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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
| Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 01:15 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 22: LAS DELICIAS PALETERIA Y NEVERIA
(8120 Research Blvd. 407-9009, www.lasdeliciaspaleteria.blogspot.com.)
The ice cream cone: Scoop of mamey, scoop of guava ($3.75, large). The mamey fruit looks like one of those seed pods from “Alien,” complete with toxic seeds. But man do those alien eggs make some good stuff, like a cross between frozen sweet potato puree and papaya. Owner Carlos Nunez makes his own ice cream and paletas at the store, incorporating purple sweet potatoes, sour yellow cherries called nanches and kid-friendly coconut, watermelon and lime.
The hot word: Firewater — The intoxicating thrill of a hot summer thunderstorm just when the bars are letting out.
(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. Day 17 - Mandola’s. Day 18 - Mom & Pops. Day 19 - 7-Eleven. Day 20 - Swirll. Day 21 - Sno-Beach.
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By Rhiannon Gammill
June 22, 2011 3:38 PM | Link to this
Carlos is a pearl of rare price. A few months ago on the the day of the first Clasico —a soccer match between F.C. Barcelona and Real Madrid— I popped into his shop for the first time, wearing a Xabi Alonso jersey.
We bonded over the match, and the apparent novelty of a white girl having such afición for paletas AND Proper Football. We chatted for a while and he sent me home with not just my dozen paletas, but threw in selection of his personal favorites —including the unusual camote— to sample. Lovely, lovely man.
I’m not at the Statesman anymore, but maybe I’ll see you around the paleteria sometime!
By just the facts
June 23, 2011 1:55 PM | Link to this
I hope that in spite of today’s news, this feature lasts all 30 days. It has been entertaining to read.
Your column will be missed.
By Mike Sutter
June 23, 2011 2:46 PM | Link to this
Hi JTF: Thanks for the kind words. Unless they cut off the power, I’ll finish out the 30-Day Brain Freeze on Forklore. If you’re interested, I’ll post whatever comes after that on my Twitter account @fedmanwalking. — Mike