South Congress is the area/street near downtown Austin that reminds me of West 18th street in the Heights in Houston, with all the funky and kitschy stores. After enjoying some yummy cupcakes, we walked up and down the street a bit. It was a hot, hot day. I vaguely remember rivers of sweat dripping down my back.
We saw this cool wall plastered with these cool signs and spent a good amount of time cheese posing against it.
500 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77006
For some time now, I've been meeting up mochi and chacco every Saturday morning for some activia in bolivia and after a good sweat sesh it's off to feast like kings and queens. Understandably, calories lost and calories gained cancel out each other, or rather, gain > loss, but I'm a bona fide believer in my personal motto of WHO CARES! We all know I could really care less about losing weight and being healthy. I do it cos I love hanging out with great friends and gossiping the afternoon away. There was one Sat that I suggested we try out Dolce Vita cos I had been hearing about this one particular dish. Truffle Egg Toast. A thick piece of bread toast with a fried egg on top, drizzles of truffle oil along with shaved pieces of truffle and then finished off with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese. As a VN person, we salivate at the thought of a fried egg with runny yolk pouring ... no ... cascading down whatever carbohydrate that it gently perches above. Location wise, I pretty much hate going anywhere along the Montrose/Westheimer area cos parking is just ridic. I'm not going to valet, I think that whole idea is dumb and only resort to it if there is no other choice. So, street parking it is! Luckily, we were early enough that there was some avail. The restaurant itself is like most others around it, the whole old house conversion. Our server was really nice and knew her menu pretty good. She also didn't like being fotograf'd but I'm fast like cheetah. We decided we would share a few dishes: the truffle egg toast, a pizza and a pasta dish. All that for brekkie/brunch. We some bad girls. The truffle egg toast. I really thot it would be better and be out of this world. But it wasn't. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe it needed another fried egg? What I am sure of was that it was frackin' over-priced. At $12 bucks for such a small dish, I don't think I'll be having seconds thankyouverymuch. I guess the truffles made it expensive. It was good but not outstandingly terrific. We ordered the tallegio pizza (taleggio cheese, arugula, pears truffle oil) and the orecchiette (escarole pasta and sweet sausage) pasta. Pizza ok, pasta good. Oh yeah, the menu is so frackin' annoying. I hated the fact that we didn't know what anything on that menu was. Our server had to tell what each and every ingredient was. I bet the servers hate that too. Overall? Prolly won't come back. I'm not a foodie by any means and don't find eating this type of stuff so scintillating and buddingly orgasmic. It's mos def not worth the price to me. I'd rather pay less for lower quality, yet tastier, food. Hah! I must sound completely uncultured right about now. You know what else I just remembered? Right before we ate all this stuff, we stopped by Empire Cafe to get us an iced milkway. It's oh so gut yet oh so bad for you. Well, we ran, we ate, we conquered (our bellies)!
I've been watching Season 4 of Weeds with big poppa at home and it's crazy addicting and HILARIOUS. Mary Louise Parker is such a hottie! I was cracking up at all the tongue-in-cheek comments and scenarious. You know it's so wrong but it's so funny and true none-the-less. Plus, you get to take a glimpse into the world of drug trafficking and that's always fascinating. It's all just so risque. So this isn't supposed to be a TV show synopsis but a musik entry. One of the episodes had this cool song at the end and so of course I just had to look it up. It's called Don't Try To Fool Me by Miss Li, real name Linda Carlsson. She's a Swede heart.
*photo courtesy of amazon.com*
Miss Li
Album: God Put A Rainbow In The Sky (2007)
Song: Don't Try To Fool Me
What I did on Memorial Day. Rented a boat and a jet ski. I've done the whole go to Lake Travis and boat and jet ski thing so many times already that I think I'm pretty much over it. I mean it's fun, but I would rather be off doing other things. And it's expensive! Plus, it was SOOOO frackin' HOT that day. And since it was a holiday, the lake was filled with people, so it was kinda intimidating to jump in the waters and swim around. Not only would you have to watch for other speeding objects but cos there were so many speeding objects, that only means that the water was gonna be extra wavy and not calm. Voodoo decided that he wanted to drive the boat like he was in some sort of chase scene in an action movie. He was aiming for waves at high speed so that the boat would go airborne for a few seconds and then come smashing down with a huge thud. Let's just say every one's butt really hurt and their insides felt like they were getting tousled around. We all had to hang on for dear life. I thot I was gonna get thrown out of the boat cos I was sitting up front! But none-the-less, it was still pretty fun and exciting. Maybe just for a bit. I didn't want to ride the jet ski by myself so I chose to ride as a passenger with a friend. And he frackin' went nuts out there! My arms were like jelly afterwards from once again having to hang on for dear life. I was telling myself that there was no way I was gonna get thrown off. The day mos def would have been a lot better if it weren't so darn hot. That and the fact that we came late so our lake sesh was cut short. Overall, I think everyone had a good time but I'm thinking we don't really have to do this AGAIN. Let's go camping instead!
