Coco's Cafe serves Taiwanese food and bubble tea on a strip of the University of Texas drag that has a high concentration of bubble tea vendors...
Lunch with Brian has just received a very special offer from some kind businesspeople in Lakeway.
Brian made reservations for Friday lunch at Perry's Steakhouse in downtown Austin. They have a pork chop lunch special for $10.95 on Fridays that makes it affordable for us plebs. We met our friend Sarah and Brian's brother Hunt...
Lunch with Brian The whole Lunch with Brian crew and entourage is excited. This could be the inauguration of something special: Fancy Friday. As with many things LWB (LWB All Stars comes to mind), no criteria have been set on what Fancy Friday means. But I'm thinking it has something to do with going somewhere we ordinarily couldn't afford during the nighttime hours.
Our friend Jocelyn recommended Piranha Killer Sushi at San Jacinto and 2nd in downtown Austin. We got lucky and found three minutes left on the parking meter when we arrived. Then I wasted the 3 minutes trying to get my car perfectly parked inside the lines to avoid a ticket...
Brian and I met Jennie at Mandola's Italian Market. That's where "Brian pours vinegar in the olive oil." Jennie and I are former bosses of Brian. One of my first acts as Brian's boss was to help him land another job. I mean.....
Sarah I am psyched about going to Thai Passion tomorrow!
At Athenian Grill, Brian and I ordered Combo Plates with gyro and chicken meat, rice with almonds and peas, Greek salad and spanakopita (a spinach pastry). We both asked for extra tzatziki sauce...
We were meeting Brian's brother, Hunt, at Pei Wei. We got there first, so while we waited, we admired the new menu wall that's like three big vertical TVs with videos that zoom in on pictures of food. Brian said he felt like he was in the future...
Lunch with Brian
An excellent story on the origins of U.S. gyro meat:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/dining
Source: www.nytimes.com
What are gyros anyway, and who made them a ubiquitous feature of Greek menus across the United States?
On the way to Marrakesh to meet our friend Sarah, Brian and I listened to Crosby, Stills and Nash's "Marrakesh Express." Brian had never heard it before, so it was a treat for me to introduce it to him...
At The Rio Grande, we were happy that the parking meter didn't give us the flashing "FAIL" upon inserting a quarter like they are apt to do in downtown Austin. As we walked from the car to the restaurant, we were temporarily distracted by an evil fish sign across the street...
I told Brian that I wanted to go somewhere that had great dessert. It was one of those days. Despite that I don't care for the food so much at Zocalo Cafe, we decided to go there for their wonderful chocolate cheesecake. If you're familiar with the Lunch with Brian song, you'll remember.....
"Sine Die" isn't the cry of a trigonometry hater. It's Latin for "without day" and signals the final day of a legislative session. Brian and I went to the Capitol Grill for some lunch in hopes of seeing what legislative craziness goes on in the cafeteria on the last day...
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Lunch with Brian commented on their own note Stubb's Bar-B-Q.
