Anyone else noticed how BJ's Brewhouse rises out of the landscape as one drives on from Woodway into Waco on Waco Drive beneath the Highway 6 bridge?
If you haven't, I've provided a photo.
In a way, it doesn't seem fitting to show you a picture of Stephen Evans eating a chicken fried steak sandwich.
Don't get me wrong. I love a chicken fried steak sandwich. When I lived in Fort Worth, the restaurant across the street from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram featured a chicken fried steak sandwich special on Wednesdays. So that's where my boss and I ate on Wednesdays. But a chicken fried steak sandwich sort of indulges my baser food instincts.
The Margarita & Salsa festival released its entertainment lineup today.
The event, which will be held August 25 at the Extraco Events Center, will feature the country music stylings of Billy Currington, the Randy Rogers Band and the Josh Abbott Band.
Two things real quick today. I've got golf on the agenda. If you want hot restaurant news and gripping prose, read yesterday's blog.
First, it's Baylor graduation this weekend. And since it's early in the week, there's time to throw out some suggestions for the graduates. Where should they take their family for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, etc. this weekend? What I mean is, you give the suggestions, either by commenting on this blog or tweet them at us.
A new local coffee shop has begun percolating.
(See what I did there? See? I used a coffee term which makes you think of coffee beginning to brew, only I used it as a metaphor for a coffee shop taking shape. Brilliant! Or maybe I'm a hack. You decide.)
I realize it's a little later in the day than I usually post the Fried-day blog, but here it is nonetheless.
I've written about fried catfish on Fried-day, and I've also written about Lone Star Tavern on Fried-day, but I've never written about Lone Star Tavern's fried catfish on Fried-day.
A construction crew began moving dirt this week at Legends Crossing as Quaker Steak & Lube will begin to take shape there in the near future.
We originally stated that Quaker Steak & Lube was coming to town in a blog published on August 22 of last year. However, with no signs of construction and the removal of Waco from Quaker Steak & Lube's "coming soon" status on its website, I assumed they hit a dead end somewhere. I was wrong. Not the first time.
The hotel bar is the social blank canvas of our world. Anything could happen in a hotel bar or nothing could happen. It all depends on the quantity and color of paint available, I suppose.
Also hotel bars usually feel modern, but they're as old as anything still thriving in the modern world. For as long as their have been hotels and inns, there's been the intrigue of who you might see in a hotel bar. Earlier this year, I entered a hotel bar in San Antonio where Teddy Roosevelt brought his Rough Riders once upon a time.
The hotel bar might be the most mystical and alluring of all drinking establishments.
In Tina Fey's book "Bossypants" she relates what it felt like to write a sketch for Saturday Night Live that she knew was a flop and then the cruelty of having to watch that sketch actually air.
But she made a profound point. She wrote "You can go back to panning for gold on Monday."
That's kind of how I feel about my own writing some days. And so it's only fair and honest to say that's kind of how I feel about trying to put together the "Month In Reviews" this month. So I've pulled out a couple of great things, but mostly we're going to go back to panning for gold in May.
Two years ago, I spent the spring and summer in another country. I played golf and became a regular at the world's best golf pub. It was, at times, something like heaven.
But I still missed home, which is to say I missed Texas and Mexican food.
