A definitive overview of Central Texas barbecue would take weeks if not months. You don't need to go that far for outstanding smoked meat. You might want to anyway, though, for the Hill Country while the bluebonnets are in bloom (I think you'll be here when they're in season.)
― Benjamin Motherfucking Franklin (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
my transplanted friend recommends Salt Lick bbq, or in the city, Stubb's and Ironworks.
This Emo's show on the 27th at least seems worth getting drunk at:
Tribute Band Marathon with The Orgasm Addicts, Big Mess, Barracuda, A Joy Division Cover Band, The Black Squeeze, The Costellophones, The Lowelies
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The Salt Lick is absolutely the best if you can find a way out there. Family style. All the meat you can eat.
― Llano Signature White (Susan), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Plus it's byob (meaning cooler of beer, in most cases)
― Benjamin Motherfucking Franklin (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Or it used to be. Egad it's been years.
Yeah Morbs Salt Lick over County Line any day of the week in my opinion.
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Def. Salt Lick. The original in Driftwood is BYOB. Other locations are not.
One small drawback with Salt Lick: the price for Family Style has gone up dramatically in the last couple years. Only get this if you truly think you can put down massive quantities of Q, otherwise it makes more sense to just order a regular plate of whatever you want - much less expensive and you will probably still be stuffed.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Salt Lick is worth the drive. Best bbq in town at Ruby's on Guadalupe by UT campus.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Make sure to hit a taco truck while you're here. And don't forget what I said abt. Chicken Fried Steak! Texas cuisine is wonderfully diverse, except in terms of deadly cholesterol.
― Benjamin Motherfucking Franklin (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i've had chicken-fried steak in the east village, lol
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Ruby's is a personal fave but I always feel impartial when I recommend it
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, is chicken bingo @Ginny's what I think it is?
http://www.austin360.com/food_drink/content/food_drink/stories/xl/2008/10/1009xlbars.html
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, it is called chickenshit bingo for a reason. Ginny's is great, but tiny.
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
fun? Yes.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess the dive bar I'll be closest to is Ego's.
Do any joints stay open past 2 a.m.? Damn, uncivilized.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That's when they've got to stop serving, so no, not really.
As for uncivilized? Yeah. We know.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I never really thought of Ego's as a dive, and it used to be one of my favorite places. One of my "moves" was to take a girl there when Bobby Doyle was playing piano, request something romantic, and canoodle in a dark booth. Now I hear there's karaoke and shit? Sounds awful.
― kenan, Friday, 20 March 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Got Criterion Slacker out of the library to bone up on locations.
Scholz Garten, c/d?
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sadly most of them are gone now.
Scholz - great if you're a lege/politician-type or an old German guy who will be allowed to bowl in the back.
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
My fave divey place is G & S Lounge. (Kenan, you're in Austin??)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 20 March 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
love G&S. When I used to go there regularly all bottles were $2 and there was popcorn. Horseshow anyone?
Kenan left us a few years ago for the wintery climes of chi-town.
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Horseshoe rather. Although I'm curious about any dive named "Horseshow".
What's the place on 5th where the old timers play Ronnie Milsap and stuff like that?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 20 March 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Tiniest Bar in Texas?
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
No something like Don's.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 20 March 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah! Donn's Depot. Lots of fun but soooooooooo NOT the place to be the evening Obama won. Atmosphere was gloomy and "Hotel California" was played twice.....
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 20 March 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
hahah
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
well, I figured Slacker-era places had been mostly... 'developed'?
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yes but some spots are still recognizable
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 20 March 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been a while since I've seen it, but the only location I can think of that's still pretty much like the movie is the old Daniel Johnston graffiti where Sound Exchange used to be.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 March 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
it=the movie, not the location.
Yeah iirc it's a Vietnamese restaurant or a burrito place now or something?
― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 20 March 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
First burritos then later (and still, I think) pho.
I miss the Kozik mural at that corner, too. Don't think it made the movie, though.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Crave, an over-priced sushi place is where Sound Exchange was. Apparently that is a historical monument now so can't be covered.
Old Austin I miss: Quack's on the drag, Mad Dog and Beans, Electric Lounge and *sigh* Les Amis. Too many food places there. . .hmm.
― No name is good name (Susan), Friday, 20 March 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
austin was officially dead to me when i heard les amis closed
― velko, Friday, 20 March 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
losing les amis really accelerated the transformation of that part of campus into a total personality-free zone. it's like a street you see walking around town with a COLLEGE t-shirt on these days.
― f. hazel, Saturday, 21 March 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
where on SoCongress shd I get my breakfast tacos?
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
If I eat breakfast tacos, it's near downtown. Sorry.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, SoCo. Your options are Guero's and Sol de Luna (are they still there? I thought someone said they moved.)
I'm not sure about Guero's breakfast although the rest of the menu is decent and I think they have the best margaritas in town. Is there a taco truck nearby? SoCo's gotten so chi-chi. . .
― No name is good name (Susan), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Borrego de Oro down at 71 good? I've always loved the name.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
congress and 71, I mean
I've been in full-on nostalgia mode lately, after getting in touch again with a couple of old friends from, like, more than a dozen years ago. We all worked at Quack's (on the drag) together. We hung out at Les Amis and ate those big, cheap bowls of black beans and rice while smoking fancy foreign cigarettes from Pipes Plus next door. We bummed car rides off anyone who would take us to Barton Creek and Sculpture Falls. We smoked pot every single day, many times a day, without exception, for years. At some point every person in that social circle had either been roommates with another person, or at the very least slept with them. Those were some alright times, man, for true.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
It sounds crazy, but I used to have a tan.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll be near Gueros, yeah
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
We hung out at Les Amis and ate those big, cheap bowls of black beans and rice while smoking fancy foreign cigarettes from Pipes Plus next door.
Are you sure we weren't friends in college? I liked Dunhills.
And you must've made me a peanut butter espresso shake at some point.
― No name is good name (Susan), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone seems to be down on the Guadalupe drag compared to 10-20 years ago.
Anyone seen this @Arthouse yet?
http://www.arthousetexas.org/index.php?_page=load_page&_id=Stokes
Maybe I will head there Friday before I go to Emo's.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
also I guess I will make a special trip for Bookpeople & Waterloo Recs
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
jeez, in honor of my visit the Johnson Library is showing Forbidden Planet Saturday morning!
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/press.hom/press_releases_details.cfm?ID=144
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.yelp.com/biz/izzoz-tacos-austin-2
A coworker swears by this spot on South 1st for tacos. Lunch, not breakfast, though.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
note. don't know if I'll be in the area for lunch, and I do wanna get to Guero's.
Might do weekend pilgrimage to Cathedral of Junk:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7816
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link