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May 24, 2012
How Jimmy's Conquered Dallas
How did a humble neighborhood bodega become the city's sausage king? With a recipe restaurants couldn't resist.
Blogs
May 7, 2012
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 >>
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April 25, 2012
Months After He Arrived at Bolsa, Jeff Harris is Finally Starting to Do His Thing
When the folks behind Bolsa announced that Jeff Harris and Matt Balke would be joining their team to replace Graham Dodds, and that Bolsa Mercado would be opening just down the street, I was excited. Maybe too excited. Harris told me he'd be making all of his deli meats in-house, and I guessed that ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
You Can't Throw an Egg at a Restaurant These Days without Hitting an Egg
Last week's Union Bear review had me thinking about eggs. I was taken by a chicken-fried number: a salty crusty treasure chest filled with liquid gold. Next thing you know Side Dish is gushing about yolks. It was Graham Dodds that seduced them, with eggs from Yellow Prairie Farm in Caldwell Texas, ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Dallas Chefs Support The Farm at Paul Quinn College with Culinary Cookout
Back in 2010, students at Paul Quinn College, Dallas' only historically black college, tilled up their football field to create an urban garden in a food desert. Since that time, the "We Over Me Farm" has cultivated over two thousand pounds of corn, squash, greens, tomatoes and other produce for the ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Stuff Strangers' Chili in Your Face for the Benefit of White Rock Local Market This Weekend
As we've mentioned before, the White Rock Local Market is a great place to buy local produce from local farmers, which might sound locally redundant but unfortunately it isn't always. This community-inspired market is held the second and fourth Saturdays at the Green Spot, at 702 North Buckner Blvd. ... More >>
Dining
March 8, 2012
Heavy Cooking Isn't the Only Way to Embrace Local Meat. Though It's a Pretty Tasty Way.
As we've mentioned before, the White Rock Local Market is a great place to buy local produce from local farmers, which might sound locally redundant but unfortunately it isn't always. This community-inspired market is held the second and fourth Saturdays at the Green Spot, at 702 North Buckner Blvd. ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Bar Food 2.0
While sitting at Central 214's bar, the subject of this week's review, and snacking on some blistery shishito peppers and crispy pig ears, I became very excited about the state of bar food in Dallas. Instead of cheese sticks, chicken wings and Reuben sandwiches served with paper napkins (I love thos ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
James Beard Awards: Stephen Pyles, Bruno Davaillon and Teiichi Sakurai are Semifinalists
Alison V. SmithTei An Chef Teiichi SakuraiThe James Beard Foundation just released this year's semifinalists, and to be honest they're a total snooze -- at least as far as Dallas is considered. Stephen Pyles is a finalist for Outstanding Chef for his work at his eponymous restaurant; Bruno ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Graham Dodds Has Landed: Ex Bolsa Chef Will Helm Central 214
When Bolsa announced Jeff Harris and Matt Balke would be taking over the kitchen and running the soon to open (and now opened) Bolsa Mercado, little was said about the chef they replaced. Graham Dodds was understandably quiet about his departure. In a short interview with D, he declined to co ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
The Week in Dallas Food: Tiny Sandwiches, Too-Sweet Desserts, and Lots and Lots of Beer
This week we brewed at the zoo, ate some disappointing things, and Leslie Brenner told us another thing wrong with Dallas. Read on. City of Ate/Observer Even if Taj Chaat has Amruth beat as far as charm, interest and adventure, the humble vegetarian former stumbles into second place when it ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Jeff Harris, Formerly of Craft and RedFork, Takes His Talent to Bolsa
Jeff Harris has landed. He's currently banging out a lunch shift at his new home, Bolsa, the popular farm-to-table restaurant in Oak Cliff. Harris has been homeless since his departure from Redfork Tavern, spending time at home with his new son and keeping quiet about his future plans. The an ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Chefs Rally Around Paul Quinn College Urban Farm
Bolsa partner Chris Zielke hopes an upcoming fundraiser benefiting Paul Quinn College's Food For Good Farm will help change how people think about Oak Cliff. "From the Oak Cliff community standpoint, I want to show people it's more than just Davis Street," Zielke says. "There's a big area ou ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Piecurious and Bolsa Join Forces
