Resort: The Resort San José on South Congress Road is near The Continental Membership, and can be a pleasant place to seize a drink. (The Continental Membership has been round since 1955, and is an incredible place to listen to stay music. I noticed Kathy Valentine of the Go-Gos play a farewell live performance there with The Bluebonnets, simply earlier than she moved to England: it was electrical, unforgettable.)
Restaurant: Justine’s Brasserie is a perfect restaurant, with nice French meals, a bustling eating room and beautiful outside house, and a duplicate of Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein within the women’ room. Someway, I at all times have enjoyable at Justine’s. The cocktails are distinctive. There’s even a tintype images studio out again.
For breakfast: Once I moved to Austin, South Congress Road was a group of oddball companies and really Austin joints; there was even, too briefly, a wax museum. Now it’s dominated by fancy boot and hat retailers (in addition to the old fashioned Allens Boots). Güero’s Taco Bar (alongside the fabled Continental Membership) is among the final older companies standing, good any time of the day, however the breakfast tacos are my favourite. Some folks discover it too touristy due to its location. Extra queso for me, I say.
For a caffeine repair: Quack’s Bakery in Hyde Park (although they produce other places). Wonderful cookies and truffles, too.
To fill up on magnificence buys: Hand to God, I purchase most of my stuff within the magnificence aisle of H-E-B, the legendary and beloved Texan grocery retailer.
For dessert: Lammes Candies, particularly their Longhorns (caramel, pecans, and chocolate). Lammes has been round since 1885 and is certainly one of my favourite sweet retailers of all time.
Theater: Austin is a rare movie show city, with the Alamo Drafthouse, the Violet Crown, and the Paramount Theatre’s summer time film collection—however the monarch of all of them is the Austin Movie Society, director Richard Linklater’s joint, whose new releases and collection (basic movies you’ve heard of and plenty of you haven’t) have been a profound affect on my work and a pleasure in my life. You didn’t ask, however I additionally love Esther’s Follies on Previous Sixth Road—a comedy/magic/musical parody present that’s been operating for 50 years and is each up-to-the-minute and delightfully old school.
