Here's this year's second installment of Christmas Carol Trivia. Congrats to Austin Hooper, who was Tuesday's winner.
Today's prize is a $25 gift certificate to Sironia. The first one to email the correct answer, which means artist and song, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. wins.
With all due respect to Mama's home cooking, the best dinner you're likely to have this Christmas might just be the Cafe Homestead Christmas Dinner, which will be served in two seatings on the evening of December 21.
The dinner will feature beef tenderloin with sides like pastry-wrapped asparagus and potatoes au gratin and, oh dang, eggnog cheesecake.
With Waco Wonderland and Christmas on 5th behind us, you're probably wondering where to go to get your Clark Griswold Christmas spirit fix. I drove around Waco with my wife and kids yesterday evening to scope out some of the best light displays in town, and thanks to the help of WacoFork reader Ryan McGrath, we found some really great ones. Here is my list of our 7 favorite light displays in or near Waco with links to their locations on Google Maps. (Photos were taken at night on an iPhone, so they aren't the best quality. All the more reason to get out and go see these places yourself!)
Last year we offered 12-straight days of Christmas Carol trivia. We want to keep that tradition going, though we're going to go with a less-is-more approach this holiday season. We'll be doing a few of these in the next couple of weeks, so keep your eyes and ears open and your Google fingers ready.
The prize is a $25 gift certificate to Clay Pot. The first one to email the correct answer, which means artist and song, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. wins.
I love Austin, Texas. I was born there, and I lived there for 6 years – 4 years as a student at UT and 2 years after that. If I were to ever move my family out of Waco, I would probably want to move to Austin. But I don't want to move out of Waco because Waco is home, and it has been for most of my life. So, it is with much love for the great city of Austin that I share 10 reasons why I think Waco is better than Austin.
Only yesterday, I brought the discussion of fancy cocktails in Waco to the table.
Today I have more news on that front. I heard through the WacoFork wire about a new place under construction on Austin Avenue across the street from the Hippodrome. I've started the process of checking it out. As of this afternoon, I'm still waiting to speak with the proprietor, but wanted to spill what I know. It's going to be called Muddle: a cocktail craftery.
Dichotomy opened on Monday of last week making coffee, cocktails and creating a conversation.
I was, I suppose intentionally, late to the party announcing this development here on the One More Bite blog. For one thing, I had too much on my plate Thanksgiving week. For another, waiting a week allowed me to soak up lots of opinion about Dichotomy.
Chad and I have been friends since we were preschoolers in the early 80's, and we both grew up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. That's one of the reasons we started WacoFork, because we wanted to help promote all the cool things that have been happening and continue to happen in and around Waco, especially in the restaurant scene.
In that spirit, I wanted to take a look back at what it was like growing up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. Be sure and add your memories of “old Waco” in the comments below.
Our friends at Cafe Homestead play a role in one of Central Texas' unique Thanksgiving traditions at the Homestead Fair.
The Homestead Heritage farm offers classes year around, teaching kitchen and agriculture skills as well as woodworking and other traditional crafts. On Thanksgiving weekend, specifically from Friday through Sunday this week, Homestead Heritage rolls out those activities and a bunch more.
My friends Tye Barrett, Jacob Robinson and I grabbed some pizza from Nizza Pizza to ease the bumps and bruises of a football season in its late stages. We also debated about the fullness of the glass.
