topic, also, stacey... WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:14)", "body": "But I LIKE it!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (00:08)", "body": "How? WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:04)", "body": "Warm, wet and gooey."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:08)", "body": "Doesn't that get messy? WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:47)", "body": "cleans up nice."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (23:46)", "body": "Bet you can't prove that... WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Nov  2, 1997 (00:05)", "body": "And, what exactly is the difference betwee appetizers and finger foods? WER"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Nov  2, 1997 (00:08)", "body": "I know it's mispelled, here's the n. WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (09:03)", "body": "As you should well know, appetizers are teasers, just prepping you for a main course. FInger foods however, could keep you busy for a long while."}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (09:09)", "body": "From my experience, so can appetizers! WER"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (11:34)", "body": "I'd like to come to one of your dinner parties then!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (22:57)", "body": "Methinks the lady doth tease me... WER"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (11:55)", "body": "A little teasing goes a long way."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (13:22)", "body": "You love teasing, don't you Stacey?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:00)", "body": "Does a lot of teasing go all the way? WER"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (10:39)", "body": "Only if you're a really competent teaser!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "I'm a master of teasology."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (13:31)", "body": "Oh, goody, I've been looking for a master to study under! WER"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (14:27)", "body": "Good. Your first assignment. Tease Stacey till she *giggles*."}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (18:39)", "body": "Done that, been there, but okay teach. Repetition, repetition, repetition... WER"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (01:12)", "body": "Ooops, looks like I get an F. Not only hasn't she *giggled* but she seems to have disappeared. WER"}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (09:38)", "body": "sorry guys, been pretty sick."}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (11:25)", "body": "I do hope you get to feeling better. WER"}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (12:05)", "body": "taking half day off"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (10:15)", "body": "As soon as you read this, Stacey, take the rest of the day off."}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "Tee Hee, I've got tomorrow off in honor of those who've served their country well."}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "Well tee hee yourself. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 58, "subject": "coffee - let's get pumped up with caffeine", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (23:34)", "body": "The following were investigated during an emotional hypnosis regression session: + Many are my brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. + I am Alpha and Omega + The education of the will is the object of our existence. + Can a man take fire in his bosom, and if his causes aren't yours, (cont.) turn Luddite? + A helluva lot of inebriated strippers...just send me some of those. + Miss Piggy (Muppet character). + The Federal Emergency Management Agency. + Radiation poisoning by the government of subjects in medical studies. + Just remember: Bob spelled inside out is 'oboe.' WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (09:19)", "body": "LOL."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "Do you get the feeling that 'km' was pumped up on caf' when he wrote that. Hey, I shouldn't be posting right now cause I'm unpumped up."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (12:56)", "body": "I just figured the way we go on about coffee in what I ate today and austin's javahouses, maybe if'n I posted something in here, we could have yet another topic all to ourselves! WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (13:06)", "body": "Bright idea. Anybody have a hankerin for chocolate covered espresso beans. Two stimulants wrapped into one!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (13:20)", "body": "That's what I top off the tiramisu with, two of 'em! WER"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (20:43)", "body": "I have a hankerin' but none of them 'spresso beans around here."}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (11:22)", "body": "You can get them at most of the coffee houses in Austin. Mojo's always had them and so did Flip's"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:43)", "body": "I'll look for 'em on my next \"town run\"."}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "Oops! Forgot you were a \"boonies\" man. You'll have to fill your java mug just ot give you enough \"get up\" to go!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:56)", "body": "I'm not just a boonies man any more. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 59, "subject": "pizza", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "Of course! Unfortunately, one of my favorites is Pizza Hut's super supreme deep dish. My wife likes our spinach and onion white pizza with fresh mushrooms added. Along the same lines as pizza, I love Double Dave's pepperoni rolls. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:37)", "body": "In the Mile High City, BlackJack's Pizza is far and away the best. Take out or delivery only but with pizza that good, you don't want anyone else witnessing ho much you scarf down!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "I am craving an x-large Blackjack pizza with mushrooms, black olives and extra cheese! Warm and kinda gooey on the top but crisp on the bottom. Hmmm a beer would go nicely with that too. If anybody wants to join me at work: 3245 E. Exposition Denver CO feel free! I have a coupon for the pizza AND they deliver 303-722-5222. No beer in the school but maybe after work! Damn, I am so hungry. Coffe is NOT cutting it today!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:41)", "body": "Wow, major pasta attack, Stacey."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (11:55)", "body": "I'd stoop SO low as to pick off the peppers and onions off someone else's pizza. Heck! Even the pepperonis!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (12:13)", "body": "Yes, I'm losing it. Craving fat calories and spices. My energy level had tapered off for awhile but now it's back, strong as ever and needs to be fueled!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (12:14)", "body": "Pizza! The ultimate 40-30-30 food! In the ZONE, baby!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (13:34)", "body": "After making them for almost twelve years, I'd love to see the pizza that could do that to me. WER"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (14:29)", "body": "Can you describe how you make a pizza? (if it isn't a trade secret)"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (18:41)", "body": "Is this part of the assignment? WER"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (09:39)", "body": "How did you become the student WER?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov  7, 1997 (16:06)", "body": "terry claims to be master, sooo... WER"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (10:16)", "body": "I'm only a master of a few things (the universe, all women, the web, the NFL, the NBA) so let's not overplay this ok?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "Woo Woo! Then we can have some fun!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:46)", "body": "When she woo woos watch out."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:11)", "body": "*smile* you remember!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:22)", "body": "Of course."}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "Always nice to be remembered. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 6, "subject": "American", "response_count": 22, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "It's a great place to eat out, especially their broccoli rice casserole, but don't take your American Express card. And watch out for Janis Joplins ghost."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:41)", "body": "All U Can Eat mashed potatos!!!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:37)", "body": "Only if your name is U?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (13:00)", "body": "It's one of my many nicknames!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (13:17)", "body": "OK U."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:33)", "body": "Ok ME."}, {"response": 8, "author": "katrina", "date": "Sat, Dec  6, 1997 (00:45)", "body": "Yeah u."}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (19:01)", "body": "Uh, oh... it's encrypted!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (01:01)", "body": "Really, glad Stacey's back!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (11:19)", "body": "Aww. I got the warm fuzzies going on! Sorry I was away for so long. After I was done fooling around on the California beaches, I had a new position to get used to. (Job, WER. The other positions aren't too difficult to adjust to!)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (19:17)", "body": "Woo Woo!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (23:33)", "body": "Make way for the woo woo express. What's the new position?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 10, 1997 (10:45)", "body": "*cackle* Well, Paul, the position you probably speak of is self contained ED (emotionally disturbed/disabled (blah blah!)) teacher. Eight boys with some pretty severe problems. They are all very angry, have been severely physically, sexually and mentally abused. A great bunch of kids with some strong aversion to authority and physical contact. It's a challenge."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (20:17)", "body": "How has this been going?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (19:31)", "body": "Well. Exhausting but challenging. And, of course, rewarding."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 16, 1997 (00:23)", "body": "This was like a lateral move for you? You're still at the same school?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (11:11)", "body": "yes and yes."}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (16:42)", "body": "what IS America food anyway? Considering we are supposed to be a melting pot and all... Is it fondue?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (19:11)", "body": "mashed potatoes and gravy, I think..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (10:12)", "body": "Thought that was an Irish delicacy?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (04:49)", "body": "XLents best American restaurants 2003. \ufffd Hill's. Best burger in town: well-seasoned meat on a kolache-style bun. 4700 S. Congress Ave., 851-9300. \ufffd Magnolia Cafe. 24-hour spot with eclectic menu. 1920 S. Congress Ave.; 445-0000. Also 2304 Lake Austin Blvd.; 478-8645. \ufffd Stagecoach Inn. Recipes from the 1940s in historic setting. 401 S. Stagecoach Road, Salado; (254) 947-5111. \ufffd Texadelphia. Local sandwich chain famous for its \"cheesesteak.\" 5510 S. Interstate 35, Building E, Suite 410; 804-0804. Several other Austin locations. \ufffd Texicalli Grille. A South Austin classic with great salads and sandwiches. 534 E. Oltorf St., 442-2799. \ufffd Z Tejas. Southwestern flavors ride strong at this popular place. 1110 W. Sixth St., 478-5355. Also 9400-A Arboretum Blvd., 346-3506."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:14)", "body": "Hills (Bob Coles joint) is great for celebrating mayoral elections and meeting Kinky Friedman. Magnolia has awesome breakfasts. Z Tejas is impressive and a good place to take out of towners. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 60, "subject": "best chicken dish", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:52)", "body": "Any belief in life after death should include the hideous plausibility that it sorta tastes like chicken. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:54)", "body": "Any belief in life after death should include the hideous plausibility that it sorta tastes like chicken. I hope this looks better! WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (09:34)", "body": "They both look good on WebTV, which is what I'm looking at them with right now. So are you saying you're not a big fan of chicken dishes? What about Italian baked checken with herbs, WER?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:10)", "body": "I've grown to be able to eat chicken. In fact, one of my favorite dishes to eat at work is our Chicken and Garlic spaghetti. Actually I should say my Chicken and Garlic spaghetti, it being my creation and all. We, however, usually recommend the Chicken Marsala and/or Chicken Angelica to first time customers. WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (15:50)", "body": "don't keep us in suspense, Riette: How was your capon prepared yesterday, and what restaurant were you dining in?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "Not a clue about how it was prepared. But it was grilled, I think. And big as a bloody turkey!!! Delicious! The kids EACH had two drumsticks, and we took a doggy bag home - which they finished off as soon as we GOT home!!! The restaurant was incredible though. Up on the Blasenberg (mountain), named after it, and overlooking the most peaceful, picturesque, sleepy little Alpine village I've ever seen. And the little village overlooked the Zug lake - it was the most incredible view. After lunch we all just lied in the grass outside on the mountain, staring at the sky and our surroundings for hours. Felt like we were posing for some fancy painting or something! The weather over here is glorious at the moment. Autumn is rea ly coming, and it's the best season of the year. The trees as magnificent, the sun is out most of the time, it's cool and breezy, and Switzerland really does turn into some kind of Wonderland."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "Wow, what a great experience and what an idyllic setting. You are leading the good life."}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (01:04)", "body": "Sometimes, yes. But sometimes I so miss the desert that it almost hurts me physically."}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:57)", "body": "I can't imagine missing the desert, help me with why you would miss the desert? Guess I'm not a desert person. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 61, "subject": "veggie burgers", "response_count": 17, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (01:13)", "body": "The closest to a good tasting veggie burger that I've ever had is falafel. WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:05)", "body": "Turbo Falafel from Central Market beats all!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:10)", "body": "Are you telling me true? WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:47)", "body": "Of course I am."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (03:16)", "body": "There was an extensive veggie burger rundown that I did somewhere, I think it was in the veggie burger topic in food or somewhere, but I don't remember if it was in the old or new spring? Hmmm."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (21:04)", "body": "i had my first veggie burger at lavernes on the beach (VA) and it was gross. so don't use that recipe, k...."}, {"response": 8, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (21:43)", "body": "Ruby Tuesday has a good one, but the ones I bought at the supermarket (Lightlife or Lightline) really sucked..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (21:45)", "body": "Don't have anything to compare laverne's with, are they supposed to be spicy? (hi Autumn!)"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (15:21)", "body": "some of them are. Veggie burgers have come to encompass any type of burgeresque, patty-like thing w/o meat. So some are actually cut up veggie-tables all mushed together. Some are veggies mushed with beans. Some are beans with spices and barley with a few carrot shreds tossed in.... After one veggie burger, you've really not even broken the surface! (maybe try another kind before you make any resolutions)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (20:17)", "body": "that's what i was thinking. this thing was kinda tough. will try some more..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (00:13)", "body": "good. ok"}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (21:53)", "body": "Tough & dry = bad veggieburger (IMHO). Forget Laverne's. Try Shirley's."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (16:39)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 15, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (17:46)", "body": "*smile*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (10:53)", "body": "Tried two the other day that were actually good, (not good enough to stop eating meat, but...) both were by NaturalTouch. One was their Okara Pattie, which resembled chicken, however I can't remember the name of the other one..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (00:29)", "body": "http://www.gardenburger.com"}, {"response": 18, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (05:59)", "body": "I bbq'ed up some veggie burgers by the pool the other night, think it was Weds. It was really fun struggling with the gas grill and juggling chilled wine, microwaved potatoes, corn in foil and veggie burgers. I was very unprepared and had to improvise a lot, but it got me ready for the next round. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 62, "subject": "wild game", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:04)", "body": "As would this... WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:14)", "body": "More, more..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (00:10)", "body": "Wrong context, but great word choice... WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:05)", "body": "Sometimes I just can't help myself."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (12:59)", "body": "Tell us about wild game."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:12)", "body": "And link to some pictures. WER"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:48)", "body": "I'll take some this weekend."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (23:49)", "body": "S'okay. WER"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "Where are the visuals? As someone once said, more, more... WER restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 63, "subject": "places to eat and watch your favorite sports", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:05)", "body": "And this, although... WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:15)", "body": "No voyeurism for moi, I prefer to be in the middle of things!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:56)", "body": "In the middle?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (13:18)", "body": "Mmmm..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (00:12)", "body": "That was the whole idea, I do. WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:06)", "body": "You'd rather watch than play?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:15)", "body": "Sometimes, it is a great educational tool. WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:39)", "body": "Besides the topic is where do you like to eat and watch your favorite sports. And, if you position correctly and-or use the right tools, you can watch and play. WER restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 64, "subject": "best tofu dish", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (10:09)", "body": "Phad Thai. From MY wok!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:01)", "body": "Who do I call for reservations? WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:16)", "body": "Just come on over and tell me what you came for. Feel free to let me know how much you'd like to try it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "If I hold you to that, you'd better not be out of anything... WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (10:06)", "body": "What if I accidently slip out of something?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (15:19)", "body": "Hey, accidents happen. As long as we clean up the mess, no one gets hurt, and the doctor bills aren't too much, I guess I can make another choice. WER"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov  4, 1997 (23:26)", "body": "I didn't loose the invitation, did I??? WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (10:40)", "body": "Of course not! I'm still on for tiramisu, no?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (13:36)", "body": "Si WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (14:30)", "body": "Fried in light veggie oil and breaded with Red Star Nutritional Yeast. Nothing compares."}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (18:42)", "body": "To you? WER restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 65, "subject": "brew pubs", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (21:12)", "body": "Well, Fado's has to be my favorite. I met wer and Stacey there once. It's kind of loud and crowded. Scenic, the woodwork is rich and the atmosphere is festive. I met Clay there one time, the ex tennis pro and quaffed a few Guiness. Frothy, aromatic Guiness Stout. Clay did this thing, getting his friends to keep trading places like some kind of social director. So I got to meet his friends. Fado's is down on Austin's Fourth Street. Where the young urban professionals romp."