Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 17th of March, 2008 at
10:58 pm under SXSW, austin, donovansmoke, mayoholly, photos, sxsw2008, texas and trashblanc. This post has no comments.
TrashBlanc get’s back to London on Tuesday and the first stop is going to be a trip to the personal trainer to lose the South-By-Belly. After that we have a ton of video and written SXS-Eeats to get live so stand by.
In the mean time we’re fully up to speed with our photo uploads. Check them out at flickr.com/photos/keepingitfake
Everyone should have a dream in life but few of us really do. The Ice Cream man does though. To give away a half a million sticks of frozen dairy throughout the US. A truly amazing individual
Watch video here.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 12th of March, 2008 at
3:55 pm under , SXSW, austin, donovansmoke, mayoholly, pizza, review, sxsw2008, texas and trashblanc. This post has no comments.
Here at TrashBlanc.com we like to think we go the extra mile so that you don’t have to. We bite the burgers, finger the fries and taste the tacos so that you can get straight to the good stuff. 8 out of 10 times we come away with exactly what we put in. Three dollars worth of bland bananas. But every once in a while we hit the mother lode.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Stoney’s Pizza Van is something special. Check it out.
Overall rating ****
(out of 5)
Price: $3 per slice.
Video’s here.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 12th of March, 2008 at
12:08 pm under Drink, SXSW, austin, bar, donovansmoke, hulahut, mayoholly, mexican, restaurant, review, sxsw2008, texas and trashblanc. This post has no comments.
We’ll have more on our trip to the wonderful Hula Hut out by the lake in Austin, but for the moment you can check the Trash Blanc lowdown on the Mexican Margarita. A little sweeter and greener than the standard tequilla cocktail, this house drink started off our last night at SXSWi with some style.
Overall rating: *****
(out of 5)
Price: $4 per shaker of liquid goodness.
Video’s here.
We’ll have our Nuclear Taco event video up later, but for us here at TrashBlanc.com the taco show was well and truly stolen by the Ice Cream Man. In fact, he may well have pilfered our entire SXSW food experience. In terms of right time, right place, right man, this guy hit a three run home run.
His stated goal is to travel the world and GIVE AWAY half a million ice creams,
“If I can do that I can do anything”
An obvious next question is how many have you given away so far mricecreamman. But TrashBlanc.com had brain freeze and we were thinking of nothing but blue food colouring. We had two ice creams, paid nothing and gave four TB stars to the man in the van.
Looking at theicreamman.com website, we can’t help feel there’s a more than a little corporate payola going on, but we’ll resist cynicism for the moment. Lick it up.
Overall rating ****
(out of 5)
Price: $0 per ice cream.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 11th of March, 2008 at
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TrashBlanc doesn’t always have to enter a premises to bring you the full lowdown. This time it’s the 710 Room on Red River Street.
Watch video here.
SXS-Eats: The 6th St. Pizza showdown part II.
TrashBlanc.com takes it to the house for the second in our heavyweight pizza reviews. Check it.
Overall rating: * */2
(out of 5)
Price: $4 per spinach/mushroom slice.
Video’s here.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 11th of March, 2008 at
1:25 am under SXSW, austin, donovansmoke, mayoholly, pizza, sxsw2008, texas, trashblanc and video. This post has no comments.
SXS-Eats: The 6th St. Pizza showdown part I.
TrashBlanc.com takes two for the team on 6th Street. We go where you doughn’t want to and take slices at Papparazzi Pizza and RoppoJo’s. Priced at $3 and $4 respectively neither stood out from the stodgy crowd of eateries on Austin’s party street. First through the sausage machine that is the TB review is Papprazzi.
Overall rating *
(out of 5)
Price: $3 per cheese slice.
Video’s here.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 10th of March, 2008 at
11:01 pm under Drink, SXSW, austin, bar, donovansmoke, mayoholly, sxsw2008, texas and trashblanc. This post has no comments.
There isn’t enough weeks in the year for TrashBlanc to properly review all the bars in Austin. But over the week of SXSW we’re going to bring you the ones that stand out. Red Eye Fly on 7th and Red River hits the spot for us. It hosted SXSWi’s Café Fray on Sunday night. It also hosted TB’s crack pool team as they took on the locals.
Heath the owner, friend to the stars, is booked 6 nights per week every week of the year. Quite the gent, he gave us the lowdown on south-by and graciously let us beat him once out of four occasions.
But one feature of the bar stood out above all else. The poignant tribute to Dimebag Darrell. We’ll let Wikipedia fill you in on DD, needless to say, a bigtime TB hero.
So cheers Heath, see you later in the week.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 10th of March, 2008 at
12:59 am under SXSW, austin, bdreily's, burger, donovansmoke, mayoholly, review, sxsw2008, texas, trashblanc and video. This post has no comments.
Mayo Holly finally turns up which means we can start taking a look at meat filled dishes here on TrashBlanc.com. And no better start than a burger review outside BD Riley’s on 6th Street.
Overall rating ***
(out of 5)
Price: $8.95 for burger and fries.
Video’s here.
Posted by Cian O'Donovan on the 9th of March, 2008 at
9:54 pm under SXSW, austin, donovansmoke, mayoholly, sxsw2008, texas and trashblanc. This post has no comments.
TrashBlanc.com has utterly disregarded its closely held environmental beliefs and flown from its London HQ to SXSW in Austin, Texas. Now, the last thing this place needs is more people blogging the conference. So we’re not going to bother. We’re going to instead keep doing what we do best. Track down the trash food and blanc it up. We’re going to be ably assisted by our close friend Mayo Holly who’s just landed so stay tuned.