I will always love Spring Break.
Never mind that I'm out of school and have been for more than a decade. The way I look at it, if there's a holiday celebrated by everyone who's school age AND everyone who has school age kids, then that's a holiday for everyone. Of course, there's also the close connection with March Madness on the calendar AND we almost invariably have beautiful weather this time of year.
When Jimmy John's came to Waco a little less than two years ago, the word on the street was that the sandwich chain wanted to open four stores in town within four years.
It appears they're well ahead of schedule.
Let me begin by stating that I know the difference between a legitimate scientific experiment and what I was attempting at lunchtime today.
However, I did have a hypothesis and controlled and variable factors. I brought three brands of "street" tacos to the table and six varieties in all. What separated our Taco Truck Challenge, which was held at Dichotomy at Croft Art Gallery, from a more sophisticate survey is I didn't control it as well as I could have nor did I have a massive sampling size.
I don't know about anybody else out there, but I'm loving Taco Week. More than any other food, I think I could subsist solely on tacos.
So today I went past Zacatecas for tacos. Because the one thing that has more of my attention these days than tacos is college basketball, I briefly had the urge to use my dry-erase board to diagram a basketball play using tacos as Os. I even went so far as to buy five tacos. Alas, as I drove away from Zacatecas I realized I didn't have enough tacos to properly diagram a basketball play because there wouldn't be any Xs for the defense.
Waco is one step closer to having a dine-in movie theater.
This is something people have wondered about, spread rumors about, fantasized about, etc., for years. Anyone from here who has ventured to Alamo Drafthouse in Austin has likely asked the question "would this work in Waco?"
It's essential for me to include breakfast tacos in Taco Week, isn't it?
I'm more of a coffee and bagel person, so I don't necessarily have a go-to breakfast taco in town. If I did, it might be the variety offered at El Crucero because of its association with Common Grounds.
Just a quick heads up to everyone tuned into the local arts scene: the Waco Independent Media Expo begins Wednesday evening with film and continues Thursday with music.
The Dancing Bear Pub will host the film portion of the event. Doors open at 6 Wednesday evening and the films are set to roll about 7. Featured in the event with be "Watch the Skies" by Ben Davis and "Dawn" by Joshua David Matthews.
Whenever I dine at Freebirds or Chipotle, which is often and usually means taking it to go, I pretty much know what I'm going to order. The only thing that really changes is the case.
At Chipotle, I know I'm going to have brown rice, peppers and onions, guacamole, maybe a little dab of sour cream and either steak or chicken. The salsas could vary or I might go without. At Freebirds, Spanish rice, queso and jalapeños are the staples, I alternate chicken, steak and ground beef, and I usually have the burrito barista (that's a term I just invented to describe the burrito-makers at either location; if it's totally ridiculous, I'm sure someone will let me know) add a little barbecue sauce.
Every now and then, the One More Bite Blog will arbitrarily decide it's "(fill in the blank) Week."
We've had weeks featuring barbecue, Mexican food, Asian food, etc. You get the idea. This week, we've decided to feature the greatness of the taco. It's "Taco Week" people. Get on board.
Fans of Peter Piper Pizza and those looking forward to the new location will have to wait a few more days. A stop by this morning, with the understanding that today was the grand opening of the New Road Peter Piper, revealed construction crews still working.
Inside a manager told me it will be next week before the new family pizza joint is ready to go.