}, {"response": 2, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (22:43)", "body": "There are two excellent microbrew pubs in Honolulu. One is the Gordon Biersch Brewery at the Aloha Tower Marketplace on the waterfront downtown. Excellent pilsner, a yuppie haunt. The other is in Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab on Nimitz Avenue about a mile towards Pearl Harbor from downtown in the Iwilei industrial area. Sam Choy is Hawaii's most famous chef (former executive chef in the Kona Hilton, then went out on his own to fabulous success). It is a charming restaurant and microbrewery in a efurbished former factory building. Upscale, yet informal. They brew lager, cream ale, bambucha stout, hefeweizen, and my favorite \"Sam's Steam.\" It is much like San Francisco's legendary Anchor Steam, but even better. Sam also has an elegant Diamond Head restaurant, a family restaurant on Maui, both a family restaurant and a resort restaurant in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island (the former in the Kaloko Industrial Area, the latter at the Keauhou Beach Hotel), and fine dining establishments in Tokyo, New York City and on Guam. His website is http://www.samchoy.com There is also the Kona Brewpub in Kailua-Kona. Their signature beers are Fire Rock Ale and Kona Lager. Good info for travelers."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (09:05)", "body": "taken and pasted into my 'when i go to Honolulu' book! just a few moths away! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 66, "subject": "What is needed in Austin restaurants?", "response_count": 44, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (21:14)", "body": "Gosh, there is such an abundance of restaurants and choices, this is tough to answer. Seafood resturants?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:32)", "body": "What type of seafood restaurant did you have in mind, because I can think of several. WER"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (09:39)", "body": "Well, I can't think of many, which is why I put it in the form of a question. I've heard of Sea Island and I once ate at a place down near restaurant row near Barton Springs road but I think it's gone. Long John Silver's is an abomination. Oh, OK, there is that place with lobster in the name, they have a location on 183 near IH35. Help me with the name. I had some very pleasant experience there once with a date and once on my own. I haven't tried Sea Island. Maybe you could give me some of your thoughts on this general topic so I could get a better handle on it. I wonder if Stacey is a member of this conference?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:05)", "body": "I suppose you meant Red Lobster. There is also Landry's which is where The Magic Time Machine formerly was. We used to love it there, but now prefer Pappadeaux's. Our seafood distributor also has a restaurant attached to it over on Airport. Eaves Brothers is the name of our supplier, but I can't remember the name of the restaurant. WER"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (19:07)", "body": "OK, then, there are some good seafood places. Hmm, now what does Austin lack? I bet a lot of would be restauranteurs are asking that question."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (23:26)", "body": "Pardon me for saying so, but we don't need no new restaurants. Austin has the highest per capita in the state. WER"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 14, 1997 (06:09)", "body": "Have we topeed 3,000 yet?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "Austin does have a very wide variety of restaurants with different degrees of quality. Denver is missing good Cajun places. Even though we're landlocked, we have an amazing number of good quality seafood and Japanese restaurants. I think Austin has an abundant amount of eateries, I wish some of them were not chains. Pappadeux's is delicious but I can go to Houston, Dallas or San Antonio and get the same thing. I like to patronize places where the menu is exclusive and the receipes unique."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:29)", "body": "topeed should be (sb) topped, as in \"has Austin topped 3,000 restuarants yet\" John Hoberman runs a used restaurant place and with so many restaurants and so many coming and going I think he's about ready to retire for life. Not a bad business to be in around Austin."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (19:47)", "body": "from Garrett via email: No, El Sol y La Luna (the sun and the moon). The good veggie burgers are at Hut's on sixth just east of Lamar... I like the one called the Theta... has pickles, mayonaise, and BBQ sauce. I look the other way regarding the sauce... most BBQ sauces contain anchovies. Hut's has a 2 for 1 special a couple of evenings per week, but I don't recall when. This is in reference to conversation Stacey and I were having about the good Tex Mex place on S Congress and about the veggie burgers at Huts. Hmmm, wonder what night that 2 fer 1 is on?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (11:09)", "body": "call and ask!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (12:30)", "body": "Good ideer."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (13:03)", "body": "I'm full of them!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 18, 1997 (00:16)", "body": "MORE! MORE! WER"}, {"response": 15, "author": "CotC", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (13:33)", "body": "Greek! Not gyros and crap, I know we can get those. I mean the kind of place with autographed celebrity photos all over the place and yelling and boisterousness from the waitstaff..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:32)", "body": "come to Denver... you can get that atmosphere ANYWHERE here!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:44)", "body": "Ted's Greek on Congress in Austin is pretty authentic."}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "Oh yeah, Ted does sound like a pretty Greek name..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (00:25)", "body": "There's also Mykonos over on Burnet, but I've never seen the place boisterous. WER"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (09:41)", "body": "Good Greek food here... everyone come visit!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (10:47)", "body": "Definitely, will be on my stopover list next time I fly to Calif."}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (12:03)", "body": "lemme know."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (12:41)", "body": "For sure I will. I need to get out to Calif soon to see my family."}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "Where in California?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (10:39)", "body": "They're in the East Bay, Walnut Creek. My sister has two houses there and my mom lives in one of them. And my son goes to college in Santa Rosa."}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (09:57)", "body": "The son part is a shocker, I didn't know you had children."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (21:04)", "body": "Yep. Singular though. Shey has about 45 hours of college credit now."}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (08:41)", "body": "What does he want to do with a degree?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (09:28)", "body": "He's not completely sure yet, but he's thinking along the lines of a psychology degree."}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (09:58)", "body": "Has he always lived in CA?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:56)", "body": "Yep. I lived out there for quite a while. Had a house in Occidental."}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (13:19)", "body": "When did you leave?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (14:42)", "body": "I left twice, once around 89 and once around 93. I sold the house in 93 and came back to my place in Texas. Now the house in Occidental is worth three times what I sold it for! Oh well."}, {"response": 34, "author": "mo", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (07:29)", "body": "We could use a Vegitarian Fast Food Joint."}, {"response": 35, "author": "mo", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (07:30)", "body": "There is some cool restaurant reviews at http://www.capitol-city.com"}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "Have you guys fallen victim to the Wrap Craze that has devoured Denver?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:47)", "body": "Yes, itz called rapido. Cool joint."}, {"response": 38, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:12)", "body": "We've got 6 or 7 independent joints, WAY over the top if you ask me."}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:22)", "body": "Only one I know of here."}, {"response": 40, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:05)", "body": "lucky you, then it's just a novelty. Funny how things like that work."}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:25)", "body": "By the way, it's wrapido, I spelled it wrong, it's near the Thai place and Wheatsville. Pretty cool."}, {"response": 42, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (10:43)", "body": "we've got one of those and yes, I concur, not too bad. It's when other places just decide to start putting things in tortillas to get in on the craze. No thanks, I'd like my pizza flat, same goes for my veggie burger and salad."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:45)", "body": "Strangley, Taco Bell has decent wraps."}, {"response": 44, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Dec  5, 1997 (18:24)", "body": "San Diego restaurants of note: Harbor House, Kona's (on Mission Beach) and Buffalo Joe's (for veggie burgers and beer in the GasLight District!) restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 67, "subject": "Denver Restaurants", "response_count": 54, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb  6, 1998 (18:10)", "body": "Got to give those Superbowl champions their due!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (17:25)", "body": "looked high and low for some cajun food last night (besides Bayou Bob's which I've already been to) to celebrate Fat Tuesday with but... no one even knew what I meant by the phrase. \"fat Tuesday? you mean the bar?\" Guess we are too far north and west. Last year same problem. Went to JAX and asked for a hurricane on Fat Tuesday his response was, \"I can make you something that kinda tastes like that.\" AAaaaaaack! NO THANK YOU! Some things weren't meant to be approximated."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (17:25)", "body": "went to Landry's instead and had smothered Ponchatrain (close enough!)"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (19:18)", "body": "I ate at the Crab Shack again and had a great time, the appetizer was so good that I had them doggie bag the main course and I had it later on that night at home."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (09:27)", "body": "Ate at Washington Park Grill last week -- eggplant fettecine with roasted red peppers and kalamata olives (after an amazing calamari with cayenne aioli appetizer), on Friday The Armadillo (satisfactory Tex-Mex with very mild magaritas), on Saturday The Bluebonnet (satisfactory Tex-Mex with otta this world Patron Magaritas!!!). Saturday extended itself to accomadate several other bars after a few too many magarita liters at lunch (an afternoon with a good friend spent drinking, talking and playing pool!!) Brandon was in Chicago for a week so I surrounded myself witenty of fun activities! \u0014his week I'd like to go to the Melting Pot, an incredilble fondue restaurant in Littleton... ya'll feel free to come up and join me!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "Ya know I actually have someone calling me who wants me to drive to Denver with her. I'm not that hot on the idea though, too many irons in the fire here."}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (17:06)", "body": "still dating all six?? What about the old live in arrangement???? do tell!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (17:50)", "body": "No live in now. Just too busy to go to Denver now, Planning a Calif trip later this month."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar  6, 1998 (09:14)", "body": "ate at the Melting Pot last night... incredible."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "fondue... starting with amazing wine cheese fondue incredible mushroom salad a little Louis Jardot BV and heaps and heaps of mushrooms and seafood to cook in a fondue pot and dip in a variety of sauces... curry, horseradish, green goddess, cocktail, and about 4 others. dessert is flaming chocolate fondue with fresh fruits and cheesecake!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (17:57)", "body": "Out-fricking-rageous!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:04)", "body": "you got it!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "Off the subject, but what are the two Denver newspapers called? And what is their restaurant coverage like? (Notice how I skillfully rescued that potential topic drift?)"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:13)", "body": "The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News Best restaurant reviews would be in the Westword (equivalent to the Austin Chronicle)"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (18:17)", "body": "So the majors don't do very good coverage?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (11:42)", "body": "every Friday there is a Weekender section in both papers. Typically they review one or maybe two restaurants. Lately I've been frustrated because they have reveiwed a whole slew of chain restaurants. Who the heck cares about those?!?!?!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "ate at the Cherry Cricket last night. yummy salads, good po-boys, okay enchiladas but lots and lots on tap!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (15:43)", "body": "took another newbie to Wild Ginger last night... she loved it Pad Thai Tom Yum Goong Panang Thai Iced Tea *gurgle* yum!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (18:12)", "body": "*sigh*"}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sat, Oct  3, 1998 (11:19)", "body": "Went downtown last night. Dinner at Marlowe's. Crab cakes were excellent! Calamari was blah. Salad was okay. Almond crusted salmon was AMAZING! Beer was yummy as usual. Denver celebrated Oktoberfest in September and this weekend they are celebrating beer -- the great american beer fest."}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (18:01)", "body": "went to yet another Denver restaurants last nigh. (wow my fingers are akk winky with their typing!) The Rialto Cafe downtown Denver off of 16th street mall. Tres yummy! I had the bestest shrimp bisque ever (spicy and rich) Some odd prawn and fried vermicelli thingy with a wonton and mashed potatos on top. Strange mix of flavors. Seared ahi with a ginger wasabi sauce (sounds trite and trendy but I really love the stuff!) And the most delicious salmon with a raisin/ginger sauce, mashed potatos and green stuff. Oooh boy, it was yummy!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (21:09)", "body": "Wow, are you ever eating good Stacey. It inspires me to go out to a really good restaurant tonight."}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (10:50)", "body": "didja do it?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (13:19)", "body": "Yep, went to a seafood place right after I posted that. Tonight I'm going to another seafood place, but not sure which one. Pappadeaux, maybe."}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (14:59)", "body": "Mmmm. Yummy. Seafood is a little difficult to find in Colorado. I take that back. GOOD seafood is a little difficult to find in Colorado."}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct  9, 1998 (10:34)", "body": "Wednesday night: Rock Bottom Brewery crab bruschetta four mushroom pizza lotsa beer the food was some of the best pub grub (albeit atypical) I've ever had!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct  9, 1998 (10:36)", "body": "Thursday night: Morton's Steakhouse ceaser salad (of which I am not terribly fond) salmon (amazing!) rosemary potatos (very good) broccoli w/ hollandaise (okay) berry dessert - blueberries, raspberries and strawberries with cream! (delicious!)"}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:19)", "body": "Damn these people who can afford to eat out all the time!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (15:32)", "body": "all company meals Ree-head, all company meals!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "jgross", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (16:38)", "body": "you keep really good company, Stace"}, {"response": 34, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (22:06)", "body": "Must be nice. Only worked for one company that supplied meals. Cold fried chicken at your work station."}, {"response": 35, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:31)", "body": "Ugh! In my case I AM the company. But I'll take my working partner out for lunch this week, I think - haven't had Thai for ages."}, {"response": 36, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:23)", "body": "I love thai food and there is a thai restaraunt right around the corner from the house here."}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (09:31)", "body": "you must live next door to me what's the name of the restaurant tim?"}, {"response": 38, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (12:49)", "body": "bangkok cuisine"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (14:28)", "body": "where do you live?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (19:44)", "body": "Austin Tx"}, {"response": 41, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:47)", "body": "Don't they all?!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (02:03)", "body": "Well it is the center of the computer world."}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (17:51)", "body": "no, silly. I knew that part. I was wondering where within Austin, but now I know... On the Walhus farm!"}, {"response": 44, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:15)", "body": "Sometimes, I think it's the funny farm."}, {"response": 45, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (22:09)", "body": "and I havn't even started coming over to borrow the computer(s) yet..."}, {"response": 46, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (23:54)", "body": "Better hurry. If you wait too long, there may not be any functional computers left."}, {"response": 47, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:57)", "body": "Terry the computer breeder!"}, {"response": 48, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:26)", "body": "Or something like that."}, {"response": 49, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (23:32)", "body": "How many are broken out of the eight?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "Only the ones they did it on!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (03:16)", "body": "Right now only one works flawlessly."}, {"response": 52, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (10:10)", "body": "What's a few flaws 'tween friends?"}, {"response": 53, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:08)", "body": "exactly"}, {"response": 54, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:08)", "body": "A friend is, by definition, someone that knows all about you, and loves you anyway. Faults and all."}, {"response": 55, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:08)", "body": "My friend Laura, the one I took to the hospital last night, has this really neat scroll with the sentiment expressed in the last posting, on it. but in better language. She ought to know, she can count her friends on the fingers of one hand."}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "It's better to be able to count one's friends on the fingers of on hand than to be able to count aquaintances on all fingers and toes."}, {"response": 57, "author": "tami", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (11:00)", "body": "Indeed! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 68, "subject": "The best restaurants", "response_count": 45, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 14, 1996 (22:39)", "body": "Best veggie burgers are at Chili's believe it or not, though I haven't tried Hut's and they got the Chronicle award for the best. Dog and Duck has a great veggie burger with curly fries to match. Trudy's has the best migas. Graces on N Lamar has the best breakfast. The Brick Oven has the best pizza. Check out this weeks Chronicle for all the \"best\" restaurants in all categories."}, {"response": 2, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (15:07)", "body": "Chicken Mole at Seis Salsas rules! Hillbert's burgers cannot be beat! Amy's Ice Cream is the finest! Martin Bros veggie plate with black beans, glazed carrots, and brown rice was my Friday treat for 3 years! Conan's Pizza will put hair on your chest (and I mean that in a good way)! Magnolia Cafe rocks (especially back when you got half off if you wore your jammies on Sunday AM)! Can you tell that my all-too-infrequent visits to Austin are ruled by an itinerary dominated by eating establishments? Ther just aren't enough meals in a weekend!