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Article Excerpt SEVERAL YEARS AGO my mother phoned me with an urgent question "Honey, I need your advice on something," she said. Resisting the impulse to shout, "Omigod, hell has frozen over!" I replied, "Sure, what is it?" Her query, as it turned out, was easy: Where should she and Daddy take the family to celebrate their forty-ninth wedding anniversary? * Without hesitating, I said, Hudson s on the Bend. The rustic domain of chef-owner Jeff Blank has been one of my favorite Austin restaurants since it opened twenty years ago near Hudson Bend, a small community on a curve of Lake Travis. In my opinion, it is the default local choice for anniversaries, proposals, and schmoozing the boss. * The menu is appropriately Texas-centric, with influences from the diverse ethnic groups that settled this part of the state as well as cowboys and hunters. And the fact that the charming converted house is a thirty-minute drive from town makes it seem as if you're going somewhere special. Fresh herbs grow in the garden you pass on your way in, tiny lights twinkle in the live oaks you glimpse from...
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