This is your basic family-style Italian restaurant, where the portions are large, the prices are ridiculously low, and the quality is fine.
This is the kind of place you pass by without noticing. Next time you shop on West Anderson, stop in for a great prime rib or a filling, fresh Thai steak salad.
Some say the sliders here are the best in town. Happy hour draws a crowd, and so do the 31 TVs for the sports set.
For weekday lunch try the tahli platter, with meat or vegetarian style, which includes nine items that change daily. Appetizers like Chicken 65, fried chicken morsels.
Serves everything from sliders to carnitas, and TVs abound. So do the beer choices, with 20 on tap and more than 50 by the bottle. Try the portobello cheesesteak if you have room after the cheese curds and fried pickles.
Black Star is the world’s first cooperatively-owned and worker self-managed brewpub. Start with the fried jalapeños, or a cornbread, and try the sandwiches or dinner entrées as you work through the local brews.
Pizza, yes, but the breads and pastries are the real stars of the show here. The sandwiches are impressive, too. Check the calendar for rotating daily specials such as the chocolate cherry bread.
Everything we've had has been amazingly good. Complex and richly layered sauces and superb breads form a large and unique menu.
Be sated by one of the biryanis or the aloo paratha, whole-wheat bread stuffed with potatoes and peas.
Your waitress may resemble a runaway who's lost her clothing, but don't call the cops – just order the ribs.
“Last of the True Texas Dancehalls and damn sure proud of it!” Thus declares Broken Spoke owner and dance floor greeter James M. White, who opened up the honky-tonk in 1964. Home to both the upper rungs of country music history (Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson) and its local equivalent (Don Walser, Dale Watson, Kelly Willis, the Derailers), there’s no denying the structure stubbornly resisting the sky-high overdevelopment surrounding it on South Lamar. Serving chicken-fried steak, cold beer, and hardcore country almost every night, the Spoke’s swing and two-step lessons happen Wednesday through Saturday, 8:30-9:30pm.
When the founder of this chain introduced his new pies to his mother, all she could say was, "Shut up and eat!"
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