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I only had 2 meals away from the team. One at Hestia, which was excellent. I did a la carte, not the tasting menu. And Clark's Oyster Bar. Very good oysters and  cold bar options to choose from. And mains were very good too.

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On time flight. First stop The Roosevelt Room. Boulevardier followed by a Bensonhurst (full disclosure, I ate the cherry on the latter before the photo).

I am five minutes walk from Lonesome Dove which is the next stop. And approximately 24 hours from Hinds (oh wait, it okay to eat deer tonight?).

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Lonesome Dove, my second visit. The fettine are like very thin slices of ballotine with exotic ingredients. The trio is only $24 compared with $18 for each individual selection, so top to bottom: duck/rabbit-rattlesnake sausage; black buck/pork belly; wild boar/lamb. Lots of things like blueberries and pistachios floating around.

Wood-fired oysters were tasty but had stopped sizzling by the time the white wine showed up.

Elk loin was hearty and heartily priced at $69. I could have eaten half of it for half the price. The meat was great, the spice and salt crust a little over-assertive. A couple of Texas reds, mourvedre and tannat, with this and coffee (no cheese plate here).

Given I was committed to the elk and started with champagne it was bound to be $200 and so it was.

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I thought I would do the Blanton Museum and The Contemporary today but I had forgotten how huge the Blanton is.

Ground floor exhibit presents examinations of the relationships between three pairs of artists: I found Arshile Gorky/Isamu Noguchi engrossing; I felt I understood Gorky better (had no idea they knew each other).

Then upstairs, the vast permanent collection of European, American and Latin American art. Gave up whimpering after an hour or so.

Then found myself in a protest against something or other, who knows, outside the Capitol.

Also, truly weird, a Waymo to the Blanton. Available on the Uber app here; same price, no tip because no driver. It was a great ride but I felt like I was in a movie.

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Post-Hinds snack, NADC Burger, something to do with a skateboarder. Basically a Wagyu smashburger. They do only have one burger on the menu because they think that's the one. Nice in a moist kind of way. Also good local drafts for concert goers with sore throats.

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Midnight Cowboy, where you have to push the bell for Harry Craddock's apartment to get in. One from the list, Midnight Martini with a squirt of dill-lemon potion, then a Martinez where the bartender had fun with a Basque vermouth. Not pictured but it just looked like a Martinez.

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A few steps from Midnight Cowboy, Parkside, which is an actual restaurant (for this strip) and dead on a Sunday night. I am fine with some orange wine and charcuterie at this point.

Beef tartare with house chips a gift from the chef, that's how dead this is. (I am fine, I don't need to be in a moshpit tonight.)

 

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A beautiful show of serene figuration at The Contemporary: https://thecontemporaryaustin.org/exhibitions/jiab-prachakul-sweet-solitude/

And open I'm told since the 1930s but I just found out about it. The O. Henry Museum in the little house where Porter lived before he was jailed, changed his name, fled to New York and wrote some 400 stories. No, there's not a lot of original stuff here but nice conversations with the docents.

Home to Harlem, timely flights both ways. Great trip.

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