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jokes posted:1. I’ll be buzzing around but I’m staying at “first Ward” and it’s apparently a mile from downtown. People are suggesting a lot of things, and many of them are great, but for burgers in particular you gotta go with Stanton's City Bites. If you're going to be in the First Ward it'll be right in your backyard, and I think they're my favorite burgers I've had in the loop (including Lankford).
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jokes posted:Holy gently caress hopdoddy sucks. Bad burgers, “okay” fries, way overrated. I'll cop to liking the burgers at one point but I think they've gotten aggressively worse since. If I'm looking for a good burger in Austin I usually go Hyde Park these days. Also P-Terry's is apparently doing occasional special burgers now. Their BBQ Bacon burger wasn't actually too bad for what it was.
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barnabys' salads are legendary, the sandwiches are great (love the turkey with cranberry mayonaise), and i love the pork chops. also their carrot cake is the best and the spinach artichoke dip is terrific. that and their portions are insane, you get like three meals out of each thing especially the salads.
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Jun 27, 2021 05:25
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It's not as high end as the burger nerd chat but shoutout Spicy Chen off center and spencer for being both close enough to where I work and also pretty loving decent while heavy with the portions. The singaporean lo mein is pretty legit, as was the ma po tofu.
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Sir Tonk posted:barnabys' salads are legendary, the sandwiches are great (love the turkey with cranberry mayonaise), and i love the pork chops. also their carrot cake is the best and the spinach artichoke dip is terrific. All that and they get extra points from me for being gay as hell.
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Jun 27, 2021 07:18
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i know i already shouted out any banh mi, but seriously if you’re near downtown go to cali sandwich as previously said if you’re at all into vietnamese food. i miss living near there so goddamn much; their curry tofu and salt and pepper tofu are my favorite tofu dishes in town bar none. moon tower inn got some drat fine sausage dogs.
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Jun 27, 2021 08:53
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Can someone mail me a Houston banh mi actually
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Jun 27, 2021 13:10
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If you’re doing bbq you can’t go wrong with the pit room. Hit up a bakery like common bond or if you’re in the mood, Catalina coffee. I’m sad I’m moving to Austin soon because the food scene here is so good.
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Nikumatic posted:i know i already shouted out any banh mi, but seriously if youre near downtown go to cali sandwich as previously said if youre at all into vietnamese food. i miss living near there so goddamn much; their curry tofu and salt and pepper tofu are my favorite tofu dishes in town bar none. the salt pepper tofu is so goddamn good, been eating that forever. also the tofu luc lac. the bbq pork and tofu banh mi are my favorites, personally, just watch out for the peppers
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Jun 27, 2021 14:54
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Nikumatic posted:i know i already shouted out any banh mi, but seriously if you’re near downtown go to cali sandwich as previously said if you’re at all into vietnamese food. i miss living near there so goddamn much; their curry tofu and salt and pepper tofu are my favorite tofu dishes in town bar none. I've always preferred Thien An to Cali but that's a personal thing. Still need to try Roostar.
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Jun 27, 2021 17:13
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I would argue the Austin food scene is behind Houston , Dallas, and San Antonio
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Oh somehow I forgot that Moon Tower Inn is one of the best burgers in town too. It’s smaller than it used to be but still drat good. Aaaalso, Siu Lap City is a Chinese butcher in downtown that is super good. Stantons is better than lankfords too.
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Jun 27, 2021 19:36
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If I had to remember The Woodlands exists then you do too https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1409232870946836480?s=20
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Jun 27, 2021 20:41
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Ah the Woodlands, biggest collection snobs, assholes, and super car crashers.
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The Woodlands... is not good. One of my uncles moved out past Conroe because the Woodlands was getting too built up or something like that 
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Jun 27, 2021 21:18
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the houston burbs are downright pleasant compared to the northeast. heampstead new york is the second biggest town in the state after nyc and nobody ever talks about it because it's gotta be hell on earth. long island, new jersey and the boston area are below fargo on places where i could tolerate living
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Jun 27, 2021 21:23
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I went to high school at the woodlands and just lol at the whole rear end area. I think my favorite bit though is the woodlands waterway was suppose to be this San Antonio river walk like deal from I-45 all the way down to lake woodlands. Only problem is they built the canal from two directions and didn’t confirm the elevation of it at all. So now you go down about a quarter of the way and it suddenly stops. On the other side of the wall is a 20ft drop to the rest of the channel. You now have two waterways that can’t connect and can’t get people from the lake homes and condos to the entertainment and business areas closer to the highway.
