Slog - Comments on In Austin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin File this one under things you won't find in Seattle: Flip Happy Crepes, a creperie operated out of a repurposed Airstream trailer in an shady overgrown lot in South Austin. The dining area consists of a few picnic tables, some plastic folding tables, and a children's school desk, all scattered under a modest plastic awning. The crepes (most of them savory--yay!) are incredible (mine had pulled pork, Gruyere, and caramelized onions) but the setting is the real draw: Informal, charmingly ramshackle, and cool despite the 90-degree weather thanks to the awning and a couple of massive old live oak... Copyright 2008 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:30:11 -0800 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:00:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Providence Austin rules. God I wish I still lived there.... Erica, you make me want to cry.

]]> Providence http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805577 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:02:49 -0800 Comment by elenchos So you fear a plague of intestinal parasites if some bars and restaurants are allowed to welcome dogs, and yet you lament that Seattle doesn't have pulled pork vendors with no running water to wash their dishes and their hands?

I guess technically you're a liberal, of some sort, but that does not make you a member of the reality-based community.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805579 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:23:50 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Since moving to this area four years ago I've definitely decided that Seattle is a schizo town. On the one hand it's very liberal and tolerant and open minded. On the other, the city guvmt seems to obsess on strip clubs, bars, and nightclubs. Seattle seems like one of the *least* tolerant to nightlife. Why the fuck is this? Is it the dumb mayor, who seems to be a closet Republican?

One of the charms of San Francisco is that you can sit in the Stinking Rose, the finest garlic-centered Italian restaurant in the nation, and watch the rumpled middle age men slink into the titty bar across the street. Now *that's* civilization!

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805580 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:23:52 -0800 Comment by whatever elenchos - you don't think that ECB would actually fly to TX burning precious carbon based fuel and eat pork the worst of all foods vis-a-vis GW and eat in restuarant without dog certain protection, do you?

she's in seattle riding her bike from salad bar to salad bar

perhaps they allow trailer food because of empty lots all over the town?

bird flu

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805587 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805587 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:58:56 -0800 Comment by suren~o When I saw the photo, I assumed ECB was writing about Austin taco trucks--a phenomenon we have come to know and love here in Seattle. But somehow she was using a photo that could have been any of the approximately 30 thousand taco truck/buses in the Seattle metro area to illustrate the kind of street restaurant we *don't* have here. I don't follow...
Admittedly, she has a point about the impossibility of getting a beer with your street food--a strange confluence of the city's Progressive-era tee-totaling alcohol codes and hiz honor the mayor's peculiar anti-nightlife campaign.

]]> suren~o http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805597 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805597 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:49:17 -0800 Comment by keep austin weird i moved here from austin three years ago and i have to say that i appreciate it more now that i'm away. i never realized how amazing austin is... the food, the culture, the grit, the grime, the sun, the land, the beer, the beautiful people-- everyone from seattle that i have taken there to visit hasn't wanted to leave.

i will be going back as soon as i am done with this city, which is going to be soon.

]]> keep austin weird http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805604 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:25:14 -0800 Comment by whatever buy - buy

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805606 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:43:21 -0800 Comment by oneway i'll bet the bus drivers in austin even let you off at curbs not designated as bus stops, too... sounds like utopia

]]> oneway http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805607 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805607 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:51:23 -0800 Comment by josh what about skillet?

http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2007/09/the_hunt_for_an.phtml

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805613 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:29:16 -0800 Comment by x c attle the larry's in lower queen anne had a walk-in beer cooler. i have no idea if it is still there, or what the replacement store is like at all for that matter.

]]> x c attle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805616 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:22:12 -0800 Comment by Lee Gibson Why would you waste your time going to Whole Foods when you could go to Central Market?!

]]> Lee Gibson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805617 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:29:15 -0800 Comment by Alex-jon Oh lord, Central Market gains 100 points for being awesome, and loses 100 points for giving me food poisoning every single time I've bought sushi from them.

]]> Alex-jon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805622 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805622 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:51:39 -0800 Comment by keep austin weird grocery store sushi is always a bad idea.

central market is far superior to whole foods, though the flagship WF lets you buy a beer from the beer alley and walk around and drink it in the store! you can even sit on the patio and eat food outside and drink beer, something that would never happen outside a store in uptight seattle.

aside from that, i have never had ice cream as good as Amy's Ice Cream from Austin... yum.

