Chad Conine

Chad Conine

Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:20

Chillin' at Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt

It's hot outside today. There's no doubting that.

But from where I'm sitting, it's not too difficult to forget the heat. I'm not inside a building with air conditioning either. I'm sitting outside on the porch at Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:31

Announcing the "WacoFork It" contest

Everyone is wondering what our next contest will be. People are talking about it. Many have asked me.

Okay, at least one person for sure asked me about it. And we mentioned it on Facebook and it received "likes" so we assume you're chomping at the bit.

A few weeks ago on this blog, I mentioned how the 50 Yard Line restaurant in Lubbock doubled as sort of a shrine to Texas Tech sports and the old Southwest Conference.

At the time, I offered a few suggestions for similar restaurants in Waco, all of which involved Baylor.

I didn't remember at the time that Kim's on Waco Drive has a bit of a shrine to the Dallas Cowboys. Ok, it's not the entire restaurant like the 50 Yard Line. Though there's something nostalgia-provoking about the whole scene at Kim's. It's an authentic good old-fashioned diner all the way through, which is a refreshing change from cheesy chain restaurants that attempt to evoke an old-fashioned diner atmosphere by hanging, say, old rusted bicycles on the wall.

Monday, 20 June 2011 17:38

4x200 Celebration: Duh, winning!

As announced at the 4x200 Celebration on Saturday and on the blog yesterday, Monike Garabieta claimed the sweepstakes grand prize, taking home the iPad2 from the party at Poppa Rollo's

But she wasn't the only winner. Far from it. We had an outstanding group of door prizes, which made for some happy partygoers.

Here's the list of restaurants who gave door prizes and the diners who walked away with them.

Many have asked me today how our 4x200 Celebration went on Saturday night.

My answer? It was a can't miss. Get together a bunch of loyal and kind WacoFork followers, give them pizza and throw in a chance to win some great door prizes from awesome restaurants all around town and it's a guaranteed good time.

Thanks to the folks at Poppa Rollo's, including Brian, Luis and Poppa Rollo himself, Roland Duty (pictured). They made it a smooth and fun night and, of course, they made delicious pizza as usual.

It became completely necessary, for a variety of reasons, for me to pick up some food for lunch on Thursday. And because I was headed out of town for the rest of the day and I wanted to continue Mexican Food Week, it was completely necessary to pick up Mexican food.

So where does one pick up Mexican food?

Thursday, 16 June 2011 04:05

Mexican Food Week Day 3 equals Tres

I used to cover sports and I loved it … some of the time. I have to say this new gig is every bit as enjoyable, especially when I've arbitrarily declared it to be "Mexican Food Week."

For the third installment of "Mexican Food Week," my friend Star De La Cruz joined me as we dined at Tres on 6th Street for the first time.

The good people at Tres, Luis and Cesar Ramirez and Sabrina Comacho, took good care of us, recommending the buena vista fajitas — delicious combination fajitas served with a healthy portion of cheese enchiladas — and the biggest chili relleno I've ever seen.

One of these days, hopefully pretty soon, WacoFork will be able to declare a lunch rush at a local restaurant and bring enough business to fill up our place of choice.

When that time comes, it will probably look and feel a lot like the lunch I just attended. On Sunday, University Baptist Church community pastor Craig Nash announced from the stage that we would have a lunch meet up at Taqueria El Crucero on Tuesday.

What happened? We took over El Crucero.

I'm declaring this week "Mexican Food Week" on the blog.

I will eat Mexican food every day at least once whether it be for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Given my usual dietary tendencies, it's not that much of a departure from my normal routine.

The point is this week I'm going to eat Mexican food on multiple occasions for a reason and on somewhat of a schedule.

Just a quick update before I head out to Friday night happy hour and a movie on a fine June evening in our fine town.

The 4x200 Celebration door prizes continue to roll in as we've added items from the The Olive Branch, Cafe Homestead, Tony DeMaria's and Cafe Viejo San Juan.

So far, we've had 71 of you tell us you're coming to our party on Saturday, June 18 at Poppa Rollo's. We can fit 150 into the room, so we're almost half way to sold out. Go to our event site and claim your free ticket. Remember we'll have pizza, T-shirts until we run out, we're going to announce the winner of the iPad2 and we're getting more door prizes every day. So everybody is going to be a winner one way or another.

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