Taste of Andersonville
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I do not have pictures of all the food like I did for the 2018 Dessert Crawl because we were pushing a baby around.
We did the Fork route and the first stop was right next to check-in--Snowie Shaved Ice. I got the grape and![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee got tropical, and they gave Laila a free little coconut ice which I'm grateful for. She got it all over herself, of course, but she really liked eating it. We went north, stopping at City Olive for the non-alcoholic whiskey and bread with olive oil (and extra olive oil I bought) and then up to Ora for a spring roll. Here too Laila got a free spring roll, which she ate the entirety of.
We went back to the farmer's market and got our maracons, whichsashagee was pretty disappointed with since we only got half of one, not even a whole one, and a free one for Laila again, and then over to Collectivo and this was the first disappointment of the day. It was closed--even though the taste was supposed to run until 8 p.m., they had closed at the normal time. One strike. Going to Elixir for a drink and getting to finish sashagee's drink helped assuage my annoyance. We waited for a bit at Big Jones for the next batch of fried pork-sausage-and-rice balls to be done--I didn't get one, obviously--and then continued onto Jeni's, where we were directed to the front counter and they told us they were out. Tons of people waiting in line for ice cream, you can see on that menu I linked that there were five options, and they said they were out. Strike two.
Again, though, disappointment was followed up with happiness. We got mac and cheese and Lady Gregory's and then crossed the street to Ranalli's, where we told the two women who were standing near the food that we had five places left to go and fifteen minutes to do it. They were both grandmothers, so after a bit of cooing over Laila they gave us to-go plates, told us to put their pizza and the mac and cheese in there, and then added even more pizza for us.
We continued on to Penelope's but they had a line twenty people long, so we skipped them and went on to Konak where I used to play board games on Wednesdays with people before the Plague Years. They had a bunch of bar food in the back under heat lamps without even anyone standing around nearby, so we took some spanikopita and fries and put them in our take-out boxes and went on to Boca Local Cantina which was...also out of food. Strike three, though more forgivable since it was almost eight. We got our mini cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes and went back up to Penelope's, where we had the best food of the night. I admit, I was a little skeptical of how delicious vegan tacos would be, even though at Flaco's Tacos the poblano tacos are by far the tastiest, but those tacos with the matcha horchata were the best thing we had all night. They were amazing and we're definitely going back there to get tacos. Honestly discovering that plus all the cooing over Laila made the tickets worth it.
I'm definitely going to mention what happened if there's any request for a survey, though. And next year we'll start early. 3/13 places out of food is not a good look. And I'm especially annoyed at Jeni's! They "ran out"? Please.
We did the Fork route and the first stop was right next to check-in--Snowie Shaved Ice. I got the grape and
sashagee got tropical, and they gave Laila a free little coconut ice which I'm grateful for. She got it all over herself, of course, but she really liked eating it. We went north, stopping at City Olive for the non-alcoholic whiskey and bread with olive oil (and extra olive oil I bought) and then up to Ora for a spring roll. Here too Laila got a free spring roll, which she ate the entirety of.We went back to the farmer's market and got our maracons, which
sashagee was pretty disappointed with since we only got half of one, not even a whole one, and a free one for Laila again, and then over to Collectivo and this was the first disappointment of the day. It was closed--even though the taste was supposed to run until 8 p.m., they had closed at the normal time. One strike. Going to Elixir for a drink and getting to finish sashagee's drink helped assuage my annoyance. We waited for a bit at Big Jones for the next batch of fried pork-sausage-and-rice balls to be done--I didn't get one, obviously--and then continued onto Jeni's, where we were directed to the front counter and they told us they were out. Tons of people waiting in line for ice cream, you can see on that menu I linked that there were five options, and they said they were out. Strike two.Again, though, disappointment was followed up with happiness. We got mac and cheese and Lady Gregory's and then crossed the street to Ranalli's, where we told the two women who were standing near the food that we had five places left to go and fifteen minutes to do it. They were both grandmothers, so after a bit of cooing over Laila they gave us to-go plates, told us to put their pizza and the mac and cheese in there, and then added even more pizza for us.
We continued on to Penelope's but they had a line twenty people long, so we skipped them and went on to Konak where I used to play board games on Wednesdays with people before the Plague Years. They had a bunch of bar food in the back under heat lamps without even anyone standing around nearby, so we took some spanikopita and fries and put them in our take-out boxes and went on to Boca Local Cantina which was...also out of food. Strike three, though more forgivable since it was almost eight. We got our mini cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes and went back up to Penelope's, where we had the best food of the night. I admit, I was a little skeptical of how delicious vegan tacos would be, even though at Flaco's Tacos the poblano tacos are by far the tastiest, but those tacos with the matcha horchata were the best thing we had all night. They were amazing and we're definitely going back there to get tacos. Honestly discovering that plus all the cooing over Laila made the tickets worth it.I'm definitely going to mention what happened if there's any request for a survey, though. And next year we'll start early. 3/13 places out of food is not a good look. And I'm especially annoyed at Jeni's! They "ran out"? Please.
