We think you should take Club Sandwich's advice.
We think you should take it even if there wasn't extra incentive. Why? Because the more you review restaurants, especially local restaurants, the better our website can serve our community inasmuch as we can offer a credible and extensive view of Waco's dining out experience.
And we want to thank Club Sandwich for making this point with their advertising graphic (as seen in the photo with this blog; that's us just between yelp and urbanspoon).
But there is extra incentive.
Just so everyone knows, I didn't claim to be interested in eating healthy simply as a way of introducing the Eat Well Waco blog on Monday.
Perhaps if you saw me walking down the street, you might say under your breath "That eating healthy mularky must have been mere lip service." And it certainly felt that way when I made the bad decision of scarfing a burger when I arrived home from Dallas late Monday night. Fries too. Bad.
I'm trying to make up for it today, so I went to D's Mediterranean Grill and ordered from the Eat Well Waco menu suggestions that can be found on the wall there.
It's a double blog day because I came across some news this afternoon in Temple.
Word on the street for a while has been that BJ's Brewhouse is planning a Waco location. I even saw someone post that BJ's "announced" it was coming to Waco on Tuesday.
Yes, I'm jumping from writing about obesity awareness and eating healthy on Monday to writing about donuts today. No, I do not find this to be hypocritical.
It's just the news of the day, sort of.
Dunkin' Donuts put out a press release on Thursday of last week announcing it wants to go into five new markets around the country, one of which is here in Waco.
I want to eat healthy. I really do.
Actually I try to do it, though it seems whenever I try the hardest to eat healthily, I end up failing the most miserably. I'll out-smart myself and my "healthy choice" ends up being terrible for me.
It was a splendid and nostalgic evening at my old stomping grounds, Panther Stadium at Midway, right up until the moment when the actual football game took a turn for the unexpected.
For one thing, it was just the right kind of September evening. Not exactly sweatshirt weather just yet, obviously. But not oppressively hot either. Really nice weather actually. That was the splendid part.
I arrived on the old campus about an hour before kickoff on Friday, in time to catch the end of a tailgate party just outside the stadium. That was the nostalgic part.
(Disclaimer: In the following blog, the devil is metaphorical for spicy food. WacoFork does not support the devil or any of his friends).
According to the Charlie Daniels Band, the devil went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal. Conversely, a band of WacoFork folks went to downtown Waco looking to show that old devil who was boss.
It was meant to be WacoFork's deal with the devil as two of our most brave food challengers — Toph Whisnant and Cameron Weed — fully intended to savor Hell's Kitchen Wings at Metro followed by the El Diablo tacos at Taqueria Mexican Taco.
There's a new development in the seemingly ever-changing category of Mexican food restaurants here in Waco.
We like this one, or at least we're optimistic about the possibilities.
El Charro Tapatio will soon be opening a second location as it has taken over the location formerly held by Burrito King.
It's a weird day in the news (sports news) and I feel like my attempts at wittiness in regard to whatever I choose to have for lunch will be too trivial.
I'm as narcissistic as the next guy, but I recognize that the fate of our local university, or at least its ties to the once-great Big 12, is in jeopardy. So I'm disinclined to rattle on about food. For the record, I believe Baylor is a great school with an outstanding athletic department and the Bears will be fine in the long run. And I'm a Red Raider who has struggled to love Baylor for many years, so that's no piddly vote of confidence.
In the void of restaurant chatter, though, I will remind everyone in the WacoFork family that we are giving one of you an iPad2 sometime soon. Sometime soon meaning sometime between now and whenever we reach 1,000 reviews. We are currently at 534 reviews, which is about 100 more than when we announced this new contest four weeks ago. So we'll leave it up to you to predict when we'll reach the mark.
There was a time when I would have been self-conscious about walking into the Bill Daniel Student Center at Baylor to eat lunch.
That time, perhaps, was as recently as earlier this year before a friend who worked at Baylor insisted we eat in one of the dining halls. I suppose that helped me to discover that no one really sticks out like a sore thumb in those places simply because everyone sticks out like a sore thumb in those places.
Seriously, is there a better place in the world to people watch than a college campus? Particularly Baylor?
At any rate, I ventured into the Baylor student center again today to grab some lunch from Mooyah.