January 18, 2012
Brittany - Student - Austin, TX The place I always eat: Right now I’m really into elaborate sandwiches so I’ve been going to Food Heads a lot lately.  I feel guilty about paying for a sandwich but Food Heads goes hard – especially with all 25 of their amazing condiments (chipotle lime mustard?!), which is really the most underrated part of a good sandwich.    Where to stay for the night: If you’re going to stay here you should probably just stay with friends but there are some really good-looking hotels in Travis Park.  Kimber Modern and St. Cecilia are really cool because they know what they’re doing with architecture and design but they’re the kind of places that give you floor plans of their suites.  Give them your money if you can blow it, I’m sure it’s worth the bath products that I would inevitably steal but I would at least recommend trying to swim in their pools. The one place I take everyone: The Blue Hanger – This is where everything from all the regional Goodwill stores goes to die.  It’s more of a 5,000 square foot purgatory where everything has a shelf life of 4 hours before they get packed up into industrial sized shipping containers and sent to Mexico.  After the bins are cleared and restocked the employees remove the velvet rope and everyone pushes each other out of the way so they can basically dumpster dive for the best reject crap Goodwill has to offer.  If you go there enough you start to get a knack for spotting hoarders.  It’s kind of filthy too.  People come equipped with surgical gloves because you really never know how much dirty underwear you might accidentally touch but that’s exactly why I bring people to the Blue Hanger.  It builds character and two hours later you might get lucky and find a Missoni dress in your size.     Best local product you should try: I was trying to decide which local vodka or sweet tea I like the best since that’s what we have a lot of here but what you really need is a copy of Busted. It’s a weekly roundup newspaper of Travis Country mug shots that you can pick up at the corner store.  It’s always hilarious but it’s also kind of medieval, like going to the town square to laugh at everyone with a public intoxication charge in the stocks.  There are also some racial profiling games you can play, like “match the criminal with the crime”. Busted would never happen anywhere else for obvious reasons but also because there are just enough arrests made in one week to feature all of them in 12 pages.   The 2nd best kept secret: EVERYBODY goes to Barton Springs to swim but why would you do that when you can drive 8 minutes west to Deep Eddy for movie night while swimming in THEIR springs?  They have a canvas screen set up in the trees and everyone wades around in this giant spring pool while Good Burger is playing.  If you’d rather swim in chlorine they have a pool for that too.  When you’re done showering in their 1920s bathhouse you can go to their garden and buy basil and mint.

Brittany - Student - Austin, TX

The place I always eat:

Right now I’m really into elaborate sandwiches so I’ve been going to Food Heads a lot lately.  I feel guilty about paying for a sandwich but Food Heads goes hard – especially with all 25 of their amazing condiments (chipotle lime mustard?!), which is really the most underrated part of a good sandwich.   

Where to stay for the night:

If you’re going to stay here you should probably just stay with friends but there are some really good-looking hotels in Travis Park.  Kimber Modern and St. Cecilia are really cool because they know what they’re doing with architecture and design but they’re the kind of places that give you floor plans of their suites.  Give them your money if you can blow it, I’m sure it’s worth the bath products that I would inevitably steal but I would at least recommend trying to swim in their pools.

The one place I take everyone:

The Blue Hanger – This is where everything from all the regional Goodwill stores goes to die.  It’s more of a 5,000 square foot purgatory where everything has a shelf life of 4 hours before they get packed up into industrial sized shipping containers and sent to Mexico.  After the bins are cleared and restocked the employees remove the velvet rope and everyone pushes each other out of the way so they can basically dumpster dive for the best reject crap Goodwill has to offer.  If you go there enough you start to get a knack for spotting hoarders.  It’s kind of filthy too.  People come equipped with surgical gloves because you really never know how much dirty underwear you might accidentally touch but that’s exactly why I bring people to the Blue Hanger.  It builds character and two hours later you might get lucky and find a Missoni dress in your size.    

Best local product you should try:

I was trying to decide which local vodka or sweet tea I like the best since that’s what we have a lot of here but what you really need is a copy of Busted. It’s a weekly roundup newspaper of Travis Country mug shots that you can pick up at the corner store.  It’s always hilarious but it’s also kind of medieval, like going to the town square to laugh at everyone with a public intoxication charge in the stocks.  There are also some racial profiling games you can play, like “match the criminal with the crime”. Busted would never happen anywhere else for obvious reasons but also because there are just enough arrests made in one week to feature all of them in 12 pages.  

The 2nd best kept secret:

EVERYBODY goes to Barton Springs to swim but why would you do that when you can drive 8 minutes west to Deep Eddy for movie night while swimming in THEIR springs?  They have a canvas screen set up in the trees and everyone wades around in this giant spring pool while Good Burger is playing.  If you’d rather swim in chlorine they have a pool for that too.  When you’re done showering in their 1920s bathhouse you can go to their garden and buy basil and mint.

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