To get to Austin from Phoenix you have to take Interstate Cruel Mistress

[schild]

Guilty pleasures? Shit, I wave my Billy Joel and A Knight's Tale flags high.

[ahoythematey]

Hey!  I liked We Didn't Start the Fire, even if it was overplayed!

Explain to me how a movie of pure win like Point Break is a guilty pleasure.  EXPLAIN!

For example: Bed of Roses would be a guilty pleasure of mine, though I guess admitting I like that movie makes it somewhat less guilty.

[Cory Jacobs]

So is Billy Joel coming to Austin? I'm not sure what's going on here?

[schild]

I know it's hard to follow, but do try to keep up. /snarl

[Lantyssa]

I thoroughly enjoy Point Break, for example. Probably seen it 50 times.

For some reason it seems right that you would.

Woah!

[Engels]

Hey, we all have our guilty pleasures.

I thoroughly enjoy Point Break, for example. Probably seen it 50 times.

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, 50 times? Is there anything you want to get off your chest bud? Or did I miss the memo?

[stray]

Dude, it's like a 2 hour mountain dew commercial. I can't pull myself away.

Woah!

Yeah... Definitely.

[Signe]

Hey, we all have our guilty pleasures.

I thoroughly enjoy Point Break, for example. Probably seen it 50 times.

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, 50 times? Is there anything you want to get off your chest bud? Or did I miss the memo?

I think that was enough to get off one's chest in one sitting.  Anything more would probably require more therapy than we're allowed, by law, to offer.

[Nazrat]

You need to hit Bert's Barbeque off of Far West and get the Turbo Tman.  Next door to Bert's is El Arroyo which is good TexMex. 

Austin is full of good food. 

[Mazakiel]

I always liked going to Katz's when I'd visit my brother.  24 hour deli for the win. 

We went to the Clay Pit last I was there, freaking awesome food.  It's really hard to go wrong, so many good places there. 

[Dtrain]

If you're liking wings, check out "Pluckers" - really good.

Although they didn't have them when I was in Austin, they appear to have some Dr. Pepper flavored hot wings - I lay awake some nights thinking of this.

[Paelos]

Pluckers is good late night after the drinky, and for Trivia. The Fried Pickles are pretty rocking. Don't do the hottest wings, they will melt your ass.

[ahoythematey]

What you do with the Fire In the Hole wings at pluckers is get an order of 5, and then get an order of 25 of something like medium buffalo.  Mix those together and don't tell anybody.  Don't have any ranch or bleu cheese anywhere near.  Convince people they aren't the spicy kind, just the flavored.  Hilarity ensues.

Katz's has great food, but avoid the corned-beef hash if you want to live through your meal.  It was tasty, but I about died halfway into it due to excessive sodium intake.

[Dtrain]

Don't they have the wheel of fire there? A sampler plate of all their wings, all unmarked. 1 wing on the plate is the stupid hot burn your tongue variety.

[ahoythematey]

Yeah, but it's no fun when everybody knows they might get burned.  It's like telling everybody that one of their drinks had a drop of habanero juice put into it, where's the fun in that?

[schild]

There's a rule in Virginia, if you're going to get Wings at a new place, you have to get the hottest wings offered. You only have to eat one. But you have to eat at least one. It helps make you a man. Also, being from hicktown is fun sometimes.

[Salamok]

There's a rule in Virginia, if you're going to get Wings at a new place, you have to get the hottest wings offered. You only have to eat one. But you have to eat at least one. It helps make you a man. Also, being from hicktown is fun sometimes.

VW3's on 6th street has an awesome selection of beers and wings and it doesn't feel like a soul less chain.  There is also fowlers just north of anderson mill lane (make a right) on 620 it has some pretty hot wings (fairly stron late night crowd).  Remember part of keeping Austin wierd is the unwritten promise to not eat at national chain resteraunts!

[schild]

I assume you mean BW3s? Yea, their HOT HOT sauce is blurggggggggggggggggggggggggggh not hot enough. I'll try Fowlers.

[Salamok]

I assume you mean BW3s? Yea, their HOT HOT sauce is blurggggggggggggggggggggggggggh not hot enough. I'll try Fowlers.

ya BW3's been a few years. 

Fowlers hottest wings are kind of fail, they pretty much just said lets just make these fuckers as hot as we possibly can and not really give a shit about flaver.  So yeah they are macho hot but personally I like flavorful hot stuff.

