Abraham Salum

Peak & Elm Cocina y Bar Shuns Gratis Chips and Salsa: Pitchforks and Torches Await

This week the new Tex-Mex restaurant Peak & Elm Cocina y Bar held a media preview to showcase its new menu to the blog-nicks. The folks behind La Popular Tamale House are preparing to open the new place at the corner of (can you guess?) in early February. There won't be any chips and salsa on the ... More >>

Soups On! This Tuesday at the Omni with Chef Brian Luscher

Chef Brian Luscher of the The Grape and a flock of other great Dallas chefs are collaborating for the 5th annual Soup's On!, which is a starched-pants luncheon featuring lots of soup. Chefs participating include Bruno Davaillon on the Mansion, Jason Maddy of Oak, Nathan Tate of Boulevardier, Randall ... More >>

Modern Mexican, Drunken Olympics and Dining In The Bubble: This Week in Dallas Dining

Wrapping up that work day and getting ready to head home watch the Olympics and do some drinking? Easy now. The gymnastics events are in full swing and Alice's instruction to drink every time you see a wedgie promises to intoxicate an entire planet. Before you pick up your shot glass, we have a week ... More >>

Komali's Safe Bet

An almost authentic restaurant panders to the local palate.

How Dallas Chefs Grill: The Tools, the Meat and the Techniques

We tracked down a few Dallas chefs to get a little insight on how a Memorial Day cookout in their backyard might look, taste and smell. From grills and smokers to favorite cuts of meat, plus some tips for the novice, let their words serve as inspiration as grilling season officially begins this week ... More >>

Ten Things You Missed at Sunday's Chefs for Farmers Event. Plus, the Food. Oh, the Food.

Chefs For Farmers is an event in which 30 area chefs compete for attendees' votes with a singular signature bite. The winning chef gets $2,500 toward his or her charity of choice. The event was created by Iris and Matt McCallister to support local farms, local ingredients and getting really full, d ... More >>

Vandals Attack a Local Bee Colony. Like Facing Extinction Wasn't Hard Enough.

Vandalized bee hives at Eden's Organic.​Marie Tedei created Eden's Organic Garden Center and CSA farm for several reasons. One was self-fulfilling: She's a studied horticulturist and has a passion for living clean and healthy off the land. But the primary reason was to have a place where the l ... More >>

Komali Chef Anastacia Quinones on the Allure of Victor Tango's, the Mulato Chili and More

Anastacia Quiñones is just one week into her new job as chef at the modern Mexican cuisine spot Komali. The Dallas native attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York, then fell in love with San Francisco after just several hours visiting. After working there for a few years, she returned ... More >>

Tomorrow: Soup's On, Featuring a Load of Great Chefs and the Lady Who Wrote Glass Castle

Artist Cornelius Brackens Jr. "I Knew You Were There"​The fourth annual SOUP'S ON! Stewpot Alliance Luncheon and art sale is tomorrow at Union Station. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, will be the keynote speaker, and nine of Dallas' top chefs will serve up signature soups. The art ... More >>

Cafe Momentum, a Restaurant by At-Risk Kids, Keeps Popping Up and May Soon Settle Down

Chad Houser and Janice Provost are gearing up again. The faces behind the non-profit organization Cafe Momentum are preparing to announce their next pop-up dinner, to be held in February at Bolsa Mercado. The event will feature chefs Jeff Harris and Matt Balke. Last year, Houser and Provost used si ... More >>

Fieri Sightings, Burgers, Puffy Tacos and New Openings: The Week in Dallas' Food Scene

​Ugh, indeed. I'm definitely still the new guy. I don't know how I can be described as anything but the new guy when you take into account my antics at the Loon last night. Apparently they pour their drinks with a heavy, heavy hand, and I was the last to know. The weekend is here, though, an ... More >>

Parigi's Janice Provost, Out of the Corporate Fire and into the Sauteeing Pan

Parigi's Janice Provost.​This week, Three-Course Meal catches up with Janice Provost, chef/owner of Parigi Restaurant. Who are you? I'm 42. I grew up in a suburb of Houston on what my mom called Neal's Mini Farm. We had ducks, geese, chickens, rabbits, honey bees and a horse named Ginger. ... More >>

Komali Aims to Elevate Authentic Mexican Food. It Misses.

Revolving Doors: Who's Afraid of a Little Ice?