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (23:48)", "body": "I'd have to agree that those would be among my top choices, espcially the Magnolia Cafe on Lake Austin Blvd, though there's one on South Congress now also. And Martin Bros. is great, neck and neck with Mothers for no. 1 veggie restaurant in Austin."}, {"response": 4, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr  9, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "Though the Lake Austin Magnolia was closer to where I lived, I preferred the So Congress one for its outdoor dining. There are so many more places--wish I had a decent memory...Chez Zee/Chez Fred up off MoPac was pretty good. We used to have a fabulous Sunday brunch at this Indian restaurant on Bee Caves Road and of course being a dame my mind locates things by landmarks, not street names, so I can only say it was across Bee Caves from the big shopping center that included what used to be called Tom Thu b but is now Randalls? and a Blockbuster and an Amy's and what else...it's on a street that will take you to BC Mall...maybe I should get a map and get some street names, eh? Or better still, use the Internet and look up Indian restaurants and see if it's even open still (see, I don't even know the name of the place). I only mention it because the food was so good. Have you ever eaten at that weird Mexican place on the drag just north of 26th (or is it 29th?) across from that dry cleaner's? Not the ta o hut next to the gas station, the place north of ToyJoy. In all 8+ years, I never set foot in there but often wondered...."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  9, 1997 (22:09)", "body": "I like the Magnolia on S Congress, but bubbaland doesn't seem to be my stomping grounds anymore. Don't get me wrong. I love South Austin, it just seems like my world has shifted to North Austin. And I live way East. Last time I went to Chez Zee was with Andrew Busey and he told me about a little company he was starting up called iChat, which has turned out to to be wildly successful. Nice place. I dont' know about the Bee Caves Place. Oh, Chez Fred shut down. We used to go there as recently as a couple of months ago before i it closed and listened to Maddy Kay. Well, at least Maddy Kay's still around. Too bad about Chez Fred, cool, jazzy little hotspot. It just wasn't getting any traffic. Don't know why. Haven't been to that wierd Mex place on the drag. I forget what it's called, Amy's has an ice cream place right near there now. Also, there's a real good Tex Mex place right near there called Trudy's Texas Star. And, of course, the above mentioned Martin Bros. is right around the corner."}, {"response": 6, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (14:22)", "body": "I think I tried to go to the weird Mexican plase once, but they were serving saltines with their picante sauce and it was all a little too spooky for me. So Big Yellow is too slow for me, but I did find a map and the Indian place used to be in the strip on the Southwest corner of Walsh Tarleton and Bee Caves Rd; my sister insists it was called Bombay something but I maintain it was Indian Palace or Taj Palace (or is that the place on the drag?). Anyway, if you live east, why would you go there! But if ou live east, then there's always East Side Cafe, right? Deee-lish! I'm desk-lunching on my usual pathetic ham-n-cheese sandwich--I think I have to go to another topic as this is just making me hungry for REAL AUSTIN FOOD! One quick query: I never et bar B Q in Austin, tho there are great places here in Big D I frequent. What's there other than Salt Lick? If you're a vegetarian, can you throw this query to a compadre?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "REAL AUSTIN FOOD! Now I'm curious about the weird Mexican place. You know, I've always gone by there and thought I'd go there and then thought, nah, I'll go somewhere else. And then end up at Trudy's. Saltines does sound spooky for a Mexican place. El Azteca is my fave' (ever heard of it?) Taj Palace is down on the drag. There's an ultra hip, cybertype place real near there that's the current hot spot. They do pocket type fajita wraps. You get a wrap in aluminum foil. Delicious. Bob Nagy turned me on to this place. I'm leaning toward a veggie but I can say that the Iron Gate or something down town is good, and the County Line is the most renowned and lavish of the barbecue places. There's Pokey Jo's over at the Arboretum. I haven't been to Salt Lick so I can't compare these places to it. Not into the ribs, though, just bbq chicken. Makin' me hungry!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (16:20)", "body": "I can tell I'm just going to have to EAT MORE FOOD on my next visit. Man, I'd better start planning one now or it'll be summer and HOT! before I get there!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (21:49)", "body": "Yeah, you said it, it's *chilly* right now."}, {"response": 10, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (12:36)", "body": "I visited the ?food conference, topic what did you eat today, and now I'm so hungry for anything other than the pathetic ham-n-cheese sandwich, the same lunch I've had for about the past 3 years...anyhoooo, just popped in to tout SATAY (which terry mentioned in the other topic)! Yeah! My intro to Thai food was there and I've been a fan ever since. Unfortunately, as I've said, on my flying visits, there's so much food, so little time, and since I have a great Thai place right around the corner from me a home, Satay usually ends up on my regret list. There was another, more \"authentic\" Thai place down south I only went to once, with the Thai undergraduate student (Songkram Srivithanakul! Brilliant biomedical engineer) who worked in our lab. It was good too!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "How can an Indonesian restaurant (like Satay) not server tempeh? You have to go to Martin Bros. to get good tempeh."}, {"response": 12, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (14:36)", "body": "I didn't know they didn't! That's just wrong!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:47)", "body": "Are Chuy's and Basils still there? What about Las Manitas (excuse my spelling)? MMMM-mmmmm good... at least backin '88 when I ate there last. There is no good mexican food in New England."}, {"response": 14, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:47)", "body": "Not meaning to infer that Basils was mexican... great northern italian if memory serves."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "Chuy's is thriving at the old location on Barton Springs and a big new mega place on 183 north on what I all \"restaurant row\". It's right next to Joe's Crab Shack. I'll have to check out the other two."}, {"response": 16, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (23:13)", "body": "Basils is (or was) a kind of dressy place. Las Manitas I think was on 1st just south of downtown... but i'm severly directionally impaired, so don't take that as gospel."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:16)", "body": "You are the host. I'll check and make sure. And the link will now happen. Kazzzzammm! (this topic is linked)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:21)", "body": "Mar 2 00:17:37 1998 terry linked item 68 from austin 5"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (00:23)", "body": "You are now hostly."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "No, I pretty much stay trapped in this two dimension, nongraphical terminal mode. But I'll go there and see via the web."}, {"response": 25, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jun 13, 2000 (21:10)", "body": "I just ate at Curra's yesterday, my tamales weren't that great, but Dot's bean burrito was excellent, the margaritas are tops (frozen not iced). El Azteca has the best veggie menu in town and you get a choice of sherbet or a cookie for desert. I haven't seen Ankie's, I'll look. Never been to Rosies. Guerros' is about my favorite place these days."}, {"response": 26, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Jun 13, 2000 (22:25)", "body": "Is your Spanish improving by leaps and bounds as well? Sounds wonderful!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Jun 14, 2000 (08:58)", "body": "Not really, I need to get in to Piaf's Spanish class."}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Jun 14, 2000 (16:39)", "body": "My Spanish is Castillan and sounds much different from what you hear in Texas, I think...actually eaiser to take dictation in Castillian because you can tell the C's from the S's"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan  5, 2002 (22:17)", "body": "http://www.bdrileyspub.com \"Cead Mile Failte\" Ten Thousand Welcomes Designed in Dublin Ireland by the Sonas Design Company, built at the Truwood carpentry shop in Emyvale, Ireland, and shipped to Austin to be reassembled by Irish Craftsmen, B.D. Riley's recreates the True Pub Experience. Our menu reflects the traditional dishes of Ireland, as well as the more contemporary cuisine found in the Temple Bar area of Dublin. For our less adventurous patrons, we offer a variety of local dishes as well. Our \"Perfect Pints\" are drawn by our trained staff into a specially sanitized 20 oz. glass. Our beers are stored at a recommended and consistent 39-45 degrees,and are the freshest available from our local distributors. We pride ourselves on pouring \"The Perfect Pint\". The freshest beer and ales available, stored at brewery recommended temperature, poured from our calibrated draft system into a sanitized glass by a trained bar staff, combine to make your beverage the pinnacle of presentation. A wide variety of Whiskies, spirits, wines and non-alcoholic beverages are also available. Curry Chicken....Tender strips of sauteed chicken with garlic and fresh veggies in curry sauce Shepard's Pie....Ground beef and lamb in rich gravy with veggies. Topped with mashed potatos Fish n Chips....Fried Cod in beer batter with thick cut chips, cole slaw and tartar sauce N.Y. Strip....12 oz. strip served with sauteed veggies and choice of potato Corned Beef and Cabbage....Beer braised beef served with sauteed cabbage and mashed potatoes Roadrunner Pasta....Sauteed chicken and veggies tossed with Penne Pasta and tomatoe sauce Stuffed Bell Pepper....Large pepper filled with veggies, black beans, and rice with tomatoe sauce We pride ourselves on the eclectic menu we have developed, featuring both traditional and contemporary dishes from across Ireland, the U.S. and Great Britian. Our Pub Fare consists of award winning fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and shepherd's pie, as well as more mainstream american dishes Kitchen open from 11:30 a.m. until late night...7 days a week Special Promotions Available for parties and group gatherings...call for details Wednesdays: Pub Quiz Night with a $100 prize. Starts at 8:00 p.m. Thursdays: The acoustic sounds of \"Cameron Road\" live on stage from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Fridays: Irish like you've never heard it before..\"Pubcrawler\" takes the stage from 10:00-1:30 a.m. Saturdays: Local favorites on stage each Saturday from 10:00-1:30 a.m. Sundays: Traditional Irish Music Jam Session. Live on Stage from 6:30 to 9:30 pm All Major Sporting Events on the Big Screen TV Join us for the Great Guinness Toast on Nov.30 2001"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  6, 2002 (10:43)", "body": "It's a great Sixth Street, authentic Irish pub. They have great draft beer and they really care to let the lady \"lift her skirt\" as they say when they peour your Guiness. The fish was nearly as good as the astronomically good fish 'n chips I recently had on the Vancouver trip. They used Cod, just like the fish and chips place in Vancouver. Given that they many not have had fresh fish as they did in BC, the dish was primo, excellent!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan  7, 2002 (15:22)", "body": "See my comments in topic 23, the beer place topic."}, {"response": 32, "author": "visitor", "date": "Thu, Jan 24, 2002 (14:15)", "body": "Will do."}, {"response": 33, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Jan 26, 2002 (16:41)", "body": "i absolutely love norm's. never heard of them before but we should have our own table as often as we eat there. it's like a denney's but better."}, {"response": 34, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb 11, 2004 (03:37)", "body": "Terry, suggest some super restaurants in Louisville. Not that I will ever get there, but it might be nice if given the chance."}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb 17, 2004 (18:23)", "body": "Yeah, there's one. It's between the Shakespeare Park and downtown. It's a great place and I can't remember the name. It was *the* place."}, {"response": 36, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Mar 18, 2004 (19:37)", "body": "Did it have a mock-Tudor style to the architecture? It may have changed hands. THE restaurants are downtown in the old gracious hotels, now."}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 19, 2004 (13:53)", "body": "It was pretty close to Central Park, I don't know about the Tudor stuff. Could have been. I just can't recall the name."}, {"response": 38, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Apr 13, 2004 (13:59)", "body": "I'll write it down next time we go by. It is also near the Belknap campus fraturnities. The one I am thinking of. Don has no idea what the food is like as he has only been there once and that was 10 years ago. I guess that means it was not memorable?!"}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 15, 2004 (07:19)", "body": "I know it was between St. James Court and downtown. A bit closer to St. James Court and Central Park. I had a place in Butchertown for a while also."}, {"response": 40, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Apr 20, 2004 (14:51)", "body": "Ok yours is across the road (4th?) from Central Park rather than on the same side? It is now a sort of bar with little food and lots of adult beverages."}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 20, 2004 (23:10)", "body": "Don't exactly remember. I think it was a few blocks away toward downtown. Had an Irish name maybe?"}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 21, 2004 (06:54)", "body": "Could it have been Masterson's? I found that at an Old Louisville Restaurant website."}, {"response": 43, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 12, 2004 (14:40)", "body": "Masterson's or Cunningham's. Cunninghams has the best rating (and highest prices) but was busy during Derby week. I think it might take a really special occasion to afford to go there, but I am always willing to try anything once!"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 18, 2004 (13:23)", "body": "Voila! It is Cunninghams indeed that I was trying to recall. I don't think it used to be that expensive. It is near St. James Court though, isn't it? I found a review, never mind, it has changed locations. Cunningham's Delicatessen, History, Ambience, and Romance Mar 31 '00 (Updated May 08 '03) Author's Product Rating Pros Friendly, charming, fascinating history, good food Cons none at all The Bottom Line Like the mythological Phoenix, the Derby City's oldest restaurant has risen from the ashes and re-opened in downtown Louisville Full Review In 1870, five years before the first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs, a combination delicatessen and Livery Stable opened at the corner of Fifth and Breckenridge Streets. For the next thirty years the restaurant's proximity to city hall, the courts, downtown businesses, and Churchill Downs, plus good food and a place to stable your horse while you ate, kept business thriving. After the automobile made its debut, Cunningham's became more popular and the small rooms upstairs were let to a Miss Polly and her sisters who ran a rooming house, which was in fact a very popular Brothel. In 1922 Cap Cunningham, a local entrepreneur, bought the delicatessen and evicted Miss Polly and her sisters. Cap re-named the restaurant Cunningham's Delicatessen and offered the folks of Louisville an expansive menu of reasonably priced comfort food, classic ambience, and convenience. Prohibition was cutting into profits pretty badly, so Cap started selling soft drinks to his customers to boost business. The ploy worked very well until a Federal Agent stopped in for a soft drink and discovered the reason Cap's customers were so loyal, the soft drinks weren't soft, in fact they were pretty hard. The Federal Government closed Cap's business down. The restaurant re-opened quickly, and once prohibition ended prospered. Cap, ever the entrepreneur, converted the stable area into small private dinning rooms and re-modeled the former blacksmith shop into what is still today, the main bar room. During the thirties the restaurant and bar were one of the focal points of Louisville politics and business. City leaders, local businessmen, and lovers used the small private dinning rooms to make deals, conduct business, and engage in illicit romances, Cap's waiters were known for their discretion. By the early forties Cap had converted the delicatessen into Louisville's first drive in, complete with waiter service. Because of the large parking lot, and the restaurants location close to downtown, the drive in was a huge success. Cap continued to manage Cunningham's until the late sixties, when he retired and sold the restaurant to a group of local investors. The new owners (and several others after them) wisely changed nothing. Cunningham's today is much like it was 130 years ago, there is still a sign in the bar room that says, This bar for men only, the walls are covered with paintings and photographs of Derby winners, Jockeys, local politicians, baseball players, and Kentucky movers and shakers. Newspaper clippings of prominent local events (like the prohibition shut down of Cunningham's and the 1937 flood) are displayed along with some of Caps early menus. The small private dinning rooms are filled each day with deal makers, business meetings, and romantic assignations. The friendly staff handle the large volume daily lunch business, efficiently taking and filling orders, for the many hungry office workers who flood the restaurant every day at noon. Most of the to go orders leave in large grocery style brown paper bags. Cunningham's is best known for their Corned Beef and Cabbage, classic white bean soup (the very best in Louisville), the fish sandwich on rye, Turtle soup, hot roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy, and fried chicken. Portions are large and the prices are quite reasonable. It is easy to spend thirty minutes wandering through the maze of small rooms and hallways, looking at the pictures that cover almost every wall in the restaurant. The staff is friendly and helpful (many of them have worked at the restaurant for decades) so service is good but not invasive or pushy, the ambience is classic, and the food is excellent. The restaurant caters parties, the private dinning rooms are available for business meetings or romantic lunches, and the entire menu is available for carry out orders. Historical Note In July of 2001 Cunningham's Delicatessen was heavily damaged by fire. Many of the historic photographs, drawings, and paintings were saved. The original building at Fifth St. & Breckenridge has been torn down. Due to the combined efforts of many local folks Cunningham;s re-opened in March 2003. The new restaurant's dark wood paneled interior is hung with some of the historic photographs that were saved from the fire at the original location. The new Cunningham's tries very hard to duplicate the ambience and atmosphere of the original with a menu that features old favorites like W"}, {"response": 45, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug 10, 2004 (12:06)", "body": "I suspect the high prices I saw were special meals and catered picnics just for the Kentucky Derby participants. It has a great reputation, and yes, it is near St James Court. It would be lovely to go to dinner then Shakespeare in the park. How elegant!"}, {"response": 46, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug 10, 2004 (12:09)", "body": "As to the location nearer St James Court and rather far from Churchill Downs, they were advertising delivered-to-you picnic basket luncheons which were pricy and very top drawer. Where else can you get delivery with linens and silver and goblets to go with your wine?"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 11, 2004 (06:19)", "body": "Not too many places! They have a bunch of restaurant delivery services in Austin, one is called Eatin' Out In. But not that fancy."}, {"response": 48, "author": "buzzy", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (15:24)", "body": "Some friends and I had a bad experience at Guerro's. Even though we left a $7 tip on the table (about 20%) our waiter chased us and yelled at us and said we didn't leave a tip. It was very embarassing to us to to our out of town guests, who were quite upset as they were treating us to dinner. What could have been a nice night out in Austin turned sour because of this uptight waiter. This happened on the evening of October 12, 2004."}, {"response": 49, "author": "buzzy", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (15:25)", "body": "They probably won't want to go back to Guerro's again. Too bad, because it once was our favorite Austin restaurant and we told them such good things about it before we went there. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 69, "subject": "Best Restaurant to Lust In", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (17:12)", "body": "in a traditional Thai restaurant (on the floor) panang, pad thai woon sen, tom yum, little licks in all the right places"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Mar  7, 1998 (20:28)", "body": "ah, we'd go to copelands cuz the atmosphere is excellent, lighting just right, but if things got too hot, a sure-fire exit, or a closeby, uh, room. *giggle*"}, {"response": 5, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (01:12)", "body": "you know this from experience, I presume....."