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Two Grannies' Downhome Cookin' in Glen Rose hands out hugs like most restaurants hand out mints

Everything you need to know about Easter Sunday in Austin

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Are there enough nutrients in gelatin desserts like Jell-O to do kids any good?

Austin's all over the TV, and Austin chefs are all over the place

The 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

How badly did Stephen's illustrious editor screw up his column last week? You'll just have to read to see -- but trust us, it's worth it, if only for the amazing list of haute fashion events listed herein. Your social calendar will thank you.

There aren't any pushcarts at Jegimajo!, but you can sure get a taste of the Philippines there.

With all the right ingredients, has chef Robert McGrath found a trailblazing blend of the robust and bold? Virginia B. Wood finds out.

If you've got the money, you've got a great time in store.

Austin gets two new eateries and a possible fosterer for many more, in this week's "Food-o-File."

What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.

Cheese, in all of its artisanal, aromatic glory, takes its rightful place at Austin's tables.

"It's good food, well prepared, reasonably priced, straight up, no frills. I like it," Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals about young chef Shawn Cirkiel's cuisine at Jean-Luc's Bistro.

Beneath all the glitter and glamour at Kenichi lies a restaurant of authentic substance, Chronicle Food writer Rachel Feit observes. Kenichi's executive chef Shane Stark knows more than the fine art of raw fish and rice.

As Food editor Virginia B. Wood relates in a review of Wink, a new restaurant on North Lamar, two of Austin's longtime chefs are busy operating the restaurant of their dreams.

The aesthetic at Girasole speaks to the food fashion of our age, according to Chronicle writer Rachel Feit. It is studied, indeed, almost market-researched in its appropriateness.

Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia's would make her a fool for love.

by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff

Vegetarian and Vegan Spots in Austin

Restaurants, like people, have distinct personalities, MM Pack writes. The persona that Kaya Blue presents is that of a hip young traveler, back in town after multinational adventures -- exuberant and uninhibited, full of ideas and enthusiasm, well-grounded in the basics, but forever changed by the trip.

The latest culinary news in Austin

The details behind several local bakers' plans to create their own workforce.

Virginia B. Wood surveys some local restaurateur's recent offerings.

Barry's Coffee Company in Temple provides fuel for the discerning I-35 driver in the form of real coffee, desserts, and the best chicken salad sandwiches in the universe.

Virginia B. Wood on the delights of Dolce Vita and her updates on Austin's restaurant scene.

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood reveals who came to dinner on February 5, what they ate, and where their money went, and updates readers on changes in Austin's culinary world.

R.O.'s Outpost, 17 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country, serves the kind of food, reviewer Mick Vann reports, that "the old folks grew up on, and the kind rarely found these days in our modern, fast-food, a-go-go world."