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We’reTexas

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  1. Clancy’s. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_af17aa63-f235-5dc4-ba12-7cc35775952e.amp.html
  2. I don’t think it takes a lot of ingenuity to deter people from moving to Dallas.
  3. That sounds like a great trip. Thursday is local’s day and less crowded. It’s a food festival as much as a music one, so go for some Crawfish Monica and check out the Picayune’s (well, now the Advocate’s) guide to best eats of the year. It ends relatively early for a festival, but I still always leave around 5 for a breather - never really interested in headliners and the crowds (though the headliners this year do look good). A lot of big local acts will be in town and play in ad hoc jam bands with each other, so my play is to grab dinner and then hit up Tip’s, Howlin Wolf, Frenchmen etc. I’d probably hang out midweek to enjoy spring in NOLA between the crowds, maybe take a day trip to Manchac for fried catfish at Mittendorfs or check out Grand Isle (which actually made NYT’s top 100 places to visit this year).
  4. Highly recommend the Huntington. Big Four bar one of my favorites in town.
  5. Also, we finally went to Couvant, and were fairly disappointed. I had been really looking forward to it as it was fairly popular among the cool kids in the restaurant circuit when it opened last year, but the service was atrocious. I suppose my steak frites was good, but I was so hungry after waiting for an hour I didn’t notice. Just didn’t have the feel of an instant classic like Turkey and the Wolf or Shaya did. Bar Marilou, however, did. An absolute must for cocktails.
  6. Yes, since pumping $30 million into renovations and hiring Slade Rushing, Brennan’s has regained its role as one of the best in the city. Rushing’s take in trout amandine is one of my favorite dishes in the city. We finally got to Gabrielle last weekend. Greg and Mary Sonnier reopened it two years ago after it was shuttered by the storm. Highly recommended - it’s a throwback to an earlier generation of New Orleans cookings, like Brigsten’s but more casual. Has anyone been to Saint Germain? Eater named it restaurant of the year. We were unable to get in, but had drinks there. I’ve gotten spoiled in CA but they had an impressive natural wine selection.
  7. Patagonia nano. It’s a lighter synthetic down. I live in San Francisco and it’s pretty much perfect as year round jacket for high 50’s-low 60’s with wind and sun. For colder temps I’ll lay over a Better Sweater (you get a lot of Patagonia work swag in the Bay Area).
  8. 1:30 will get you seated eventually, though a little earlier would be better and you could hang out upstairs or next door. It isn’t really a second sitting so much as it is when the first wave begins to saunter down to Absinthe Bar. For the first sitting, locals often use line sitters. You can sometimes call and get a contact from the maitre d’.
  9. Hardly Strictly was last weekend. Fleet Week is this weekend, so the Marina area will be a shitshow. I mean, I’ll be there, but just a heads up.
  10. Pancho really hit it - Houston is a very comfortable place and it’s easy to get trapped with salaries that compete with coastal cities and a cost of living the significant beats them. That said, we took the plunge and relocated to SF a few years ago. As others have mentioned, natural geography is a game changer. And I’m not talking about “oh you’re just an hour from a beach with mud water and flesh eating bacteria” or “the Hill Country is just a few hours away!” - I can be on the Pacific in 15 minutes, the Marin Headlands hiking in 30 and the wine country in an hour. “A few hours” is Tahoe. Or Carmel. Or Mendocino. I can’t remember what we did in Houston besides golf and wait until it was an acceptable hour to find an air-conditioned bar. The Bay Area is, of course, staggeringly expensive. Outside of the cool parts of SF, Oakland and Berkeley, most of it is suburban, sprawling and scorching in the summers. And that goes for LA as well. When it comes time, NFW am I paying a million to live in some shitty burb like Concord or Dublin. We’re going back to Houston.
  11. It’s pretty awesome. Race begins at 8am and you need to get there earlier for a good starting spot (you want to get close to the gate to make sure you make it in with bulls), but there will be plenty of people hammered out from the night before. It’s basically bourbon street 24/7, at least on opening weekend. After that, spend the day pounding kalimotxo in the plaza and watching the bull fights.
  12. Beginning my first summer in SF after leaving Texas. While I miss wearing shorts and flip flops and the fog can be a bummer, I can’t remember what we used to do for four months of scorching heat. People here flip out when it approaches 80.
  13. I left Texas last year and will reiterate emphatically the Tex-Mex/BBQ line. Southern cooking in general - I spent a week in NOLA. Outdoors stuff, not so much. You are moving to a beautiful area of the country and are going to wonder how you spent so much of your life in sweltering prairie land.
  14. Second all of this - when we stay in the wine country we prefer healdsburg. Cartograph and Idlewild are great tasting rooms. Make a stop at the new Russian River beer hall on the way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. Completely agree - we moved to SF from Houston and it was quite a shock at first, but we got over it quickly (the space change, I mean - prices are a neverending gut punch). We are outdoors all weekends and most weeknights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  16. Also Zombie Village (new, in Tenderloin) and Bon Voyage (new-ish, in Mission). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. Pretty much impossible, the vast majority of the pledge class is already somewhat allocated to legacies/siblings/HS friends by the time rush begins. My wife was a Chi O and I had to deal with her complaining all the time around this time of the year. I forget how this was always the dead time of the year, with all the girls tied up for rush. Nothing to do but hang out at abel’s and try and get the rushees from Hardin to talk to you as they walked down Rio Grande.
  18. I know you don’t mean it that way, but that’s not fair to the place. Tory McPhail is one of best chefs in the southeast, and Ella Brennan worked to keep it innovative for decades (they began doing “farm to table” in the ‘80’s). It’s a high-level restaurant ensconced in what your notion of what New Orleans should be, which is a challenging task. Also $0.25 martinis.
  19. ^^^. That’s Verti Marte time.
  20. Turkey and Wolf is great - it’s almost replaced Stein’s as our new go-to sandwich place.
  21. This could be a pretty big deal. He’s one of VE’s biggest rainmakers.
  22. Absolutely. Best burger in town, and everything else is excellent.
  23. I’ve actually had pretty austere service there too, and multiple times both at the bar and while tabled.
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