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Shayda Torabi / August 11, 2018
Health and Wellness in Chicago’s River North

Health and Wellness in Chicago’s River North

On a recent trip to Chicago for work, I found myself in the River North neighborhood. I have visited Chicago many times, but hadn’…
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Shayda Torabi / August 8, 2018
The Art of Professional Traveling with Wellness in Mind

The Art of Professional Traveling with Wellness in Mind

I’ve been traveling professionally for the past seven years. I used to be gone almost every other week for three of those years, …
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Shayda Torabi / August 6, 2018
10 Great Downtown Austin Lunch Spots

10 Great Downtown Austin Lunch Spots

La Condesa: Modern Mexican, great lunch spot because they have my all time favorite salad in all of Austin. The Pollo Mixto is a …
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Hi, I'm Shayda-- Austin food blogger born and raised in this great city. I live an adventurous life guided by finding good food. This blog is the chronicle of that journey. Join me as I dine out at local home favorites and on the road! I'm living the food life!

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  • Anyone else dreaming about breakfast already? 🙅🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ Guilty over here! 😅 This May look like a typical “austin breakfast” and that is totally true, but it’s also pretty much paleo friendly 💪🏼 @Spinsyddy and I are big fans of @picnikaustin, and they have a brand new trailer off of East Cesar Chavez 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Which you guessed it, is perfect for a quick breakfast on the go! The menu is very paleo friendly and so Syd and I modified our drinks to be dairy free, the breakfast tacos are served on @sietefoods almond flour tortillas 😍, and they make gluten free, grain free, and dairy free muffins that are so dang good you’re not gonna even miss the grains or processed sugars! Seriously get the banana nut muffin plz 😬 Can I just say how awesome it is to see more restaurants and establishments cater to eating clean, it’s not that I’m anti grains and dairy, I just know what food inflames *my body* and so I try to avoid it but at Picnik they make eating healthy super easy, and oh so delicious! Happy they have an East outpost now! But tell me tell me, where are some of your other favorite places around town to grab a clean bite to eat? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
  • Hey y'all! Happy New Year ✨ I hope your New Year’s resolutions are off to a great start! I’m trying to be as good as possible and stick to my clean eating and movement goals 🙃😅 To keep the momentum going, I’m partnering with @doordash and Wanderlust Yoga to put a really great, FREE, yoga event on your radar! The Feed Your Soul event is a yoga class at @wanderlustyogaatx hosted by my gal @salty.zozo at the Wanderlust Downtown. The event is on Sat, Jan 26th at 10 am! I’m planning on being there IRL to get my yoga flow on — I just took Zoey’s class this last weekend and WOOF, she gave me some good meditation, stretches to relax my tired body, and we totally got a sweat in! 💦💦💦 Check out the link in my stories/bio for more info! Hope to see you and your friends there, but get there early as its first come first served! Tag a friend whose gonna come flow with you!!🧘🏼‍♀️#DeliveringGood #Ad
  • Having a moment 🙅🏼‍♀️ Portuguese grilled chicken @tiopepechicken is open in @thelincatx and if you’re familiar with the popularized peri peri sauce (a sauce base made of chilies, citrus peel, onion, garlic, and lemon juice) from UK favorite Nandos, then this is a place you’ve got to check out to get your peri peri fix in Austin! 🐓 I am still on my healthy eating/ dry January kick— mainly because I just feel better when I take care or my body and that involves working out, but also what I put into my body! And so while Tio Pepe offers cilantro rice, mashed potatoes, and wine by the glass 🙃🙃🙃 I opted to stick to the chicken basted and grilled in the lemon herb peri peri sauce and some grilled corn and veggies— which did not disappoint! The sauce is the main star and they offer six flavor profiles to choose from. Lemon herb, garlic, mild, medium, hot, and extra hot. My favorites were the lemon herb and garlic. But depending on your heat tolerance you might enjoy the extra hot 🔥You can have the chicken basted and then also use the sauce as a dip to get extra flavor. Seriously though, I love that there are excellent healthy forward restaurants out there that cater to lots of different dietary preferences while dishing out delicious food ✨👏🏼🍽 What do you know about that peri peri sauce? 🧐 Which one would you go for? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
