German Food and Cooking

A Guide for Throwing a Memorable New Year's Day Party

I'm a pretty big traditionalist. I throw similar dining events at my home year after year because I love revisiting food memories. It's nice the way the smell of a certain dish evokes time spent with old friends, but the best part is introducing my time-tested traditions to new guests. One of the be ... More >>

Christkindl Market in Arlington Evidently Was a Huge Hit Last Year, Expands to 17 Days

Last year the Arlington Chamber of Commerce hosted the inaugural German-inspired Christkindl Market on the north side of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The open-air street market featured crafts, gifts and German food such as sausage and strudel. Evidently it went well. The 2012 Arlington Christk ... More >>

Kuby's Has An Almost Heathy Reuben

Most Reuben sandwiches are served with a side of guilt. The meat is usually fatty, the bread is buttered to a sheen, and cheese and Russian dressing ooze from three sides. Kuby's, on the other hand, is the absolute antithesis of these coronary cloggers. In fact, if you tried really hard you could a ... More >>

Opa! Das Bier! Five Things To Do This Week, Which Pretty Much All Involve Beer and Meat

This weekend is the 56th annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at the southwest corner of Hillcrest and Alpha Road. They're kicking things off Friday with a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m., along with a chance to win a trip for two to Greece (throw my name in the ... More >>

Well, Schnitzel My Grits

Five Events for the Week, Oktoberfest, Beer, Two Sticks of Buttah and a Bowl of Gumbo

Just put all these options in a hat and pick one. Maybe two. Becuase it's just too hard to decide. It's a busy weekend. If you strategize, you might be able the hit most things on the list. Addison celebrates their 25th Anniversary of Oktoberfest this weekend. There will be more schnitzel then you ... More >>

Bon Appetite Declares Undying Love For Texas: Dallas Included

Usually when a national glossy compiles a list Dallas is all but forgotten, but this month Bon Appetite decided to honor not one, but two restaurants in our area. Oak, which has received nothing but positive press since it opened, was named along with Tim Love's Woodshed Smokehouse as two of candida ... More >>

Henk's European Deli Splits a Polish Sausage and Pairs it with Eggs, Just So You Know

Alex Nham travels the globe, mainly the part with Dallas on it, in search of new places to eat breakfast. I wasn't in search of anything particular to eat this week; the days were long and I just wanted some eggs and fat. I could have gone to some diner down the street to quell my urges with some b ... More >>

Oak in the Design District is Open for Lunch

Chef Jason Maddy at Oak​The new Oak at 1628 Oak Lawn in the Design District, which was previously only open for dinner, announced today that they are now open for lunch. For starters the lunch menu includes hummus, foie gras and celery root and apple soup. For sandwiches they have a lamb bac ... More >>

With Housemade Sauerkraut, Bolsa Mercado Just Might Save My New Year's Day

I am made of considerable German stock -- my father was a Reitz, and my mother was a Schuster. But for whatever reason this heritage did not make it to my dinner table. We ate like the rest of America while I grew up. The only time our table was graced with anything remotely German was New Year's D ... More >>

Ballast for Your Beer Belly

Plano's Bavarian Grill Wins Best German Restaurant. Again.

​The best German restaurant in America is just around the corner, according the the GermanDeli.com. This year the Bavarian Grill in Plano received the award. They won in 2009 too. The restaurant is celebrating this evening at its bi-monthly stein club meeting. Inga Bowyer started her online g ... More >>

The Dallas Mavericks vs. Miami Heat: Game-Watching Parties

​The Mavericks will face the Miami Heat tonight at Miami's American Airlines Arena in game 1 of the NBA Finals. While some Mavs fans will be there sporting their Dallas pride, those who didn't make the trek down to the Sunshine State will be able to catch the game at bars around town. Special game ... More >>

Kuby's Sausage House at 8 a.m.: It's Never Too Early for Encased Meat

Photos by Jonas Luster​It's 8 a.m., and it smells deliciously of cooked meats, fresh bread, and sausages. It wasn't my nose alone that brought me here at this hour, though; Kuby's was first and most-often mentioned when I asked around for places to purchase sausages in Dallas. Inside the stor ... More >>

We're Looking for the Best of the Wurst

Jonas M. LusterPlease help us on our quest to find the best sausage makers and meat purveyors in Dallas.​Wurst runs in my family. You see, I wouldn't be here without it. In the early hours of a cold, very cold, Icelandic winter day, my grandfather, the great Hvatr Luster, returned home from a ... More >>

Beyond Fish And Chips

Upcoming Beer Events, With Varying Degrees of Relevance To St. Patrick's Day

​Thank God we thought better of the notion of giving up beer for Lent. Not only would "grouchy and mean-spirited" be an understatement in describing what our attitude would be if faced with more than a month without a pint, but we'd miss some great events coming up -- not to mention the Meddlesome ... More >>

