Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Driskill - 1886 Cafe and Bakery

This probably should have mentioned earlier, since we went here on Valentines Day!  Oh well, here it is now.  The Driskill is very intimidating at first look.  In fact, we almost left because some friends of ours coming from out of town felt uncomfortable.  They wanted steak but they are used to the Outback and Chili's of Vero Beach and couldn't understand why we didn't have any here!  We love to disappoint, truth is when you think of a good steak house in Austin there isn't a casual one.  So before leaving we checked out the menu and they saw the steak was only $17, they were confused but happy and we went on in.  This is not really a vegan friendly place, it's the type of place where you have to take the cheese out to make it vegan and all the desserts have egg, but it is vegetarian friendly.  That said, the vegan version of their Fusilli Pasta is awesome!  The only subtraction is goat cheese and it still has a lot of flavor.  We also got the Black Bean Hummus and made a believer out of our "meat and potatoes, hold the potatoes friend".  Miguel and I did not think the hummus was all that great but hey someone did.  Our other friend got the stuffed vegetarian mushroom and she really liked it, it is stuffed with cheese so no report on that.  They have a bottomless garden salad that is stuffed with veggies and sounds really good, but the pasta was so good there were no regrets.  The alcohol menu seems to be where they get you with the prices but they do have non-alcoholic beer so yay.  Overall a great experience and we would definitely bring more out of towners here again.

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http://www.1886cafeandbakery.com/austin-hotel-menu.php

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