Not exactly food porn

Hi everyone! I'm back. As to the title, as you may recall, one of the features of this blog is what we have eaten in many venues, in many countries actually (you may remember that our last BIG trip, to Germany, Prague, and Zurich left us NOT wanting anymore German-style cuisine). Galveston has not been a winner so far. One might say that just being in Texas gives you little hope, but there's always Tex-Mex (see later) and BBQ. Nothing here has been haute, haute cuisine. Last night's dinner was very, very good and deserves kudos. So kudos. Let's start there. RR wanted to go the "Strand" and walk around. As is often the case with RR, where such a place actually is is a whole different question. We ended up in the historic district, which had some streets with little shops. I had seen a billboard (eating tip: this is NOT a great way to find a good place to eat) that claimed that this place was the "original Tex Mex restaurant in historic Galveston." The name is Taquilo's. That's where we ate. I start with a picture of the salsa.

You will note that the red salsa doesn't look like salsa. It was also warm. It was pretty spicy and had a texture...well, like beanless chili. It was verygood. My entree was delicious. Enchiladas with verde sauce.

That was a hit. And I got credit for finding it. While there, we looked at places nearby. Catty corner across the street was a place called Ruby & Paco. RR looked it up. It was seafood with a Latin American twist. She wanted to eat there. But they had a dress code! (WTF!). We went in after dinner (I violated their dress code, as I was wearing shorts) and tried to get res for tonight. "We have no openings." "Nothing?" "Nothing. You could come for lunch." I got the impression she looked down her nose at me in my shorts as she said this. "No, we are busy for lunch, sorry." So, no Latin inspired seafood. Instead, we had Miller's Seawall Grille. No, their specialty isn't really seawall. But it is right across from the Gulf. The food wasn't great, but it was okay. I had the flounder, fried, on top of "crab dressing." I think this is like a crab cake, but called a different thing. You can see it here.

The best part of dinner was our first dessert of the week -- a brownie ganache with ice cream. We couldn't eat it all.

And, finally, here's yesteday morning's attempt at pushing RR's "I'll try anything" mantra -- it was labeled a "bouda," which she told me had something and rice in the middle. I got the spicy. You see how much was eaten. :). But I did a Google search and I still don't know what it really was. So, there's our food adventure in Galveston. It ain't Berlin, but then where is, with curry dogs everywhere? I've been promised high end chow in Fort Worth. Okay, maybe not in THOSE words. :)