Of course in Texas, you expect everything to be a little bigger, a little larger than life, and Hotel ZaZa Museum District lives up to those grand expectations, including their vehicles which are mounted with long horns. Situated in the heart of the cultural Museum District,  Hotel ZaZa has a serious personality and has become […]

Chuy’s is the very definition of Tex-Mex, but with that “keep Austin weird,”  fun and funky attitude. Since its opening on Barton Springs Road in Austin in 1982, it’s been serving authentic and fresh food in an atmosphere that has become uniquely Chuy’s. The founder’s joke that their “decorator” was a good friend of theirs, Jose […]

As the saying goes, you can take the boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy.  Originally from deep in the heart of Texas, I was raised with an appreciation of slow-smoked meats, which is considered an art form in the Lone Star State.  The smoke, the smell, the flavor […]