A Working Garden

The yellow cannas are part of the entrance walk to the Eastside Cafe vegetable garden you can see beyond them. I went to lunch there Thursday. The restaurant is east of Interstate 35 on Manor. (Go here in Google Earth by pressing here.) This stretch is now home to lots of eateries but Eastside has been there for nearly twenty years. The cafe (in an expanded old house) and a small cooking and gardening and take-out shop occupy part of the acre of land and about a third of it is given over to working garden where vegetables, herbs and flowers are organically grown for use in the restaurant. Needless to say the food is tasty. My friend and I waited twenty minutes for a table and we went after one o'clock to avoid the crowds. Thursday is the veritable beginning of the weekend in Austin, though, with everyone who works seeming to anticipate an easy Friday. We also saw big crowds at Jeffrey's bar on Thursday night when we were eating half price appetizers.