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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
| Saturday, June 11, 2011, 02:04 PM
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.
DAY 11: LA TROPICANA #2
(1510 Town Creek Drive. 416-1616.)
The paletas de leche: Vanilla and strawberry ($1.40 each). Hardly the cutting-edge Mexican frozen bars with chiles or unusual fruits of the border, these are entry-level paletas for gueros like me. Icy and milky, with an exaggerated yellow color we no longer demand from vanilla. I could have tried beige bars of rompope (eggnog flavor) or pecan, but I needed some brighter colors in my day to fight the hazy heat.
The hot word: Flameante — My Spanish will never get better if I don’t use it. An adjective for “blazing.”
(American-Statesman photo 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. Day 8 - Ice Queens. Day 9 - Yogurt Planet. Day 10 - Dairy Queen.
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