[schild]

I prefer flavorful as well, but at the hottest levels you have to put aside that want and feel the burn (that is, if you're outside of north/south carolina or georgia.

Edit: Btw, went back to pacific star, had their catfish nuggets and the oyster sandwich. SO GOOD. SO F'ING GOOD.

[Salamok]

I prefer flavorful as well, but at the hottest levels you have to put aside that want and feel the burn (that is, if you're outside of north/south carolina or georgia.

Edit: Btw, went back to pacific star, had their catfish nuggets and the oyster sandwich. SO GOOD. SO F'ING GOOD.

ya pac star has to be one of the best bang for the buck places to eat in Austin. 

[Ozzu]

I've only been to Austin a couple of times even though I live in the same state, but a place I do remember that had pretty tasty sammiches down Austin way is Thundercloud Subs.

However, if they've gone to shit in the last few years or something, I take no responsiblity.

[Salamok]

I've only been to Austin a couple of times even though I live in the same state, but a place I do remember that had pretty tasty sammiches down Austin way is Thundercloud Subs.

However, if they've gone to shit in the last few years or something, I take no responsiblity.

no they are still okay.

[Signe]

I love clams and mussels, but I hate oysters.  They're just nasty balls of snot.

Also, since you're obviously all settled in your new place, here is what I would have bought you for a house warming gift if I were inclined to buy you a house warming gift!


It is you.

[stray]

I become Kobayashi if fried oysters are in front of me. Regular oysters though, not so much.

[K9]

Why do people actually like chicken wings?

[stray]

Ugh yeah. I don't know. Not much meat on them. Always pisses me off... and then I grab another. And another. I'd happily take a wing-spiced chicken leg instead. Why doesn't anyone sell that?

[schild]

Buffalo Chicken Fingers should've eradicated the wing. But really Buffalo Wings are the only way to eat the wings. So, yea.

[Lantyssa]

I always liked going to Katz's when I'd visit my brother.  24 hour deli for the win. 

Don't eat at the one in Houston.  They used to be good, but it's become expensive slop. *gag*

I assume you mean BW3s? Yea, their HOT HOT sauce is blurggggggggggggggggggggggggggh not hot enough. I'll try Fowlers.

I go with their Spicy Garlic.  Bit of heat and lots of flavor.  Yum.

[schild]

Katz is New York crap. Turkey is dry, doesn't matter how much they pile it on. Pure, unadulterated crap. Really, New York has no damned clue how to make a sandwich. Truly, they are sandwiches fit for New Yorkers.

This is not a pastrami sandwich:


This is:


And even then, that bread is questionable. Not nearly juicy with meatjuice yet.

[Sky]

Why do people actually like chicken wings?

Are you out of your mind? The point isn't really the meat, it's the sauce. Nice crispy skin and some franks red hot + butter. That's my kobayashi food. I fucking love chicken wings. I create wing bone graveyards that make chicken from miles around squawk in fear.

Buffalo sauce on chicken fingers is ok, but chicken fingers fill you up quickly. Too much meat to sauce ratio.

I won't comment on the idea that one restaurant in NYC somehow means the entire state doesn't know how to make a sandwich :) Bread is too small in both photos, though.

[schild]

I won't comment on the idea that one restaurant in NYC somehow means the entire state doesn't know how to make a sandwich :)

No, but the classic new york deli makes shit sandwiches, was my point. The Four Seasons makes a killer turkey sandwich.

Bread is too small in both photos, though.

Yes. Hence why I said the bread was questionable. And it still needs meat juice.

[Salamok]

I prefer a medley of complementary ingredients in my samiches, a pile of meat between 2 peices of toast isn't my dream samich either.  Other than a delaware chicken philly I haven't really found a samich in Austin that i'd rave about.  Busters BBQ used to sell an awesome one called the garlic h-bomb (smoked pork butt stuffed with garlic and jalapenos i think) but they messed it up when they switched to a different bread.  There are a few people I know who swear by firehouse subs (around the corner from you in cedar park).

[Sky]

I live in a shithole town, better stuff comes out of my own kitchen than most restaurants. The only reason I even bother eating wings at a restaurant is my fryer bit the dust a couple years ago and I haven't replaced it.

[stray]

Not a big firehouse fan. Not a big delaware fan either (just the italian sausage as I said earlier). Wherever there's a mom and pop italian place though, I'm happy. Which is why I'm gonna have to call bullshit on NY not having good sandwiches. That can't be true.