Category Archives: Media

The Logbook of the Saturday Dining Conspiracy is on fire!

Posted on October 19, 2023 by dwightbrown

Two posts in two days! Will wonders never cease? But seriously, folks. I don’t want to say I have a high bar for linking to “Eater”. I think I link to them pretty often, sometimes criticizing something stupid they wrote, … Continue reading →

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Fark Toast!

Posted on July 11, 2023 by dwightbrown

The “Toast” in this case is Toast Inc., the people responsible for the flaming dumpster fire that is ToastTab. What prompts this latest outpouring of vitriol? Toast Inc., a powerful cloud-based third-party point-of-sale vendor used by more than 85,000 restaurants, … Continue reading →

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Crawfish on Fyre…

Posted on March 10, 2022 by dwightbrown

I missed this story and, thankfully, the event itself. I didn’t find out about it until I checked the HouChron site for other reasons, and I’ve seen no coverage of this on Austin Eater, Austin360, or KXAN. This past weekend … Continue reading →

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More things I won’t be eating.

Posted on October 29, 2018 by dwightbrown

The “Grinch’s Green Pancakes” off the new “Grinch Inspired Menu” at IHOP. Also on the same list: the “Who-Roast Beast Omlette”. You probably think I’m making this up. As much as I hate to give them the publicity, here’s evidence … Continue reading →

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Away game.

Posted on August 15, 2018 by dwightbrown

I wasn’t going to comment on this. But then Mike the Musicologist put some stinky old bait on a hook, dangled it in front of me, and I bit: Food and Wine‘s “The 40 Most Important Restaurants of the Past … Continue reading →

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Schadenfreude watch.

Posted on August 5, 2014 by dwightbrown

I want to make note of this story, even though it has been covered elsewhere, for reasons I will get to in a moment: Three Austin restaurants are allegedly thousands of dollars behind on their taxes, according to lawsuits filed … Continue reading →

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WTF, Austin Eater?

Posted on July 11, 2014 by dwightbrown

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight stories about Obama visiting Franklin Barbecue. Really. Couldn’t this have been covered in one, possibly two, entries? Edited to add: Nine! Edited to add 7/14: I’m going to call this one nine … Continue reading →

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The bad, the worse, and the awful.

Posted on December 19, 2012 by dwightbrown

Eater has published their list of “The Year’s Most Scathing Restaurant Reviews“. Yes, Guy’s American Kitchen is on the list. Also on the list: two Texas restaurants, Vida Sexy Tex-Mex in Houston and Kinado in Richardson. The review of Vida is … Continue reading →

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Where to eat?

Posted on November 7, 2012 by dwightbrown

By way of the Statesman’s “Food Matters” column, I’ve learned of a new website that sounds kind of interesting: Let’s Eat ATX! It seems like a simple, but good, idea. From the Statesman‘s description: The website asks users whether they’ve … Continue reading →

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The 50 best restaurants in Austin?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by dwightbrown

A friend of the SDC (who shall remain nameless unless they want to out themselves in comments) sent along a link to Matthew Odam’s “Top 50 Restaurants” in the Statesman. He also observed that every one of the places on my … Continue reading →

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