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (01:16)", "body": "no, wait, don't tell me which one *giggle*"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (01:19)", "body": "LOL! You read it for the articles, huh? no, you were looking for the perfect slip *giggle*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "LOL!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (17:57)", "body": "Ha!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (13:41)", "body": "Little Italy worked the best for me. Ah, the \"good\" old days... restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 7, "subject": "French", "response_count": 26, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "C'est vrai."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (17:34)", "body": "A French restaurant is where they consider ketchup a dangerous food additive."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (17:37)", "body": "This year, Chronicle readers say: Chez Nous Runners-up: La Madeleine Honorable mentions: Jean-Luc's French Bistro, Jean Pierre's Upstairs, The Belgian Restaurant"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (19:45)", "body": "I would have choked if La Madelaine would have won. I'm amazed they rank above those others."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (22:17)", "body": "I'm not...did you read the rest of the poll results, or are you patiently waiting for me to type them all in?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (07:57)", "body": "Will you please type them in!!! Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "tami", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (19:39)", "body": "Thanks!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (22:49)", "body": "For?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:05)", "body": "I have a question that has nothing to do with any of this. Do you also eat french fries with salt and vinegar in America? The Swiss don't! What a nightmare!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "TIM", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:46)", "body": "Only with fried fish, where malt vinegar is essential. Up east, however, salt and vinegar on french fries, and even on potato chips, is popular."}, {"response": 13, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "I see. Crazy that people DON'T eat it with vinegar in some places."}, {"response": 14, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (05:12)", "body": "Ranch dressing is very popular here, not only on french fries, but also on Buffalo Wings and raw vegetables."}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (20:57)", "body": "I prefer Kraft tartar sauce, blue cheese dressing, or cream gravy on my french fries..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "TIM", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (21:59)", "body": "It all sounds Good!!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "Yes, but what is ranch dressing and Buffalo wings? What are they made of?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:53)", "body": "Buffalo wings, are chicken wings, deep fried and coated with hot sauce, The practice originated at a bar in Buffalo, NY, hence the name. Ranch dressing is a creamy salad dressing with just a little tartness to it. the combination is very good."}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:50)", "body": "A little tartness?? Ranch dressing might be called Slut Sauce!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:08)", "body": "I'll pass that along to the marketing folks. Tart means something somewhat different over here. It means just a little sour."}, {"response": 21, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "How boring - see, that's why one doesn't know about it. I mean, if you saw two types of sauce on a super market shelf, the called 'Sour Sauce', the other 'Slut Sauce' - which one would you buy? That's my point."}, {"response": 22, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (02:29)", "body": "Good point. I'd buy the Slut Sauce, just for the fun of it. But most people shopping for food are women. Which is a woman likely to buy?"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (10:07)", "body": "Depends on the time of month..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:05)", "body": "ha-ha! I sure would? I'd want to be able to recognize the smell of Slut Sauce around my husband! But I suppose not all women are jealous..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:05)", "body": "Whether they admit it or not, most women are jealous to some degree. As long as you don't take it too far, it's not too bad. Just remember the only thing jealousy can do is hurt you. I am not jealous at all. But it took me years to get this way."}, {"response": 26, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:36)", "body": "And how did you manage it? I sure wouldn't want to hurt anyone with jealousy."}, {"response": 27, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (23:35)", "body": "The only way I would ever become absolutely not jealous would be to achieve room temperature and become worm food. But seriously folks: Georges Bouillion, a world-class French chef living in Honolulu, has just opened a French cooking institute here. If you would like to study French cooking in Hawaii, details are available 1 (808) 528-5627. When the students become advanced enough, Bouillion intends to open a relatively low cost French bistro run by his students. Stay tuned!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (23:44)", "body": "Good point! Me too...! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 70, "subject": "Constructive(?) criticism for the conf host(s)...", "response_count": 46, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "CotC", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (11:58)", "body": "You don't make enough money, you always leave the top off the toothpaste, and you never consider my feelings!! If you weren't so damned good-lookin', I'd leave you this very second! :-)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (23:58)", "body": "but you already did..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (08:48)", "body": "How do you web types like the new look in this here conference? Shall we keep it, go back to the way we were, or should I keep looking?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (16:06)", "body": "No, no, keep it! This is my favourite so far. Great work, Wer!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (16:08)", "body": "*beams*"}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:37)", "body": "Wow! How flattering!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (09:48)", "body": "had to go and ruin it, didn't you? *wink*"}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (06:59)", "body": "Huh? RUIN IT?? In what way? What did I say?!?! I should have said nothing? Should have asked for permission before speaking? Lord, I should start using body language - it's GOT to be more successful than spoken conversation. So, scrap, 'Wow! How flattering!', this is how it should have read: \ufffdLifting Right Eyebrow\ufffd Is that better?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:02)", "body": "Oh, damn, and I forgot: \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmile\ufffd That automatically means that no-one will take offence, right? Just give me time - I'll get the hang of on-line politeness at SOME point! And \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmile\ufffd \ufffdWink\ufffd as well as \ufffdgiggle\ufffd. There, I'm safe!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (22:11)", "body": "*laugh* (my favorite one is still $hit!)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (22:37)", "body": "geez, Riette, you're the one that said flattery was bad... I was just unsuccesfully pointing out that you were flattering me, and thus ruining your compliment... *sigh*"}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (01:48)", "body": "And your spatula is quite long, yet a little flexible and easy to get hold of - and, boy, can it whip one's cream or what?! Would you call that a compliment or flattery? (No, I know, muffin, I was just being wicked!) \ufffdif I could wink i would\ufffd"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (01:55)", "body": "depends on if you meant it or were trying to get something... (although, I guess, those aren't always mutually exclusive, huh, hon?)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (04:53)", "body": "No. I mean, while I would not mind trying out your spatula, it sure won't change my opinion not to. It's that action of yours I admire."}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:17)", "body": "*blush* just remember: it's all in the wrist..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:27)", "body": "But you'd better find an alternative thing to fall back on as well, because the wrists, so I hear, get inflamed and full of arthritis when a guy hits forty . . . ooh, you mean MY wrist? Now I'm blushing!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (12:36)", "body": "nice to see a different backdrop. i'm not too sure about the clickthru ad banner, tho."}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (12:39)", "body": "yeah, me either...just haven't dumped it yet..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:27)", "body": "cool :-)"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:36)", "body": "thanky, sir!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:40)", "body": "not sure about this bg any more. i think i prefer the WELL/Engaged style of just having plain white backgrounds. makes things that much easier to read."}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:10)", "body": "that's why I been taking comments...besides it's hard to match colors so the text and links are even semi-readable..."}, {"response": 23, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:19)", "body": "yeah. i'm becoming a big fan of the plain white bg. do cool titles, navbars, left-borders etc., but leave the main space white. that's my motto from now on. of course, my homepage is black..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:25)", "body": "solid colors are quite effective (if'n you want to do it on here, in your rc file for your conf, type in define wallpaper 'nada.gif' and set the colors you want to use in define xxlinkcol like you would in a body tag"}, {"response": 25, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:29)", "body": "aha nice one is that documented anywhere?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:32)", "body": "it is now...albeit in a weird place..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:34)", "body": "some more stuff for the host-helper pack!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:36)", "body": "i haven't managed to get the background thing to work. better give me the whole syntax e.g. for making the bg white"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:44)", "body": "define xxlinkcol 'bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" text=\"#000000\"' define wallpaper 'nada.gif'"}, {"response": 30, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:48)", "body": "aha cheers"}, {"response": 31, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:50)", "body": "gotta run and go celebrate not being part of the British empire... :-)"}, {"response": 32, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (20:55)", "body": "aha cheers"}, {"response": 33, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (00:03)", "body": "You techies are over the top! Great graphics, wer!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "I mean, just listen to how they're talking! I really wish computers were a bit more straight forward. I also want to make cool background designs for Art, but, $hit, how is one supposed to know how to do that?!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (09:00)", "body": "practice?"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (16:37)", "body": "Wow, looking great, and making me more jealous by the minute, muffin! \ufffdeyebrow\ufffd How is one suppose to practice something one has no idea how to do in the first place?!?!?!?!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (22:04)", "body": "not sure...just telling you how I do it...I get real nosy, then go, hey I wonder what happens if I do this? If it works, great, if not, put it back the way it was and try something else... and keep practicing till you start getting it right more often than not..."}, {"response": 38, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (01:30)", "body": "I'll try. I really, really like your backgrounds, Wer. This particular one is brilliant, because it's still very easy to read the responses."}, {"response": 39, "author": "Nan11", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (10:18)", "body": "I like this background, wer...friendly and playful and doesn't interfere with the text. How do you feel about new buttons?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (09:12)", "body": "been contemplating it for genx...all around, I like the buttons because with the other stuff I do, it provides a sense of continuity with the rest o' the Spring... just my personal tastes, of course..."}, {"response": 41, "author": "Nan11", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (20:02)", "body": "it provides a sense of continuity with the rest o' the Spring... just my personal tastes, of course... I know what you mean. I've been thinking about the same thing. While I like the new buttons at Drool (I'll like them even more when I get a chance to make their backgrounds transparent) I feel like there is something alien about them. I like the idea of each Conference having it's own character, one that is reflective of the topics discussed and/or the personalities of the participants. The choice of water at Drool was a very conscious one--all wet things being a running joke over there. I notice that most of the main Conference pages don't mention something like \"You're at Spring\" (including Drool). I think a logo would be a great solution. If everyone could agree on the design and each Conference had it at the top right of the page (or some other convenient place), then it would both keep consistency throughout Spring while allowing each Conference to have its own personality. Sorry, I probably should have posted this at Porch, but the opportunity presented itself ;-) I'm going over to check out the logos topic..."}, {"response": 42, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (01:10)", "body": "Sounds like a good idea to me, Nan. I'd vote for it. Isn't Mike designing a spring logo at the moment? We can use that, right?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (08:19)", "body": "so have I, there's also the one in news that's also on the front page, Terry just hasn't made a final decision as far as anyone can tell... have you looked at all the responses in the logo topic in porch?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (09:16)", "body": "Why not put them all on a webpage, eg. http://www.spring.net/logos ?"}, {"response": 45, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (10:44)", "body": "sure, go ahead...dat way we can all see them at once and together like..."}, {"response": 46, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (20:40)", "body": "I was really tempted to tell you what you wanted (needed?) to hear here, but you already know...huh?! The background is splendid, as others have noted. The host is kind to all ladies and gentlemen who stumble into his path, and he deserves some Order of Merit for the work he has done. I hope the new host is equal to the task - pretty difficult (word changed on purpose) act to follow. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 71, "subject": "Why do you keep coming back?", "response_count": 147, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (13:12)", "body": "eye-hand coordination -- 55% learn new words -- 25% better than methadone -- 15% safe sex -- 5%"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (16:34)", "body": "I asked, and I received!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (16:44)", "body": "Some of these could be quotable in a publicity flyer for the spring, but notice she didn't say better than sex?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (17:44)", "body": "it certainly has its moments!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (21:09)", "body": "LOL! You are too much, Stacey! I would have to say 100% socialization, comraderie, whatever. Let's just say I enjoy the intercourse..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (04:26)", "body": "More great quotes."}, {"response": 7, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (13:28)", "body": "addicted....BTW, I AM BACK!! Anyone miss me??? aw, not even just a little?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (13:44)", "body": "I miss you a *lot*! And I'm missig Riette, since she went on her trip. I notice the main screen lists the number of logins but it says \"web hits\" instead. I wonder if we can change that, I wonder who wrote cool piece of Yapp code. Wer? Kaylene? Or maybe I just never noticed it before."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (15:27)", "body": "I did it...the variable in the instructions is defined as a \"read only web variable\"...so I figured it just counted web hits... and it does increment that way at least some of the time...I was the only one on at a certain time yesterday, and it did in fact count my page hits...will re-word it later..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (15:38)", "body": "Cool. Yeah, I'm glad you discovered it and it would be great if you could re-word it to say \"logins\"! ... if that in fact is what it counts. I'm really glad someone else is learning the system and getting a fresh mind on things!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (20:40)", "body": "oh, and hiya, Wolf!!!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (21:26)", "body": "sure, too late now *grin* hiya wer!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (13:31)", "body": "oh, well..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (13:52)", "body": "specifically, it is \"the number of Yapp hits today from the www\" added a who is logged on via telnet, also... however, I can't get any switches to work with who, and I've found out when AOL crashes and I'm telnetting in, I doesn't log me out..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (15:24)", "body": "never mind, those log ins go away with time..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (17:42)", "body": "Yeah it resets daily doesn't it?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (17:58)", "body": "yes, but the time is off..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (04:32)", "body": "I keep coming back hoping we'll grow as a community, I love it when new folks show up. Rollerblade postering service is plastering all the bulletin boards in town with Spring flyers. If you see one, give me some feedback on how to make them better, they're reprints of the Spring main page."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (04:34)", "body": "Rollerblade should read Motorblade. http://www.spring.net/~motorblade"}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (11:30)", "body": "I keep coming back, because I can't stay away. I love it here."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (16:43)", "body": "I love it that you're here."}, {"response": 22, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (23:42)", "body": "I love it that you love it that we're here."}, {"response": 23, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (00:46)", "body": "Hi, Ann. Are you new here? If so, since when have you been coming? Or do you just tend to go to other conferences? I don't love being away, but I love coming back without it occurring to me for a moment that anyone will have noticed, and then finding that they did. It is peculiar, but lovely."}, {"response": 24, "author": "CotC", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (11:14)", "body": "What the hell else have I got to do?..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "Ann", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (14:52)", "body": "Hi, Ann. Are you new here? } I've been around since Pemberley moved here."}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (15:17)", "body": "Hey, I'm logging on from the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (15:59)", "body": "Hey, whatcha doin' there?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (16:03)", "body": "Hi, WER!!!! Having a good time?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (16:47)", "body": "get out and play in the sand WER... get some sea water up yer nose for me!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (21:30)", "body": "the aquarium? you on vacation? do they have a dolphin/whale display?????"}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug  7, 1998 (00:52)", "body": "Not to mention the ape display to make him feel more at home. (I can't help it if you posted that photo, Wer, so don't frown so hard at me!) So can you give us a recipe for tastier sandcakes?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "MEC", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (20:54)", "body": "Girls just wanna have fun!!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (21:22)", "body": "and we are oh so glad that you do!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "Mec, who are you? Are you new, or do you just go to the other conferences mostly? Whatever the case, glad you're here!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (11:05)", "body": "Howdy MEC!