What is needed in Austin restaurants?

~KitchenManager Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (19:42) seed

What is missing and/or needed in Austin's restaurants? Service, style, decor, ethnicity, or menu items? (or anything I've left off!)

~terry Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (21:14) #1

Gosh, there is such an abundance of restaurants and choices, this is tough to answer. Seafood resturants?

~KitchenManager Sat, Oct 11, 1997 (22:32) #2

What type of seafood restaurant did you have in mind, because I can think of several. WER

~terry Sun, Oct 12, 1997 (09:39) #3

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?

~KitchenManager Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (00:05) #4

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

~terry Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (19:07) #5

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.

~KitchenManager Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (23:26) #6

Pardon me for saying so, but we don't need no new restaurants. Austin has the highest per capita in the state. WER

~terry Tue, Oct 14, 1997 (06:09) #7

Have we topeed 3,000 yet?

~stacey Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (09:43) #8

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.

~terry Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:29) #9

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.

~terry Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (19:47) #10

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?

~stacey Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (11:09) #11

call and ask!

~terry Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (12:30) #12

Good ideer.

~stacey Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (13:03) #13

I'm full of them!

~KitchenManager Sat, Oct 18, 1997 (00:16) #14

MORE! MORE! WER

~CotC Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (13:33) #15

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...

~stacey Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:32) #16

come to Denver... you can get that atmosphere ANYWHERE here!

~terry Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:44) #17

Ted's Greek on Congress in Austin is pretty authentic.

~stacey Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (14:47) #18

Oh yeah, Ted does sound like a pretty Greek name...

~KitchenManager Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (00:25) #19

There's also Mykonos over on Burnet, but I've never seen the place boisterous. WER

~stacey Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (09:41) #20

Good Greek food here... everyone come visit!

~terry Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (10:47) #21

Definitely, will be on my stopover list next time I fly to Calif.

~stacey Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (12:03) #22

lemme know.

~terry Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (12:41) #23

For sure I will. I need to get out to Calif soon to see my family.

~stacey Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (08:47) #24

Where in California?

~terry Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (10:39) #25

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.

~stacey Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (09:57) #26

The son part is a shocker, I didn't know you had children.

~terry Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (21:04) #27

Yep. Singular though. Shey has about 45 hours of college credit now.

~stacey Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (08:41) #28

What does he want to do with a degree?

~terry Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (09:28) #29

He's not completely sure yet, but he's thinking along the lines of a psychology degree.

~stacey Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (09:58) #30

Has he always lived in CA?

~terry Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:56) #31

Yep. I lived out there for quite a while. Had a house in Occidental.

~stacey Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (13:19) #32

When did you leave?

~terry Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (14:42) #33

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.

~mo Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (07:29) #34

We could use a Vegitarian Fast Food Joint.

~mo Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (07:30) #35

There is some cool restaurant reviews at http://www.capitol-city.com

~stacey Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:15) #36

Have you guys fallen victim to the Wrap Craze that has devoured Denver?

~terry Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (11:47) #37

Yes, itz called rapido. Cool joint.

~stacey Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:12) #38

We've got 6 or 7 independent joints, WAY over the top if you ask me.

~terry Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (12:22) #39

Only one I know of here.

~stacey Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (15:05) #40

lucky you, then it's just a novelty. Funny how things like that work.

~terry Mon, Nov 10, 1997 (21:25) #41

By the way, it's wrapido, I spelled it wrong, it's near the Thai place and Wheatsville. Pretty cool.

~stacey Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (10:43) #42

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.

~terry Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (13:45) #43

Strangley, Taco Bell has decent wraps.

~stacey Fri, Dec 5, 1997 (18:24) #44

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!)