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Austin, TX 78701 (512) 322-5131 |
| I tried the weekday lunch buffet at Clay Pit and it marked the third time that I have eaten Indian food. The first time was at a friend's wedding, the second was at that same friend's house, and now the third at a restaurant. The buffet was smaller than I had expected, but was overall good. I only managed to eat one plate because I got full and believed that had I gotten a second plate, while getting more bang for my buck, I would have felt like shit for the rest of the day. As for the particular items that I ate, I have no idea what the fuck they're called, they just looked good, so I got some and ate them (that's what the pictures are for). |
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Austin, TX 78745-1411 (512) 892-1800 |
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Is it wrong to go to a buffet on Valentine's Day night? If it is, I don't want to know.
So tonight I went to Buffet Palace, a place I've been wanting to check out for a while now. In the past I've ranted about how I hate buffets and their all-you-can-eat/stuff-your-fucking-face mentalities, but I've since soften to their enjoy-a-wide-variety-of-foods-you-never-eat-together-in-one-sitting mentality. My main draw to this place was the promise of an awesome sushi buffet, but, as it turns out, sushi buffets are never as great as you imagine. The sushi here was sufferable, but I soon found my way to their other foods, like baked mussels and some sort of crawfish etouffe (if that's the proper name), and chicken wings and other stuff. I also had some prawns, but they were not shelled and were sticky and a bitch to de-shell, so I was a bit ashamed when the waitress came by towards the end and saw that we hadn't eaten all of the food that we had picked up, like the unshelled prawns, but fuck it, they already had my money. Buffet Palace wasn't all that great, but for the price, around 10 bucks or so per person, it wasn't so bad. Plus, it raised my spirits to see a bunch of couples on dates together on fucking Valentine's Day dining at Buffet Palace. What a bunch of losers. |
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Austin, TX 78723 (512) 451-6555 |
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This trip to Texas Land and Cattle was awesome, if only for the fact that I got two baked potatoes.
You see, a friend invited me to go to the restaurant with him, and I had a $10 gift card to the place that had come in the mail, so I went along. I ended up ordering a ten dollar chicken fried steak plate, which came with two sides. Now, the restaurant's menu lists the side items available, and their prices if you want to order them on their own, and the baked potato is one of, if not THE, most expensive side items. But I really like the baked potatoes, so I asked the waiter if I could just have two baked potatoes for my two side items. I was expecting the waiter to give me some bullshit that that wasn't allowed, but he was just like, "sure." Which was awesome... ...until I got my plate, which only had one baked potato, which I immediately brought to the attention of the waiter, and I was a bit worried that someone in the back was calling my bullshit and not allowing me to have two baked potatoes as my side items, but the waiter was really apologetic, said "my bad", and quickly got me my second baked potato, which was fucking awesome. I LOVE baked potatoes, and they came loaded at no extra cost, FUCK YOU APPLEBEE'S! Then it came time to pay. My dinner mates and I split the bill according to what we had, and I owed $10.81 with tax, so I gave the $10 gift card to the waiter expecting him to come back with a check for the .81 cents, which I would pay off on my credit card with a few dollars tip added. But the waiter comes back having closed out my bill, telling me they just took the $10 gift card and wouldn't charge me for the rest (I guess it probably wasn't worth it to them to charge me .81 cents), and this was all cool, but then I had to tell the waiter that I didn't have any cash and couldn't tip him, (I was going to tip via credit card), but then my friend saved the day and told me and the waiter that he would pay for my tip on his bill, so it all worked out just dandy. |
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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' semi-weekly specials...
The special this semi-week was the tuna sub... which was just kind of boring. |
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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. |