Cupprimo

Picked up a dozen cupcakes from Cupprimo up north.  I think the red velvet & pumpkin were our favorites!  They added some cute Halloween decorations to the cakes.

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La Condesa

Chips with four delicious salsas, $4

The interior is beautiful.  I love this mural.

Chile Relleno, $20

Market fish

Dark chocolate tart with dulce de leche and sea salt, $8

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Chowing in Galveston

We had a nice weekend getaway in Galveston, and ate at Shrimp & Stuff.  Lots of fried seafood and cheap drinks.

Fish balls with fries:

Shrimp Po'boy

Rio's Brazilian Cafe

The interior feels like someone's dining room.  Very cute and cozy.

The cheese bread, which you can also buy at local grocery stores, is soft and chewy on the inside.. definitely unique and tasty.

The Apple Buzios salad featured a red wine roasted apple stuffed with goat cheese. Yum..

The butternut squash soup was very thick and hearty.

The salgadinhos are like empanadas and have various interesting fillings.

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Roaring Fork- Restaurant Week

Sometimes the Restaurant Week deals are not that great.. Roaring Fork's deal was definitely a winner.  $15 for a three course lunch.  

Soup for appetizer: black bean soup and tortilla soup

Cobb salad entree:

Grilled fish with almonds

On to dessert.. what a filling lunch.  Pecan pie and creme brulee.  Both delicious and great presentation.

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NoRTH

NoRTH at the Domain has a great, cheap happy hour M-F from 5-6 PM.  Wines by the glass start at $3.25.

The yummy spread that comes with the bread promises good things to come...

Zucca chips, $2.50 at happy hour.  These were gone so fast.  So light and crispy.

Trio of 3 spreads with bread: hummus, eggplant and goat cheese.  $6 at happy hour.

Now for the pizzas, $6 at happy hour.  Wow, too much food at this point.  We each ate a couple of slices of our pizzas and got the rest to go.  Below is fig & goat cheese.  We didn't know it would be such massive chunks of fig.  The flavor was great but the large pieces of fig a bit too much.

Classic margherita pizza.  Very thin crust.

And pretty much the reason we came here:  The Nutella cake! Very dense, chocolatey and delicious.

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Chowing in Dallas

How can you not get excited when you see this sign? Lumi: Empanada & Dumpling Kitchen.  A restaurant that specializes in food that comes in tiny pockets!

The interior and exterior were both interesting, with a kind of Japanese feel to the place. 

Chips to start off with...

This is one of those places where you must get a bunch of plates and share them with the table. The ahi tuna nachos topped with jalapenos ($8) were spicy and inventive.

I wanted to eat about 10 of these.  The empanadas come with a variety of fillings, and are served with amazing dipping sauces.

The crab wontons ($7.50) were so pretty I didn't want to eat them.  That only held me back for about 0.3 seconds.

The curry dumplings were possibly my favorite.. we ordered more chips just so we could soak up every drop of that curry dipping sauce.

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Toy Joy

Toy Joy serves vegan soft serve and bubble teas that can be made with soy milk, almond milk or dairy milk.  Unfortunately we ate our bubble teas so fast we didn't have a chance to take a picture!  The inside of the store is awesome though, it's a toy store that has hoarded tons of the weirdest toys and candy you've ever seen.

Zen

Zen is the place for healthy, Japanese "fast food."  Tons of options for stir fry bowls as well as some sushi.  They're very vegetarian friendly, as you can pick your protein for any bowl.

Seaweed salad, $1.49

The stir fry bowls come in "regular" and "big" and range in price from $4.35 to $8.50, depending on your ingredient and protein choices.  Just a warning: some of the sauces are quite spicy! Ask if you are sensitive to spice.

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Chilito

Chilito is a quick, casual, outdoor dining only Mexican place in East Austin.  Walk up to the window and place your order.

Vegetal tacos- $2.29 each.

Delicious mole salsa that they're famous for, $2.39.  Mmmmmm!

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Koriente

Koriente was started by a woman who didn't like to cook but wanted to feed her family healthy food.  So, she created Koriete for others like her.  The story is written on the wall outside of the restaurant. They've got lots of great, flavorful and inventive dishes that are indeed very healthy.

Japchei: clear sweet potato noodles mixed with veggies & topped with tofu. ($7 without protein added, $9 with)

Koriente Curry: vegetarian curry with rice medallions. ($6.50 without protein, $8.50 with)

Mixmix Bibimbap: rice with veggies. ($6.50, $8.50 with protein, $8 with avocado or egg)

Green tea ice cream.. so good we barely got a photo!

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