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came upon a modern food complex.
ese can be recognized as part food
truck, part biergarten, and part
recycling and nailing together of any
wood or metal object that happens to
be lying around and free. For some
reason, not wanting to eat any meat
in the land of cattle, we ordered an
“o menu” combo that I would have
titled, “ e Eight Year Old” had it
actually been on the menu – a side of
fries with chili pepper, lime and salt,
and a strawberry soda. Ok, the soda
got hipster points for being imported.
And instead of calling our name
or number, we were handed a large
plastic dinosaur so the server could
identify our location. Ducks came up
from the river bank and went under
the picnic tables, where they also
managed to ght over and survive on
chili fries. I ordered a chicken salad,
which as a California greenhorn, I
actually envisioned as being made
of lettuce. Not saying I didn’t sort of
enjoy it, but I think it was cubes of chili pepper, lime, salt and mayonnaise.
Our favorite place in Austin was the Driskill. is is a large 19th century hotel, recently renovated in what I would call Western Gilded Age, a mix of fru fru architectural elements and leather sofas made of
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Top: e Riverwalk pathway connects the urban center to his- toric Spanish Missions. Bottom: Strawberry soda, fries with lime, chili and salt.
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