Share/Bookmark Bar Congress 200 CongressTuesday-Saturday, 5pm-12midwww.congressaustin.com Bar Congress brings together three of Austin’s top restaurant people – chef David Bull, sommelier June Rodil, and mixologist Adam Bryan – and gives them an intimate and elegant stage to show off their many talents. Lucky us! Bryan is one of our very finest mixologists. Where most bars
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Share/Bookmark Perhaps there is no better example of the dramatic change in Austin’s urban core than the Austonian condo tower. At 56 floors, the sleek edifice is the tallest residential building in the state, with 188 condos ranging in price from $500,000 to just over $7 million. Homesteads with such price tags are promoted as
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Share/Bookmark Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar and Dogfish Head Brewery present the Off-Centered Film Festival with a beer party Thursday, a beer feast paired with comedy shorts and a screening of Wet Hot American Summer Friday, and a special shorts screening Satur­day. Details, schedules, and tickets at www.originalalamo.com. Thursday-Saturday, April 14-16. Food writer John Mariani will
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Share/Bookmark Live Oak Market 4410 Manchaca Rd., 416-0300Monday-Friday, 6am-12mid; Saturday-Sunday, 7am-12mid “What can I get you?” asks the scruffy gentleman manning the grill at Live Oak Market. His manner is brusque, and he looks a little like he’s just been plucked from a homeless shelter. But when I ask him about the sandwiches on the
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Share/Bookmark Full English Cafe 2000 Southern Oaks, 240-2748Tuesday-Thursday, 9am-5pm; Friday, 9am-9pm;Saturday, 8am-9pm; Sunday, 10am-5pmwww.fullenglishfood.com Alice and Shadrach Smith, the husband and wife behind the locavore-friendly Full English brand, already have a burgeoning reputation through their market-sold traditional British sweet treats. Now their humble attempt to introduce Austin palates to English food has a permanent home.
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Share/Bookmark New India Cuisine 2304 S. Congress, 445-9727Tuesday-Thursday, 11am-9:30pm; Friday, 11am-10pm; Saturday, noon-10pm; Sunday, noon-9:30pmwww.newindia.us Originally, New India Cuisine was located in the strip center east of the H-E-B on South Congress, south of Oltorf. It moved to a new location just north of Oltorf, next to the Victorian Wells Fargo manse-bank for better exposure,
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Share/BookmarkSo here’s the question: Can a Wine Drinking Dude secretly be a Thirsty Girl? At 6’ 3” and well north of 200 pounds, I’m not exactly the kind of attendee you would expect to see at a Thirsty Girl Live Austin Tour Event. I wasn’t sure what to expect, maybe a bunch of chicks talking
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Share/Bookmark 3 Little Pigs 1209 RosewoodTuesday-Saturday, 5-10pmwww.3littlepigsaustin.com East End Wines 1209 Rosewood, 904-9056Monday-Wednesday,  10am-7pm; Thursday-Saturday, 10am-8pmwww.eastendwinesatx.com I discovered chef Raymond Tatum on the TV show Great Chefs of the West back in 1985. Unfortunately, I was in Boston, but I came back to Austin as soon as I could and ate Tatum’s food at Jeffrey’s when
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