Zagat's 2007 America's Top Restaurants Survey is out and although the setup on this one begs for an immediate rimshot, it's true - we love eating out. In fact, only Houston residents eat out with more frequency *snicker* than Austinites. Hungry Houstonians are eating out an average of 4.2 meals per week while residents of Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth eat out an average of 4 times per week. Trailing in weekly eating-out outings are......

Although not officially part of the Austin Film Festival, tomorrow night, the AFF hosts the 4th annual Film & Food party to benefit its Young Filmmakers Program. Considered by many to be the finest party of the year, the evening begins at the Paramount Theatre with a 6:30 p.m. retrospective screening of the classic film The Black Stallion followed by a Q&A with screenwriter and Austinite Bill Wittliff (Legends of the Fall, Honeysuckle Rose, “Lonesome......

La Traviata is busy on a Saturday night. We didn't have reservations, but we were lucky enough to snag the last free table of the evening from the very kind hostess. For our dinner we ordered the Lamb Ragu without the lamb. A truly amazing feat if we do say so ourselves. Hey, it had red sauce and we like our red sauce. But we don't like our lamb. There was no problem in......