Mexican

As I mentioned in my most recent The Week That Was post, over the weekend I went to visit my friends Joni and Tony in Flower Mound, TX.  I don’t get to see them very often outside of football season, and I’ll take any excuse to go to Dallas.  By the time I arrived at …

Locally owned, El Golfo Restaurant in Silver Spring Maryland serves up delicious food in a family atmosphere. Stop by on Wednesdays for Jazz night! One of my favorite weekends of the year while working for Maryland Football was the spring game weekend and letterman golf outing. Sure it was a lot of work to put on …

I’ve made it my new mission to get out of Stillwater more often.  I like living here, and have made tons of great friends, but there’s only so much to do.  This town really caters more towards families and college kids.  And besides, OKC is really growing.  Spending more time there the last couple months …

I was out delivering football suite tickets in Tulsa, and arranged to meet one of the suite administrators for lunch.  She had been the suite administrator years ago, before I even started; then moved to another department; and was back on the suite side this year. She suggested Mexicali Border Cafe.  Since I’m not very …

When I began working at OSU we had 63 suites; now, after all the construction in the west end zone is complete, we are up to 119. It takes me about a week to count, package, deliver and ship all the packages.  I originally shipped all of the suite tickets, but a couple years ago …

I know I’ve mentioned it on this blog before, but until I moved to Oklahoma I rarely ate Mexican food.  I’m really not sure why, especially considering my parents live near several Hispanic parts of town.  I also never ate avocados until I moved here.  Now I buy avocados weekly and eat them straight, almost …

On Friday of the Dallas trip we were meeting Joni’s mom for lunch.  She told me that her mom was really excited to meet me, and the feeling was definitely mutual.  Joni had told me so much about her mom that I was looking forward to finally getting to meet her in person. We met …

If you like Mexican food, Joe T Garcia’s is one of those places you must go.  It’s located in the heart of old Ft. Worth, about an hour from our hotel in Dallas.  I had actually never been before, but had always heard such great things so I was excited to go on this big …

Last week I had to go to Dallas for a site visit for the bowl game.  Our meetings were beginning on Thursday afternoon, but I needed to get there earlier to check out a few bars for our “official party headquarters” so I drove down Wednesday evening. I stayed with Joni and Tony in Flower …

The night before my parents left I was getting suite tickets ready to ship out the next day.  The previous night I had been at work until almost midnight, but I really didn’t want to do that again, especially since I still needed to pack for my trip to Chicago.  So my parents came to the office …

I really need to get on the ball now that I’m a week–and 3 restaurants–behind.  Last Wednesday I flew back from Minneapolis, and since it was July 4th most of the downtown restaurants were closed. Airport dining used to dredge up memories of limited choices and bad food.  Now that so many people spend so …

There was a conference-sponsored lunch with a keynote speaker and awards on Sunday.  But c’mon, who wants to do that when there’s so many restaurants walking distance from the hotel! Jessica and Krista went with the crowd to the lunch, but Blair and I were rebels and decided to go find some sushi.  The concierge …

We wanted to eat at Lake Hefner last night.  Redrock Canyon Grill was our first choice–and one of my favorite restaurants in OKC–but last month it almost burned down in a fire. Good news is, they said from the day after the fire that they’re going to rebuild. I had never been next door to Mama Roja’s, …

I hardly ever ate Mexican food when I lived in Maryland, and I’m really not sure why.  There are lots of Hispanic neighborhoods there, and a big one near my parents’ house so I’m sure there are endless options of authentic Mexican, and not just the Tex-Mex chains you see all over the place.  Once …