Recipes
January 21, 2021
7 Texas Chefs Share Their Favorite Sandwich Recipes
Liven up your lunch (and breakfast, and midnight snack) with brisket and eggs, peanut butter and pickles, and more.
Sandwiches
BBQ
October 9, 2019
The Pastrami Reuben at Roegels Barbecue Co. Is One of the Best Barbecue Sandwiches in Texas
A new technique has allowed the Houston joint to begin serving this savory lunch item twice a week.
BBQ
July 22, 2019
Let Your Soul Glow With SLAB BBQ’s McDowell Boneless Rib Sandwich
Inspired by the ’80s classic ’Coming to America,’ the Austin barbecue sandwich shop serves this higher quality play on the McRib.
Business
April 19, 2019
Schlotzsky’s Is Rebranding its 300-Plus Locations as Schlotzsky’s Austin Eatery
The restaurant chain’s updated menu—which now includes tacos, sliders, and 'tins'—features Texas favorites like, uh, Pastrami Stackers? And California chicken flatbreads?…
BBQ Joint Reviews
February 21, 2019
Stiky Ribz BBQ Piles Plates With Towering Sandwiches, Rich Sides
Opened in September, the Forney joint has already outgrown its trailer and ordered two smokers from the high school welding program.
Eat My Words
August 18, 2011
Trailer Thursday: The Hot Teacher portobello sandwich at Short Bus Subs
This week I thought I’d take a cue from Jared Fogle, of acclaimed Subway fame, and start my own sub sandwich diet. But rather than jump on the Subway bandwagon a decade too late, I decided to support Austin’s neighborhood trailer sub shop, Short Bus…
Eat My Words
April 21, 2011
Trailer Thursday: Two green thumbs-up for Fried Green Tomato’s fare.
Awesome Tomatoes Feature: Fried Green Tomato Critics 83% Audience 91% Movie Info Genre: Southern, Comfort Food, Comedy Synopsis: The Whistle Stop Café it ain’t, but the Fried Green Tomato, on the…
Eat My Words
February 24, 2011
Trailer Thursday: PBJ’s
Photo by Sean Dunn You’re walking through the east side. In front of you dashes a flannel-clad hipster, carrying recycling on the back of his bike. Suddenly he pulls over, to a food trailer park brimming with trucks featuring quirky names and colorful, kitschy exteriors. You’re in…
Eat My Words
January 6, 2011
Trailer Thursday: Tenderland
I never thought anything good could come from Taco Bell. The Mexican pizza, the Enchirito, the cheesy gorditas: No thanks. But I underestimated the power of their slogan, Think Outside the Bun. The new Tenderland trailer, on Manor Road, has appropriated that idea in the most literal…
Eat My Words
December 23, 2010
Trailer Thursday: Pig Vicious
Pig Vicious has refined drunk food to a science. The science of bacon, that is. I started with a light hors d’oeuvre, the fried bacon-wrapped pickle spear. Never before has the calorie-full been so close to the calorie-less, and with your daily amount of sodium…
Eat My Words
December 16, 2010
Trailer Thursday: The Vegan Yacht
When I was five, I brainstormed the best business model: My mom would open a restaurant drive-up window, through the backyard to our kitchen, so that the world (or at least Dallas) could experience her awesome cooking. I like to think that I was ahead of my time, since…
Eat My Words
December 2, 2010
Trailer Thursday: The Texas Cuban
Pop quiz: What’s brown and stuffed and smoking all over? If you answered a Cuban cigar, then you lose. Forget the cigars. Cuban-pressed sandwiches from the Texas Cuban are where it’s at. But before diving into sandwiches so good they should be illegal, try a real cigar-shaped treat:…
Eat My Words
October 14, 2010
Trailer Thursday: Lucky’s Puccias
Ah, Italia. A country with a language so beautiful it can romance even the basest American classics. Casserolderci. Jell-O-tto. Brisketti. Puccia. Wait, that last one? Pronounced poo-chah, it may not be the prettiest word but it’s all real, and an amazing sandwich to boot. First, let’s talk…
Eat My Words
October 7, 2010
Trailer Thursday: Counter Culture
You could say that the “Pac-Man” in vegan trailer Counter Culture‘s Pac-Man Caesar salad refers to all the good nutrients packed in such a simple salad: chopped kale, carrot rounds, and a light, nutty dressing somehow reminiscent of Parmesan. Or you could say it means that upon…
Eat My Words
August 12, 2010
Trailer Thursday: Austin Daily Press
How do you improve on a killer grilled pastrami with cheddar and horseradish mayo? Or a gyro sandwich with Israeli salad and Tabasco tzatziki? Austin Daily Press knows how. Wrap the sammy in The Onion newsprint and sell it at a bargain to late-night downtown revelers. Oh, and…