Thursday Jan 11, 2007
My wife Karen and I had lunch yesterday at Alborz Persian
Cuisine. I've been dining at Alborz for a few years now,
and I really enjoy it. Persian cuisine is interesting, a bit
like Middle Eastern/Mediterranean and a bit like Indian food.
Alborz has a buffet for lunch and the buffet usually has several
types of rice, tabouli, salads, and lots of stew-type dishes.
At any rate, good as usual. There are other interesting
restaurants, food places and an interesting drum shop in the
area:
Wednesday Jan 10, 2007
I had another hill workout near La Frontera, so I was
again tempted to try Wingstop. I was waffling
about whether to get wings or soemthing else. I walked into
Wingstop, and there was a line ahead of me to order, so I walked
out and walked a couple of doors down to Chipotle. I'd never tried
Chipotle, but had been told it was along the lines of Freebirds World Burrito
so I thought I'd check it out.
I was impressed in that the menu was fairly simple and the
service was fast. I probably spent all of about 60 seconds in
line while they built my fajita burrito and took my money.
Also, the charge was $6.06 with tax, not bad for what looked to
be a big burrito. Unfortunately, that's where the positives
ended.
I took my burrito home and started to eat. First off, the only
tortillas Chipotle appeared to use were flour tortillas.
Freebirds offers flour, wheat, spinach, and cayenne. Size wise
I think that the Chipotle fajita burrito was a bit larger than a
Freebirds regular, but not as big as a Freebirds monster. The
other problem I had with the Chipotle fajita burrito was the
feeling I was eating a spring roll rather than a burrito. I
think it had to do with the white rice, which Chipotle calls
"cilantro-lime rice" on their menu, and the tortilla had a kind
of sticky feel to it. Oh, and according to the menu I should
have been offered pinto beans or black beans, but I don't recall
anyone asking.
So, while my experience started out well, I'm not very tempted
to go back. The burrito just didn't do that much for me,
especially when I can get something so much better at Freebirds.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2007
Yesterday evening I had a hill workout in the La Frontera area, so
after that I paid a visit to Wingstop in La Frontera
(okay, I know, after a workout I should eat healthy :)). I
tried 5 atomic hot wings and 5 original hot wings. I started
with one of the atomic wings, and that was certainly a shock!
If I do this again I'll work my way up by starting with an
original hot. Anyway, after a while my senses got used to the
heat and I was able to finish. I also had veggie sticks with
bleu cheese dressing and fries. Wingstop's fries are a bit
unusual, in that they have sugar on them! All in all, pretty
good, once I got beyond the shock of the first atomic wing.
One of these days I'll even remember to order some bourbon baked
beans, which certainly smell good, but I always forget to order
them.
Thursday Dec 21, 2006
One of the Indian grocery
stores here in Austin opened a restaurant Curry in
Hurry several weeks ago, and I've been going there most
every week since. You get one of the three curries of the day,
dal, bread and rice for $4.99 plus tax. Every is made before
the restaurant opens at 11, so if you really are in a hurry,
it's pretty quick.
Today I arrived around 1 p.m. and there were a couple of guys
ahead of me getting a large order to go, and then a large group
of about 8 guys came in behind me. I thought 1 p.m. would be
quiet, but perhaps it being near the holidays is causing people
to change their schedules, as kids are out of school and that
ripples into the lives of parents.
From today's menu I chose
paneer kadhai, chana dal and roti. Very good, expect the dal
was really quite hot and I burned my tongue.
So if you're somewhere near Parmer and Mopac, in the mood for
curry and in a hurry, check it out.
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