​The weather may have given Dallas the finger right before the Super Bowl, but some high-profile restaurants, including The Cedars Social and Lockhart Smokehouse, were able to open in spite of ice, snow and Steelers fans. In January, we found out that Metro Diner will be closing its Gaston Avenue ... More >>

The Week in Food: Lots of Lists,
Plus Some Cabbage for Roughage

​ Dallas blogs spent the week wrapping up 2010 in a series of lists and predicting food trends for 2011. City of Ate Hanna Raskin feels diminutive in the face of a face-sized bland chicken breast at Kenny's Italian Kitchen. Alice Laussade edits four-letter words out of her vocabulary to de ... More >>

Abraham Salum Hopes to Open Komali This Month

Abraham Salum​Komali, Abraham Salum's eagerly anticipated restaurant dedicated to regional Mexican cuisine, will hopefully open the last week in January, Salum told City of Ate. Salum, a native of Mexico City, is well-known for his popular eatery Salum, where the menu plays with elements of Me ... More >>

What's in Store for the Taco in 2011?

​Having looked back at how the taco has fared in Dallas and across the country in 2010, Taco Trail now is looking toward the horizon and to what's next for our favorite food. What is clear from the beginning is that regionalism, whether Mexican state, foreign state or Lone Star State, will be ... More >>

Come "Play" With Matt McCallister

Matt McCallister​Matt McCallister, who helped inaugurate the extraordinarily popular Fuego concept at Stephan Pyles before tendering his resignation there, has announced a series of three limited-seating dinners. McCallister is planning to depart Dallas for a series of culinary apprenticeship ... More >>

High-End Dallas Chefs Devise Vegan Dishes

The vast majority of fine dining dishes are fraught with ingredients that give vegans the willies. High-end chefs instinctively saturate their food with butter and cream, costuming even the most innocuous vegetables in animal products. No animals were harmed in the making of this dish.​But for on ... More >>

A Final Look at 48 Nights

Robert Bostick.Right to left: Chefs Nathan tate, Randall Copeland and Jeff Harris relaxing.​After eight months of charitable cooking, the chefs behind the ambitious 48 Nights project recently put the popular weekly event to bed. Dallas restaurateurs Chris Jeffers, Chris Zielke and Tim Byres r ... More >>

From Farm to Table: Chef for Farmers Event
To Boost Local Producers

Photos by Robert BostickRandall Copeland, Bruno Davaillon, Janice Provost, Chad Houser, Nathan Tate and Matt McCallister​A unique twilight dinner has been scheduled at Eden's Garden Organic Garden Center and CSA Farm in Balch Springs that will pair seven chefs from five Dallas restaurants for ... More >>

Part 3: Abraham Salum's Rack of Lamb
With Mushroom Bread Pudding

Photos by Robert Bostick​Abraham Salum of Salum and the upcoming Komali shows City of Aters how to prepare his Dijon- and truffle-crusted rack of lamb this week. A note on this one: Cooks who require precise amounts of ingredients are going to have to rely on their own taste buds in deciding w ... More >>

Part 2: Abraham Salum on Grasshoppers, European Cheeses and -- ick-- Haggis

Photo by Robert BostickAbraham Salum​In part two of our continuing three-part chef's series we toss a few questions at chef Abraham Salum, recent U.S. citizen and owner of his popular namesake restaurant, Salum, which is about to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Tomorrow we join the chef in hi ... More >>

With New Citizenship and Plans for a New Restaurant, Abraham Salum
Has Cause to Celebrate

Photo by Robert BostickAbraham Salum​Abraham Salum's restaurant always seem to be filled with happy guests, despite its odd location. He runs a clean, consistent, open kitchen at his namesake Salum, located in a tiny shopping center on Cole Avenue, a spot many people said couldn't possibly be ... More >>

Uptown Bar and Grill Has New Happy Hour Specials, Mi Piaci Gets Face Lift

​Here at City of Ate we love happy hours. Hell, we even wrote a feature about them not too long ago. So, we're always on the lookout for our readers when a new chance for happiness -- or cheap drinks, whatevs -- pops up in Dallas. Uptown Bar and Grill just introduced the new 3-4-5 happy hou ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Apple and Berry Crisp at Salum

​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the ch ... More >>

Thinkin' 'Bout Food

Salum: Paring Down Portions But Not Flavor at a Dining Gem

Seeing Green

Food to Go

Dallas chefs learn their trade here, there and everywhere