Breakfast in Austin

I was looking for a place to have breakfast in Austin, wandering around Congress avenue I found a nice café, so with my adventurous spirit I decided to give it a try. The place Annies Café & Bar, a modern brassiere that make you feel in Europe in the heart of Downtown Austin, al fresco tables to enjoy a breakfast or a coffee, their menu full of not complicated and tasty options including a full English breakfast. 

The Place

I got a house brewed coffee with an omelette, sausages, and ham joined by a croissant. The omelette was good, nice flavours, the croissant on the other side was cold and a little rubbery, not good at all, I was expecting a fresh hot croissant to add butter on it and watch it melt away. 

Coffee Time

Omelette Time

Good place, excellent service, nice coffee, tasty omelette, sadly the croissants didn't meet the expectations, overall a good enough to come back. 

Breakfast reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Wizard” 

Helen: Don't eat cookies for breakfast! I'll fix you something. How about a feta cheese omelette? 

Kramer: Mmmm, that sounds great, Mom 

Jerry: If you feed him, he'll never leave

Annies

T: +1 512 472 1884

Cafe

Neighbourhood: Downtown

Austin
Twitter: AnniesAustin

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The Capital Grille

I was looking for a good steakhouse in Houston and my friend recommended going to The Capital Grille. You enter the place and is like a private cigar club, art deco, chandeliers, mahogany, and dim lighting. Prime dry aged steaks all over the menu, thanks god I already knew which one to order, Chef Jim Nuetzi classic cuisine creations, and more than 5000 bottles of wine in their list, is that enough? 

The Place

Dinner

For starter I got the classic Caesar Salad, hearts of Romaine lettuce, croutons, anchovy fillets, Reggiano parmesan, and their version of the Caesar dressing. Excellent, top notch, what you would expect to get from a steakhouse. As a main no questions, the Delmonico steak, bone in ribeye, 22 ounces, medium rare, just exquisite, juicy and cooked to perfection, the moist from the ribeye marbling just excellent. Apparently the Delmonico style was made popular by a restaurant in New York in mid-19th century, you won’t guess the name… Delmonico’s Restaurant. As a side got parmesan truffle fries, amazing fries tossed in shredded Gran Padano, kosher salt, and white truffle oil.

Caesar Salad 

Delmonico 

Fries

I’m pretty sure there are plenty of excellent steakhouses in Houston but The Capital is probably one of the top ones I’ve been. 

Not sure why, but Delmonico remind me the Seinfeld episode “The Shower Head” 

George: Hey, hey, how was Florida? 

Morty: Well, we just bought a new place down there. 

Estelle: I know, we were looking at the brochure. 

Morty: What? 

Helen: Why, you thinking of moving? 

Frank: Not really. 

Morty: Because if you are, you shouldn't. There's nothing available in that development. 

Frank: Are you telling me there's not one condo available in all of Del Boca Vista? 

Morty: That's right. They went like hotcakes. 

Frank: How'd you get yours? 

Morty: Got lucky. 

Frank: Are you trying to keep us out of Del Boca Vista?

Jerry: I know this doesn't seem like work to any of you, if you could perhaps conduct your psychopath convention down the hall, I could just get a little personal space.

The Capital Grille

T: +1 713 623 4600

Steakhouse

Area: Galleria

Neighbourhood: Uptown

Houston

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Steakhouse Adventures: The Monster of Lake Erie

Back in Toledo again, and I decided to go for a steak. So one of the best steakhouses here is Mancy’s Steakhouse. The group has 3 succesful restaurants, their stakehouse has been operating since 1921, and considered one of the top 40 in the US. Their promise is simple, family tradition, best quality meats, and cook to perfection.

Mancy's 

I looked the menu and inmediately I knew what to ask, the big ribeye on the bone, or as I prefer to call it “the monster of lake Erie”, 30oz thick handcut ribeye, aged for 28 days and leave the bone for more flavour and terdeness.

Satellite view of "The Monster"

I guess I don’t need to tell you how big is the ribeye, but is as good as big, the steak was cooked to perfection, juicy, smokey, and with an amazing flavour. Highly recommended.

30oz full of flavour

Steaks remind me the Seinfeld episode “The Cadillac part 2” where Jerry’s parents wants to go have dinner early to get a discount.

Morty: Alright, are you ready to eat?

Helen: Oh, right, let's go. Jerry, let's go, it's time to eat. We're going to dinner.

Jerry: Dinner? What time is it?

Helen: It's four-thirty.

Jerry: Four-thirty? Who eats dinner at four-thirty?

Morty: By the time we sit down, it'll be quarter to five.

Jerry: I don't understand why we have to eat now.

Helen: We gotta catch the early-bird. It's only between four-thirty and six.

Morty: Yeah. They give you a tenderloin, a salad and a baked potato, for four-ninety-five. You know what that cost you after six?

Jerry: Can't we eat at a decent hour? I'll treat, okay?

Helen: You're not buying us dinner.

Jerry: I'm not force-feeding myself a steak at four-thirty to save a couple bucks, I'll tell you that!

Cafe Brood Spanish’s twist

Went back to borough market, yes again!!! I have been passing there every day on my way to work, it’s a shock to see it completely empty during the week. This time I tried the Spanish food in Cafe Brood. They always have huge paella, sausages, but what took my eye was the chorizo sandwich.

Paella Time

The grill

A baguette filled with chorizo, crystallized onions, peppers, and rocket. Good flavours, sadly not enough chorizo for the size of the baguette, a little bit more would make it a great option in the market.

The sandwich

The breakfast counterstrikes.

My current flatmates prepared a breakfast worth of being served in Bistrotheque, so I want it to share this bizarre breakfast, nothing can be more nutritive than toast, ham, and eggs with a choice of a fish stick or a donut. Sorry Jo and Caro warned you, You’ve been posted!

Breakfast at the flat

This bizarre breakfast reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Wizard” when Kramer moved to Del Boca Vista deciding it was time for retirement.

Helen: Don't eat cookies for breakfast! I'll fix you something. How about a feta cheese omelet?
Kramer: Mmm, that sounds great, Mom.
Jerry: You feed him, he'll never leave.