Posts from the “Austin” Category

DK Sushi

Posted on September 26th, 2010

I’ve been falling in love with restaurants left and right. Justin and I had dinner at DK Sushi (north location), and I LOVED it. The outside is pretty divey. Inside it’s casual, comfy, welcoming…just a few tables and a sushi bar on one side, and grocery aisles with sushi ingredients on the other. Sushi bar (they teach sushi-rolling classes here occasionally)… Grocery aisles (in the midst of expansion). And DK! DK is the most awesome part of DK sushi. He’s friendly, and funny, and excited about life, and ready to share it all with you. He says that this is YOUR life, and you have to make yourself happy. That you have to understand yourself to understand the world. That if you’re not going…

Ambrosia

Posted on September 23rd, 2010

People. Do you like veggies? Do you like cute? Do you like yum? Go to Ambrosia (facebook page here). I live mere blocks away from this place and I had never been there before… tragedy! A friend and I went for lunch this week, and I fell in love with it. Everything is vegan, raw, mostly organic, mostly local. (Later in the winter they may do a few cooked vegan dishes.) Everything is made fresh, and when we went, there was only one cook, so it took a little while for our food to be made. But I’m perfectly okay with that, if it’s being made fresh. The place itself is super cute. Pretty light fixtures… Pretty tables… Pretty food. This was my signature kale…

Uchiko

Posted on September 13th, 2010

So I finally took my camera with me to Uchiko for dinner. We’ve eaten at Uchi and Uchiko plenty of times, but I’ve never photographed anything. I’m not really sure why. Anyway, here’s how our evening went! I had the pan am, a cocktail made with sake, watermelon agua fresca, and granny smith apples. Justin had the Zero Sen, a sake made just for Uchi and Uchiko. He designed the label for the bottles. We were brought a tiny amuse-bouche of grape tomatoes with basil blossoms. Cobia crudo – Caribbean kingfish, cucumber and jalapeno. Justin designed the chef’s coat patches. Madai – Japanese bream nigiri with shiso, meyer lemon zest and olive oil. Nasu – Japanese eggplant and sumiso nigiri. This is seriously the…

Scenes from Uchiko

Posted on September 8th, 2010

So Uchiko hosted a media event tonight (last night? It’s really late as I’m writing this), and I snapped a few photos of Paul Qui and Tyson Cole as they prepped the gorgeous food samples. I’ve been to Uchiko a couple of times for dinner since it opened, and I can’t say enough great things about it. The kai jiru! The take nabe! The cobia crudo! The impeccably fresh and clean and perfect nigiri! It helps that we know some of the chefs and managers and waitstaff… and that Justin designed the menus, the chopstick holders, the label for their private sake label, Zero Sen… I’m so proud of him and his work, and it’s so fun to see it in person when we…