You’re a visitor exiting I-10 to spend a little time in Kerrville, Texas, and you immediately see McDonald’s, Cracker Barrel, Sonic, and a few low-profile eateries. You think, where are all the real restaurants in Kerrville? The following brief summaries are — in the subjective opinion of Small Town USA — seven of the …
When someone says something like, “I know I’m stepping on the third rail here, but…” they’re admitting to touching a topic that one shouldn’t touch and expect to survive. I’m from New York City, now living in the Texas Hill Country, and I’m going to risk a few hairs getting frazzled by my talking about …
Being a visitor to Ruidoso, New Mexico, yet being a New Yorker, I tend to think I know about the best restaurants here and elsewhere. I also tend to think that by reading Yelp, Google, and online reviews I can divine the #1 best breakfast place here or anywhere. Maybe I can. But why take …
I’m a New Yorker, and we tend to think we know all about food, even salsas, Texas-made salsas. But we quickly learn, especially if we have spouses from Texas, that New Yorkers — in fact, everyone who’s not from Texas — don’t know about salsa, or Tex-Mex food, or chili. With $1.6 billion made …
I grew up in New York City literally over a pizza parlor. So I was pleasantly surprised to learn about Comfort Pizza in Comfort, Texas (Facebook page here), which is in my humble opinion the best pizza in the Hill Country and, so far, the only edible pizza other than Home Slice in Austin. Our …
How could one not want to go to Utopia?! I mean, that’s a no-brainer. But what to do once you get there and are there restaurants in Utopia; that’s actually harder than you think. Because Utopia, population 227, is actually a census-designated place (CDP) by the Federal Register, meaning that there’s only enough of a …
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it That’s the way I felt driving through Tarpley, Texas on the way to Utopia. We were headed to the Lost Maples Cafe for an early dinner. (I mean, who doesn’t want to hurry up and get to Utopia already?!) Upon the approach east to west on FM-470, …
You might not associate semi-rural Texas with bagels and cream cheese. Growing up in New York City, practically living off these daily or at least several times weekly, being distantly Jewish (great-grandmother was Jewish from Poland), and for a long time living about three blocks from bagel heaven (Zabar’s), I developed a certain…let’s say opinion …