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Jun 27, 2021 21:27
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Marxalot posted:If I had to remember The Woodlands exists then you do too These people don't think Houston counts as a major metro
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Jun 27, 2021 21:31
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In grad school my wife needed to do an interview with someone who lived in a gated community in The Woodlands, and she says it was the only neighborhood she's ever been to where the gate guard had to know you were coming in advance before he'd let you in. Not just "sign in and out for accountability" or anything - you had to be on the list.
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Jun 27, 2021 22:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE2eGGiwx9s&t=2872s i love you all very much (it's timestamped)
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Jun 27, 2021 22:34
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I was down in austin yesterday and holy poo poo i forgot just how much i loving hate the domain
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Jun 27, 2021 23:45
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The Woodlands: all of the traffic, none of the fun
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Jun 28, 2021 01:41
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just zoomed into the woodlands on google maps and there's a cheesecake factory and a flemings next to each other at the mall on 45
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Jun 28, 2021 02:09
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A friend moved to the woodlands last year and has been trying to get me to move ever since. Uh, nope.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:25
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yall should really be more grateful to the domain for giving you something to performatively complain about nonstop
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Jun 28, 2021 02:28
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First Ward spots - all walkable in that neighborhood Xin Chao - great high end Vietnamese Local Pho - good regular Vietnamese Gus' Fried Chicken - Memphis fried chicken Stanton's - GREAT burger spot Spring Street Beer and Wine - Neighborhood bar with a Birria food truck Cafe Brussels - Belgian spot with a crochety old owner Catalina Coffee - good morning coffee spot (not sure if they have reintroduced tables inside or not at this point) Holler - Brewery (there is another brewery called Platypus but it's very mediocre) Buffalo Bayou Brewery - great deck with a view of the city, good beer, good food Sab0921 fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 02:30
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Buffalo Bayou Brewing at least used to have a fairly toxic management team apparently, and I'm not sure if they've gotten any better.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:52
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No big surprise to anyone here I'm sure, but: https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1408394218616274947?s=20
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Jun 28, 2021 03:21
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And literally nothing will be done about the propagandists who make all this death not just possible, but inevitable. That would be indecorous.
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Jun 28, 2021 06:24
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The worst part of this poo poo is that we could be at a place where people who can't get vaccinated would be protected by herd immunity, bit all of this flagrant stupidity puts that group at risk.
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Badger of Basra posted:yall should really be more grateful to the domain for giving you something to performatively complain about nonstop aint nothing performative about my complaining! It feels VERY Californian. Also waaaaay too many people on a Saturday night for me to be comfortable also too many people for an ongoing pandemic. almost every one of them maskless.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jbouie/status/1409478856113901569 Here we go, national Dems are gonna be “hmmmm Senator Lina Hidalgo?”
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Jun 28, 2021 15:18
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I’d be very pleased with Mayor Lina Hidalgo. Then governor.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:38
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I am extremely optimistic that this time it will work and not end up derailing a promising career by failing at higher office.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:47
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We should just not even try, you're right.
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Captain Monkey posted:I’d be very pleased with Mayor Lina Hidalgo. I'd rather have her as County Judge than Mayor. Nothing will derail your aspirations of higher office faster than being the Mayor of Houston where every interest group in the universe from any and all sides hates your guts all the time. The County Judge is a prominent position, with a good amount of power and tons of good press during emergency situations. She's already announced she's running for re-election in 2022 - then it's probably a Gov run in 2026 if things go well.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:09
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Houston mayor is limited to two four-year terms, county judges can serve as long as they keep getting re-elected. It would probably be better to not become mayor of Houston. Also a Houston mayor tried running for governor and 2010 and got creamed, so, not exactly a good precedent. And Bill White was an old white former CEO with much of his business experience in the energy sector.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:19
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It's a selfish desire, Houston hasn't had a good mayor in a while.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jbouie/status/1409478856113901569 The only way for that to happen is to carpetbag to another state, sadly. There's no way Cruz is losing in 2024 to anyone aside from Donald Trump in the Republican primary.
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Captain Monkey posted:I’d be very pleased with Mayor Lina Hidalgo. State AG, then LT Governor so she can actually get poo poo done and possibly wrangle the ledge to not be a complete poo poo show. Then Forever Governor.
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