Restaurant Journey Deep in the Heart of You Know Where

​Before you click the comment box, I know, I know: I missed some phenomenal eating opportunities this week. I was on the road reporting a feature story, which meant interviews and transcription sessions took precedence over meals. Had I structured my itinerary around restaurant visits, I surel ... More >>

This One's for Sharp Students

Libertine Bar Offers Pair Of Tickets To Oktoberfest Dinner Next Week

​Speaking of Spaten Oktoberfest, this month's beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features five Spaten beers along with an Oktoberfest-inspired five-course meal. The dinner is at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, September 29. On the menu are apple and pear potato pancakes with spicy lingonberry sauce paired wi ... More >>

Bavarian Grill Trails in Contest for Best German Restaurant. Obviously, Voting is Rigged.

​Defending champ Bavarian Grill has lost the first round of an online contest to find the Best German Restaurant in America. The Old German Schnitzel Haus in the tiny town of Hickory, North Carolina, held on to its early lead in online voting, collecting 4,083 votes to Bavarian Grill's 3,993. ... More >>

Pedaling to Plano for the Wurst Reason

​I'm typically pretty slavish to the seasons: I won't watch football in July or drink lemonade in January. So I probably should have waited until October -- sorry, Oktober -- to investigate Dallas' sausage scene, when the weather's sure to be more compatible with ingesting mass amounts of por ... More >>

Bavarian Grill's Title As "Best German Restaurant in America" In Serious Jeopardy

​A Hickory, North Carolina restaurant is mounting a significant challenge to Bavarian Grill's status as "Best German Restaurant in America," a title bestowed in an online competition. Plano's Bavarian Grill last year beat out more than 400 German restaurants nationwide to claim its crown in a ... More >>

AllGood Cafe vs. Ozona Grill and Bar:
The Chicken-Fried Steak Crusades

Allgood Cafe's chicken-fried steak nears perfection.​Toque has been craving a chicken-fried steak for some months now, but the dish has been on our no-fly list because it's a grease bomb. A delicious, wonderful, traditional, heart-stopping, butt-expanding grease bomb. Deep-fried or pan-fried b ... More >>

SXSW Street Meat (Day 2)

Nick RalloYeah, slather that bun.​Stand: Big Top DogsKind of meat: beef Cost: $4.50 Topping: mustard, sauerkrautIf street food has a religious origin story, it should be in the invention of the hot dog. For an eater, it's a eureka moment. Watching those dripping, dirty-water tongs drop your meat-t ... More >>

On The Range: Milanesa

A chicken fried steak, by any other name...​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Let's suppose a job offer landed in your lap that's just too good to be true. The money is a significant upgrade from your present position.Only one problem: You'd have to ... More >>

Vino Cookout

Pairing Off: 7-Eleven Nachos

Patrick Michels/jasonlam via FlickrI lost a lot of respect for Sarah, our editorial assistant. Just a little while ago she admitted an affinity--well, more than an affinity, an absolute love--for 7-Eleven's nachos.While I respect that the convenience store provides nachos, with an all-you-can-pile-o ... More >>

Nick & Sam's Grill: Where Everybody Knows Your Name, or at Least Acts Like They Do

Pairing Off: Bratwurst and Sauerkraut

Patrick MichelsWhen Charles de Gaulle famously moaned "how can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese," the Frenchman who best defined national vainglory hoped to excuse political chaos in his country.Geez, the Germans manage orderly governance (and the occasional foray into F ... More >>

Links And Clinks

Toast the holidays and have a brat

Henk's European Deli Fulfills Our Sausage Fantasies—Most of 'Em Anyway

Parade of Potatoes

Here comes Kartoffel Fest

Southlake, Germany

Don your 'hosen at FruhlingsFest

Rock the Brat

Du Hast Spuds

Hooray Beer

Disney Chicken

Grand Lux Cafe is tasteful like Vegas

Bookwormed

Guthrie's has a great cookbook collection. Too bad they're on the shelf.

Don't Ka-nock It

Fast-casual German is a novel idea

All’s Pair

Is wine only for fine dining?

Best Meat Market

Kuby's Sausage House

Mail Call

Letters, we got letters

Best Place to Buy Rib Eye

David's Meat Market

Made to order

Sampling down-home cooking, European style

Good clean feed

Spotless Rigatoni offers ample helpings of fresh Italian food

Liquid sky

Fort Worth's Flying Saucer offers a cozy space for quaffing alien beers

Mister Corn Mo rising

Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville

Hot Dish

A better brew

Routh Street Brewery ranks as Dallas' best brewpub to date