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• Posted Austintoxicants: The Peacock Lounge to Austinist
  Image from Citysearch The Peacock Lounge (Vintage Cocktails) Location: 515 Pedernales [map] Phone: (512) 276-8979 Cost: Specialty Sips ($6-$8) Atmosphere: Don’t be fooled by its somewhat dingy exterior. From the outside, the Peacock Lounge is an innocuous East-side building, but the interior is a funky-glam surprise. Retro white leather club chairs, stately teal walls and Cinderella chandeliers make the Peacock a perfect place to sip and be scene. As in scenester....
• Posted Austin Bites: Gypsy to Austinist
  Gypsy (Northern Italian) Location: 1025 Barton Springs Road [map] Phone: (512) 499-0200 Cost: Lunch salads ($7-$10) Panini and Entrees ($8-$12) Dinner Apps ($5-$9), Salads ($6-$10) Entrees ($14-$20) Food: Gypsy, a new Northern Italian Bistro on Barton Springs Road next door to Vinny's on Italian Row, is the newest incarnation in a space that has seen an endless chain of eateries open and close. Only time will tell if this iteration will remain, but here's our...
• Posted Austin Bites: Ming's Cafe (The Sweet and the Sour) to Austinist
  Ming's Cafe (Chinese) Location: 2604 Guadalupe St. [map] Phone: (512) 476-8888 Cost: Lunch specials $6-8; Dinner dishes $6-12 Atmosphere: Clean, good tunes, comfy booths and a semi-private outdoor patio. Food: The word on the street is that Ming's is hit or miss, so we decided to check in and assess the situation. We ordered straight off the Daily Specials menu: crawfish with jalapeno black bean sauce, curry chicken with potato and the specialty spinach. We...
• Posted Austin Bites: Fuse Box (Put Your Fork in the Box) to Austinist
  Fuse Box (Fusion) Location: 2025 Guadalupe St (Located on the first floor of the Dobie mall) [map] Phone: (512) 236-0207 Cost: Gourmet Salads ($6-$7.50), Bento Boxes ($8-$10) Atmosphere: Fuse Box is a brilliant discovery. Bright, clean and open. It's a bit tucked away inside the Dobie mall. Do yourself a favor - go find it. Food: What makes this place a taste sensation? Salads are colorful and complex, offering an array of flavors that light...
• Posted Saucy Sunday to Austinist
  Man sweat, burned tongues, and cold beer dominated the Austin Chronicle’s annual Hot Sauce Festival and competition on Sunday. A bounty of Austin’s bravest descended on Waterloo Park to test their Texas taste buds on sauces both red and green, chunky and thin, zing-zangy and hotsy-totsy. Lines were long, but spirits remained high among those eager for a mouthful of abuse. What was good: No scarcity of chips. Revolts have broken out in years past....