My friend Tye Barrett and I grabbed some pizza from Poppa Rollo's, reviewed the Baylor-Texas Tech game at AT&T Stadium and looked forward to this week's massive clash between Baylor and Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
By Dustin Payne
I recently took a visit to Dave’s Burger Barn at the corner of Patricia and Crest in order to confirm some talk I had heard during the week about a Thanksgiving project concerning Dave’s. I talked with Melanie Williams, an employee and temporary spokesperson for Dave’s, and it turned out that everything I had heard was true, and then some.
This Thanksgiving, Dave’s is really putting forth an effort to engage their community by opening their doors from 11am-2pm for a Thanksgiving lunch.
By Dustin Payne
If you have ever wandered into the Johnny Carino’s Italian Grill that resides near the corner of Valley Mills and Lake Shore Drive on a particular Tuesday evening, then you might have noticed the white linen cloths draping the tables, short tea light candles burning dimly, and a well dressed waiter holding a microphone and discussing a particular bottle of wine.
If you have stumbled upon this sight, then you became a witness to one of the many Wine Dinners that Johnny Carino’s hosts every last Tuesday of the month. I was curious as to what one might expect when attending one of these events, and so I stopped by to see this dinner in action, but more specifically to see what’s going on at Johnny Carino’s.
Cory and I had one of those experiences on Monday night that, as proprietors of a restaurant-guide website, we wish we could bottle up and sell to other entrepreneurs. We were able to enjoy a restaurant preview of a restaurant that is generating quite a bit of buzz in town while visiting with both users of our website and people in the restaurant business who are excited to be in our town.
Honestly, the two hours we spent at Smashburger went by too fast.
Hewitt has the bases loaded when it comes to dining choices.
Fast food on first, mid-range casual dining on second, and upscale on third. If your buddy or significant other asks "Where you wanna eat dinner?" you've got at least one choice for every mood.
My friends Tye Barrett, Jacob Robinson and I grabbed some pizza from Shorty's Pizza Shack and talked about Big 12 football. Watch it.
I want to keep this simple. I hesitate to write it, but it needs to be out there for reasons that will become apparent.
I parked at the Pizza Hut next door to Common Grounds at 10:23 this morning (according to the clock on my car), right in front of a tow-zone sign protecting Pizza Hut's parking spaces. I considered this choice, looked over my shoulder to see the sign on the door advertising that the restaurant opened at 11 and decided I would either leave Common Grounds by 11 (most likely) or eat at Pizza Hut (considerably less likely). Either way, I wouldn't be around to have my car towed.
Last week I wrote about The Boudain Shack in Robinson. That blog has accumulated quite a few hits, so I imagine it's piqued the interest of a few WacoFork friends.
I'm here to tell you, it's one thing to write about a restaurant and another to dine there. I took my buddy Tye to The Boudain Shack on Thursday for lunch and we were smitten by the atmosphere and owner Angela Everett and her family long before our food arrived (which was almost immediately after we sat down, so that illustrates their significant charm).
It's time for full disclosure, WacoFork friends.
If you've noticed the pace of blogs on WacoFork dipping from around five per week to two to three per week lately, it's because the Dr. Jekyll restaurant blogger has increasingly been running around as Mr. Hyde sportswriter. I figured I could write about football six days a week and keep up my WacoFork blogging schedule, but turns out I can't. I would like to blame this on a slow down in restaurant news, but that's probably not true. Stuff's happening. It's just that it's more fun to go to the Baylor football press luncheon than snoop around construction sites.
Today I was driving around doing reconnaissance when I decided to drive by a certain corner of Franklin Avenue where a crepe restaurant has been promoted for about the last 15 months. I need a better means of getting info on this place, I realize, but it's priority status has been relegated to "Not sure what to do today, maybe I'll drive past and see if there's anything new at Crepe & Roasters."
