Fine Food and Clothes

We don't spend all our time on South Congress or somewhere else south of the river. (The river that is, really, a lake downtown. Town Lake. Soon to be Lady Bird Lake, I guess.) Indeed, we currently live in North Central Austin.

Last night we wanted some light fare and went to Fino which isn't far from home and is run by our friends Lisa and Emmett Fox. It seems that the cool thing for restaurants these days is to have four-letter names. In Austin we have Fino, Asti, Wink, Zoot and Cibo.

Fino is in a small center at 29th and San Gabriel near the northern reaches of the sprawling UT campus and Lamar Boulevard. The same center houses The Texas Clothier and you can see in this composition part of their sign and the big block letters on the stairs indicating Fino is up that way. I think the columns and brick and the shades Fino has up to block the brutal Texas setting sun make an interesting photo.

We had interesting dishes for our dinner: wild shrimp in garlic and olive oil, asparagus yogurt soup, scallop ceviche with homemade potato chips, a vegetable tagine, Greek condiments on pita. It's a nice place with lots of little plates and sharing.