Suggestions for 'new' places to eat.

Mike wrote:
>
> My girlfriend and I are getting bored with all of the fast food/chain
> restaurants.  We want something new, something we haven't tried before.  Any
> place between Roundrock and William Cannon would suffice, and w just want a
> good, fun, clean place to eat.  We're not vegetarians, but we do like
> salads/fruit/etc.

If you haven't tried these three, then you're missing out on some pretty high value local restaurants:

Hyde Park Bar & Grill (near 42nd and Duval)
East Side Cafe (Manor Road, a couple blocks east of I35) Threadgill's (North Lamar or Barton Springs & Riverside area)

If you HAVE tried these, then never mind . . .

jim andrews

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Try Ararat's in the Hyde Park area (North Loop?).  Go on Thursday nights - they have BELLY DANCING!

Mike wrote:

> My girlfriend and I are getting bored with all of the fast food/chain
> restaurants.  We want something new, something we haven't tried before.  Any
> place between Roundrock and William Cannon would suffice, and w just want a
> good, fun, clean place to eat.  We're not vegetarians, but we do like
> salads/fruit/etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
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Someone wrote:
: My girlfriend and I are getting bored with all of the fast food/chain : restaurants.  We want something new, something we haven't tried before.  Any : place between Roundrock and William Cannon would suffice, and w just want a : good, fun, clean place to eat.  We're not vegetarians, but we do like : salads/fruit/etc.

If you're after something in roughly the same price range as fast food, and don't require meat, Veggie Heaven on Guadalupe just south of campus is very good, and probably "different" enough for you.

Hg

We've been asking the same question.....nothing would be finer than sitting out on the new patio with 40# of spicy crawfish.

Ray S. wrote:

> Someone wrote:
> >
> >Shoal Creek Saloon, 909 N Lamar.  That's right across the street from
> >where Strait Music Co. used to be.
>
> Man, I hate to see my own personal secret source for real New
> Orleans food given away, but what the hell.
>
> The cook at Shoal Creek is from Bogalusa, and knows what he's
> doing in the kitchen.  The closest thing you'll find to real
> N.O. style po-boys in Austin...they're not as great as Parasol's,
> but they definitely scratch the right itch.  (I kind of wish
> they'd ask me if I wanted it "dressed" just so I'd feel even more
> at home.)  The duck gumbo is equally impressive.
>
> And the great thing that Shoal Creek has over places like Gumbo's
> is *atmosphere*.  It looks, feels, and smells like the kind of
> N.O. "joint" you find when you get out of the Quarter and into
> the neighborhoods, like a Parasol's or Frankie & Johnnys.  Cheap
> beer, cheap metal tables, shuffleboard, the kind of place you
> could spend some time in on a Friday afternoon when you don't feel
> like going back to work.
>
> Every time I go in I bug him to start having crawfish boils
> once in a while, and he says he's "thinking about it", so every
> keep bugging him.
>
> --
> Ray Shea
> Austin, TX
> "I think 49 Guinnesses is piggish."  -- dylan thomas