New Slider Under Development

Fall is one of our favorite times of year. As the weather starts to cool down our thoughts turn to all of the wonderful cool weather ingredients and how we will incorporate them into our concept. We have been a fan of Abita's products for some time now. Besides their great line-up of beers they also make a delicious rootbeer from which we will create a sauce for this weeks special. Abita Root Beer is made with a hot mix process using spring water, herbs, vanilla and yucca (which creates foam). It is sweetened with pure cane sugar and when reduced down becomes a wonderful sweet and savory glaze. We are using this glaze to coat a pressure cooked duck confit which we will be pairing with a lemon scented roasted pumpkin puree and toasted pumpkin seeds. 'The Great Pumpkin' slider is born.

October 15th

As my time at the Austin Marriott South is about to come to an end I find my mind dreaming of how far I can take the Along Came A Slider concept. I put in my two weeks at the Marriott last Monday and will be wasting no time trying to expand ACAS. Beginning October 25th we will be expanding our business hours, expanding our menu options, and starting to work with some excellent purveyors I have been using at the hotel who can provide us with the quality of products we have become famous for. We will be doing some promotions with 5dollarlunch.com so be sure to sign up for this free site to receive our lunch specials. Now that I can dedicate all of my efforts to ACAS we will be doing a lot more specials featuring products from all of the great local farms that Austin has to offer. I will finally have the time to keep up with this blog as well. More to come..........