ACL Eats is as a big draw as the music is for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. My last post was all about burgers and this one  . . . is all about the tacos. Now Austin has a rep for “keeping it weird” and some of the more noteworthy do just that. Torchy’s Tacos rethinks comfort food in a tortilla, East Side King brings you Asian street food in a tortilla and Taco Deli slings it farm to ...

The Austin City Limits Music Festival, or just ACL, because that’s just a whole lot easier to say, is just about fav thing to do in Austin. Wandering around the gorgeous grounds of Zilker Park with Austin’s downtown skyline in the background, beers in hand and amazing music at every corner, makes me feel like its Christmas Morning – my wife calls ACL “Christmas for adults”. As if that wasn’t enough of a reason to go, there is also the ...

The Vitals: the spot: Leroy and Lewis 121 Pickle Road Austin TX 78704 the eats: Barbacado, pulled hog, beef cheeks, barbacoa the bucks: $20 a person for a hefty plate, $12 for a respectable lunch. the full nelson: why Austin is the capital of bbq in the 21st century

The Vitals: the spot: Rosita’s Al Pastor 1911 E. Riverside Dr. Austin TX 78741 the eats: Al Pastor Tacos the bucks: $2 a taco the full nelson: An Austin fav for Al Pastor tacos Austin has a big rep for being a taco town, especially when it comes to breakfast tacos. As far as other tacos go, that statement needs some sense of bearing. Coming from Los Angeles, I feel confident in saying that Austin is not an Al Pastor ...

The Vitals: the spot: La Casa del Playa Tikinxic South End Bahia, Isla Mujeres Quintana Roo Mexico  the eats: enormous plates of shrimp ceviche, Pescado Veracruzano, Pescado Tikinxic, even my kids pasta was off the chain! the bucks: $10 a head, the Tikinxic is $15 a plate, that’s also a kilo of fish the full nelson: this is the kind of place that makes me want to move to Mexico Maybe it’s the almost two thousand miles that separates me ...

The Vitals: the spot: Golden Brown & Delicious 1269 Pendleton St. Greenville SC 29611 the eats: Smoked Fish Bagel, Burger, Fried Chicken Sandwich, really whatever you want the bucks: $10 or less, not including fries the full nelson: the restaurant all the chefs in town were talking about It’s been almost two years since I walked into the doors of Golden Brown & Delicious but the memory of the smoked sable on a toasted bagel dressed to the 9s certainly ...

The Vitals: the spot: The Goat Mafia 625 N. Alvarado St Los Angeles CA  the eats: Goat tacos(birria and cabrito) the bucks: $2 the full nelson: goat tacos dressed like they were served at a top tier restaurant. And for $2 a pop. Tacos can be delicious in so many ways. They can be authentic street renditions that make you feel like Anthony Bourdain traipsing through Mexico City. They can be horribly Americanized, served in a crunchy shell filled with ...

The Vitals: the spot: Mr. Menudo 15323 Atlantic Ave Compton, CA the eats: Menudo the bucks: $9  the full nelson:  a full on Menudo only specialist working the streets of Compton CA

The Vitals: recipe: Instant Pot Lamb Dum Biriyani  difficulty: medium – lots of spices/ingredients, a fair amount of prep if you’re not used to making Indian food on the daily health rating: indulgent. If you do this right with fatty lamb, whole milk yogurt and white basmati rice, you hit a cheat meal 4 sho  time: Instant Pot time 6 minutes + natural pressure release. 30 minimum minute marinade time. 1 hour prep.  Much to my chagrin, the wifey scored ...

The Vitals: the spot: Everson Royce Bar 1936 E. 7th St. LA CA 90021 the eats: Single Burger the bucks: $10 the full nelson: a delectably simple statement on a burger that much like LA will take all your money and leave you wanting more And this is the moment when Bang for your Burger Buck jumps the shark.