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (11:13)", "body": "Nice to have you here so regularly again, Stacey!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (11:18)", "body": "oh I'm just on another spring binge... *grin* thanks Ree-head! I go back to my 'real job' tomorrow but it has been kinda fun to have such regular access to a working computer. And I can just keep a telnet link open all the time. When I'm printing, or downloading, or slacking off, I can just stop in! Wandered by the art conference yesterday (through a browser so I could see all the groovy pics!) and it looks REALLY great! I love the new wallpaper (guess it's not so new anymore but it sure was something I hadn't seen before!)"}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:38)", "body": "Ree Head the art goddess sure rocks, doesn't she?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:47)", "body": "yep... I just made it to the gallery in all its colorful glory!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (01:00)", "body": "Thanks, you two. I think the whole spring is rocking at the moment. Oh, and I heard from Mike Griggs yesterday as well. He'll be back in a fortnight or so - going on holiday, the lucky bugger!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (08:06)", "body": "Yep, I heard from him too, he emailed me using a friends account."}, {"response": 42, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (08:24)", "body": "Same here. It's a disgrace how we let his Babes conference stagnate...."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (08:48)", "body": "Shall we pump it up a bit before he gets back?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (10:49)", "body": "Yes, but what with? I don't know any babes! I don't really look at women like that, if you know what I mean..."}, {"response": 45, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (12:01)", "body": "Ask a man friend and then tell us what he says then."}, {"response": 46, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (13:55)", "body": "My husband is my only close man friend, and he says he finds Claudia Schiffer ugly - but that's only because he has weird taste in women anyway. He couldn't think of any famous babes either; says he never thinks of other women as babes. Probably trying to play safe with my temper, as I'm having my period! ha-ha!!!"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (16:04)", "body": "Playing it safe, good strategy."}, {"response": 48, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (21:18)", "body": "ok, well the dudes seem to like shania twain, should we add her?"}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (23:12)", "body": "Add her, she looks very sexy in the picture I saw of here today in the concert section of the paper."}, {"response": 50, "author": "nan", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (23:19)", "body": "Terry, dear...where's her head? ;-)"}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (23:26)", "body": "Boy I messed that one up Nan, they have real intricate puzzle like coding on http://www.mercurynashville.com/mercury_nashville/artists/new_shania/shania_home.html You'll just have to go there to see it properly assembled."}, {"response": 52, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:29)", "body": "There's a woman with reason to be vain!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (20:43)", "body": "ok, lemme see if i can add her..."}, {"response": 54, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (01:18)", "body": "Shoot her first!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (08:18)", "body": ""}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (11:10)", "body": "Are you coming back, muffin?"}, {"response": 57, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (11:48)", "body": "as soon as it is safe..."}, {"response": 58, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (00:53)", "body": "But it IS safe! Don't you miss us too?"}, {"response": 59, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (07:37)", "body": "when my head is (relatively) safe, silly!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (12:26)", "body": "\ufffdkiss\ufffd"}, {"response": 61, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (20:50)", "body": "*hug* you're head is safe with us!"}, {"response": 62, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (21:51)", "body": "ah, but you all aren't safe with it..."}, {"response": 63, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:45)", "body": "Let us be the judges of that."}, {"response": 64, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:45)", "body": "please stay with us, wer, we miss your face around here....."}, {"response": 65, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (00:45)", "body": "Yep, stick around please."}, {"response": 66, "author": "isis", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (20:58)", "body": "hey kitchenmanager i would like to meet you and get to know you...so stick around or i will be upset....you don't want to miss meeting a real italian woman now do you....??"}, {"response": 67, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (22:34)", "body": "with an offer like that, how can I refuse? can you cook? and just cause I'm not talking doesn't mean I'm not watching..."}, {"response": 68, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "?????? Good to see you back, Wer!"}, {"response": 69, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (00:58)", "body": "??????"}, {"response": 70, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "What, ??????????"}, {"response": 71, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (08:51)", "body": "exactly!!! (I think...)"}, {"response": 72, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (11:07)", "body": "possibly!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "isis", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (21:31)", "body": "sorta like when you don't smoke cigarettes for awhile you start shaking and eating more than ususal,,,,what's it called,,oh yeah,,,WITHDRAWALS......"}, {"response": 74, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (22:13)", "body": "have NO idea what you're talking about now..."}, {"response": 75, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:08)", "body": "How's it going tobacco-wise, wer?"}, {"response": 76, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:40)", "body": "worse than ever...are you over your summer binge yet?"}, {"response": 77, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (00:39)", "body": "How does one start smoking? I mean, did you the first time just pick up a cigarette, and it was great? How long does it take to get used to? No, I don't want to start! I've just always wondered how it's done."}, {"response": 78, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (01:31)", "body": "it takes about three days to quit getting sick... as to the rest, ?"}, {"response": 79, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (03:30)", "body": "ha-ha!!! And what happens then? Then you're a smoker? Does it taste nice after that?"}, {"response": 80, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (03:56)", "body": "depends on the person... depends on the person... depends on what you're smoking..."}, {"response": 81, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (05:01)", "body": "I see!"}, {"response": 82, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (15:22)", "body": "so you don't smoke for the flavor, you just do it cuz of some psychosomatic need to bring on your own death in short order?"}, {"response": 83, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (15:59)", "body": "that's one of my biggest \"reasons,\" yes"}, {"response": 84, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (22:43)", "body": "Puffing away almost daily, here...can't help it, the weather's been too good. If it gets cold or humid I can't stand it. Damn El Nino!!! #@$%&!!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (01:10)", "body": "ha-ha!! hilarious business!"}, {"response": 86, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (09:29)", "body": "well, i'm having food problems. yes, can you believe it? if i just look at something yummy i gain five pounds. this must be the reason cuz it ain't going away and i work out 3 times a week and drink a ton of water. oh, wait! doh! *bangs hand against forehead* it's my old age. yes. snuck up on me again."}, {"response": 87, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (02:03)", "body": "Wolf, I have always been a firm believer that one can't do much about the way one is put together. I am just the same. Although I never put on weight (I am not small sized though, more sort of medium), excercise changes NOTHING about the way I am put together. I don't acquire more shapely legs - they always just look the way they look, and that's that. I even see it with my girls. Isa, the eldest is probably one of the most active children you'll ever see - constantly jumping and running and climbing; yet her legs already look just the same as mine! The little one sits around all day, sipping on a milk bottle and pestering me to carry her, yet she has these incredibly sporty little legs, and when they run (lazy as she is!)m Isa (with over a year's age advantage, plus ALOT fitter) has BIG trouble keeping up with the little bugger. Unfair, hey? I say, stop giving yourself a hard time. Keep fit by doing things you enjoy - whether that be working out in the gym, or going for long walks or whatever - don't suffer unneccessarily."}, {"response": 88, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (15:11)", "body": "tis true....my kids are different too. my son is tall and lanky, really long-limbed, small boned, much too fair for a boy and my daughter is stocky, tough little girl, small boned but more athletic in build....and yes, i see my husband and me in both of them. we can pick out the feet, hands, ears, noses, etc. etc."}, {"response": 89, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "Apart from Isa's legs, my kids have absolutely NOTHING of me in their looks. Isa looks just like her dad, and Elza looks kind of Swedish with her white hair and blue eyes (Chris has very dark hair!). I once had tea with a Swedish guy in Namibia - about nine months before she was born!!! - and now I keep thinking: perhaps getting pregnant is easier than one thinks!!!"}, {"response": 90, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (10:37)", "body": "hahaha!"}, {"response": 91, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (20:40)", "body": "I am swearing off tea this instant. Back to espresso!"}, {"response": 92, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (00:34)", "body": "Yuksies!"}, {"response": 93, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Sep 12, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "i much rather take tea....tried cappucinno and, though it smelled good, tasted much differently. why is it that coffee smells better than it tastes?"}, {"response": 94, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (02:56)", "body": "That's just what I say! I just find it awfully bitter, even though I love the smell of coffee. Whereas I've not yet found a tea that doesn't taste better than it smells! My favourite is South African Rooibos."}, {"response": 95, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (09:54)", "body": "not all coffees are bitter, in fact I prefer the less acidic types..."}, {"response": 96, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Sep 14, 1998 (10:56)", "body": "do tell us non-coffee drinkers the best tasting, non-bitter coffee...."}, {"response": 97, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (21:32)", "body": "kona blend--from Hawaii. What do you think, wer?"}, {"response": 98, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (21:57)", "body": "Kona was the first one that came to my mind... I need to check on some other choices tomorrow... definately stay away from Arabicas, however!"}, {"response": 99, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (00:04)", "body": "I keep coming back because I'm infatuated with the \"last 50\" feature. I use it all the time now. Being able to see all these lets you see what the login patterns are, like Riette logging in at night, etc. and you can quickly find what interests you the most. I had to put it on the main page. I'd like to see a last 100, a last 500 page also. That would be awesome! Or maybe a page where you could specify the number of last responses to see. Theoretically you could even call up all the responses for the last month, or year, or since the beginning of the Spring. In descending order! You're talking coffee? Kona, Arabicas... The little demitasse I had at Lil' Italy was a great capoff to a great meal. That brione . . . hey, I'll finish this in the restaurant conference in the Italian restaurant topic."}, {"response": 100, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "I love it when you get so excited about technology - it's terribly sweet!"}, {"response": 101, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (09:30)", "body": "it's printing in reverse now, Terry... have to get Kaylene to write the one to let you choose a number in a response box... you'd have to fix the \"future\" dates in order for the last month, etcetera calls to work..."}, {"response": 102, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (12:36)", "body": "That rocks! Kaylene has a routine already that can be run to fix future dates. Call me this weekend and I'll get you set up on access. Awesome!!!"}, {"response": 103, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (16:28)", "body": "ok, where can i try this kona stuff? do they sell it on the mainland? (ok, here in the bayous or anywhere close?)"}, {"response": 104, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (16:34)", "body": "You can buy it at any gourmet-style coffee place. It's VERY expensive (because those mules have to schlepp it down mountains with 20,000 foot altitude), so look for the little sample packages that only makes a couple pots."}, {"response": 105, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (07:43)", "body": "But if you fly to Hawaii, it's cheap, cheap, cheap! While you're there would ya pick up some macadamia nuts for me?!?"}, {"response": 106, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (09:30)", "body": "You've been to Hawaii lately?!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (13:34)", "body": "unfortunately never."}, {"response": 108, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "Same here. Anybody been to Hawaii?"}, {"response": 109, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (12:45)", "body": "nope. one of my coworkers went in april. she said it was great!!"}, {"response": 110, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (13:53)", "body": "Never."}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "Nope, never been. Ah, to lay on the beach in Maui and live in a grass hut."}, {"response": 112, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "in a grass skirt?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (04:40)", "body": "eating grass?"}, {"response": 114, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (07:08)", "body": "eating poi (not as yummy as it sounds)"}, {"response": 115, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "smoking grass."}, {"response": 116, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct  3, 1998 (04:58)", "body": "ha-ha! You're starting to remind of AB FAB's Patsy!"}, {"response": 117, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (15:33)", "body": "What a compliment, sweetie, dahling!"}, {"response": 118, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Oct 13, 1998 (19:52)", "body": "OK....where's ree-head???? am getting worried about her...."}, {"response": 119, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (09:03)", "body": "did she have a holiday to go on?"}, {"response": 120, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (09:39)", "body": "That's what I'm thinking, she may be traveling."}, {"response": 121, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:10)", "body": "When was her sister due to visit?"}, {"response": 122, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:19)", "body": "by george! I think he's got it!"}, {"response": 123, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:33)", "body": "I hope it's curable..."}, {"response": 124, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:35)", "body": "Actually, I believe it's degenerative."}, {"response": 125, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (14:37)", "body": "i thought she was already there (when riette created a topic for her)....hmmmmm"}, {"response": 126, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (17:19)", "body": "give her a call if you like: (international access stuff) 041 382 1064"}, {"response": 127, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (13:06)", "body": "Sonja here: I arrived on Tuesday morning. I wanted to come on earlier, but we had alot of catching up to do. Travelling only consists of day trips this time, I'm afraid - she has too much work. She created a topic about me??? I dread to discover the contents!! I let her out of my sight for a year, and she just goes wild - I don't know!"}, {"response": 128, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (03:32)", "body": "guess that means you'll have to keep coming back to check on her when you get back to the states, huh?"}, {"response": 129, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (09:14)", "body": "See, Sonja, we already know what a *wild and crazy* gal you are!"}, {"response": 130, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (11:02)", "body": "Hi, guys. I'm back too. I almost feel like I should ask for permission to come back, though - I feel so bad about having just taken off like that and stuff. I am truly sorry."}, {"response": 131, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:29)", "body": "does this mean that you need another spanking, Mistress?"}, {"response": 132, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:31)", "body": "Man, that's what I call a WARM welcome! I should dissappear more often!"}, {"response": 133, "author": "sonja", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:13)", "body": "Is this treatment not for first-timers then?"}, {"response": 134, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:17)", "body": "Sure, first timers get equal treatment."}, {"response": 135, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:25)", "body": "Yep, so grab your ankles..."}, {"response": 136, "author": "sonja", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:57)", "body": "LOL! I was thinking we could do it the other way around, perhaps?"}, {"response": 137, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:20)", "body": "So you want special treatment? OK, in your case, you can have it."}, {"response": 138, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (00:48)", "body": "Thank you, sir. Grab your ankles now!"}, {"response": 139, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (00:52)", "body": "(Must warn you though, Terry. The girl's got killer biceps....so be careful with that special treatment!)"}, {"response": 140, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (07:35)", "body": "Hey, that's my special treatment, and mine only! Only I do the ordering! Back off, girl!"}, {"response": 141, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (14:49)", "body": "Should've never let you on here."}, {"response": 142, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (04:16)", "body": "Too late now, isn't it?"}, {"response": 143, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (04:36)", "body": "It's going to be ok, Ree!"}, {"response": 144, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (08:53)", "body": "Yes, it's going to be okay, Ree!"}, {"response": 145, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (21:36)", "body": "She's back! Does this mean the Bronte conference is alive again? Item 63 entered Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (17:07) by Amy Wolf (amy2) I'm baaaccckk... Hi fellow Bronte fans -- it's me, Amy, your hostess, returned after many months of being away. Truth to tell, I couldn't find this Board until Mick kindly gave me the new URL. I think part of the confusion was that I had changed my e-mail address. So please check in & let me know you're still there! I hope we can continue your excellent discussions on the Bronte's lives & works. 1 new of 1 response total. Long live the Bronte sisters!!!"}, {"response": 146, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (02:39)", "body": "Hee haw!!! LONG LIVE THE BRONTES!!!!!"}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:51)", "body": "Topic 63 of 63: 'I'm baaaccckk...' Resp 2 of 2: Mick Armitage (Mick1) Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:25) 1 lines Hi Amy, - Nice to see something stirring on this conference once again: when I re-discovered it, at its new URL, it was looking like a long-deserted ghost town! Now all we need is everybody else . . . Now, he's back. I hope Amy does a mail to the bronte ulist (list of folks who've visited the Bronte Sisters Conference with their emails, available to every host). restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 72, "subject": "restaurant consulting online - is it possible?", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (15:08)", "body": "Of course it's feasible...I do it for free all the time..."}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (16:37)", "body": "(for instance...) Advice for Management 1. Objective - Know what you want. 2. Offensive - Do whatever it takes. 3. Simplicity - Put first things first. 4. Mass - Concentrate your power. 5. Unity of Command - Lead from the front. 6. Concerned Action - Leverage your strenghts. 