After paving its way through the thresholds of Japanese cuisine, and into more Americanized culinary outlets, umami’s conceptual popularity is rising tremendously and being implemented into a range of eclectic dishes.
What kind of foods should you be eating to make that six-pack peek out? It all starts at the grocery store. ORANGE writer Sarah Roberts shares a list of wholesome foods you should be buying at your local grocery store.
When it comes to dinner time in Austin, there’s no need to get stuck in a food rut. Here, ORANGE’s Food and Drink staff dishes on their favorite meals in Austin.
When a customer walks into Black Star Co-op, at first it seems like any other beer and local food joint. After indulging in their meal, gulping down a nice ale and conversing with friends, customers get the check and realize what makes Black Star Co-op so unique. With over 3,000 co-owners and a no-tipping policy, Black Star’s business model helps set it apart from other restaurants in Austin.
This weekend, people from all over had three times the fun at Fun Fun Fun Fest. Auditorium shores provided the city of Austin with a successful three-day music/food/games/comedy/dance party. Here’s what you might’ve missed out on.
At the end of a strip mall in North Austin a line of people curve around the corner patiently waiting to enter Ramen Tatsu-Ya. I take my spot at the end of the line. After nearly 30 minutes of listening to unknown fragments of an Asian language, intermixed with the recollections of ACL festival attendees, I enter the ramen shop.
It’s Saturday morning and you’re nursing a hangover with a breakfast burrito and a marathon of “The Hills” – thank God for #RetroMTV Brunch, am I right? Anyway, as you look down at your heels on the floor from the night before, you think to yourself: “Why am I not going to nice cocktail parties like LC?” Another bite into your burrito and you come to the stark realization that those parties cost thousands of dollars, and you don’t have a reality TV executive offering to fund your birthday at the W hotel. You’re back to square one and your burrito is almost gone. So yeah, maybe you’ll never throw a party at the Roosevelt Hotel with Brody Jenner by your side, but that doesn’t mean you can’t throw a classy cocktail party … and still be able to afford a bomb burrito the next morning.
