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Austin, TX 78704 (512) 445-0000 |
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I keep on writing about my indifference towards Magnolia -- I don't really care for the restaurant much nor do I truly hate it, yet I keep coming back to it mainly because other people I know do like it, which resulted in this visit, which occurred after 2 am on a Saturday morning after a drunken bout on Sixth Street (the bar district in Austin).
Normally, I don't like to eat late at night or after I've been drinking because I just fall asleep shortly afterwards and buying/eating food during that time would just be a waste of resources, but my friends wanted to go to Magnolia and they were driving, so I went to Magnolia. To limit my cost I ordered a breakfast taco, their Big Breakfast Taco to be exact, which contains egg, avocado, bacon, and cheese in a flour tortilla. The taco was alright, but it was a pain to eat because it kept falling apart. Instead of packing the taco, the restaurant just placed the filling on half the tortilla and flipped over the other half. As I was eating the taco, the filling kept falling out and the flour tortilla kept tearing from the wetness of the egg and other fillings. Normally, tacos are meant to be a quick and efficient transportation method to get something into your mouth when done properly, which this wasn't. Once again, Magnolia was a bit of a disappointment, but I must be the only one to feel that way since the place was still packed from the late night crowd when we left at just after 3 am. |
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Austin, TX 78701 (512) 476-CITY |
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So Little City is a coffee shop in downtown Austin that also serves sandwiches, bagels, and other general things that most coffee shops sell, including beer. I went here for lunch in my continuing exploration of food options in the downtown area and decided to get a smoked salmon sandwich that included cucumber slices, pesto cream cheese, and greens on ciabatta bread for around $7 dollars before tax. It was a little bit pricier than I would have liked, but if you're eating at a downtown eatery, one won't find anything comparable for much less.
I'm kind of wishy-washy about ordering sandwiches from restaurants because I always feel that I'm over paying since I could conceivably make the same sandwich at home for much less, which is true if we're talking appropriate economy of scale, but normally when I decide to have sandwiches at home I buy all of this sandwich stuff that would cost less per sandwich if I were making like ten sandwiches, but normally I just make three or four sandwiches and then get tired of them, so overall I'm learning that in paying for sandwiches at restaurants I'm not really just throwing my money away. Also, I didn't really feel like I was wasting money because all of Little City's sandwiches are priced the same, so since smoked salmon normally costs more, I felt, in regards to the other sandwiches, that I was getting more bang for my buck by going for the salmon, which was delicious. Overall, this smoked salmon was delicious (as smoked salmon naturally is) and the sandwich it was part of was good as well. It also came with chips and salsa. However, I did feel like I should be getting more for my $7 than a sandwich, chips, and salsa, but I really don't know what I was expecting in the first place. Overall, not a bad place for the area. |
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Austin, TX 78701 (512) 478-3281 |
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I have taken it upon myself to sample all of Thundercloud Subs' weekly specials...
The special this half-month was their hot pastrami sandwich, which, when I first saw that it was on special, made me happy, cause it looked good and I like pastrami. Then I ordered it, and it was ok -- rather bland actually. The sandwich was just pastrami, cheese, and mustard, and bread of course. I thought that it would have come with the normal veggies and other stuff that they normally put on their other sandwiches, but nope, it was just the meat, cheese, mustard, and bread. Thundercloud called it their hot pastrami sandwich, which I guess was supposed to refer to the temperature of the meat because everything else wasn't hot, and even the meat wasn't hot either, but rather just lukewarm. For some reason I thought this sandwich was going to be awesome. It was not. |
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Austin, TX 78705 (512) 322-9168 |
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From my previous review of the Crown and Anchor, minus the "I wasn't planning on eating"-part: "I wasn't planning on eating, but then I got hungry, and I'm keeping track of how much money I'm spending on food and expenses (like gas) so that if the day ever comes that I make any money off of this site I could claim all of the food I eat as tax deductible, so given that, I decided to get a chessburger and fries."
The "chess"burger and fries were good. |
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N. McAllen, TX 78504 (956) 631-7344 |
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On December 23rd, I went out with my parents and brother to Logan's Roadhouse in McAllen, Texas. There was the usual wait, but things started to go down hill when we were seated. The waiter was nice, but incompetent -- the real problem was the food and overall service.
1.) My dad ordered a bowl of chili as his entree, but as we were being served our food, the waiter apologized and informed us that they were out of chili, as, let me state again, we were being served out food. The waiter should have told us they were out of chili as he was taking our orders or shortly thereafter. Granted, the waiter might not have known himself that they were out of chili, but someone, a cook at least, should have notified him when they got our orders. 2.) My mom ordered an appetizer platter, which included celery sticks to compliment the buffalo wings, but the celery sticks were DECOMPOSING. Either they had been frozen or they were old, but the were turning to gloo. 3.) In place of the non-existent chili, my dad ordered an appetizer platter, just as my mom had did. The appetizer is supposed to come with 3 different items (my mom's did) but my dad only got 2 different items. The waiter did not say why, so we had to ask why, when we had ordered 2 of the same plates, they come back looking different. The waiter said that they ran out of one of the items, which is understandable (somewhat), but unacceptable in relation to the shitty service we also received from the restaurant as a whole. Overall, I will never eat at a Logan's Roadhouse ever again. The waiter apologized for the service and food saying that they had just finished serving a big party, explaining why some of the food was out of stock, but still, its a restaurant, and they are supposed to be prepared for almost anything. Shitty service and shitty food equals a bad review. No more Logan's for me, ever. |