If you haven’t yet been to Cuban Sandwich Cafe, add it to your “to try” for breakfast and lunch list. This mom and pop shop is unassuming, located in a strip mall in the Windsor Park area of Austin next to a storefront church, and makes truly memorable breakfast pastries and sandwiches.

Below is a selection of the breakfast pastries that a group of us shared. I can’t remember what the total price was for these, but I do remember being surprised by how inexpensive they were. We sipped our Cuban …

Last night, I had the pleasure of being invited to a tasting at the Noble Pig. Visiting the Noble Pig has been high on my list to visit since it opened last fall. But as my friends can tell you, I rarely venture outside of the twenty minute driving radius from my house. Since Noble Pig is about thirty minutes from home, it just didn’t happen until last night’s food blogger event.
And let me tell you, Noble Pig is totally worth the trek!

Owner/Chefs John Bates and Brandon Martinez started us …

People sometimes ask me about  my favorite restaurant. Lately Adam and I tell them, “at your house or my house.” We just love enjoying home-cooked meals with friends. For my birthday dinner, I asked my friend Jill if we could come over to her apartment in New York.
She made a delicious recipe from Ina Garten’s Back to Basics, “Pappa al Pomodoro,” a hearty vegetable soup.
Jillian and Paul have a sandwich press, and after enjoying wonderful pressed sandwiches made with pancetta, gruyere, and homemade aioli, I’m thinking we need one.

Jillian and …

I rolled up to Jimmy John’s on the first floor of my building — searching for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a late lunch. They don’t have pb&j, but what they do have is this guy:
His name is Alex and he better not get fired for his awesomeness. You see, the guys (usually they are dudes) that work there also deliver sandwiches to nearby businesses and residents that order. I’m assuming Alex ended his delivery shift and started his register shift but wanted to keep it safe. And, …

The folks from The Jalopy: Rotisserie and Press invited me to come by and give their pressed sandwiches a try before their grand opening. I drove over to their truck at 18th and Guadalupe (on the same block as Clay Pit) with colleagues Marc and Jimmy. This is the first food truck I’ve seen that’s served out of a long haul shipping truck.

The ordering window is really high up from the ground and we weren’t sure if we should climb the crates to order or just yell up. We hollered …