I spoke with Derek Varejcka at Cafe Homestead during the lunch hour today. He and his wife recently welcomed their seventh child into the world, so much congratulations to them.
Always full of friendly energy, Varejcka was ready to host Cafe Homestead's next Farm to Table Dinner.
This month's Cafe Homestead Fam to Table Dinner will be a Thai food theme with 5:30 and 7:30 seatings on the evening of July 21.
At noon today, I spoke with Beatnix co-owner Penney Simpson, who told me the burgers and lattes shop is closing.
Beatnix served up a wide variety of tasty burgers, but it was just as well known as one of Waco's most active concert venues. However, during a recent show, Beatnix received a surprise visit from the fire marshal.
I just received word that Cafe Homestead has about 30 total seats available for the two seatings at its Brazilian Farm To Table Dinner on Saturday night.
The dinner will feature a main course of churrasco-style garlic crusted lamb kabob and a Brazilian salted chicken thigh served with vinaigrette fried polenta and bananas, and Brazilian cheese bread.
Over the weekend, the WacoFork wire brought to my attention the Egg and I restaurant going into the Franklin Avenue shopping center currently anchored by Outback Steakhouse and PetSmart.
As luck would have it, I went to the movies and bumped into Randy Robison of Robinson Construction and learned that his outfit, along with building Freebirds, is doing the remodeling of the shopping center space where Egg and I will be located.
A little more than a month ago, the construction foreman at the Quaker Steak & Lube site told me to expect to see that restaurant going up quickly.
He wasn't fooling.
The blog we posted on May 3 includes a picture showing bulldozers and dump trucks doing dirt work at Legends Crossing. Today the place has walls and a roof and discernible doorways.
I reported last week that Cafe Homestead penciled in the date for its next farm-to-table dinner. Well, they've altered their plan, so disregard the previous info.
But they have the menu and price in place now, so it's all a go.
Cafe Homestead will be hosting a Brazilian farm-to-table dinner on June 30 at a cost of $45 per seat. Judging from the menu, it's a bargain at that price.
I bought a bike a few weeks ago.
Ordinarily, that wouldn't have anything to do with anything I would write here. Except that when I asked people where to get a bike they gave me a couple of suggestions, including a new place called Outdoor Waco. I ended up buying the bike from one of the big box sporting goods stores because the bike was cheap and I have no real intention of becoming a cyclist. I just kind of want to ride a bike every now and then. I'm not a 21st-century outdoorsman, though I do have a beard and like to spend time outside.
One of my favorite phrases is "the word on the street is ..."
It implies a pretty high level of being in the know as well as being sort of urban-cool and mysterious at the same time. I have a good example today. The word on the street is that Which Wich is going into the Bosque retail strip that currently features Starbucks and GameStop.
This hasn't been the most active week on the WacoFork blog. But that's because I've been spreading the gospel of WacoFork by playing in charity golf tournaments. That is to confess, I've devoted more time to golf than blogging.
That's just going to happen from time to time, friends. Don't worry, I'm still as dedicated to informing the WacoFork nation as ever. But it's summer and golf has to be played, especially when the high temperature dips below 90 degrees as it did on Thursday.
For the past couple of months, I've let news of the developing Freebirds location sit on the back burner.
I feel like many of our town's restaurant fans know this is happening and I'm not one to go after cheap blog hits just by blurting the word "Freebirds" once or twice a week.
