{"id":1008,"date":"2012-10-27T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2012-10-27T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:34:31","slug":"cafe-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/27\/cafe-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not above unabashedly plugging a restaurant run by Jett’s nephew.\u00a0 But I wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t truly impressed. Cafe Malta<\/a> on West William Cannon Drive in Austin doesn’t look like much from the outside – a smallish storefront tucked between a beauty salon and a roll-your-own cigarette place in a small strip mall. But walk in the door and you will find a small, clean, tastefully decorated restaurant\/bar of understated elegance.\u00a0 Some of the understatement is due to the use of kraft paper for tablecloths – unusual, but it works and is very practical.\u00a0 Kids love it and it is better than napkins for those business lunch sketches.<\/p>\n

Jett and I had brunch there last Sunday at noon.\u00a0 We met up with Jett’s nieces, Jessica (co-owner of the restaurant) and Aimee, and Jessica’s two lovely children, Nate and Havia.\u00a0 Jett’s nephews, Nick and Mark, were working tables and didn’t get to socialize much.<\/p>\n

I had a Bloody Mary (made with cucumber vodka, I am told) to start and it was superb – spicy and tangy and strong enough to wake me up.\u00a0 I chose the Croque Madame for the entree, mostly because I have never heard of this dish before, but also because I love ham.\u00a0 I wasn’t disappointed. Two perfectly-done “over easy” eggs atop a mound of shaved ham with a cheese\/bechamel sauce, toasted on French bread.\u00a0 Delicious!\u00a0 I finished with a good strong cup of black coffee and a tasty bread pudding, with a crusty toasted top and a delectable moat of chunky applesauce.\u00a0 Jett had another dish with the same applesauce and raved about it.\u00a0 Nick shared the secret of the applesauce with us – an apple-based liquor from the Middle East.\u00a0 I can’t remember the name, but that’s my sense of self-preservation at work: if I told you he would have to kill me.<\/p>\n

If we had just walked in off the street I would be talking about a “hidden gen” as this restaurant is much more than it first appears.\u00a0 I hope they do well.<\/p>\n

But I don’t have any photos.\u00a0 I guess both Jett and I were having so much fun catching up with family that we have not seen for many months and savoring the brunch that we forgot to take pictures.\u00a0 I guess you will just have to go there and take your own.<\/p>\n

It will be worth the trip, guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not above unabashedly plugging a restaurant run by Jett’s nephew.\u00a0 But I wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t truly impressed. Cafe Malta on West William Cannon Drive in Austin doesn’t look like much from the outside – a smallish storefront tucked between a beauty salon and a roll-your-own cigarette place in a small … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtw","category-places","category-places-tx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-gg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}