What I Ate: April 3, 2010 (The Zubik House, Joe's Crab Shack)

Lunch: I had a couple of brisket tacos from The Zubik House at the Austin Farmers Market. There were very tasty and I loved the ample amounts of cilantro.

Dinner: Both Tina and I wanted to eat crawfish and crab, so we headed off to Joe's Crab Shack where both can be had without us dealing with the inevitable clean up from shellfish guts splattering everywhere. We ordered a "Sunset Fire-Grilled" Steampot (Dungeness crab, Alaskan Snow crab, shrimp, sausage, corn and potatoes) which is normally seasoned with their Fire-Grilled flavor but we tried it with Joe's Dry Rubbed BBQ instead. The crabs were very flavorful, but we preferred the flavor of the Fire-Grilled seasoning that we tried last time.

We also had a pound of the crawfish which were a lot bigger than the crawfish we had last time. Turns out they were fresh / live crawfish and had a different flavor (mild and sweet) and different texture (soft and almost gooey [although that may be because they weren't cooked as long] instead of firm and chewy). We later ended up ordering another pound of the frozen crawfish which we actually enjoyed more.

We ended the meal with a serving of the Crabby Apple Cumble (apple pie with cinnamon ice cream). The pastry was so hot it rapidly melted the ice cream. It was also very sweet so we had to stop eating it once the ice cream ran out (we were using the ice cream to temper the sweetness of the apple crumble). We definitely prefer the Chocolate Cake with Ice Cream (the Sea Turtle Sundae) as a dessert over this one.