There's nothing more evocative of farmhouse cuisine than a pie, so it's fitting that Bolsa -- the Oak Cliff locus of field-to-fork dining -- has hired a pie maker to handle its pastry menu. BolsaKate Nelson, owner of the 2-year-old pie catering company Piecurious, began making pies for Bolsa ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Tom Spicer Starts Another Local Produce Fight
Who could possibly find fault with an urban farm designed to teach entrepreneurial skills to college students and provide fresh, healthy food to low-income eaters? On a slow day, Tom Spicer, who says he was compelled by a mixture of boredom and outrage to call out the management of Paul Quinn Colleg ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Bee Movie Screening at the Kessler
Sweetens the Pot
Savvy locavores already know the sad story of declining bee populations; as The Dallas Morning News put it earlier this week, "Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that huge numbers of honey bees across the United States are succumbing to a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collap ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Waxhachie Rancher Gets Enters the Dry Age
You know the fabulous Waygu beef Bolsa uses for its burgers and carpaccio? Chef Graham Dodds now plans to cure and dry-age it. Carroll Lewis, co-owner of the Marbleous Beef Co. in Waxahachie, is busily constructing what he believes to be the first dedicated, freestanding dry-aging facility i ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Bet You Can't Get This Right: Match the Chef
To The Plate
There was no shortage of ways to support Dallas Farmers Market Friends at last night's lively Hoedown, the organization's 16th annual fundraiser featuring food and drink from across Texas: Attendees could buy souvenir wine glasses, purchase spins on a wheel of chance or bid in a silent auctio ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
David Uygur Flexes His Mussels To Win Bastille On Bishop Cook-Off
Photo by Kristy YangA beret and an accordion -- can't get more French than that, right?As you can see in our slideshow, Go Oak Cliff and Alliance Francaise De Dallas celebrated Bastille Day yesterday with a Francophile street festival featuring crepes, wine, a mussel cook-off, French maid obstacl ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Sweetbreads Made Two Ways from Restaurant AVA
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 ... More >>
Dining
December 31, 2009
This Decade Saw Dallas Evolve Into A Major Player On The National Dining Scene
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 ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
The Year/The Decade: Best Chefs
Best is a matter of degrees, whether you're talking about the top chefs over the course of months or years.Certainly this city's kitchens are staffed with more than competent sorts: Brian Luscher, Jean-Marie Cadot, Marc Cassel, Joel Harloff, Graham Dodds...we could go on and on. So in defining ou ... More >>
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October 26, 2009
Hash Over: 25-Cent Coffee, Wine Dinners, And Celebrity Chef Tours
"Let me be clear. We want change--if we give you a dollar for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts!"Even though it makes no difference to most City of Ate readers, Dunkin' Donuts coffee is the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys and the new stadium. To promote the partnership, participating DFW lo ... More >>
News
September 17, 2009
The owners of Bolsa are at it again—launching another hot, new restaurant while keeping their demons in check.
"Let me be clear. We want change--if we give you a dollar for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts!"Even though it makes no difference to most City of Ate readers, Dunkin' Donuts coffee is the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys and the new stadium. To promote the partnership, participating DFW lo ... More >>
Dining
January 1, 2009
A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End
"Let me be clear. We want change--if we give you a dollar for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts!"Even though it makes no difference to most City of Ate readers, Dunkin' Donuts coffee is the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys and the new stadium. To promote the partnership, participating DFW lo ... More >>
Dining
December 18, 2008
Bolsa: Delicious "Slow Food" Without the Smug.
"Let me be clear. We want change--if we give you a dollar for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts!"Even though it makes no difference to most City of Ate readers, Dunkin' Donuts coffee is the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys and the new stadium. To promote the partnership, participating DFW lo ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2008
Hash Over: Bolsa's Farmer's Market, Free Wine, and a Guy Called Mike
"Let me be clear. We want change--if we give you a dollar for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts!"Even though it makes no difference to most City of Ate readers, Dunkin' Donuts coffee is the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys and the new stadium. To promote the partnership, participating DFW lo ... More >>

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