I know I've written this before, but when I think about Chick-Fil-A, particularly the version located at New Road and Franklin, I think of Yogi Berra.
Berra is my second favorite historical baseball player (this signifies baseball players whom I never saw play in a game and Berra is behind Satchell Paige). The reason I like Berra — and I realize this is kind of obvious and maybe cliché — is because of his Yogi-isms.
In this case, I'm referring to Berra's lament that "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
I've been known to hop in my car and drive more than two hours into the hill country to eat at the pit-barbecue hot spot known as Llano, Texas, home of the original Cooper's.
In fact, I even wrote about Cooper's during the summer while my dad and I were playing golf just down the road in San Saba, Texas.
Well, I have good news, because if the folks opening up a new barbecue joint in McGregor can pull off what they're hoping to pull off, then those of who love places like Cooper's won't have to drive nearly as far.
As of Thursday afternoon, I'd eaten three different types of Asian food in three days — Japanese on Tuesday at Fuji, Thai on Wednesday at Bangkok Royal and Korean on Thursday at Kitok.
And because I'm playing golf in the Kyle Lake Foundation Golf Tournament on Friday, I needed to complete my Tour of Asia on Thursday evening with a stop in Vietnam.
I had options. Waco has a good selection of Vietnamese food with Clay Pot near Baylor and Pho Cafe Saigon in China Spring. But because I wanted kind of a light, chill dinner, I chose Club Sandwich.
It's difficult for me to write about Bangkok Royal simply because I feel like there are several issues to address that begin with the name of the restaurant.
Don't misunderstand me, it's perhaps my favorite restaurant name in town.
But maybe the fact that the name is a conversation in and of itself means that I should begin by writing about the name. So I will.
In the so-far established tradition of WacoFork, I'm embarking on another theme week.
You may remember, during the summer I treated myself, and some other WacoFork friends joined me, for Mexican food week and barbecue week. It was as simple as it sounds. I ate Mexican food, or barbecue, for at least one meal per day all week. Well, now I'm doing it again, only with a little better plan of action.
It's not just Asian food week, it's "The WacoFork tour of Asia in Waco." I'm awesome at titles.
Rumors circulated again on Monday that Fat Ho Burgers was closed.
The rumor reached me as I was sitting at the Elite watching Game 3 of the Rangers-Rays American League Divisional Series. And since I had heard such rumors before only to drive past Fat Ho and find it alive and kicking, I did not leave my perch at the Elite bar. The Rangers were in the midst of hanging on for dear life.
Nonetheless I checked it out this morning and indeed found the Fat Ho doors barred and locked.
Oh, baby, it's a beautiful Monday morning.
As I sit here at my favorite coffee shop, it's sunny and 75 degrees. The high today is supposed to be 88 and the overnight low is predicted to be 54. Is it time to break out the hoodie? A man can dream.
Friends, we made it. I kept telling myself all summer that God gave Texas the heat because He knew we could handle it. I believe that. But He also blesses us with the pleasure of feeling like a day on which the high temperature is 88 degrees is a little slice of heaven.
Hey, Waco, let's just file this one in the category of any press is good press.
Last week, our city landed on Chow.com's list of "The 10 College Towns with the Worst Food."
It's a tough one to take, especially for me, since I pretty much base my self worth on websites like Chow.com's appraisal of things. However, in the interest of us all having some perspective on how much we suck, I'm going to continue writing about this woeful blemish.
A bunch of us Waco folks took over an Austin institution on Wednesday night.
That is to say, the Waco products and Waco-proud boys in the David Crowder Band headlined the opening concert of their current tour at Stubb's Barbecue just off 6th Street in Austin.
And a big group of Waco fans enjoyed the show from among the sold out crowd in Stubb's back yard.
