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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
| Friday, June 17, 2011, 02:01 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 17: MANDOLA’S ITALIAN MARKET
(12815 Shops Parkway, Bee Cave. 600-8500,
www.mandolasmarket.com.)
The gelato: Tiramisu and coffee ($4.25, medium). I like my coffee black, and I like my tiramisu however I can get it. Mandola’s understands, so the coffee’s dark and bitter, not too much sugar, and the tiramisu has a dense whipped froth and a trace of cocoa. The generous scooper pulled in one of the ladyfinger cookies decorating the ice cream bin, and it was like getting the baby in the king cake. I added a sesame cookie called a giuggiulena for an extra 75 cents, with a crumble and pop that only comes from an Italian bakery.
The hot word: Shadrachian — An Old Testament allusion to spiritual fireproofing. See also: Meshachian and Abednegorical.
(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. Day 8 - Ice Queens. Day 9 - Yogurt Planet. Day 10 - Dairy Queen. Day 11 - La Tropicana #2. Day 12 - Big Top Candy Shop. Day 13 - Mighty Fine. Day 14 - F&F Fruit Cups. Day 15 - Baskin-Robbins. Day 16 - Short N Sweet.
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