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- From: aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen)
- Newsgroups: austin.general
- Subject: Re: Romantic places to eat in Austin
- Message-ID: <6349@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:03:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.170511.16156@chpc.utexas.edu> <17NOV199214025275@maximillion.mcc.com> <6247@tivoli.UUCP>
- Reply-To: aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen)
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- Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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- regina@tivoli.UUCP (Regina Foiles) wrote:
- >The Emerald. It's Irish cuisine and it's very good. If you have an
- >appitizer, entree, dessert and coffee plan on spending 2-3 hours
- >eating. The atmosphere is wonderful and relaxing. There is no rush
- >for anything there. If someone were going to "pop the question" to
- >his girlfriend after dinner, this would be the place. It's family
- >run. The mother greets you at the door, the daughters and 1 son
- >wait on you, one son is the chef and the father does all the baking.
- >
- >Warning: It's expensive. The menu the women get do not have prices
- >listed so I'm not sure how expensive it is, but I can imagine. You
- >can find a coupon in the Passbook.
-
- I second this, but I would like to add:
-
- a. If you plan to go there on a peak night, a reservation is a must,
- maybe even a couple of days beforehand.
- An inevitable by-product of the relaxed pace of dining and the
- limited seating capacity (far as I can tell, about two small bedrooms
- worth) is the long wait for a diner w/o a reservation.
-
- b. The cuisine is "Irish" but it's certainly not corn beef and cabbage!
- It's one of the "best three" I've been to in Austin.
-
- c. It's rather amusing that the female of a male/female couple automatically
- gets the menu w/o prices! How expensive was it? How would I know, my
- SO paid for it! Seriously tho, the entre'es are about $30-$40.
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- Andy Nguyen/Team Paranoid (512) 794-9070 aqn@tivoli.com ...!uunet!tivoli!aqn
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