Austin has a beautiful little Italian bakery called Uncle Nicky’s Italian Specialties. I fell in love with this place pretty quickly. It’s run by three guys who know their way around Italian pastries, putting together beautiful homemade pastries, all for a very fair price.
Archives for September 2019
Austin’s The Switch BBQ Switches Up the Standards With Some Interesting New Twists
The Switch BBQ has certainly switched up your traditional barbecue standards with some interesting twists. Take this spin on chicken fried steak, which has a dark, spicy and peppery pan gravy:
Sweet Things Abound at Austin’s Sour Duck Market
I have a few guys that I get together with a couple times a year to do a food journey. We pick a city and three handfuls of restaurants and try to hit all of them in three days. This fall we picked Austin, and started things off gently with a nice visit to Sour…
B Street Rib Off is Full of “A Street” Competitors
I love the smell of barbecue in the morning. Especially at a weekend competition that brings together great cooks, some live music, and plenty of cold beer. ‘Merica. Arkansas is full of such good times, and one of my favorites is the B Street Rib Off held in the Argenta district, in North Little Rock.




