I love days like this, where your just free to go where the wind takes you. Well we’re taking full advantage of it and being productive at the same time by checking off our Austin list and we’re starting it off at Juan in a Million. Juan in a Million is an iconic business in Austin. As a matter of fact, Man VS Food has even been there. This is how Adam prepares for Juan In a Million.
After watching Juan in his element it really doesn’t surprise me anymore that Juan in a Million is so successful. I think if your a business owner you should make a trip over to Juan for some breakfast tacos, ask for a seat by the front door and watch Juan work his magic. He stands by the door and literally greets each and every guest that walks through. It’s almost as if everyone that walks through is family because that’s how he makes them feel. Shit, I’m not gonna lie, that’s how he made us feel and I totally knew what he was up to. He totally won our hearts and before we left Ray and I are like, “we gotta come back.” Seriously, it’s just breakfast tacos, eggs, cheese, flour tortilla, but Juan’s infectious energy makes you think they tastes so good. I started my morning off with tres leches. It was good but doesn’t come close to Chuy’s tres leches.
Ray and his big ass breakfast tacos.
And mine, just like I like em, potatoes and eggs, but damn it, I always forget to ask for corn tortillas!
Well Juan In A Million considered yourself checked. Check! Next is IMAX theater to watch Shrek in 3D.
After the movies we start to get hungry again so we head over to Carlos’ and Charlie’s, which also happens to be on our list. Check!
Well, the food is not amazing and the service sucks elephant butt. I suggest you come here for the pretty sunsets.
This is my friend Rex eating chicken feet for the first time at Fortune Chinese Seafood Restaurant in Austin. Watching this video just reminds me why I love Rex so much. He’s straight comedy and doesn’t even try.
It totally looks like the chicken feet is flipping him off. “Fuck you, give me back my toes biznatch.”
After lunch we headed to Toy Joy and a few other random stores and then to Spider House Cafe for my first blueberry matte latte and it was luscious. By the way if you have not been to the Spider House you should definitely make time to go. The coolest internet cafe shop ever.
So today was another one of those driving around town because we’re bored days. Every time we drive through Austin it seems as though we find a new place to add to our mental list of places we need to check out one day. Sandy’s was among that list and, well what better day than today to check it off? Ray is a hamburger whore. I know sounds kinda gross and that because it is. Is it weird that never in my whole entire existence have I ever craved a burger and I end up marrying the whore of all burgers. And me, I’m known throughout the land as a sugar whore. All sugary goodness shall serve it’s purpose and be consumed in my kingdom and ice cream is a top priority on that list. So whenever there’s the word, “hamburger” in the title of a business, or “sandwich” for that matter Ray jots it down on that list and every time I see a cute little bakery or creamery it gets jot down on my list. Sandy’s Hamburger’s was actually among both our list because not only does it clearly state the word, “hamburger” in it’s name but it also has this huge soft serve figurine in the front to lure in innocent civilians such as myself.
As you can see today for lunch I had me a chocolate dipped vanilla soft serve and it was, um . . . messy. Seconds after the lady behind the counter handed it to me it magically turned into a hot mess. Yes, the soft serve was a tasty treat but if your gonna have a giant soft serve statue figurine out front I’m gonna expect something to knock me off my feet and this unfortunately this did not do that for me. Also, the service sucks balls. The lady that took my order had just about as much emotion as a dead fish and spoke just about as much English. Ray ordered a burger, fries and drink, all ala carte and after we ordered did we realize that there was a big sign to our left that had everything he’d just ordered as a meal deal on special for something like $3.95. So instead of looking out by informing us of the meal deal the bitch at the counter would rather stick it to us. Yep, that’s a surefire way to ensure we patron this place again. Ah, who am I kidding, we’ll probably be back, bad service and all, we’re a bunch of suckers. Anyhow, fries were delightful but sparse and the burger patty was kinda skinny. When I use to eat burgers I would prefer my burger patty, thin so I probably would have enjoyed it. Ray says it was mediocre burger. Not a lot of great qualities but not a lot of bad ones too. I do want to add though that everything was hot and fresh, just the way every meal should come out, unless it’s ice cream of course.
Went to the Hula Hut for lunch today. Ray enjoyed their shrimp enchiladas. I don’t remember what I ordered but I know it wasn’t dessert because I would of remembered that. Guess I should of ordered dessert.
We finally gave in and made that call that Kola dreads so much. We put it off as long as we could but his random yelps, turned to cries and them screams. We didn’t know what the heck was going on with him.
He was so ready to go home as soon as we got there. I had to comfort him.
Today was our first day hanging out with our new friend Blake outside of Catz. We grilled up some food on the BBQ and soaked up the sun by the pool side. It was a fun filled day.
I actually got up on stage too but luckily no one recorded that.
Ray came down with the worst case of sun burn he ever had, so bad that he wouldn’t let me post the photos of him up on here but after poking fun and taking a bunch of photos of him I came across this in a magazine I was reading and then felt bad.
I’m not really what you call a burger and fries kind of gal but I do enjoy more than my fair share of desserts. It was our first time here and we’ve come to the conclusion that it’s all just mediocre food and that’s me being nice. In my opinion there’s just too much good stuff going on in Austin to have mediocre food in my belly.
