[ "How 'bout …" is the logical extension of our tagline "Where you wanna eat?" Because we've all been there when someone says "Where you wanna eat?" and then everyone stands around a little awkwardly until someone cautiously offers up "How 'bout …" and then the name of a restaurant. It's also a way for us to highlight the restaurants that we want to highlight. Here it goes. ]
Taqueria El Crucero is one of Waco's most loved family-owned Mexican food restaurants. Located at 2505 Robinson Drive, less than a mile off of Waco's famous traffic circle, El Crucero offers all of the traditional Mexican food favorites, plus the legendary Oso burrito. Made famous by and for the Baylor students who frequent El Crucero, The Oso burrito is stuffed with rice, beans and chicken and covered with salsa verde and sour cream.
Cafe Homestead and the Homestead Craft Fair will bracket Thanksgiving this year as Cafe Homestead announced its Thanksgiving Farm to Table Dinner this week.
As usual, the craft fair will follow Thanksgiving and be held November 23-25. But this year, Cafe Homestead will be serving up its take on Thanksgiving dinner beginning at 6 p.m. on the Saturday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 17).
A couple of weeks ago, we updated the progress of the new shopping center on Valley Mills Drive. Brad Brown from Smashburger told us that they could begin outfitting their building as soon as the beginning of February.
The other restaurant going into that new hot spot will be Mama Fu's and I've checked into that as well.
I'm pleased to be sitting in Lula Jane's this morning, eating a chocolate chip cookie, sipping on coffee and enjoying the company of a cross-section of friends.
Growing up in Waco and then coming back here to work at several different jobs has allowed me the pleasure of seeing friendly faces just about everywhere. Already, I've seen my friend Carole and a group of Waco Trib friends at Lula Jane's. That worked out well because I knew that's what this place was meant to be about and that's what I already planned to blog about today.
As I sat in my small airplane seat high above the American Midwest on Monday, all I could think about was the potential of eating a Whataburger for dinner.
So much so that I waived off the cheese pizza offered me by the friendly flight attendant. Not that I hate airplane food. At the very least, the process of carefully eating the packaged meal is something to do on a long international flight like the one that brought me around Hurricane Sandy and safely back to Texas from the UK yesterday.
[ "How 'bout …" is the logical extension of our tagline "Where you wanna eat?" Because we've all been there when someone says "Where you wanna eat?" and then everyone stands around a little awkwardly until someone cautiously offers up "How 'bout …" and then the name of a restaurant. It's also a way for us to highlight the restaurants that we want to highlight. Here it goes. ]
Clay Pot serves fantastic Vietnamese cuisine, including but not limited to traditional Vietnamese soup (Pho), fried rice, banh mi and an impressive variety of vegetarian options, in an elegant-yet-casual setting. The restaurant in the red-and-yellow building near the Baylor campus has been family owned and operated for 20 years.
I'm writing from the road this week. Or more accurately, I'm squeezing in a little WacoFork work while attending a friend's wedding in St Andrews, Scotland. But before I left town, I had a chane to sneak preview the Dichotomy coffee bar opening this week at Croft Art Gallery.
Alina and Brett and company are excited to offer their coffee, which has gained widespread popularity through the Waco Downtown Farmers Market, on a daily basis. I honestly expected a small cart in the corner of the gallery, but instead the coffee bar that the gallery and Dichotomy have installed is impressive and very hip.
The new Cafe Cappuccino location in Hewitt opened this week to provide a great breakfast, brunch, and lunch option closer to home for folks living in Hewitt. No need to haul yourself all the way to the Bosque or downtown locations to get your pancake or breakfast burrito fix. Now it's just a short drive away.
[ "How 'bout …" is the logical extension of our tagline "Where you wanna eat?" Because we've all been there when someone says "Where you wanna eat?" and then everyone stands around a little awkwardly until someone cautiously offers up "How 'bout …" and then the name of a restaurant. It's also a way for us to highlight the restaurants that we want to highlight. Here it goes. ]
Bangkok Royal is Waco's premiere Thai food restaurant offers top notch cuisine in an elegant setting ideal for anything from take out to a a casual lunch to formal celebratory dinners. Open since 2000, Bangkok Royal has established itself as one of the area's favorite restaurants of any kind.
It's great for … Just about anything from a casual lunch to a fancy dinner. You will be as comfortable in shorts and a T-shirt as you will in your dress-up clothes before a graduation. When you first dine at Bangkok Royal, you might think of it as semi-fine dining, but the more you go there, the more you'll see it as comfort food.
WacoFork folks say … "If I want anything asian influenced EVER, please go here. They have tofu if you don't like meat, their vegetables are always fresh, the fried eggrolls are supreme, their peanut sauce is delectable, and they give you drinks in goblets. GOBLETS, I say" -- mghamma
We recommend … Tom Yum Goong as a starter and Panang Curry as an entree.
If you're on a budget … The Pad Thai is delicious and filling. Order it for $8.95, eat a quarter of it and take home the rest for two or three more meals.
