No this hasn’t turned into a food blog. But I know I wittered on and on to a lot of people in Austin about all the amazing food I was eating and I feel like you should share the food joy too. I should add that I was mostly vegetarian until I went to Austin for SXSW for the first time in 2004. I still feel terribly guilty about eating meat and I’m back to my veggie ways again now but when in Rome… drink in an Irish pub and all that!

These were my favorite places this year:

BBQ: Stubbs

Mexican: Polvos

Cupcakes: Hey Cupcake

Breakfast: Magnolia Cafe (Everybody Knows, Everybody Goes), 1886 Cafe &  Bakery at the Driskill (an old favorite) and the lovely Bouldin Creek Cafe (a new and really fantastic discovery)

Sunday brunch: Moonshine

These pictures are not exactly appetizing, they’re more Martin Parr-eque terrifying. BBQ and Mexican food tastes better than it looks I think, especially when it’s me taking the photos with my little digital camera.

And this was the Texas Carne Asada Massacre at Polvos with Jamie Jay Johnson, Mike Palmieri and Donal Mosher – tortillas have never looked so disturbing!

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