Even though we just had pizza the other night I settled on Pizza again tonight.
I know Blogs aren't supposed to be about what you had for dinner or lunch and such.
But I felt that this was a good way to start the conversation on something what I just went through.
My Hotel here (Wyndham Garden) has a restaurant downstairs. However, honestly I am not that impressed with their breakfast spread so ordering up some room service didn't sound that good to me.
I Turned to their directory/book of info they give you (subsequently the same book with the room service menu) and didn't find any suggestion on local dining or delivery.
I was in the mood for Chinese food, except the only place nearby is a horrible, horrible buffet (literally next door).
So I turned my search to the Internet, oh yeah, I forgot to mention that usually at Hotels without room service they give you a list of places that deliver (and usually give you menus too). Now the Internet is powerful, but there Dallas is huge, hence why they call it the Big D.
This means simply doing a Google search isn't going to be very helpful. This means I needed to hit up sites that specialize in food.
My immediate thought was Yelp. I have used it before and the community review part is helpful, usually you get useful tidbits of info on what to avoid or what to try.
Unfortunately, Yelp was not very much help.
Then I turned my search of to CitySearch (ba-dum-bump), some good results. Unfortunately, while it was able to provide me more options than Yelp, I was left with the notion that aside from the place next door there were no places nearby (thus very unlikely there would be delivery).
That led me to look over Yellowbook.com and Yellowpages.com, oddly enough and yet not oddly enough, they both returned the same data. For some reason I expected a difference in the return of data, not so much more restaurants in one than the other, but more information about the restaurants in one vs the other.
Now, the one commonality across all of these was mapping. Some of them used MapQuest, some of them used Google Maps, another one used something I couldn't identify and the last used a Microsoft Live Search power map.
In the end I ended up deciding that Pizza was going to be what I would have to settle for instead of Chinese food.
But then, I ended up having to resort to the specific pizza websites. I haven't had Hungry Howie's in a long, long time. And I was thinking that their famous flavored crust would hit the spot.
But their closest one was about 12 miles away, so I didn't even bother calling.
When I was checking in, I remember the front desk telling another guest something about Domino's.
So In the end that is who I called.
The search went full circle.
I cannot fault the Internet, it isn't Google's fault (or Yelp, or CitySearch, or the IYP directories).
Anyway, the pizza just got here.
Just think about everything I went through, the next time your traveling.
Did you have a hard time finding something to eat, or worse yet delivered?
Laterz
Gina and I went to a different farmers market today, down at 4th and Guadalupe.
In comparison to the one that we have been going to down on 290, it sucked.
The one we went to today was about 1/3 the size. The vegetables available were not as good looking or nearly the same variety.
We did get some bread, it looked better than the baguette that we bought previously. They also had Main Rootbeer for sale, good stuff. We also picked up some more organic eggs.
After the farmers market we picked up the dogs and headed up to the "Bark Park" in Georgetown, a dog park that is fully enclosed and has separated large and small dog areas.
The dogs all had fun, as did I. I had the chance to play with a cute little mutt named Trixie. About 1 year old and full of spunk, Trixie reminded me a lot of Emma at that age. I had to ask Trixie's owner how old Trixie was to verify that she was still a puppy. I figured Trixie was a puppy, because of the fact that Trixie immediately had started to nip at my hands when she ran up.
We spent about an hour and a half before taking the dogs home.
Emma did very good. Buddy did pretty good. Curly wasn't very excited to be there, but he had fun marking the place. And Basil actually seemed to really enjoy himself.
Well the pizza just showed up, gotta go.
Laterz
