Some of the omissions on the list are so glaring we wonder if the authors have ever even broken bread in Texas. We'll have a more detailed analysis up later. For now, here's the list:
Alamo The Original Willie's
Amarillo Tyler's
Austin Franklin, John Mueller, LA Barbecue, Lamberts, Stiles Switch. Google map of all 50 after the jump
Photo credit James Daughtrey.
Article about the kill http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/15
I have a long and rich history with alligators.
I first sampled this treasured meat via the timeless "alligator on a stick" cuisine offered up at fairs and carnivals in the great state of Kentucky. It's absolutely delicious, and like most foods, it just tastes better due to the fact that a gator can prove to be quite a formidable foe in the wild.
All foods taste better if they have the potential of also being a potent adversary.
May 14
Busy Bee, East Austin's most famous bookie has seen it all in his 40+ years on the East Side. We sat down with him for a few minutes recently at the Cesar Chavez watering hole where he plies his trade, taking bets on everything under the sun.
The Bee had called us up on the phone, and wanted to let us know he's taking book on the big Texas Monthly top 50 barbecue list.
Then he dropped a bombshell.
We've been on a Vietnamese jag of late. This used to mean multiple trips to Tam Deli and Baguette House, but nowadays we content ourselves with hitting the test kitchen to develop formulae for our recipe binder.
After the runaway success of our Vietnamese Collard Greens article, we realized that we needed to be cooking and writing about more southeast Asia cuisine.
Enter the Vietnamese Bison meatloaf:
After an exhaustive morning calling a bunch of "craft beer" bars who were blissfully unaware of any sort of American Craft Beer Week promotion, we finally managed to wrangle a special to help fuel y'alls celebrations.
At Dog n Duck Pub, the venerable west Capital drinking institution all Austin craft beer pints range from $3-$3.50 tonight. We're still recuperating from the shell shocking we took at their powerhouse Aussie music night a few years ago when the Saints and HooDoo Gurus levelled the joint, so we'll probably sit this one out. Given the prime hunk of land the bar sits on, we're predicting the bulldozers will be revving up soon enough, so get by while you can. 406 w.17th st.
And that's about it.
With an imprimatur of only featuring non-liquor serving bars that are featuring Texas-only draft beer that wraps today's edition up.
Back with more tomorrow.
Part One http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/13
We're celebrating National BBQ month by rifling through old smoked meat archives, and reading about the famously combative Taylor, Texas pit boss John Mueller.
Will he emerge as the consensus number one on the highly anticipated Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ list?
It starts today.
American Craft Beer Week is going off all over Austin as our town's explosive craft beer scene is celebrated nightly in bars and taverns across town.
Watch out for all the drunks on fixies around 2am each night.
Really, really missing Lovejoys right now.
We're paying homage to the origins of the American hamburger at our next pop up restaurant (number 11) as we prepare spot-on copies of the four best claimants to being the inventor of the archetype.
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Charlie Nagreen was only 15 years old when he invented the hamburger. And he did so from an ox-drawn food cart in Seymour, Wisconsin.
It's 1885, and Nagreen is hard at work selling meatballs at the Outagamie County Fair. Trouble is, a lot of folks don't like the inconvenience of walking and eating the cumbersome food stuffs, so Nagreen's business is suffering.
Only the best, brightest, and most popular posts from a full week, deep in the trenches of Austin Texas' food blogging world:
Tawny Villain is Austin's newest proprietor of an Austin food truck http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/7/
A lot of history buffs out there apparently. Sallie's Down Home Cooking http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/6/
Bikini contest? http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/9/
Get rich writing about food in the Great State http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/9/
Mr Catfish http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/8/
May 12
Happy Mother's Day Y'all.
Take your mom to Four Seasons and celebrate this august day in style.
This Week In Austin Texas Food Blogs: WuWu Sushi, Fried Baloney, Stubb's BBQ, Teji's, Fabio Viviani
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