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utee94

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  1. Food, local travel, and music are among the top things to love about Austin. Seems pretty natural they'd all feature prominently in a thread like this. On that note, another thing I love about Austin... Bob Schneider at the Saxon Pub:
  2. I like Conan's much much much better than Desanos, but it's an entirely different style of pizza. Deep dish Savage on whole wheat is the Truth.
  3. He's joking. Check the "Burgers" thread in the Austin food subforum. HJ is there gobbling down burgers probably at least 10x per month, when he's not at Sour Duck doing the same.
  4. I can't quit Austin and I can't quit Conan's. It's amazing to me that the Anderson/Burnet location is almost identical to how it was when I was in high school decades ago.
  5. Still does! As does the Crown & Anchor just up the street, which is also still there and still making a great cheeseburger. As an engineering student, I spent a ridiculous amount of time at those two joints.
  6. Yup. They only had cheeseburgers. If you ordered a cheeseburger without the cheese, they'd charge you extra. But, the abuse from the staff, was free.
  7. What years would you consider "newer?"
  8. There's still one in the Austin area down in Sunset Valley, but sadly that's the last one around here.
  9. I have an idea! Why don't we leave both the preemptive thread-shitting and the reactionary thread-shitting to the doomsayer threads like ___ what the f is wrong with you and the great enshittification thread, and leave this one positive, as it was designed and intended? I'll go again-- I grew up going here as a kid in the 70s/80s, and my kids have grown up going here as well. And it really hasn't changed all that much, aside from 1/2 of it becoming an antique mall...
  10. Nice. I raise you, Buddy's Place:
  11. I love the idea of this thread, @texasdago. Hopefully it can stay clean. How 'bout: And
  12. Lance Stroll wears Pastor Maldonado underoos. don't you dare shatter my dream!
  13. Interstellar was never a trailer, the owners replaced Noble Pig with their BBQ concept in the same strip mall location. L&L is going to be interesting to me. I sincerely hope they can make the leap. Maybe it helps that they're keeping the food truck open. Absolutely.
  14. Sure but the model is still the same. I'm not knocking the model, it works great for maintaining a very high level of quality. But despite the increased quantity, Franklin still only serves until they are out, which ensures extremely low levels of waste and helps tremendously in maintaining quality. It's a VERY different dynamic, than running a full restaurant with dining room hours open throughout the day and evening. Which was the point of the original statement about that being a tough nut to crack for a lot of trailer operations that attempt to transition to full restaurants.
  15. Franklin didn't really extend its hours. Still a serve-til-you're-out venture rather than attempting to support true dining room hours.
  16. Ugh, terrible. Looks like some kind of sanitation department uniform or something.
  17. Yeah I'd really love to see modern adaptations of Tai-Pan and Noble House as well. Not that I didn't love seeing Remington Steele play Ian Dunross, because I did. But a remake with the sensitivity of this current version of Shogun, would be pretty awesome.
  18. By my senior year I was there for lunch and/or dinner pretty much every day. We were such regulars that I got to know the manager, Eddie, pretty well. Every now and then when I was desperate I'd park out back and Eddie would yell at me that it was only for customers and I'd reply "you know I'll be back here in a couple of hours for the rest of the day." He'd grunt but then smile and say, "well that's true." One morning I parked there around 9:30 before they were open. He gave me his standard line about parking being for customers only, and I responded "Okay, can you sell me a beer?" He walked over behind the bar, poured a Shiner Bock for me and said, "well we're not open so I can't SELL you a beer." That day I skipped classes and drank beer all day long, my usual crowd of band and engineer friends swung by throughout the day, and at some point that night I ended up at The Crazy Lady with Eddie the manager, two of my crew, and a peeler named "Cocoa." That was a long, interesting day...
  19. In the early 90s I could get a pitcher of Shiner Bock for $3.50 and drop that huge 14% tip to make it an even $4.
  20. He has a valid point. I'd be pretty sour about it all after the weekend he had.
  21. utee94

    Mexican

    Agreed. At this point I can only do W. 7th or N. Lamar locations. And even so, neither of them are what they used to be. But Milagro is just flat-out gross the last two times I went. Won't do it again.
  22. Ryan Reynolds has hooked up with the hottest chicks, over-acted badly in many of his early roles, made hundreds of millions of dollars on business dealings on top of his movie earnings, and even owns an English soccer team. There are so many reasons for me to be jealous of him and hate him. But I don't. I can't. Instead, he is my man-crush. LFG
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