What I Ate: January 26, 2010 (The Carillon)

Dinner: Tina and I went to a food tasting at The Carillon (1900 University Avenue, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 404-3655) near the UT campus. The Carillon is a bit strange in that it serves buffet lunch and fine dining at dinner. We tried a variety of dishes which were all decent to very good. The braised short ribs were some of the best that I've had.

Next best were the pork belly with Asian pear and fried mint.

I liked the smoked scallops with white bean soup (which Tina did not like). I didn't like how the think soup was served in shot glasses - it didn't really work for me. The tuna tartare (in the spoons) was decent.

The eggplant caprese (eggplant and cheese in a blend of crunchy and soft textures) was interesting, but not my particular cup of tea.

Lunch: I had a quick lunch of the last slice of Pizza Hut pizza and a few of their cinnamon sticks which I thought were okay (but not good enough to want to keep the rest of them).