Will Travel for Food

Texas Restaurants Worth Visiting on the Road This Summer

May 26, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Favorite Finds

Restaurants You Shouldn't Miss

"...Michael Peschka. The great Tex-Mex menu and the friendly, Texas-style service remain the same...."

March 17, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Favorite Finds

Restaurants You Shouldn't Miss

"...stuffing, the perfectly fried hash browns, and the tender Texas toast. "But watch out for the hot sauce," he..."

March 17, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Class on the Range

May 28, 1999 Food Feature

The Lhasa Moon Tibetan Cookbook

March 5, 1999 Food Feature

Local Is as Local Does

Why area farmers want you to beware of faux local

"...is hot all around the country just now, prompting restaurants, grocery stores, and produce distributors to use the "We..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Flight of the Night Bird

Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.

"...No. 2. His dream of creating a chain of restaurants was beginning to take shape. No. 2 was an..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...federal and state inspections of the raw product, and restaurants proliferate. Next to Laredo, Austin is the fastest-growing market..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Restaurant Recyclers

From earth to table and back again

"...in this popular program. This is particularly frustrating for restaurants; estimates hold that 79% of what ends up in..."

June 5, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Food-o-File

In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Food editor Virginia B. Wood clarifies some earlier statements she had made about the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival.

"...in public. A March 3 column questioning why the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival (THCWAFF) and other..."

March 24, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

How to Raise Worker Wages

Organize, arrive, persist, persist, persist

"...has little political traction in the U.S., and in Texas in particular. Business interests have waged a lengthy battle..."

March 31, 2017 News Feature by Jack Craver

Tracing Austin's Italian Food Boom

How a red sauce town boiled over

"...predictable moment, but our city's recent saturation of Italian restaurants was less expected, quickly changing the landscape for local..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Food Feature by Dan Gentile

Be Merry

Eat Drink Local Week comes of age

"...a magazine focusing on local food in 30 Central Texas counties in early 2007, the learning curve necessary to..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Dining del Lago

For years, eating out near Lake Travis was pretty strictly limited to burger joints, Tex-Mex places, fish shacks, and typical Texas roadside cafes. The update to our lakeside dining guide illustrates that all that may be steadily changing.

"...about the area's overall dining diversity and two new restaurants, the open-air Cafe Bleu near the water's edge at..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...about what he didn't know about Margaret's coterie of Texas Blondes. Margaret's and my paths had crossed only once..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Self Service

Merritt Tierce drew on her own time waiting tables for the provocative restaurant world in her novel Love Me Back

"...donated $4,000 in tips from Rush Limbaugh to the Texas Equal Access Fund. (She went on to serve as..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

2012 Restaurant Poll Results and Guide

And the winner is ... you, because you get to nom on all these treats

"...on television – has driven some of our newer restaurants and concepts into the Top 35 favorites list, and..."

May 18, 2012 Food Feature

Contest & Festival Facts

"...Presented by Capital Area Food Bank of Texas..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Food Feature

Contest & Festival Facts

"...Presented by Capital Area Food Bank of Texas..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Food Feature

Food Sites

"...superlative. There's an open eGullet forum for all things Texas – www.forums.egullet.org/index.php?showforum28 – and one can easily look for..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Food Feature

The Secret Ingredients

Meet the best chefs you've never heard of.

"...in the kitchens of some of Austin's longest established restaurants, there are chefs who have been cooking for more..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on the year that was in Austin's culinary life.

"...leaving in its wake a host of new Austin restaurants, well-deserved and long in coming national recognition for our..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Eve of Destruction?

The City plans for a big New Year's Eve party downtown while East Sixth Street merchants complain of threat of competition

"...the street closures and parking snafus mean to downtown restaurants, hotels, and bars?..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Andy Langer

Food Top Nines

"...tomatoes until a week before Christmas. There's nothing like Texas weather...."

Jan. 8, 1999 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

All About That Banchan

Singing the praises of Austin's unsung Korean cuisine

"...to expand; in fact, the history of Koreans in Texas is fairly short. In 1970, there were a whopping..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Food-o-File

Austin eats dirty, drinks hard, and welcomes the new Frisco Shop and Tolbert family chili

"...on their analysis of restaurant inspection data from 539 restaurants in 20 cities around the country. The article advocates..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Foie Gras Fracas

Animal rights activists who recently vandalized Downtown restaurants that sell duck liver or veal may be unintentionally screwing up efforts of separate animal rights campaign focusing on banning foie gras

"...Animal rights activists who vandalized at least seven Downtown restaurants that sell foie gras or veal may be unintentionally..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Amy Smith

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...-- to wit, the numbers of enthusiastically embraced new restaurants with wide ranges of cuisines and degrees of sophistication;..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Day Trips

"...Texas Old-Time Restaurants and Cafes is one guidebook that should..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...of sexism by the board of directors for the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival, I would like..."

March 24, 2000 Column

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