7. Intelligence - Learn all you can. 8. Maneuver - Be fast on your feet. 9. Economy - Minimize your cost. 10. Security - Conserve your resources. 11. Surprise - Do the unexpected. 12. Exploitation - Fulfill your potential."}, {"response": 3, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:22)", "body": "You should charge the buggers for your services, muffin! Sell the copyright, and go sailing around the world."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (20:14)", "body": "Top Five Reasons to Menu Comfort Foods 1. They appeal to a broad customer base. 2. They add variety to menus, building repeat business. 3. They attract customers seeking quick meal solutions to consume off-premise adding on sales from the booming takeout and delivery markets. 4. They add value. 5. They are risk free. Customers know exactly what they're getting, and are reassured that their money is being well spent."}, {"response": 5, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (01:09)", "body": "OK, I'll bite. What's a comfort food?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (06:42)", "body": "A trouser snake, of course...."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (08:15)", "body": "Any food that a person considers to put him at ease, often as part of nostalgia for a favored childhood food."}, {"response": 8, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (18:14)", "body": "That would be comfortable, Riette. Do you have examples, WER?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (22:35)", "body": "for most Americans, mashed potatoes, meatloaf, and/or macaroni and cheese..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (01:13)", "body": "I see what you mean. Although, after living on the road, I'd be cautious about eating somebody's meatloaf, until I knew someone that survived it."}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (10:24)", "body": "SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS I think the problem with motivating servers could be owners & managers simply not making it known to the help that we all need and deserve each other's cooperation. I've been around ten years so I've seen good & bad help respond the same way to owners that don't notice staff performance until there is a need to blame someone. I have made too much of an effort in most of the many jobs I've had so I stuck out like a cheeseburger in an Indian restaurant among coworkers that did their best to turn the manager's attention away with small talk during a rush or just punch in, cover their ass then punch out. Owners need to stop creating the gap between management and staff with the new trickle down theory that says, \"I'm watching you through my manager's eyes.\" Are we children with bad intentions? This is like U.S. Defense budget, if we spent all this time, money & energy feeding the world making the folks smile, we would not need the big guns. Drop the gun you're holding on the good help...shoot the rest, one shot one kill! Some of us have been holding the line waiting for owners to celebrate, count the bucks everyday. I'll tell owners a secret (some workers are in this show to look talented and find purpose, as well as make $$$$). Look at our faces when it's busy to see if we belong. If an owner doesn't like what they see train us or fire us but don't think all help must be uncaring subcontractors out for themselves. Take the responsibility of building a staff that isn't perfect but excellent. It's up to you to do it. Respect good help and listen to them because chances are if they're good the staff knows you're customer better than you do. One last thing from this 29 year old bartender...please don't treat someone who makes more money than most 1st year collage grads like unskilled labor because you're asking for less. Don't forget this is a symbiotic relationship -- unless you own all the joints in the area good staff are free to pursue better jobs with your rivals and bad help won't leave until you let them go. Remember owners & manager alike \"we are watching you too!\" My name is Rob and I love this Business."}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (19:01)", "body": "Charlie Trotters Restaurant http://www.charlietrotters.com/ A great example of what a restaurant can do with their Internet program. Chef Talk http://www.cheftalk.com/ A relatively new site that's definitely worth a look. Updraft http://www.beveragenet.net/cheers/current/1198up.asp Read about the five E's that will help increase draft beer sales. Senior Management http://www.rimag.com/822/bus-jm.htm \"The number of Americans over the age of 65 is growing dramatically, as it will continue to do well into the new millennium. Find out how to tap this market segment.\" Restaurant Insurance Articles http://www.executiveins.com/newsart.html A collection of six helpful articles. Cameron's Worldwide Hospitality Marketing Club http://www.cameronpub.com/cameron.htm CookBooks and More! http://www.cookbooksandmore.com/ A nice niche bookstore - each selection has a profile page - secure on-line ordering is available. ***** Are you looking for more links like this? Visit the Restaurant Report E-mail Newsletter Links Archive for a compilation of feature links from all past issues: http://www.restaurantreport.com/Newsletter/featurelinks.html restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 73, "subject": "used restaurant equipment in Austin", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (19:48)", "body": "The restaurant in Wyldewood, on Highway 71 in Bastrop, is selling all their stuff Saturday morning."}, {"response": 2, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (22:35)", "body": "anyone seen harold moss? (network locators) he seems to have disappeared, and he was consigning several equipment items for me..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (08:00)", "body": "No, now, who is he? Can you explain more?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (11:26)", "body": "harold moss owns network locators, one of hoberman's competitors... had some equipment laying around that i didn't need, so last year i let harold pick it up, cause he said he could sell it... talked to him a few few weeks ago, and he said he had some of it sold, wanted me to come by so we could settle up... called him last week (several times since) and his phone is 'temporarily disconnected'... drove out to his place, near 35 and william cannon, and it's locked up tight... he told me that he was moving to a new warehouse somewhere out on ben white, but i don't know exactly where... i've been dealing with harold for a few years now, bought a lot of stuff from him, sold some too, and he's always been a decent guy... i'm sure he's around somewhere, anyone has any idea where i'd appreciate knowing (only gonna be round here another week tops)..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (13:47)", "body": "No idea! Hope you get covered Nick. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 74, "subject": "Quotes", "response_count": 31, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (16:44)", "body": "\"When I was growing up in Roswell, New Mexico, no one worked in a restaurant unless they were too dumb to get a job at the service station.\" Norman Brinker, Brinker International, addressing the Society of Foodservice Managers on how times have changed in the industry."}, {"response": 2, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (16:57)", "body": "\"There is no way that an aircraft capable of flying under it's own power will be built in the next 30 years\" Wilbur Wright, 1902."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (17:53)", "body": "\"Be excellent to each other.\" -bills and Ted's... yadda yadda yadda"}, {"response": 4, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:17)", "body": "\"48K ought to be enough for anybody\" Bill Gates 1977."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:17)", "body": "\"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.\" Sandra Boynton in Chocolate: The Consuming Passion"}, {"response": 6, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:17)", "body": "I like that one!!!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (23:52)", "body": "\"...A little dish of something can spread balm on a wounded psyche, restore balance where there was despondency, the way a gentle spring rain makes a dusty world sparkle again.\" Nika Hazelton in I Cook As I Please"}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:46)", "body": "What a marvellous philosophy!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "tami", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (11:10)", "body": "It is no coincidence that LSD and BSD(unix) both got their start in Berkeley. --Usenix...."}, {"response": 10, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (01:43)", "body": "ha-ha!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (12:37)", "body": "\"Clowns can get away with murder.\" --John Wayne Gacy"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (15:38)", "body": "\"Comfort food don't take us back to the womb, but to the period shortly thereafter, when we were safely cradled and gently fed. Fragrant stews, thick soups and bubbling gratins make us feel safe, warm and well protected from the raging elements...and so forget the stresses of a sometimes cruel world.\" --Sue Kreitzman, Author of Comfort Food"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (20:30)", "body": "\"When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.\" --The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame"}, {"response": 14, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec  9, 1998 (18:34)", "body": "That is vivid!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Dec  9, 1998 (18:38)", "body": "Makes one want some toast, doesn't it?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec  9, 1998 (19:44)", "body": "\"Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin cold slice of butter to every forkful.\" --Nora Ephron in Heartburn"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  9, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "Nora Ephron. What is it about this name that is so compelling? Isn't she some kind of arch conservative a la Rush Limbaugh. Gotta be compelled by the name though. Nora Ephron. Nora Ephon. Nora . . ."}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (08:49)", "body": "\"Some people will applaud you for being authentic, but in the end, people want to eat.\" --Carlo Middione"}, {"response": 19, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (15:36)", "body": "Very true."}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan  1, 1999 (16:25)", "body": "\"The dessert is said to be to dinner what the madrigal is to literature-- it is the light poetry of the kitchen.\" --George Ellwanger in \"Pleasures of the Table\" published in 1903"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (17:50)", "body": "\"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.\" --Barbara Cartland"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (17:51)", "body": "\"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.\" --Garrison Keillor"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (17:53)", "body": "\"Mountain Dew and powdered doughnuts... because breakfast is the most important meal of the day.\" --Ray Lopez"}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan  8, 1999 (12:07)", "body": "\"The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.\" --Charles Pierce"}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan  8, 1999 (12:08)", "body": "\"Great food is like great sex--the more you have the more you want.\" --Gail Greene"}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan  8, 1999 (12:09)", "body": "and for Terry... \"In my sex fantasy, no one loves me for my mind.\" --Nora Ephron"}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (00:20)", "body": "\"The manager has personally passed all the water served here.\" --from a hotel sign in Acapulco, Mexico"}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Jan 24, 1999 (19:28)", "body": "Yummy!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Feb 12, 1999 (11:20)", "body": "\"I guess this isn't really a peeve, just the misuse of the english language. When you go to pay your bill at a restaurant and they ask, \"How was everything?\" I always say, \"I didn't have everything.\" That always throws them off. Why can't they just ask how my meal was?\" Grouchy Grandma"}, {"response": 30, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (20:25)", "body": "Love that last quote...My kind of lady! *lol*"}, {"response": 31, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (16:52)", "body": "Restaurateur Blasts Hygiene Obsession LONDON (Reuters) - British restaurateur Terence Conran said Friday the country's obsession with hygiene was making people sick. ``All sorts of rules and regulations and official bodies and bureaucracy are now in place to prevent that legendary speck of dirt getting into our system,'' Conran wrote in a letter to the Independent newspaper. ``The result of all this hygiene is we become more and more sensitive to illness and bacteria,'' Conran added, before apologizing for being a ``non-scientific Charlie.'' In his vision of the future, hygiene-obsessed Britons would drop dead after eating couscous in Tangiers while the locals would be perfectly healthy, Conran said. Conran's comments followed an article in the Independent which asked: ``Why are we becoming allergic to modern life?.'' restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 75, "subject": "chili pepper dish", "response_count": 14, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:10)", "body": "Chili Peppers. I thought that was a band. I don't think about Chili Pepper dishes much but it was a new category in this year's Chronicle 2000 Best Restaurant Poll. I'll need some help with this topic for those more knowledgeable. Curras is the runnerup and that calls for a first hand report. Yes, I\ufffdve been there. I used to work with a Brazlian lady, Theresa (\ufffdtee ress a\ufffd) who was as saucy as Brazlian ladies come. We taught at a school for kids in trouble on Austin\ufffds East side. And she had a delightful accent. And I will never be able to erase the memory of her pronoucing the name of one of South Austin\ufffds major arteries, Oltorf. \ufffdOr torf\ufffd. It\ufffds still ringing in my mind. Well, Curras is on Ortorf street and it sports a delightful outdoor patio. The chips are great. The food was pretty fine and reasonably priced. I remember there were a lot of large black birds and I had great fun teasing them with chips. I would put them on a railing and they would grab them and fly across the street to a convenient fenced in yard. I remember one picking up a chip so heavy that you could tell it\ufffds flight was altered. You\ufffdll find your most laid back, slackeresque, austinesque crowd imaginable at Curras. It\ufffds not trendy or upscale. Not many Beamers or SUVs in the tiny parking lot at Curras. Guero\ufffds Taco Bar (one of my favorites, another South Austin hot spot), Z Tejas and Thai Kitchen got runner up. Thai Kitchen? In this category?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:12)", "body": "On the latter mentions, I should have said they got honorable mention, not runnerup."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (09:26)", "body": "You will hear more about Guero's, I promise."}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (22:55)", "body": "Can you give us some idea of what sort of food we are talking about here, other than that it is incandescant and remains same all the way through?!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:49)", "body": "Citysearch sez' Guero's is usually teeming with taco-craving Austinites, who with one glance at the menu, wholeheartedly opt for the queso flameado appetizer--a bowl filled with melted cheese, as well as mushroom and onions if you so request, and served with flour or corn tortillas for handy wrapping. More Mex than Tex, Guero's prepares spectacular marinades, particularly with any of the chicken taco dishes. I recently devoured two chicken especiales--shredded meat sauteed with onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms, decadently served in a flour tortilla (or corn, if you so choose.) Another option are the tacos filled with diced chicken breast marinated in orange juice. Tastily tender, but not quite as juicy as the especial version. My only peeve with this restaurant, is that you have to order your chips and salsa. Sure, it'll only add $1.25 to your total bill, but like rolls and olive oil in Italian venues, there's just something wonderfully happy about a little food-freebie brought out the moment you sit down...."}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (03:51)", "body": "And more on the http://www.musicaustin.com/country/texanadames.html page: As the cover of Months of Sundays points out, Texana is pronounced \"Teh-HA-nah.\" That is a good clue that what you'll find inside their albums is a mix of English/Spanish, country, jazz, and salsa. If there was a Tex-Mex music genre, Texana Dames would be in it. Months of Sundays was recorded live during the group's regular Sunday gig at Guero's on South Congress. Conni Hancock, Charlene Hancock and Traci Lamar Hancock are the three dames, joined by players like Tomas Ramirez, John Reed, Joel Guzman, and Paul Mills. Listen to the Texana Dames music clips. Months and Months of Sundays is their second album of live recordings from Guero's. They've been regulars at Guero's for years, at La Zona Rosa before that. Conni Hancock calls the gigs Sunday parties and says these live albums, while not perfect, are full of the fun, spirit and freedom they feel in their Sunday gigs."}, {"response": 7, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (04:12)", "body": "Gueros is on South Congress, and if you thought South Congress with kind of lackadaisical and laid back, check out this little compendium (which mentions Gueros) from the Convention and Vistors Bureau. Start your pursuit of fine purchases with New Bohemia at 1714 South Congress, a retro-resale cooperative with many different dealers specializing in a bright cross-section of the vintage and resale spectrum. Then continue with the Armadillo Market at 1712 South Congress, in which you'll find an exquisite selection of vintage jewelry as well as other resale odds and ends. Next on your list should be Terra Toys, where you can let your inner child run wild while you look at all the toys, puzzles, puppets, books and games. (Be sure to put a quarter in their huge gumball machine--the entertainment is well worth the expenditure of your hard earned two-bits.) Off the Wall at 1704 South Congress has some refinished vintage furnishings and many little decorative items, both old and new. Round out the block by walking around the corner, and checking out what Mi Casa, at 1700-A South Congress has to offer. Mi Casa's small entryway belies the wonders you'll find within, with their 11 rooms of art, home furnishings, and gifts from the Americas. On the next block, you'll find Tinhorn Traders at 1608 South Congress, with their emphasis on ethnographic items, primitive and Native American art. Simply Divine-All Cotton Clothing is next door at 1606 South Congress--at least buy a good T-shirt for your friends back home. Scoot your boots over to Allen's Boots at 1522 South Congress, and you'll find yourself in Austin's premiere Western wear store (and remember, the Travis County Stock Show and Rodeo is also going on this week). Then mosey on in to Uncommon Objects at 1512 South Congress, another antique/resale space with many different dealers housed under one roof, and all offering their own collections of artful and glorious junque. At 1510 South Congress you'll find Yard Dog, the definitive purveyor of folk, visionary, and outsider art of the American South, while Antigua at 1508 South Congress presents a separate vision with its antiques, santos, folk art, and jewelry. With a costume rental from Lucy in Disguise with Diamonds at 1506 South Congress you can assume a whole new identity, or you can buy it outright at their sister resale store, Electric Ladyland. And Rue's Antiques at 1500 South Congress offers some unusual twists on their usual fare of antique furnishings--furniture crafted in Indonesia, and antique iron s ars made in an iron foundry in Mexico. And right behind Guero's at 110 W. Elizabeth is Therapy. Shop there for the latest in women's fashions and at the adjoining Eco-wise for earth-friendly products. Eats: Guero's El Sol y La Luna Magnolia Cafe Shaggy's Fran's Hamburgers Texas French Bread Vespaio Music: Rock 'n Roll Rentals Custom Sounds Other: Avenue Florist The Austin Motel The Herb Bar Next you'll find two more resale stores that make the danger of crossing South Congress worthwhile--Aqua at 1415 South Congress with its specialization in 20th century modern furnishings and decorations, and Out of the Past at 1413 South Congress with its selective inventory of the old and the odd. We end our tour of South Congress with what brought you here to Austin in the first place--music. You'll find vintage instruments at One World Music and Graphix at 1313 South Congress. They CVB didn't mention everything, there's Ecoware, a great little store behind Gueros and some of the best antique stores in town and are surprising for their low prices."}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (13:29)", "body": "Wow! I thought it was *just* Taco chips and some form of inflamatory salsa. About the boot scootin' *sigh* I am bootless. I guess my life will not be complete without obtaining boots from the Motherland of Boots, Texas. Thai food uses some of the hottest peppers on earth for flavoring. When they are so hot nothing else tastes. I wonder what they are trying to cover up?!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (10:16)", "body": "Yep, the boot outlet is right thar down on S Congress."