  • TBT to Saturday afternoon checking into the @texasretreat cabins with @richardsrainwater for a little Hill Country Texas wellness retreat ✨ Yall know I’ve been stressing lately, so this little unplugging time was totally necessary and was just what I needed to unwind a bit. My happy place is being outside. So a cabin in the woods on a lake was perrrrfect 👌🏼 I brought my best gal pal @jazzpaterson, and we made friendship bracelets with @designsbyevan, @karanailedit did outdoorsy nail art, we went for a hike, had an amazing salad and salmon dinner that I’m still dreaming about, mocktails with @thesteepingroom and @restartcbd, a barre class by @brits.barre from @modfitness, a yoga flow with @salty.zozo from @wanderlustatx, we had a sound bath with @be.bowled, and the icing on the cake (according to my sweet tooth) was the HOUSEMADE CHOCOLATE, MARSHMALLOWS, AND GRAHAM CRACKERS @sourduckmarket made for us for s’mores time around the fire 🔥 JK it truly was being able to connect with awesome new and old friends like Britt, Zoey, @chekmarkeats, @austinfoodstagram, Evan, Kara, @melegee, @sanantoniolovelist, @twentysomethingsa, and @richardandrose! I had so much fun giggling, sweating, and zenning out with y’all 😘❣️🥰 PS: Richards gave me a code to offer YOU 30% off direct to consumer if you wanna buy a stash of Richards for your home or office. Just use SHAY30 for your discount at richardsrainwater.com 💦
  • After having #FOMO when all my other foodie friends were experiencing @barpeached, I finally had the opportunity to go peep what all the fuss was about for myself tonight 👀 PS: nothing I ate was paleo (but I did honor #dryjanuary), sorry not sorry— however, it was worth the hype IMO! // It’s an open, airy, two story building filled with bright colors, plenty of seating styles, and a whole lotta cocktails, tacos, and bingsu! We found ourselves sitting on the gorgeous sunken patio (outfitted with plenty of heaters) taking advantage of the natural light and enjoying social hour with $6 cocktails and $5 snacks, which is 4-6:30pm daily at the bar & patio only ✨ We also ordered the fried fish — my personal favorite—, the shrimp flautas, and the chili crab toast. And if you’re wondering what the heck a bingsu is, we had one of those too. It’s a Korean style shaved ice with over the top toppings 🙃🥰 I went with the strawberry cheesecake one because if I’m going big, I’m going out with a bang! 💥 for the record, Asian is my favorite type of cuisine and strawberry cheesecake is probably my favorite dessert 😬 so I was kind of in heaven tonight! Really excited for more social hours at @barpeached and big congrats to @projectpeached and his whole team 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Have y’all heard Bar Peached is officially open on West 6th? Time to pay them a visit foodies! Tag a friend you wanna go here with and peep my stories for more BTS of the menu👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #getpeached
  • How is your love life going? 🥰 Mine? I’m deciding to officially and consciously put it on the back burner. I just deleted all dating apps, and am going to spend my time busy with work, friends, and this blog because I have a lot of good happening and I want to focus on THAT! Of course I want love, a partner, and to be able to share this life with someone! But for whatever reason I have not found my person, and while being okay with that is frankly and honestly a little unsettling. It does me no good to fill up my mental space thinking about the what if’s and the why nots. I’m sharing this because I recently WAS dating someone, I thought it was going well, but throughout the relationship I wasn’t acting like myself. I’m not sure why, but something about it was just not right. It gave me an opportunity to fall for someone again, but it also presented a scenario where I lost myself again. For a refresher— I was in a 5+ year relationship from the time I was 21 till the