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  1. 5 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Yes.  I know Musashino took over the space several years ago.  Arguably Austin's most underrated sushi place (in its various locations).  Not sure if it survived pandemic though.  For being in such a high traffic area, that restaurant space always suffered from shitty visibility.  

    Yeah.  You really have to be planning to go there.  We hosted some fun dinners there back when it was Granite.

  2. On 10/24/2021 at 5:28 PM, bigbevo76 said:

    Its good, but I don't know if I would call it Cajun.  It's a chain, and more of seafood boil place.  i.e. you pick crab, shrimp, etc and they bring it out in plastic bags.  The bar looked cool, plenty of TVs and overall nice atmosphere.  They have traditional fried seafood offerings and I partook in a shrimp po'boy.  Asian influences in in the food and some decor, for example you get "house chips" when you sit down.  They're similar to shrimp puffs or toasts, etc.  It's not quite the Vietnamese / Cajun type place like a Deckhands (outstanding BTW).  In the pantheon of Austin seafood joints that are not "super nice" here is my rankings:

    1. Deckhands.

    2. The Boat (previous Sam's Boat)

    3. Pacific Star

    4. Hook & Reel

    5. Catfish Parlour

    6. Quality Seafood

    Deckhand, Catfish Parlour, and Quality Seafood are in my rotation.

  3. 21 hours ago, Superhero said:

    Don't remember how I first heard of these guys... most likely on this thread. But it doesn't get any better than this. 

     

     

    I've seen them twice in Dallas.  Very talented.  Covering some rocking Chicago, EW&F, Ides of March, and more.  Not just ballads like this song.

    And Ksenia Buzina, the female vocalist (and "shaker" on Introduction) seems to be rather, uh, talented!

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  4. 13 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I agree with most everything on the list that I have actually eaten at.  The only 2 I would drop are Pecan Lodge and Mi Cocina.

    I'll allow that Highland Park Village Mi Cocina if only for the people watching and the Mambo Taxis.  (Limit 2, allegedly!)

  5. 4 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Blood Bros shouldn’t be in the top 50. Completely unmemorable bbq at outrageous, even for bbq, prices. 

     

    Agree.  I made my first and last trip there pre-pandemic along with a client and was very embarrassed that I'd suggested that place for our lunch.  Hype and PR only gets you so far.

  6. 17 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    Thank you!  I've been looking for a recap or news article on the trial for at least a year.

    Interesting.  As I'm reading through this, I don't recall any mention of all the b.s. he did leading up to the trial.  As far as I remember, he got fired around 2011 and the trial that I sat on didn't start until 2018.  I didn't know that he had delayed and played games in-between.

    So the trial court did it's job to keep extraneous and potentially prejudicial information outside of the proceeding.  Nicely done.

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  7. 7 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Terry Black's is run by relatives, but no affiliation with Black's in Lockhart.  Terry Black's is much better.

     

    Right on about Terry Black's being much better.  The Black's location on Guadalupe is trash -- they just haul in pre-cooked meat from the Lockhart store.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    And this is new? No, it's not.

    In the late 70s and 80s,  a weekly snoozefest but must see tv was  ... "The Fred Akers Show."

     

    How about in the 1960s and 70s -- The Darrell Royal Show was must see TV on Sunday evenings.  In the early years he had to fly up on Sunday mornings to film the show since there were no proper production facilities in Austin.

  9. 2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    The jury I sat on 3 years ago awarded something like 11 million against one person.  Dude was scamming Park Place Autos (DFW).  His scheme was amazingly dumb.  I don't recall the specifics, but it was something along the lines of buying a car as a sales manager, then reselling it for profit.  But, he wouldn't deliver the car title.  Then he'd shift funds from one bank to another to cover for older debts. 

    I wish I could remember how he did it.  Suffice to say, it all caught up with him at the end ala a pyramid scheme.

    He sounds like a really swell guy:

    http://courtstuff.com/opinions/20200602/190032opinion.pdf

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  10. I am glad to see that this list shook some things up.  The Lockhart, Taylor, and Llano-type places have just not kept up.  I had a Coopers-Llano pork rib this weekend that I would have been embarrassed to serve at my own home.  It wasn't fully cooked or rendered and it was way too salty.  They are just not paying attention to details.

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