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (12:47)", "body": "Off topic, but are those pointy-toed boots really comfortable? My foot is not shaped that way - especially after being out of confining shoes in Hawaii for so many years..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (18:34)", "body": "Nope, not for me. I'm bootless, shoeless and dressed down. I was once infaturated with boots and cowboy hats, as a little kid."}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2000 (19:40)", "body": "...when you still lived in Springfield?! Good to know there are other unshod and comfortably-dressed people in the world! Welcome to sanity."}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (08:16)", "body": "I lived in Houston back then and went to Horn Elementary."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (14:45)", "body": "My son, at about the same time visited Tucson where my parents had retired, and he became a boot-wearing, hat bearing son of the Southwest just about when the plane touched the ground there. He could not keep the old cowboys names straight in his head and kept calling one \"The Buffalo Kid\" What to guess what name his grandfather called him for the entire visit?! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 76, "subject": "Online reviews and directories", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "visitor", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (10:30)", "body": "http://www.chefmoz.org/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (11:25)", "body": "That's cool visitor. For the Austin area there's: http://www.chefmoz.org/United_States/TX/Austin/ They list 1,190 restaurants with reviews and links. Neat!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "visitor", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (11:37)", "body": "And, you are encouraged to add your own reviews, update any missing information for the restaurants listed, and even apply to be an editor."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (14:50)", "body": "What a great site! Always a blast to see what others think of my local favorites and, being the opinionated, food-monger of a female that I am, I'm sure I'll contribute sooner or later! restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 77, "subject": "The best restaurants", "response_count": 33, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 14, 1996 (22:39)", "body": "Best veggie burgers are at Chili's believe it or not, though I haven't tried Hut's and they got the Chronicle award for the best. Dog and Duck has a great veggie burger with curly fries to match. Trudy's has the best migas. Graces on N Lamar has the best breakfast. The Brick Oven has the best pizza. Check out this weeks Chronicle for all the \"best\" restaurants in all categories."}, {"response": 2, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (15:07)", "body": "Chicken Mole at Seis Salsas rules! Hillbert's burgers cannot be beat! Amy's Ice Cream is the finest! Martin Bros veggie plate with black beans, glazed carrots, and brown rice was my Friday treat for 3 years! Conan's Pizza will put hair on your chest (and I mean that in a good way)! Magnolia Cafe rocks (especially back when you got half off if you wore your jammies on Sunday AM)! Can you tell that my all-too-infrequent visits to Austin are ruled by an itinerary dominated by eating establishments? Ther just aren't enough meals in a weekend!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (23:48)", "body": "I'd have to agree that those would be among my top choices, espcially the Magnolia Cafe on Lake Austin Blvd, though there's one on South Congress now also. And Martin Bros. is great, neck and neck with Mothers for no. 1 veggie restaurant in Austin."}, {"response": 4, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr  9, 1997 (13:39)", "body": "Though the Lake Austin Magnolia was closer to where I lived, I preferred the So Congress one for its outdoor dining. There are so many more places--wish I had a decent memory...Chez Zee/Chez Fred up off MoPac was pretty good. We used to have a fabulous Sunday brunch at this Indian restaurant on Bee Caves Road and of course being a dame my mind locates things by landmarks, not street names, so I can only say it was across Bee Caves from the big shopping center that included what used to be called Tom Thu b but is now Randalls? and a Blockbuster and an Amy's and what else...it's on a street that will take you to BC Mall...maybe I should get a map and get some street names, eh? Or better still, use the Internet and look up Indian restaurants and see if it's even open still (see, I don't even know the name of the place). I only mention it because the food was so good. Have you ever eaten at that weird Mexican place on the drag just north of 26th (or is it 29th?) across from that dry cleaner's? Not the ta o hut next to the gas station, the place north of ToyJoy. In all 8+ years, I never set foot in there but often wondered...."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  9, 1997 (22:09)", "body": "I like the Magnolia on S Congress, but bubbaland doesn't seem to be my stomping grounds anymore. Don't get me wrong. I love South Austin, it just seems like my world has shifted to North Austin. And I live way East. Last time I went to Chez Zee was with Andrew Busey and he told me about a little company he was starting up called iChat, which has turned out to to be wildly successful. Nice place. I dont' know about the Bee Caves Place. Oh, Chez Fred shut down. We used to go there as recently as a couple of months ago before i it closed and listened to Maddy Kay. Well, at least Maddy Kay's still around. Too bad about Chez Fred, cool, jazzy little hotspot. It just wasn't getting any traffic. Don't know why. Haven't been to that wierd Mex place on the drag. I forget what it's called, Amy's has an ice cream place right near there now. Also, there's a real good Tex Mex place right near there called Trudy's Texas Star. And, of course, the above mentioned Martin Bros. is right around the corner."}, {"response": 6, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (14:22)", "body": "I think I tried to go to the weird Mexican plase once, but they were serving saltines with their picante sauce and it was all a little too spooky for me. So Big Yellow is too slow for me, but I did find a map and the Indian place used to be in the strip on the Southwest corner of Walsh Tarleton and Bee Caves Rd; my sister insists it was called Bombay something but I maintain it was Indian Palace or Taj Palace (or is that the place on the drag?). Anyway, if you live east, why would you go there! But if ou live east, then there's always East Side Cafe, right? Deee-lish! I'm desk-lunching on my usual pathetic ham-n-cheese sandwich--I think I have to go to another topic as this is just making me hungry for REAL AUSTIN FOOD! One quick query: I never et bar B Q in Austin, tho there are great places here in Big D I frequent. What's there other than Salt Lick? If you're a vegetarian, can you throw this query to a compadre?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "REAL AUSTIN FOOD! Now I'm curious about the weird Mexican place. You know, I've always gone by there and thought I'd go there and then thought, nah, I'll go somewhere else. And then end up at Trudy's. Saltines does sound spooky for a Mexican place. El Azteca is my fave' (ever heard of it?) Taj Palace is down on the drag. There's an ultra hip, cybertype place real near there that's the current hot spot. They do pocket type fajita wraps. You get a wrap in aluminum foil. Delicious. Bob Nagy turned me on to this place. I'm leaning toward a veggie but I can say that the Iron Gate or something down town is good, and the County Line is the most renowned and lavish of the barbecue places. There's Pokey Jo's over at the Arboretum. I haven't been to Salt Lick so I can't compare these places to it. Not into the ribs, though, just bbq chicken. Makin' me hungry!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (16:20)", "body": "I can tell I'm just going to have to EAT MORE FOOD on my next visit. Man, I'd better start planning one now or it'll be summer and HOT! before I get there!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (21:49)", "body": "Yeah, you said it, it's *chilly* right now."}, {"response": 10, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (12:36)", "body": "I visited the ?food conference, topic what did you eat today, and now I'm so hungry for anything other than the pathetic ham-n-cheese sandwich, the same lunch I've had for about the past 3 years...anyhoooo, just popped in to tout SATAY (which terry mentioned in the other topic)! Yeah! My intro to Thai food was there and I've been a fan ever since. Unfortunately, as I've said, on my flying visits, there's so much food, so little time, and since I have a great Thai place right around the corner from me a home, Satay usually ends up on my regret list. There was another, more \"authentic\" Thai place down south I only went to once, with the Thai undergraduate student (Songkram Srivithanakul! Brilliant biomedical engineer) who worked in our lab. It was good too!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "How can an Indonesian restaurant (like Satay) not server tempeh? You have to go to Martin Bros. to get good tempeh."}, {"response": 12, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (14:36)", "body": "I didn't know they didn't! That's just wrong!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:47)", "body": "Are Chuy's and Basils still there? What about Las Manitas (excuse my spelling)? MMMM-mmmmm good... at least backin '88 when I ate there last. There is no good mexican food in New England."}, {"response": 14, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:47)", "body": "Not meaning to infer that Basils was mexican... great northern italian if memory serves."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "Chuy's is thriving at the old location on Barton Springs and a big new mega place on 183 north on what I all \"restaurant row\". It's right next to Joe's Crab Shack. I'll have to check out the other two."}, {"response": 16, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (23:13)", "body": "Basils is (or was) a kind of dressy place. Las Manitas I think was on 1st just south of downtown... but i'm severly directionally impaired, so don't take that as gospel."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:16)", "body": "You are the host. I'll check and make sure. And the link will now happen. Kazzzzammm! (this topic is linked)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:21)", "body": "Mar 2 00:17:37 1998 terry linked item 68 from austin 5"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (00:23)", "body": "You are now hostly."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "No, I pretty much stay trapped in this two dimension, nongraphical terminal mode. But I'll go there and see via the web."}, {"response": 25, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jun 13, 2000 (21:10)", "body": "I just ate at Curra's yesterday, my tamales weren't that great, but Dot's bean burrito was excellent, the margaritas are tops (frozen not iced). El Azteca has the best veggie menu in town and you get a choice of sherbet or a cookie for desert. I haven't seen Ankie's, I'll look. Never been to Rosies. Guerros' is about my favorite place these days."}, {"response": 26, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Jun 13, 2000 (22:25)", "body": "Is your Spanish improving by leaps and bounds as well? Sounds wonderful!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Jun 14, 2000 (08:58)", "body": "Not really, I need to get in to Piaf's Spanish class."}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Jun 14, 2000 (16:39)", "body": "My Spanish is Castillan and sounds much different from what you hear in Texas, I think...actually eaiser to take dictation in Castillian because you can tell the C's from the S's"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan  5, 2002 (22:17)", "body": "http://www.bdrileyspub.com \"Cead Mile Failte\" Ten Thousand Welcomes Designed in Dublin Ireland by the Sonas Design Company, built at the Truwood carpentry shop in Emyvale, Ireland, and shipped to Austin to be reassembled by Irish Craftsmen, B.D. Riley's recreates the True Pub Experience. Our menu reflects the traditional dishes of Ireland, as well as the more contemporary cuisine found in the Temple Bar area of Dublin. For our less adventurous patrons, we offer a variety of local dishes as well. Our \"Perfect Pints\" are drawn by our trained staff into a specially sanitized 20 oz. glass. Our beers are stored at a recommended and consistent 39-45 degrees,and are the freshest available from our local distributors. We pride ourselves on pouring \"The Perfect Pint\". The freshest beer and ales available, stored at brewery recommended temperature, poured from our calibrated draft system into a sanitized glass by a trained bar staff, combine to make your beverage the pinnacle of presentation. A wide variety of Whiskies, spirits, wines and non-alcoholic beverages are also available. Curry Chicken....Tender strips of sauteed chicken with garlic and fresh veggies in curry sauce Shepard's Pie....Ground beef and lamb in rich gravy with veggies. Topped with mashed potatos Fish n Chips....Fried Cod in beer batter with thick cut chips, cole slaw and tartar sauce N.Y. Strip....12 oz. strip served with sauteed veggies and choice of potato Corned Beef and Cabbage....Beer braised beef served with sauteed cabbage and mashed potatoes Roadrunner Pasta....Sauteed chicken and veggies tossed with Penne Pasta and tomatoe sauce Stuffed Bell Pepper....Large pepper filled with veggies, black beans, and rice with tomatoe sauce We pride ourselves on the eclectic menu we have developed, featuring both traditional and contemporary dishes from across Ireland, the U.S. and Great Britian. Our Pub Fare consists of award winning fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and shepherd's pie, as well as more mainstream american dishes Kitchen open from 11:30 a.m. until late night...7 days a week Special Promotions Available for parties and group gatherings...call for details Wednesdays: Pub Quiz Night with a $100 prize. Starts at 8:00 p.m. Thursdays: The acoustic sounds of \"Cameron Road\" live on stage from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Fridays: Irish like you've never heard it before..\"Pubcrawler\" takes the stage from 10:00-1:30 a.m. Saturdays: Local favorites on stage each Saturday from 10:00-1:30 a.m. Sundays: Traditional Irish Music Jam Session. Live on Stage from 6:30 to 9:30 pm All Major Sporting Events on the Big Screen TV Join us for the Great Guinness Toast on Nov.30 2001"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  6, 2002 (10:43)", "body": "It's a great Sixth Street, authentic Irish pub. They have great draft beer and they really care to let the lady \"lift her skirt\" as they say when they peour your Guiness. The fish was nearly as good as the astronomically good fish 'n chips I recently had on the Vancouver trip. They used Cod, just like the fish and chips place in Vancouver. Given that they many not have had fresh fish as they did in BC, the dish was primo, excellent!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan  7, 2002 (15:22)", "body": "See my comments in topic 23, the beer place topic."}, {"response": 32, "author": "visitor", "date": "Thu, Jan 24, 2002 (14:15)", "body": "Will do."}, {"response": 33, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Jan 26, 2002 (16:41)", "body": "i absolutely love norm's. never heard of them before but we should have our own table as often as we eat there. it's like a denney's but better."}, {"response": 34, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (04:39)", "body": "The Top 10 Restaurants in Austin 1. Driskill Grill review 2. Aquarelle review 3. Cafe at the Four Seasons review 4. Jean Luc's Bistro review 5. Jeffrey's review 6. Zoot review 7. Hudson's on the Bend review 8. Wink review 9. Mirabelle review 10. Vespaio review Hope that html worked. These are Austin's best according to XLent."}, {"response": 35, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:36)", "body": "According to XLent's 2003 poll these are the \"Austin Classics\" AUSTIN CLASSICS \ufffd Brick Oven. Great pizza baked in 100-year-old, wood-fired oven. 1209 Red River St.; 477-7006. \ufffd Chuy's. New Mex-Mex provides an alternative to Texas' typical border fare in an offbeat setting. 1728 Barton Springs Road; 474-4452. \ufffd Cisco's. Breakfast and lunch at a Tex-Mex spot long popular with the state's power brokers. 1511 E. Sixth St.; 478-2420. \ufffd Guero's. Bill Clinton's Tex-Mex restaurant of choice when visiting Austin. 1412 S. Congress Ave.; 447-7688. \ufffd Eastside Cafe. Eclectic menu in old home with extensive garden. 2113 Manor Road; 476-5858. \ufffd Hyde Park Bar & Grill. Best french fries in town to accompany a wide range of items. 4206 Duval St.; 458-3168. \ufffd Iron Works. Historic barbecue joint with porch seating overlooking Waller Creek. 100 Red River St.; 478-4855. \ufffd Kerbey Lane Cafe. 24-hour dining offers great pancakes, especially the fresh-fruit selection. 3704 Kerbey Lane; 451-1436. \ufffd Matt's El Rancho. Longtime favored spot of University of Texas alums for Tex-Mex. 2613 S. Lamar Blvd.; 462-9333. \ufffd Threadgill's. Southern-style with incredible veggie selection. 6416 N. Lamar Blvd.; 451-4550. \ufffd Trudy's. Local Tex-Mex chain that also serves good chicken fried steak. 409 W. 30th St.; 477-2935."}, {"response": 36, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:21)", "body": "I would have to say a tie between Jeffrey's and the Omelettry."}, {"response": 37, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Mon, Jul 17, 2006 (16:00)", "body": "Toss Guerro's in to that salad. And stir in some El Sol y La Luna and sprinkle it with Trudys. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 78, "subject": "cajun restaurants", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:29)", "body": "According to XL, the best cajun restaurants in Austin, Texas CAJUN \ufffd The Boiling Pot. Messy but delicious Cajun seafood combo. 700 E. Sixth St.; 472-0985. \ufffd Crescent City Beignets. New Orleans' sugared treats, plus more. 1211 W. Sixth St., Suite 100; 472-9622. \ufffd Gene's New Orleans Style Po' Boys & Deli. Po' boys, boudain and lunch specials. 1209 E. 11th St., 477-6600. \ufffd Gumbo's. Close your eyes, taste the food and you'll think you're in the Big Easy. 710 Colorado St.; 480-8053; 14735 Bratton Lane, No. 310; 670-2788. \ufffd Ms. B's. See seafood listing. Read more about Ms. B's \ufffd Shoal Creek Saloon. Looks like a neighborhood bar, but home to good cooking. 909 N. Lamar Blvd., 477-0600."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:21)", "body": "The Boiling Post is my top pick."}, {"response": 3, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Mon, Jul 17, 2006 (16:00)", "body": "sb Boiling Pot, not Boiling Post. It may have closed? restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 79, "subject": "delis", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:31)", "body": "Best delis in Austin, Texas according to XLent. DELIS \ufffd Katz's. Streets of New York lead to this 24-hour Jewish deli. 618 W. Sixth St., 476-3354. \ufffd The Kitchen Door. The thick meatloaf sandwich has made a name for itself. 2504 Lake Austin Blvd., 236-9200. \ufffd Manny Hattan's. Piled-high sandwiches, plus pickled starters. 9503 Research Blvd., Suite 650; 794-0088. \ufffd Texas Picnic Company & Bakery. Specialty sandwiches on its own homemade bread. 605 Sabine St., 473-2518."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:22)", "body": "Katz's is my hands down winner."}, {"response": 3, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb 23, 2006 (19:51)", "body": "new deli opened up here (new to me)---McAllister's, pretty decent food!!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb 25, 2006 (09:49)", "body": "Manny Hattan's is up by the Arboretum. But it's menu is too meaty."}, {"response": 5, "author": "weroland", "date": "Sat, Feb 25, 2006 (15:45)", "body": "One of my faves in Austin is Little Deli over on Woodrow."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 27, 2006 (07:28)", "body": "NeWorlDeli gets good reviews on Yahoo Travel. 5 starts. But I haven't tried it. It's at 4101 Guadalupe Street. It looks inviting from the street, I've driven by it upteen times. The 1/2 sandwhich 1/2 soup order and the Thai wraps got good reviews. As did the broccoli cheese soup."}, {"response": 7, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Mar 18, 2006 (21:31)", "body": "i don't know much about delis but a MacAllister's opened up here and i love it....."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 20, 2006 (09:08)", "body": "You know, often overlooked and taken for granted, Wheatsville Food Coop has a very good deli. They have sandwiches, soups, salads, tacos, smoothies and some creative stuff. They've been my member coop for over 20 years. And you can hang out on the outer reaches of the drag on their covered patio."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 20, 2006 (09:09)", "body": "Wheatsville Food Coop (512) 478-2667 3101 Guadalupe St Austin, TX 78705 directions"}, {"response": 10, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Mon, Jul 17, 2006 (16:00)", "body": "Manny Hattans, anyone? Katz is the topz. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 8, "subject": "Tex Mex", "response_count": 22, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "Uh, I put Seis salsas in the mexican category. You guys really ARE too high-brow for me!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:35)", "body": "I already gave my Taco Cabana spiel. One word in Austin Tex Mex, the ultimate: **** Trudy's Texas Star ****"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (20:32)", "body": "Anyone around here ever tried Arranda's #3 over on Burnet? La comida es mejor. