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All other forms of entertainment considered, going out to eat is the one ticket everybody buys, whether it's fast-food cheap seats, big-steak luxury boxes or the chicken-fried arena seating in-between. Let American-Statesman and austin360.com restaurant critic Mike Sutter be your all-access guide to the Central Texas dining-out scene.

In more than two decades at the Statesman, Mike's been a copy editor, Sunday editor, Page 1 designer and, for the past 14 years, XL art director. But after more than 700 XL covers, nine XL Dining Guides, managing the hundreds of listings in our restaurant database and writing stories about doughnuts, Vietnam and the Incredible Hulk, he'll finally be able to put his nine years of fancy restaurant job experience (thank you, drive through) to good use. This means he can write about trailer tacos on South Lamar, $250 anniversary dinners at Hudson's, smoking a cigar with Michael Moriarty at Louie's 106, brewing his own Anderson's Coffee stout beer and freeloading at kids-eat-free nights all over town.

Go out and sample what Mike Sutter recommends in his Great Dishes Gowalla trip.

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By Mike Sutter | Thursday, June 9, 2011, 11:35 AM

Every day of this 30-day sunstroke we call June, I’ll seek relief in something sweet and cold enough to make your head hurt. Bonus: It’s said that our Arctic brethren have 100 words for snow. I’ll give you 30 to describe how hot it is.

30-DAY BRAIN FREEZE DETOUR: DELL CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER
(4900 Mueller Blvd., www.dellchildrens.net.)

The popsicle: Blue bell orange (negotiated price after insurance, $1,732.59). Do you know how good a popsicle tastes to a kid who’s just gone through an emergency appendectomy? Dell Children’s does, and for that and so much more, we’re thankful. And now Brain Freeze Day 8, 24 hours delayed.

DAY 8: ICE QUEENS
(1210 Rosewood Ave. 771-5886, www.austinicequeens.com.)

The snoball: Rainbow with a frozen yogurt core ($3, small). Tre Gaarder (above left) and Amy Hutchins are Texas Rollergirls, dealers of pain-tertainment on the flat track. They’re also dealers of East Side snoballs, froyo and cotton candy from a modified 7-by-10 red Sno-Pro trailer they found on Craigslist. The rainbow crown of this stuffed snoball is a study in the color and flavor sciences made from cotton candy, cake batter and blue coconut syrups. It’s a metaphor for the fanboy’s vision of a roller-derby diva: crash and flash on the outside, cool and sweet on the inside.

The hot word: Hott — The extra “t” is for texasrollergirls.org.

(American-Statesman photos by Mike Sutter)

See the 30-Day Brain Freeze map here.

• Click on the links to see the rest of the 30-Day Brain Freeze: Day 1 - Amy’s. Day 2 - Jim-Jim’s. Day 3 - Sandy’s. Day 4 - Dolce Vita. Day 5 - Froyoyo. Day 6 - Casey’s. Day 7 - Teo.

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By Hydra

June 9, 2011 2:50 PM | Link to this

My favorite flavor at Ice Queens: dill pickle!!! Proof that not all snoballs are sweet.

By Speedyrella

June 9, 2011 3:31 PM | Link to this

These are the best Icy Treats ever & sooo many flavors to choose from!! (and this is coming from someone who didn’t like sno-cones before Ice Queens!)