time I was 26. It was the wrong relationship to be in, but it was easier to stay than leave. And so it took him breaking it off with me for me to finally be released. That breakup led me on the journey I’ve been on the last 3 years rediscovering myself. Working on myself. Building myself up. And asking myself hard questions. It is so easy to get caught up in love especially when loneliness is the driving factor. I’m sharing this to say I see your loneliness, I hear your loneliness, but having a significant other does not define who YOU are. AND the right person is going to add value to the person you are and love the person you are and not make you feel anything less. So as we go into a new year, a new day, the weekend, be kinder on yourself for whatever status your love life is in. If you’re married or dating, do something to recognize your significant other, let them know you see them and love them as they are. And if you’re single, send a text to a friend who has had your back through your relationships. I know I wouldn’t be this confident without the support of my family and friends. And then take a deep breath and repeat after me: TRUST THE TIMING OF YOUR LIFE. You’re gonna be ok, right? 👇🏼
  • Have you ever seen an @alpacamarkets vending machine or smart refrigerator and wondered what the heck it is? I first spotted Alpaca Market at @capitalfactory (where I used to work in the v v v early days of @wpengine). I was intrigued by their motto “farm fresh food on the fly” and quickly began an obsession with their delicious, locally sourced, farm fresh food that is dispensed through a robotic vending machine! Pretty cool 🤓 They’re an Austin based company who now operates over a dozen+ and growing vending machines and smart fridges around town. Most are in private spaces, ie. Capital Factory, @outdoorvoices HQ, @trendkite, and @volusion, but there are a few public locations like Alpaca Market HQ on the east side, @cruxcc, and @springdalegeneral to name a few! Which by the way you can request for a machine for your office or complex on their website 👏🏼 But what I love is that not only is it farm fresh, they cater to lots of dietary preferences like @whole30, Paleo, Keto Friendly, Vegan, Dairy Free, etc. When you engage with their menu you can check ingredients and easily identify what’s in the item and if it is in stock or not in the machine. Most recently (like as of this week) their Whole30 menu got a redo, and they launched a Banh Mi Bowl, Potato Leek Soup, Charred Veggie Bowl, and the Kickin Chicken Salad which are all pictured! They’ll be rolling out new menu items as the season goes on, and are always rotating the menu out with chef crafted entrees and snacks! So far the Bahn Mi Bowl is my fav, made with thinly sliced and roasted spiced pork shoulder on spaghetti squash, mixed with carrots, cucumber, cilantro, scallions, mint and chilis. Topped with a housemaid nice Chom dressing-- and IT’S TOTALLY W30, GF, DF, AND PALEO APPROVED! Have you ever seen an Alpaca Market machine? Who agrees this is the future of good food fast? 🙋🏼‍♀️👇🏼👇🏼
  • Feeling under the weather and I can’t tell if it’s the actual weather, allergies, or just that time of year 🤧 And naturally I want to load up on as many fruits and veggies as I can, so a trip to @juiceland was in the cards for me this morning. I decided to build my own smoothie (which I’m not sure if yall know that you can do that... cuz I just learned that) and then I filled it with as many of the healing fruits, veggies, and add-ins as I could!!! I went with banana and blueberries, chia water, hemp protein, and loaded it up with camu camu which packs a high dose of Vitamin C, ginger, and bee pollen. I didn’t know I could build my own smoothie until recently, and realized you really can customize it to any preference or taste! They have other great add-ons like CBD, Oreganol, Dragon Fruit, and Guayusa. And did you know you can ALSO sub any liquid in your smoothie for celery juice, coconut water, honey lemonade, and even plain ole water! 👈🏼 which is TBH how I make smoothies at home, water and ice! So bottoms up, hoping I can ward off this cold or whatever it is I’m developing. The week is just beginning and I have so much to do and not enough time to do it all 🙂🙃🙂 How are you feeling? Anyone else feeling icky and in need of an immunity boost?! 👇🏼

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