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:08)", "body": "Have you done a comparative study on this place vis a vis Trudy's?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:50)", "body": "Hard to compare the two, different styles, Arranda's is closer to Mexican than Tex-Mex. Kinda like Pato's Tacos, over by Fiesta. Ninfas is probably easier to compare to Trudy's, and the wife and I like Ninfa's food a lot more, but we always get crappy service. So, when she's in the mood for Tex-Mex we usually wind up at Tres Amigos. WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (14:09)", "body": "Trudy's... ahhhhh, the memories. Damn you, Paul. You get me so darn hungry at ork! Trudy's over Ninfa's anyday! There is a FABULOUS Tex-Mex place in Denver called Casa Bonita. Don't go for the food, just the atmosphere. The restuarant is HUGE and they have these cliff diving skits in the center room where you're eating. Great entertainment value for kids or those of us that just haven't ceased finding excitment in puppet shows and silly skits!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (09:48)", "body": "Have to disagree, as chewy as Chuy's is I'd much rather chew down at Texas Star on Guadalupe street. Like their hubcab encrusted wall though."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:43)", "body": "oooh! some disagreement. I like living in the fray!! I'd have a difficult time with that one. Chuy's has better salsa (super fresh) but Trudy's has better food! Salsa is muy importante so I dunno."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:38)", "body": "Seis Salsas! for the folks who it is muy importante!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (18:48)", "body": "What is the difference between a mexican restaurant and a tex-mex restaurant?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Dec 20, 1998 (03:39)", "body": "Tex-Mex defines the genre of Mexican food that you would typically find in Texas versus those found in Mexico (Mexican or Interior), California, New Mexico, etcetera..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "PT", "date": "Sun, Dec 20, 1998 (18:12)", "body": "For Example:?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (06:38)", "body": "Trudy's is still the leader, Stacey. I go there often, but it's rare that I go to Chuys. It's just a comfort zone thing."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May  2, 2001 (06:36)", "body": "Kerbey Lane Cafe is another one of those comfort zones."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (18:14)", "body": "And on my most recent visit we found a little place just north of Oltorf to the west (?) of Congress (little alley area opposite side of Congress from Excerds (sp??) Drugstore )... AWESOME breakfast tacos and the most amazing cantaloupe juice!!! They make their own tamales and are pretty well known for them according to their posted accolades... Wish I could remember the name. Oh, and this place is more Mexican than Tex-Mex..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (19:33)", "body": "When I try to think of the name of that place, I always think first of Guerro's. But the name is actually Curras. It's good. Always crowded. Always good food. You can sit outside on the patio on the edge of the Travis Heights neighborhood. I don't know about an \"alley\" though, it's right on Oltorf. I've never had their breakfast, but I've had lunch there many a time. http://www.currasgrillsouth.com/ Not much on their website though, no menu. One of those \"under construction\" sites."}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Oct 13, 2002 (23:57)", "body": "Nope... different place... the place I'm talking about IS in the alley! Curra's is good though... been there twice. I think they opened right before I left town."}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (12:04)", "body": "Hmm, then I'm stumped, I've never seen this place. Where is it in relation to Curras?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (09:48)", "body": "West. On the other side of South Congress and just behind that bank that looks like a house. South a bit from Magnolia..."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (13:08)", "body": "I know where you're talking about but don't remember seeing it, next time I'm at that corner I'll be on the look out."}, {"response": 23, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Mon, Dec  7, 2009 (20:47)", "body": "i'm posting this as a public service...because i care, man... if you ever find yourself in the great state of michigan...and you're hungry, whatever...and only mexican food will do,,, evacuate...flee--by plane is best, or locomotive, car, if you must, bicycle, on foot if you have to, just get the hell out as fast as you can but do not under any conditions no matter what they tell you or how much you think you need your texmex, do not ever ever ever ingest what they claim to be texmex here... to these poor deprived bastards, what does it matter? they don't know any better, but to us, we of the faith and the heritage, we who have eaten of mama ninfa's cheese enchiladas and golden rice and lard-laden refried beans-- it is a twisted and immoral joke... it is more than an affront, it is an assault, it is a murderous rampage on our expectations--upon our birthright, in fact, as texans--and the memory of it can linger for years in our psyche's, even stain the sacred store of our tex-mex Collective Memory--and when that's gone, what the hell is left??? (so, yeah, don't try it)..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Wed, Feb  3, 2010 (07:09)", "body": "And I thought it was bad that someone complained about Guerros the other day. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 80, "subject": "German restaurants", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:32)", "body": "There are two good German restaurants in Austin, Texas according to XLent 2003 poll. GERMAN \ufffd G-towne Restaurant and Catering. Fork-tender zigeunerschnitzel for a taste of Germany. 201D Church St., Georgetown; (512) 869-4100. \ufffd Walburg Restaurant. Weekend buffets attract a crowd on FM 972, a few miles north of Georgetown. Walburg, (512) 863-8440."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:22)", "body": "No clue here."}, {"response": 3, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Mon, Jul 17, 2006 (16:01)", "body": "Fredericksburg is sposed to have some good 'uns. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 81, "subject": "Latin American restaurants", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:33)", "body": "According to XLent, these are the best Latin American restaurants in Austin, Texas Find Your Dream Home! Dining out tonight? EMAIL THIS PRINT THIS MOST POPULAR XL Dining Guide 2003 - Recommended Restaurants LATIN AMERICAN \ufffd Do\ufffda Emilia's. Cheese bread, fried yucca and empanadas are part of the Colombian fare served at this small, colorful eatery. 1411 E. Seventh St.; 478-2520. \ufffd Elsi's. Distinct spices mark the Salvadoran fare from the Mexican served here. 4708 Burnet Road, 454-0747. \ufffd Habana. Ropa vieja, a large mound of shredded beef cooked in tomato sauce with Spanish spices, stars in the Cuban and Caribbean lineup. 2728 S. Congress Ave.; 443-4252. \ufffd Sampaio's. Traditional Brazilian fare includes feijoada (a black bean and meat stew) and pao de queijo (cheese bread). 2809 San Jacinto Blvd., 469-9988."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:22)", "body": "The Habana is calling me. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 82, "subject": "Middle Eastern restaurants", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (08:35)", "body": "Find Your Dream Home! Dining out tonight? EMAIL THIS PRINT THIS MOST POPULAR XL Dining Guide 2003 - Recommended Restaurants MIDDLE EASTERN \ufffd Alborz. Features the food of Iran with a daily lunch buffet and dinner menu. Buffet includes saffron rice with chicken and ground beef kabobs. 3300 W. Anderson Lane, No. 303; 420-2222. \ufffd Ararat. The fare of Turkey and Persia are emphasized at this restaurant, including a vegetarian dolmah felfel, where reservations are required nearly every night. 111 E. North Loop Blvd.; 419-1692. \ufffd Daddy's Grille. Mediterranean cuisine, including a Lebanese kafta, outside Bastrop. 766 Texas 95 N., Bastrop; (512) 303-1735. Accorind to XLent these are the best Middle Eastern restaurants in Austin, TX (2003 poll)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (11:23)", "body": "Ararat with Daddy's second. You sit on the floor at Ararat. Daddy's is ok."}, {"response": 3, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Jan 30, 2006 (20:28)", "body": "there are a couple of middle eastern restaurants out here in san antonio but i'm scared to try any of them.....what should i be looking for in one of those restaurants?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 31, 2006 (08:20)", "body": "Good hummus and falafels. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 9, "subject": "Thai", "response_count": 65, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:15)", "body": "I liked Satay in austin. Here in Dallas Bangcock Inn is just around the corner from me and they have this great garlic chicken thing I adore. Also Thai Soon here is good."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:35)", "body": "Where's that other Indonesian place that you were talking about in that other topic somewhar else?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  8, 1997 (08:49)", "body": "OK I'll go along with this for now. Let me do some research."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (10:44)", "body": "Yum! I feel another craving coming on."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:38)", "body": "A thai attack?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:01)", "body": "Needin beanthread noodles, spicy, spicy please. The BEST Thai restaurant is here in Denver -- Wild Ginger!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:17)", "body": "I've heard of her."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:34)", "body": "And... what exactly did you hear? Any first hand experiences?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:44)", "body": "Second hand. Can't tell."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:55)", "body": "too bad for you (second hand and all) I wonder what the first hand thought!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (14:58)", "body": "It was a case of the first hand not knowing what the second hand was doing. Where were we now?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:01)", "body": "Deep in the muck!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:21)", "body": "I came close to Thai food tonight but opted for Wheatsville instead. The cashier told me they are having a profitable year. Part of Austin's general boom right now."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (09:39)", "body": "I rarely pass up an opportunity for Thai food!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:49)", "body": "I have a hard time not stopping in a Wheatsville, the old perpetual stomping grounds."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (09:40)", "body": "The comparable places here would be Wild Oats and ALfalfa's and I too have difficulty wandering by w/o popping in."}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:02)", "body": "Going out for Thai food tonight -- Wild Ginger!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (13:45)", "body": "Went to Satay Fri night!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (10:58)", "body": "Wild Ginger was excellent. Tom Yum, Pad Thai Woon Sen and Jungle Curry oh, and a SingHa."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "Satay is sadly lacking in tempi dishes. Anyone up on tempi besides me?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (10:01)", "body": "Don't know what a tempi dish is, but for Thai food, the best I've found, surprisingly enough, is out right by my house in Cedar Park (suburb of Austin for you out-of-towners) on the southwest-ish corner of 183 and Buttercup Creek Blvd., called Poothai. Everything made from scratch, to order, by a real-live authentic Thai woman. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yummy! The Pork Larb (LOTS of cilantro), the Pad Woon Sen, and of course, the Pud Thai! wooeeeee! They don't have a liquor license, though, so you's gotta bring yer own."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (12:13)", "body": "I've been there. Great place. Used to hang there with the Haystack crowd, Paul Boomgaart, Crosby Marks and Marta Z."}, {"response": 24, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (16:02)", "body": "Time to shamelessly display my ignorance again. What mean-um \"Haystack Crowd\"?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (17:29)", "body": "The folks at Haystack Labs I used to work with, inside comment. Great bunch of folks."}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (10:17)", "body": "What did you do there?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (13:38)", "body": "SQA engineer and tech support on UNIX (AIX, Solaris, SunOS, NT4.0, SGI, etc). Haystack ( http://www.haystack.com ) does active security for UNIX operating systems and websites. Steve Smaha, renowned international security expert, is the CEO."}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (13:44)", "body": "why'd you leave?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (14:25)", "body": "Mo money."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (19:32)", "body": "Every second Friday Mr. C. has a free day. Then we stick the kids in their playgroup and spend the day together doing silly things and argueing. ha-ha! On that day we always have lunch in this (for Z\ufffdrich) sleazy little Thai Restaurant, called Ban Song Thai. It's dirt cheap, you can get your own food from a buffet in the window, and it's absolutely delicious."}, {"response": 31, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (13:49)", "body": "When we were in Zurich, it was virtually impossible to get vegetarian food--we ate at the same fondue place every night!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (14:31)", "body": "Where did you go - Fribourger St\ufffdbli? Or the Ch\ufffdsstube? I love both. But you're right; it IS virtually impossible to get vegetarian food here. And when you do find it, it's usually pretty appalling. Though, there's an indian restaurant if you take tram 15 up the hill from Central to Bucheggplatz - they have some wonderful vegetarian dishes there. I only discovered it about a month or so ago, and quite by chance. Only took four years. Who knows in ten years' time I might be able to name you another name! I presume it's alot easier to find vegetarian restaurants over there. Where IS over there? Are you in England or America, Autumn?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (14:38)", "body": "I can't remember the name of it, Riette, but it's near the Wasserkirche (the one with 2 towers) not far from the train station. I LOVE Indian food!!! I wish we'd known about that one, but...maybe next time! BTW, I live on the east coast of the US, in Maryland (near Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Wash DC). Ever been here?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (15:25)", "body": "The Ch\ufffdsstube then. Great place! No, I've not been across. But my sister has been living just outside Boston for three years now - she married an American guy. Unfortunately I've been either pregnant, about to give birth, in labour or with small baby(s) the whole time, so I've not had the chance to visit. I'd love to go, though. Her husband is a truly nice man, so my limited impression of Americans is quite favourable."}, {"response": 35, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (19:45)", "body": "i'll have to correct that but haven't i already?"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 13, 1998 (01:53)", "body": "No thank you, and no, you haven't - I'm not pregnant. Or am I wrong? Oh, you mean, you want to show me that Americans are really quite terrible? ha-ha!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (08:42)", "body": "In my limited travel (only the UK, France, Canada, and Mexico) I haven't noticed that we're really much more or less terrible than anyone else... But that's just my worthless opinion. :-)"}, {"response": 38, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (13:58)", "body": "hey WER... finally up on telnet at home but have zero ability to scroll back. Is there something I can change? Also, my screen refuses to display my mail through 'pine' so I brought up 'elm' but have no idea how to send a message after I've used the editor... any suggestions (new mail format would certainly be welcome.. those are just the only two I know.)"}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (23:14)", "body": "nope, you have now crossed outside my realm... hafta ask Thomas or Paul..."}, {"response": 40, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (10:53)", "body": "Yoo hoo! CotC... Paul... (perhaps I should sing the song...)"}, {"response": 41, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (11:02)", "body": "(I think that could very well be appropriate...)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (13:06)", "body": "There's a SONG about Tommycotchi's now? Sick world!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (13:11)", "body": "My elm skills are kinda rusty, but I think you can either type a period on a line all by itself and then hit enter or type ^D (Ctrl-d), which should cause it to ask you if you want to: save file /tmp2358 or something like that. Tell it y. Then (I think) it'll give you several options, one of which is s)end message, so tell it s, and you missive will be merrily on its way. I think..."}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (14:36)", "body": "Or you can set up pico as your editor in elm by using 'o' for options."}, {"response": 45, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (14:39)", "body": "see, Stacey, you just had to think about your song for it to work in here..."}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (21:24)", "body": "Ate at Satay for the first time tonight... first time for Thai food, as well... what we had was very good."}, {"response": 47, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "I love love love Thai food."}, {"response": 48, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "What did you have, muffin?"}, {"response": 49, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (20:59)", "body": "I'll have to go look it all up in what I ate today over in food..."}, {"response": 50, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:44)", "body": "Oh, it's okay, I'll go have a look. I'm taking my partner out for lunch today, to my favourite Thai place - can't wait!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (17:51)", "body": "had Thai last night. B's out of town so I did the take out thing. I couldn't decide what to have so I got two entrees!"}, {"response": 52, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:11)", "body": "THAT DOES IT!!!! I'm going to eat Thai tomorrow. I've been hearing about it for three days now. IT'S TIME."}, {"response": 53, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (21:11)", "body": "So, What did you get?"}, {"response": 54, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (22:08)", "body": "Vietnamese..."}, {"response": 55, "author": "TIM", "date": "Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (23:50)", "body": "Allow me to rephrase the question. Among those who ate THAI food. What did you have to eat?"}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:53)", "body": "I don't have a clue! My favourite Thai place only does the buffet thing. But there's a spicey chicken sauce, spicey, crispy fist nugget things, REALLY spicey chicken wings, fried vegetables, wonderful white rice, hot beef, nudles, great sauces, every day a different buffet. I'll send some along with your chocolate...."}, {"response": 57, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (01:55)", "body": "$hit, what are my fingers up to? I'll try again. There is a spicey chicken SOUP, spicey, crispy FISH nugget things, etc. etc. etc."}, {"response": 58, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:13)", "body": "I will look forward to it. I'm going by Lammes tomorrow. I'll see if I can't get it Fed-Exed. I can see where your mind is."}, {"response": 59, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:25)", "body": "You can?? Please tell me, 'cos I've been looking for it for days!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (02:36)", "body": "I hope IT's right between your ears. However it was obvious that you were stil excited about the Thai food, even thinking about it made you feel good."}, {"response": 61, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (19:51)", "body": "Way back when I had Thai food... I had Phad Thai Woon Sen (variation with bead thread noodles instead of fetticine sized noodles and Phad Eggplant."}, {"response": 62, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:10)", "body": "Sounds good. Where did you have it?"}, {"response": 63, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "Wild Ginger (of course!)"}, {"response": 64, "author": "PT", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (17:02)", "body": "Is that the name of a restaurant?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (20:52)", "body": "yes, the restaurant just around the corner from my house... my fave hangout when I've got to hang out alone and I'm hungry!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "PT", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (11:28)", "body": "Good name for a Restaurant. restaurants conference Main Menu"}]}]}