places to go in austin?*nevermind going to san antonio*

[A-R]

South Congress Cafe is some of the best food in TX.

The elephant room is an amazing underground jazz bar with great musicians.

There are many others but I could fill up this servers hard drives with cool stuff to in ATX. I have the worlds biggest crush on that city.

Many thanks to GigAg and pbwalker who both mentioned the Elephant Room in different threads. My wife took me there last night for an early birthday night out. Cool place. We saw the Ephraim Owens Quintet (Owens is a trumpet blower who has obviously listened to a Mikes Davis recording or two - exactly my kind of jazz). The room is great, underground basement bar (yes it's marked 51%), dark with little candles on table, but not smokey. Drink prices were reasonable and cover was only $5.

We ate dinner at the little sushi bar upstairs (Kyoto) and it was good too. Old fashioned 1970s style sushi place, not one of the overpriced yuppie "modern sushi" spots that gets so much attention in Austin these days. The signature "Kyoto" hand roll was very good. And best iced green tea I've found. A bit too much wasabi on the nigiri for my taste, but still good.

Anyway, good night (our first kid-free night in a LONG time). Wouldn't have thought to try it if hadn't read it here first. But did ask my brother (who I affectionately call a "keep Austin weird type" and who has lived here for 15 years and knows downtown better than I ever will) about Elephant Room. He told me he's been and likes it, but when I said wife and I were going his response was "I guess I'll have to stop going there now" ...

[VoiceofReason]

in early september im going to be going on vacation with my girlfriend. im currently looking for places to go. im also thinking of popping the question while there any ideas on a place to do this at? all these places need to be gun friendly. salt lick is on the list already.

Anywhere else in Texas besides Austin as long as the leftist idiots running the place want to boycott Arizona. And be sure to tell them about it.

[lowonair]

well, we decided against austin for many reasons but the biggest was their boycott. we had decided on san antonio but now they joined them with that crap they passed. we may still go to san antonio but it will be our last trip. i want to see the alamo one last time.

what makes me happy is the fact that my girlfriend is for the law in arizona. her father came over from mexico when he was 17. he came over illegally but he took the steps to become a citizen, and loves this country like he was born here. i thought that she would be totally against it and she was at first, but as soon as she realized that the media coverage she had seen was biased and i explained it all to her she was all for it. this girls full of surprises!

[lowonair]

still looking for ideas in san antonio. just have to try to sell a black rifle to get the ring. need a good hotel also. needs to be higher quality than holiday inn. maybe we will just stay at drury plaza again.