The Margarita and Salsa Festival announced its entertainment lineup this morning. Kevin Fowler will be headlining the annual party with supporting acts the Casey Donahew Band and Whiskey Myers.
The 18th installment of the Margarita and Salsa Festival will be held August 24 at the Extraco Events Center. So if you dig Mexican food, margaritas and Texas country music (who doesn't, right?) then mark your calendar.
Here's the second installment of Tuesday Trivia, which we'll be running all summer.
We're tying trivia to new music, movie and TV DVD releases, since that happens on Tuesday, so you'll have some framework for my question's origin. But I'm not going to frame the question so that you'll just be able to look up new releases and find the answer. I can hopefully make it a bit trickier than that.
We told you last week about Sironia's Cupcakes & Cocktails event coming up this Thursday. This is your reminder, so take heed because this could be a blast and quite possibly the highlight of your week.
Sironia will host the party in its store and cafe from 5-7 p.m. Sloppy Joe's Brian and Jeremy will play music and announce door-prize winners every 15 minutes. Prizes range from candle sets to $500 gift certificates. While you're waiting to see if you won the next door prize, there will be plenty of cocktails, cupcakes and other appetizers to hold your attention.
Cafe Homestead is rolling out its special dinner again on June 1 and this one is officially a farm-to-table event.
The restaurant began this series calling it "farm to table dinner" and then moved away from that distinction when the menu didn't precisely fit. But this one is going to be a spring harvest farm-to-table dinner. There will be one seating at 6:30 p.m. and the cost is $49 per person.
Attention Waco photographers, WacoFork is looking for some quality photos of iconic Waco locations, landmarks, buildings, murals (Wacotown), restaurants, etc., and we need your help. We put out the call last week via Facebook and Twitter, and we've already received some excellent shots from our friend, Brett (see the photo on this blog post). We could still use more great photos, so please help us out.
After opening its first Waco store in the Westview Village Shopping Center in November, WiseGuys is now looking to expand its turf.
Co-owner and operator Bill Nychay emailed us to tell us the Chicago-style sandwich joint is looking around downtown to open a second store. WiseGuys clearly wants to get closer to the Baylor crowd and maybe in on the new-stadium hype.
Remember back during Christmas when we did the 12 Days of Christmas Carol Trivia? That was pretty fun, so we're going to do it all summer long ... on Tuesdays.
Here's how this is going to work. Because Tuesday is the day when new music and DVD's get released, we're going to tie trivia to that so that you'll have some framework for my question's origin. But I'm not going to frame the question so that you'll just be able to look up new releases and find the answer. I can hopefully make it a bit trickier than that.
It's going to be a busy month. The kind where I really need to keep a calendar because I can't keep it all straight in my brain. One of the things I definitely have down is the Cupcakes & Cocktails event on May 16 at Sironia.
This is a quarterly affair that just popped up on our radar when Sironia partnered with us earlier this year. For free stuff (food and drink and more) it doesn't get much better than this event.
Waco native Brian Patterson has a new EP, "A Short Century," out there for your listening pleasure. We really dig it and we couldn't be happier for our buddy.
Do yourself a favor and go here or here and buy it. It's the best $5 you'll spend today.
A few weeks ago, we were asked on Facebook what was going in the new building next to Taco Cabana. We quickly found out that two restaurant and/or retail spaces were available but couldn't get a name.
Now we have one. Papa John's is expanding its Waco operations into this location, according to Kenny Stevens from The Reid Company. Obviously, this will be convenient for some, especially Baylor students who live on campus or in near-campus apartments. But it's also not the most exciting thing ever since we 1) already have this restaurant in town and 2) usually have Papa John's delivered, so as long as we're in delivery range, it probably doesn't matter too much if there's a new one. It's a good thing for Papa John's, though, as they will be able to cover more territory more efficiently.
