T&S Seafood

Maury and I went to Whole Foods yesterday for lunch because i wanted a salad or something kind of healthful and there are a million options there. plus i still don't really know about all the restaurants in town. while we there maury bought some restaurant guide. so we read through it and decided on a place that we had both heard about from others that neither of us had gone to.

in the guide it made it seem like t&s was going to be lined with fish tanks, the premise is that your food is caught in front of you and then taken and cooked up, real fresh like. we ate lots. so much that neither of us could eat our entrees. we got these little shrimp cakes and then a pork and salted egg and mustard greens soup that we shared.

for his entree maury got flounder which was the special for the night and i got lamb stew pot. i forgot how fatty lamb is. i ate a bunch of his flounder though. i even ate the head. like pretty much the whole head. i ate the eyeballs too.
sometimes it's hard for us to have a good time together. this was not one of those nights. thanks maury i had fun!!!

also, the walls were not lined with fish tanks at all. bummer.

Liberty Bar in San Antonio!!!

i first went to liberty bar last may when my friend helene was visiting from DC. maury and i took her to see the alamo and we had a lot of fun on a water taxi on the riverwalk. i mean, it was totally shitty fun. not like real fun. sike!

so anyhow, that day we ate at liberty bar which totally reminded me of the east coast. the building has high ceilings and the whole thing is slanted. it's just really charming and the staff is nice.

today jonny and i went to san antonio so that he could see the wonder that is the alamo and go to thrift stores and to eat at liberty bar.

what a joyous occasion! i ate steak tartare!!!!! i was actually pretty worried about it and it wasn't bad, but it was very similar to eating cream cheese and lox with all the good good fixins, and i think that i would prefer to do that. also, i was afraid to finish the whole thing because i figured it would feel pretty horrible to be full on raw ground beef.



jonny ate some boring pasta dish. tighten up jonny! i think he liked it.

also, jonny and i being the voyeurs that we are watched people (seemingly homeless? or maybe just adventurous) doing it under the bridge just catty cornered to the restaurant. we had pretty good seats for the show. but then the fuzz busted it all up. is the fuzz the police? because that is who i am talking bout.

also, one time jonny was reading this here blog aloud whilst sitting next to me. my writing sounds like a high school paper. never read mi blog aloud.

p.s. while we were in san antonio we went into a hall of mirrors. it was actually really cool. here you see too too many jonnys. two too many.

LBJ Ranch

on sunday we took our friends who were visiting from virginia to LBJ national park. while en route my boss called and was like "why are you going there?" i realized when we got there why she had asked that question. there really wasn't anything there. except for a bangin picnic we had packed, a box of records and a portable record player, and a box of wine.

first off, i think the portable record player heightens any experience. we had a nice meal that consisted of proscuitto, some funny cheese, hummus, fig and hazelnut spread, and spinach and strawberry salad. oh and bread. oh and chocolate. oh and anchovies. was that it?

at some point we realized that there were longhorns and white-tailed deer fenced not to far from where we were eating. we checked them out and walked past that area to the pedernales river.
we hung out for a while on the river listening to records and being kids. i love my friends.

Woodland!

Roomate DATE!!!

i had received an email from my friend, Janelle, who lives in Philly about a blog she had read on apartment therapy about a restaurant in Austin, called Woodland. (pant, pant, pant)

so our lease is about to be up and our rent is going to be raised and we took this as an opportunity to get together and discuss our options.

we figured woodland would be a good place to try out. it is super cute, the staff is nice and there is a fake tree in the dining room. we got in there pretty early so we didnt have to wait for a seat and were able to just jump right in with our wine drinking.


i like friend dates. we laughed and laughed and made sure everyone knew that we were having a better time than them. sike! double sike!

Holy Cannoli!

I have eaten several meals between this meal and the last I posted about, however, they were all just small gatherings at area restaurants and having waiting this long to post about them, they have lost their sentiment. or whatever. i don't really know what that means.

but i want to write about a really amazing meal i ate at my friends, Virginia and Eliot's house. Eliot's mother is a chef and was in town visiting her son and his beautiful wife. i love love love virginia and eliot. from the first time i ever met them. i loved them.

i don't really know their good friends and i always think it's nice to have a meal with people who are new and different. later on in the meal some of my closer friends showed up who had been working on an installation at a gallery. friends!

so, a meal of polenta souffle, mixed greens, mushroom soup, and green beans was prepared. delicious.

eliot's mom told us funny stories of things eliot said and did as a child. i should have written this post last week. so sue me!

i wish i didnt write such a boring post!

oysters on the half shell

jonny and i were goin to make salmon and asparagus and orzo tonight for dinner until we entered quALity seafood on airport boulevard. i asked about raw oysters and the guy scooped a ladle into this little bowl of oyster meat. it looked gross. when i clarified and asked for oysters on the half shell he told me that they sell them in boxes of 100. the price seemed reasonable and we took them home.

all 100, unshucked oysters.

some people got stabbed. others enjoyed raw oysters with horseradish, lemon, sriracha, and tabasco. gorgonzola and saltines were also added to the fixin's bar as the night progressed. we drank a lot of beer and wine and i think that a good time was had by all.

free meal!!!!!

so this was not actually my first meal back in austin. i drove 15 hours from atlanta to austin on wednesday, all alone. my first stop back in austin was my friends house, where my dog had been housed for the two weeks that i was away. my friend, maury bought me dinner which was so nice but unfortunatly my throat was too sore to eat.

my first real celebratory meal in austin was held after i picked jenny, my roomie up from the airport. she had just come back from a week in mexico, who knows what she ate! so she had plans with beatrice for lunch and i wanted to join in.


the weather was super nice and we wanted to eat outside but we didn't want it to be too meaty and we also couldnt really have mexican food. on the way, we picked up beatrice's friend stanley who took his lunch break with us.

beatrice ordered her favorite app and was enjoying it until stanley asked for a bite. we all watched as her face turned sour and she stuck out her tongue to reveal a shard of glass. and then again to push out a large piece of glass. we all stared in disbelief and she spit the rest of her mouthful into a napkin. we told the waitress who apologized, took the plate, and sent the manager out who comped our entire meal. only we hadn't ordered yet. all of our "should i get the soup AND the salad?" concerns were alleviated and we were all able to get everything that sounded appealing.


all though we were all pretty taken aback by glass in beatrice's appetizer, this had put a whole new spin on the meal and we all enjoyed ourselves fully.

also, the service was superb and the poor waitress more than made up for the kitchen's mistake. i felt bad because she pretty much was kissing her butt's for the rest of the time. or maybe she was just really sweet. you should eat at this place for suuuuuuure! plus i'm like pretty sure that luke wilson was eating inside while we were there. i mean, he was covered in glitter, so it must've been a celebrity? right? yes/no?