I'm pretty happy that I write about restaurants these days, and not so much about sports.
I don't want to look at sports right now. Sports and I broke up over the weekend after the Rangers lost two heartbreaking games and, therefore, the World Series; the Red Raiders (and Bears) suffered humbling defeats and the Eagles squashed the Cowboys. Did you notice that? In order to list the misery of the sports weekend, I had to use a semicolon. A SEMICOLON!
As stated, I'm happy to be writing about restaurants. I'm even happier that we have so many people in WacoFork land writing about restaurants. However, instead of doing a top 10 list, I have to highlight one reviewer's opus that brought the house down.
I have a Halloween costume ready to go. Now all I need is somewhere to wear it.
If you would like to have Hank Williams Jr. wearing a WacoFork T-shirt at your halloween party, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and maybe I'll show up.
Short of that, I know about a few fun goings on this weekend and, of course, on Halloween night on Monday.
Is pumpkin the most seasonal flavor?
This is not a rhetorical question. I want to know what you think, dear reader. It seems to me that pumpkin crops up in early October and sticks around before eventually giving way to cinnamon in early December.
Because it's fall and I like to give advice, I'm going to tell you right here and now a good way to know that it's fall in Waco and feel happiness in your heart because of that.
Tonight, after you've eaten dinner, whether it be at home or at one of Waco's delicious dining establishments, treat yourself to pumpkin frozen yogurt on the porch at Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt.
That's all I need to write today. I can't make it any more simple for you people. You want me to give you happiness?
Halloween seems to be a bit of an impromptu holiday.
At least to me as I don't think I've ever planned to go to a Halloween party more than 30 minutes before I was at the actual party. This usually results in a lame costume.
Our friends at Cafe Viejo San Juan did not make the same mistake. In fact, they've been planning their "Boo! In Cafe Viejo San Juan" party since early September.
College was invented for days like Thursday.
It's the middle of the semester, so all the school kids are immersed in their studies, while still keeping a sharp eye on their social calendars and, of course, RG3 and the Baylor football team.
It was a sunny 71 degrees, a little cool in the shade, but the kind of day that makes a person more than happy to walk all the way across campus.
I could get used to dining outside.
The weather has been just right lately. Cool enough for a hoodie in the morning, warm but not hot through the middle of the day and nothing short of inviting in the evening.
Once upon a blissful time, I spent a pre-teen afternoon at my grandparents house gorging myself on flavored popcorn, chocolate cupcakes and root beer
I actually gave myself an upset stomach. A snack hangover if you will. Not to worry, though, I recovered in time to play golf with my granddad that evening.
I write that to write this, it has recently come to my attention that I could recreate that afternoon, if I wanted to, right here in town thanks to What About Cupcakes or The Olive Branch and the newly discovered Off The Cob Popcorn (they've been open since May and went into the WacoFork listings this week).
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."
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.