]]> keep austin weird http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805629 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:13:55 -0800 Comment by Jake Come on Erica, what about the creepy guy selling hotdogs by Rplace on weekend nights to the you'd-have-to-be-drunk-to-buy-one crowd? Or the guys on Pike selling grilled-up street food by neighbours?

]]> Jake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805631 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:17:39 -0800 Comment by pablocjr All the taco trucks and walk-in beer coolers in the world couldn't change this simple fact:

Texas sucks ass.

]]> pablocjr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805635 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805635 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:32:05 -0800 Comment by Michael Man you guys complain about EVERYTHING. Everything sucks but you. Whatever.

]]> Michael http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805642 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805642 City Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:49:09 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder It hurts me in my heart to see so many people unhappy in Seattle.

I would do anything to get you guys to move out of Seattle and to be somewhere else where you're happier.

You're not stuck in this city. There is help for you poor poor people.

And if I have to organize an army of Public Iterns, I will work to get all of you people who are living in despair here to move away to That Much Cooler City.

That moment cannot come soon enough.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805662 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805662 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:57:28 -0800 Comment by nbc "nearly impossible"

Behold the northgate taco truck: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1324095

]]> nbc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805663 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:32:21 -0800 Comment by LH Taqueria La Fondita or the White Center Taco Truck (15th and 98th SW) kicks butt of all taco trucks. Tortas. burritos. Mulitas. Horchata. Yum.

http://www.lostacotrucks.com/seattle/

]]> LH http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805714 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805714 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:46:42 -0800 Comment by Jenniferlayne I think it's like comparing apples to oranges -- very nice apples and very nice oranges. Lived in and loved both cities - and they both have their equally great culture... You can't really do 'Austin' in Seattle

]]> Jenniferlayne http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805742 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:34:10 -0800 Comment by ECB Re: Taco trucks, yes, I'm aware of them (see the link I provided). My point was that the regulations (one sink, yes, but FOUR?) make it very difficult to get a mobile food business going.

Re: the ECB-should-move-back-to-Texas chorus: Utterly predictable.

And BTW, organic, non-feedlot pork (which this was) is much more climate-friendly than any kind of beef.

]]> ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805827 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:44:04 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me So “red” Texas has more freedom and less regulation than “blue” Washington? To quote Captain Renault "I'm shocked, shocked"…

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805838 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805838 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:55:26 -0800 Comment by TheVicFox! No, you aren't suppose to sing the praises of Austin in a Seattle paper/SLOG. We want them to stay there and not move here and raise the price of rent and throw their uptight rules on our party. "Keep Austin Beautiful: Don't Move Here". Speaking of party, lest we not forget The Party Barn drive-thru liquor. Yee haw!

-Vic who moved back to ATX because I got sick of listening to whiny, negative, namby-pamby N'westerners cry about smoking cigarettes, eating meat and their sad, sad Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder.

]]> TheVicFox! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805965 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805965 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:05:35 -0800 Comment by elenchos Why should I let you risk your life eating from a roach coach with only ONE SINK (gasp!) when you won't let me take my life in my hands by going to a restaurant with dogs? If I can't be free to live my life I'm not going to lift a finger to help you be free to live yours.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c805985 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:22:46 -0800 Comment by whatever ECB- "And BTW, organic, non-feedlot pork (which this was) is much more climate-friendly than any kind of beef."

How about comparing eating pork to say flying to the moon - ah maybe you could eat a vegie crepe and BTW do you think organic non-feedlot pig shit don't smell?

"The study showed that one kilogram of pig manure can produce 100 liters of methane gas per day"

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806161 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:43:38 -0800 Comment by ECB 25: Agreed-- but beef is still worse, which was my point.

]]> ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806228 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806228 City Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:37:35 -0800 Comment by whatever But the real point was that you were eating meat - meat eating worse than driving a car. The fact that pork may be less bad than beef (which is in doubt) isn't much of a point. It's like driving a little Hummer.

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/in_austin#c806814 City Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:00:48 -0800