Cafe Homestead's next dinner event is coming up quick: this Saturday with one seating at 7 p.m.
Normailly, all I need to do is mention the menu style and one or two of the highlights here, but this month's menu is a little more complicated. Cafe Homestead is rolling out an Ethiopian feast, easily one of the most exotic menus they've offered. So this month, I'm going to give descriptions of the main course items.
Yesterday I asked myself the question "am I as fat as that guy?"
The gentleman, whom I don't know, had a rather protruding belly, but my gut tends to lead the way as well, unfortunately. It's a difficult question to answer, and I realize that even asking it isn't all that healthy. The guy was also wearing flip flops in a professional environment, so I gave myself a mark in the plus column for not matching him in that way.
A few weeks ago, a good WacoFork friend, Kara Fisher, stopped me at The Dancing Bear's birthday party and told me about a hot dog joint she visited in Cleveland called Happy Dog. She kept a menu from Happy Dog to share with us, which made us happy.
I've been holding on to the menu for a day like today when i didn't know quite what to blog. We have a new hot dog joint headed our way with plans for The Lone Mammoth underway. I've been told The Lone Mammoth won't arrive until 2014, but it's going to be gourmet franks and sausages and definitely worth looking forward to its opening.
Anybody who gripes that there's nothing to do in Waco isn't looking hard enough.
I will personally be consuming football at gluttonous levels, but that's just one way to go. As such, what follows is our recommendations for a fun weekend here in our humble burg.
Full disclosure, I haven't been to Common Grounds' backyard since they moved the stage to make more room for bigger shows. That will probably change this week as there's a bunch going on this weekend.
This is exciting because, by raising the stage slightly and making the yard bigger, Common Grounds can have bigger acts and ensure that everyone in the audience has a good chance to see the performers on the stage.
You have to admire a restaurateur like Sergio Garcia for constantly trying new things.
Sergio, who formerly had Siete Mares and then briefly a taqueria on 4th street, now own Sergio's on Austin Avenue. Part of that venture has included experimenting with his front space. For a while, it was a breakfast counter/greasy spoon deal. Now it's Robin Jeep's Natural Cafe.
A week ago, I wrote a semi-preview for the new HEB that opened at Valley Mills and Interstate-35. In the blog, I confirmed that the store would include a Flaming Bird cafe. In the same blog, I also promised a follow-up, which I failed to deliver because other pursuits came up during the weekend. Such is life.
Earlier this week, other matters continued to take precedence, but I finally needed to buy groceries today, so it was the logical day to get back to earlier promises. One of the questions that remained last week was whether or not the Flaming Bird would have beer on tap. It does not. But it does have sandwiches, pizza and grilled chicken. A point of correction, the Flaming Bird doesn't sell rotisserie chicken as stated in last week's blog.
I ran down to Austin on business on Tuesday. For real, business-related errands had to be run by two friends and me and, for the most part, we accomplished our goals and did so in an environmentally friendly way (i.e., carpooling).
Did we also play TopGolf and spend happy hour out Uchiko? Yes. We did.
Here's the 17th and final installment of summer Tuesday Trivia.
We've been tying trivia to new music releases since that happens on Tuesdays, so you would have some framework for my question's origin. Today's question is related to Bob Dylan's release of "Another Self Portrait."
First things first, a Smashburger update.
The burger chain is in the process of building out its space in the Valley Mills shopping center anchored by Aldi. But the build out is an 80-day process and the Smashburger staff can't be trained until the build out is largely finished.
