-
Posts
3713 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Posts posted by DalTxHornFan
-
-
23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
We live near Conan’s, and it’s a fave. As is Top Notch.
I dig our green belts, we live on one now. Hike it, hunt for fossils and arrowheads, listen to the water running.
The Little Longhorn has changed, but it’s still a damned fine beer joint.
The Asian food scene in this town has EXPLODED since we moved here 35 years ago, lots of great places now.
Taco trailers on N. Lamar. And my old school barber shop, Bob’s, is up there too.
There’s plenty to love in this town. Still…it ain’t paradise.Top Notch and Conan's are still haunts that I go to with my now ancient HS friends. Go Trojans!
- 1
-
2 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:
Buda EDC offered several hundred thousand in incentives (I've seen $288-512k) for Valentina's to open in that big building. That sounds like a bunch of money until its not. I doubt Valentina's made all of the metrics to get all of the incentives. I wouldn't be surprised if Valentina's hired and staffed more employees than were required just to try to make the requirements.
I have a hunch that you are on to something there. Crazy that Buda EDC did that when there is already a pretty vibrant food and drink culture on Main Street.
-
I get the whole idea of perfecting your craft and all that stuff.
The truth is that there is likely way more money to be made from full bars than smoked brisket.
-
I have some pretty close ties to a restaurant that for years only did 5-10 pm service 7 days a week. Then their demographics changed and they decided to add lunch service M-F and do full service 11-10 on Saturday and Sunday. It really changed their operations a bunch. Additional managers and employees. Not always easy to find people that can wave the flag as well the originals.
- 4
-
Craft BBQ, full hours, and a full bar operation seems to be a difficult puzzle to solve. Valentina's has a great physical layout. Perhaps they need to add other foods to round things out?
-
Postal Inspectors and (remarkably) Secret Service are very responsive to matters involving bank fraud. Way more interested than local District Attorneys.
- 1
-
26 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:
Long overdue.
The new place was a disaster nearly from the get-go, and whoever was running it nearly destroyed that brand. They certainly harmed its reputation.
I was rooting for it living in the area and having known the food truck well for years. But the food and service here was routinely slower even than the food truck, or absurdly late (like 1 hour for two tacos in our experience) or never available -- that's not unusual for BBQ but if you have a big brick and mortar open 6 days a week you need to figure that out.
Staff looked confused or idle or disinterested a lot.
And old man thoughts, but the music was way too loud. Had to yell to have a conversation.
Hope they turn it around.
I drank free bourbon there one afternoon because they were short-staffed and didn't have anyone capable of operating the POS system. Not that I am complaining about that afternoon!
-
8 minutes ago, Post Oak said:
Weren't they the ones accused of fucking over their employees?
Of course that is better than the la Barbecue employees losing their fingers.
-
-
Valentina's in Buda is a work in progress. Great building and a full bar. Hope that they get their shit together.
- 1
-
Nate's in Buda is a pretty cool bar. Inside and outside seating. Food delivery is available.
-
Stay away from the US postal service for any payments by check. I handle business affairs for my church and we ended up moving our mail delivery from our physical address to a P.O. Box due to all of the mail theft and check-washing that we experienced.
- 1
-
14 minutes ago, hornian said:
Never went in. Don't think I know anyone who did in real life.
That may explain their demise.
-
20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Yeah, I'm too old for XXX. I'm XX all the way.
This reminds me, I need dinner.
One of my frat brothers came in for a football game and ordered the habanero chili. It was a near-death experience.
- 1
-
1 hour ago, LCHorn said:
Junior’s was my go-to for kegs when I was 18 and buying on a fake ID.
Bold move. Most of us just tried that to get a six-pack!
-
-
5 hours ago, C-Man said:
Good luck! Downtown still seems pretty sleepy to me but I'm only down there one or two days per week these days.
Don't forget that After Irth is moving from Lufkin! Downtown Dallas will seem absolutely buzzy in comparison.
- 1
- 1
-
Coyotes started howling during the totality out in the country near Liberty Hill.
- 3
- 1
-
9 hours ago, shadow_operative said:
imagine that your direct supervisor at your job tells you that you and one of your coworkers are going to be competing for a promotion, and that the winner of said promotion would be whoever made the most sales.
you continue to come into work every single day with your head down, consistently doing your job and making sales. meanwhile, your coworker has stopped coming into work altogether, other than to take his morning dump and steal the newspaper on his way back out the door. your direct supervisor is now repeatedly reprimanding your coworker for this frankly unbelievable behavior while you continue to do your job every day making sales.
they day of the promotion comes, you are excited to receive the promotion, when suddenly, your boss’s boss- a man who has gone out of his way to be a total POS to you on multiple occasions, a man who wears his personal hatred of you with pride- shows up and says, “your coworker is getting the promotion, and i have some new rules for you to follow, and if you don’t follow these new rules you’re fired.” are you seriously trying to tell me that you would just take all of this stride, shrug your shoulders, and accept it as if it was just some totally reasonable and simple request? i don’t think so. not even a little bit.
It could have been a lot worse.
- 2
-
Before I read this thread, I had no real idea of how important/significant this little sliver of the interwebs is. Carry on.
- 1
- 1
-
This thread sent me down a memory hole. Letterman used to be funny. Candy and Flaherty were both great comedic actors. RIP.
- 1
- 1
-
3 minutes ago, Armybrat said:
Saudi Arabia will chair the UN forum for women’s’ rights - the CSW (Commission on Status of Women):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission
Well, it is a joke in the broader sense.
- 4
- 2
- 1
-
13 hours ago, OWLVIS said:
family had land out there,, less than a mile from the park had access to it forever.
I don't have pics,, I was'nt a take a camera with ya type,,, I miss those days
Texas Archive of the Moving Image is always a good place to find history.
Here is the link to what they have indexed to Hays County: https://texasarchive.org/taxonomy/term/115720?&page=3
- 1
-
12 minutes ago, hornian said:
I think the key is toasting the rice before you boil it.
^This.
- 2
Why Can't I Quit You, Austin?
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by DalTxHornFan
Of course, Wally's was just the Dairy Queen back in my early Fine Trojan days. We had a friend that worked there who convinced us to never order one of those frosty's! Made of pretty nasty stuff.