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Dining In the Dark
Here's a unique, 90-minute culinary experience designed to rely on senses other than sight, where all the guests will be blindfolded while they eat.There, in the velvet darkness of the blackest night, safely ensconced within the modern elegance of the W Hotel in Downtown Austin, you'll partake of mouthwatering cuisine from your choice among three menus: Green (vegan), Blue (pescatarian), or Red (a carnivore's delight).What will you be eating this night, adventurous citizen? A Mexican-inflected starter that recalls the occasional dining splurges of your college days? A main course redolent of masterful meatery, or pescatarian power, or gastronomic tropes of vegan creativity, and each with compelling accompaniments? Your host will guide you through the three courses, inviting your blindfolded guesses between bites and drinks, all the way to the sweet finale of dessert.The panoply of flavors here, the diversity of textures, the gradients of temperature – all these unseen aspects of dining will come to the fore in a curated experience that's unlike any other, presented by the event wizards of Fever Originals.Fri., April 15 & 22, seatings at 6 & 8:30pm. $80. -
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Old Thousand: Old Lobster
Oh shiiiit, we love this! Old Thousand – those powerful purveyors of "Dope Chinese" – takes a page from the book of Master Pancake and culinarily mocks Red Lobster with this trickster's day of specials called "Old Lobster." Only for dine-in at the 11th Street location, you'll be able to get cheddar “Bae” Scallywag scallion pancakes; Minorcan chowder with clams and datil pepper broth; crab rangoons with herbed cream cheese and pineapple sweet chili; shrimp scampi “Get Low” mein; Big Tymers fried rice with butter-poached lobster tail and crawfish; and Overboard Cassava Cake.Fri., April 1 -
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The Boozy Cauldron
We heralded this gig in the Food News Buffet a few weeks ago, and now here it is: a "magical pop-up experience in which you'll journey into a wizarding universe of cocktails and mystery." So, a bit like Snape teaching mixology at Hogwarts, we reckon – but let's not get all handsy with Rowling's IP, mmmkay? A ticket gets you four cocktails and an earful of "stories surrounding the famous tavern and its famous guests." Booze and grown-up cosplay, baby, what more could you ask for?Through April 2. Thu.-Sat., 6 & 8pm. $55. -
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The Edible Book Festival
Say what? Books you can eat? On April the first? Well, it may sound like a joke, but silly edible sendups of famous books are totally serious business – and they're the order of the day at the Edible Book Festival. Each food-based incarnation of literary homage might resemble a book, or function like a book with edible pages, or not. But these clever and nommable creations will be on display at the Austin Book Arts Center, which has adopted the annual tradition that began at UT back in 2003.Fri., April 1, 5-8pm
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The Museum of Ice Cream x Amanda Rockman
Every Friday and Saturday in April, this sweet and creamy place in the Domain will have a "Night at the Museum" experience for ages 21 and older, with complimentary adult beverages, games, an inside look at the museum with less of a crowd, a Sprinkle Pool dance party, and a live demo of a custom ice cream concoction that New Waterloo's pastry chef par excellence Amanda Rockman has created for the occasion: Cheesecake Ice Cream with a strawberry and fudge swirl, topped with a white chocolate strawberry crunch, and sprinkled with strawberry Pop Rocks.Through April 30. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $34.11506 Century Oaks #128
