Category: Austin
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Zoot!
Last night, Justin and I dined at Zoot, a wonderful little restaurant not far from our home. Ohmyga. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute we spent there, and I’d go back in a heartbeat. It’s a small place, in a renovated old house, with grey and red tones and wall-to-wall wine racks. As soon as we…
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Great Austin Blogger Encounter
What a wonderful weekend! Saturday evening we had dinner at Mother’s with Lisa, Bdogg, LostInTX, Bearette, Lora, and New Mezger, along with a few significant others. It was nice to put faces, personalities, and voices with each blog. We had a great cake from Sweetish Hill to celebrate Bdogg’s birthday, which Bearette really, really enjoyed.…
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A Martian dinner
Last night, we dined with Chad and Lindsay at Mars, a gorgeous restaurant with red walls and dim, funky lighting. I actually took my camera with me, so that you all could see the many wonders of Mars, but the lighting was so dim that I would have had to use the flash, and I…
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Some enchanted evening
Last night we joined our friends Rob and Shara for dinner and ballet. In all my twenty-seven years on this earth, I had not seen the Nutcracker. Isn’t that sad? We started with dinner at East Side Cafe, one of my favorite nice-but-not-too-pretentious-with-entrees-under-$20 restaurants. The restaurant has a garden in the back that supplies many…
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More chocolate and mint
For those of you who live in Austin, please, please stop by Austin Java sometime soon and try their new holiday-inspired beverages. They have pumpkin lattes, Gingerbinger lattes, and my favorite, Peppermint Cocoa (shown above). Pair this with a warm brownie, and you have the perfect dessert. Not to mention hanging out in my favorite…