Mighty cone at last...

Enough guessing I decided. Joseph and I made a plan to eat at Mighty Cone on S congress. A well known eatery (they have been seen at ACL in yrs past).  I was at Barton Springs and Joseph was at work so he gave me a call when he was leaving, timing was perfect.

It was hot Sat afternoon, probably over 100° by now. Luckily there was shade and a breeze to keep us somewhat cool.

I ordered up a hot and crunchy  chicken avocado cone while Joseph had one without the avocado. It was hot so we both went for a shake, they are made with fresh fruit and Blue Bell ice cream. I had strawberry while Joseph had a peach since they are in season. I think that might have been the highlight of the meal but maybe that's because it was sooooo hot.

This is definitely one of the food trucks that should be high on the list of mobile eateries.


http://mightycone.com/index.html

Airstream at last...

Friday and it's lunchtime and knowing that I am going to be out of pocket for a week at the Amala Global youth Peace Summit I decide I need to go and find an Airstream serving food. I decide the  first one I spot will get the vote for today so to S Congress i head cause I know there are some there.

Headed down Congress ave I spot one on the right just before Guero's Taco bar. It was parked right on the side of the street in a small lot with other food trucks but this was an Airstream so it had to get my business today.

The place was called Crepes Mille, the menu seemed t be Asian inspired crepes so I decided to try the dry shredded pork. It came in a green crepe with a sweet sauce drizzled over it. Honestly I wasn't that impressed. The crepe had an doughy taste and the dried shredded beef (which I am used to from my travels in China) was a bit bland. Overall not too impressed but I did decide one day I would give them another try and go for the berries with ice cream crepe since I love those desert crepes.

Sno beach... a line of umbrellas on Barton Springs rd

Saturday afternoon and it doesn't take much to convince me to get on down to Sno Beach on Barton Springs rd for a sno cone. I had had enough of roof and yard work when Joseph came home from shopping (getting stuff for his room at Seattle University) and it just sounded like the right thing to do at the time.

This is a classic place that is always packed. The trailer is parked right on the side of Barton Springs but what makes it hard to miss is the line of umbrellas that people are holding for shade because it is close to 99° this afternoon.

http://snobeachaustin.com/

Joseph had lime and tigersblood and I had lime and pomegranate.

if its hot and you need to cool off this is a great place to stop. Don't let the line discourage you, it moves pretty fast and for three bucks the medium is plenty of sno cone.

The one thing about this place is it's right next to Sandy's which has the best frozen custard cone in Austin. I have been taking Joseph and Anna there since they started swimming at Barton Springs which was before they could walk. I think Sandy's will get the vote next time.

Friday lunch and still not an Airstream...

So it was Friday lunchtime and I was hungry so I thought it was time to find an Airstream to continue the adventure. I was already south of the river so I knew just the place to go... S 1st st in Austin.
 
I stopped at the first parking lot and there was an Airstream, I thought I was all set. To my disappointment it was closed. I walked all around to make sure which was too bad cause I liked their bumper sticker "Base jumping is not a crime". I will have to go back to see who is the base jumper.

Right next to it was Izzoz Tacos "where good friends make tacos and good tacos make friends" and I was hungry. So I ordered a pulled pork torta made with a ancho chilies and chipotle peppers. When one of the cooks brought it out I found it came with french fries which made this a five dollar pretty good deal. He stood there and smoked a cigerate while we looked up in the sky to try to find an airplane that was flying over. It was definetly a radial engine plane and sounded like a DC-3 to me but too many trees to spot it.


 nice folks and pretty good torta for the money. http://izzoztacos.com/

Airstream 1... sort of

Monday Troy and I agreed to meet for lunch at Sushi A-Go-Go off Barton Springs rd right next to Sandy's where the old Filling Station restaurant used to be. When I pulled up I found that it wasn't in fact an Airstream but a little boxy-trailer. A little disappointed because this was supposed to be my first Airstream trailer meal for this blog but we decided to check it out anyway.

It wasn't a disappointment, the sushi was excellent and the wasabi was hot. You could see the guy inside making the sushi to order. It took about 15 minutes to get ours, there there were a few people ahead of us. This was OK as it gave us time to catch up, have some deep conversations and laugh at ourselves a bit.

http://www.sushi-a-go-go-austin.com/