Subject: Iron Chef

• An Iron Chef Moves to the Stoneleigh

  June 8, 2007

• Oh, the Chefs for Humanity

  July 12, 2007

• Who Needs the Ritz When the Stoneleigh's Weeks Away From Its Reopening?

  August 22, 2007

• Dishing It Out

  January 9, 2008

• Decadence, Thy Name is Stoneleigh

  June 26, 2008

• Dawn of the dead

  Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

  May 11, 2000

• Burning Question: How Much Time Do Chefs Spend In The Kitchen?

  Earlier this fall, chef Nobu Matsuhisa passed through for a well publicized book signing...and rare visit to his restaurant. Sometime in the next few weeks, Wolfgang Puck's people--not the great man himself--holds a meet and greet session for the real chef at his soon to open Dallas venue.  At least that's what our web guy tells us. Puck's PR machine sent him the invitation, apparently hoping to keep us away from the festivities. Not that the Burning Question crew would, say, take un

  November 28, 2008

• War Without End

  The first of this morning's PR shots came from the folks at Abacus--something about AAA's Five Diamond Award and, more importantly, revisiting the moment when chef Kent Rathbun lifted (as in picked it up off the ground with his bare hands) an elk on Iron Chef America. But you can read about that on D's SideDish blog.When I bumped into Rathbun at an event last week, he launched into a 'the Dallas Observer should be nicer to restaurants' conversation. The sensitivity of certain chefs is understand

  December 9, 2008

• Move Over, Ex-President Bush. Kent Rathbun's Moving a "Blue Plate Kitchen" Into Preston Center.

  Earlier today, Unfair Park learned that chef Kent Rathbun would be opening a new restaurant in Preston Center, next door to Shannon Wynne's Flying Fish in the space formerly occupied by Carrabba's, among others. I called Rathbun's publicist Ariana Hajibashi-Martin to confirm, and she was very noncommittal: "Nothing's been completely confirmed," she said, to the point where she said the eatery didn't even have a name.Then, not 10 minutes later, she sent out a media release (bearing the subject he

  January 21, 2009

• 10 Questions: Tyler Florence

  After 14 years on the Food Network and a small shelf full of cookbooks bearing his name, Florence is a true celebrity chef. But now he makes baby food. Yes, the man People called the "sexiest chef alive," host of Food 911, How to Boil Water and now Tyler's Ultimate recently started a line of organic purees for infants He will be at the Plano location of Central Market tomorrow (March 17) from 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. to meet fans and introduce the stuff. Well, why not? He has a line of cookware, af

  March 16, 2009

• Cam Bam

  March 13, 2003

• 10 Questions: Our Favorite Answers Thus Far

  Who knew Megan Henderson liked to suck down whipped cream, straight from the can?We began the 10 Questions series early in the new year, so it seems like a good time to pause and look back.Over the past few months, we've interviewed some interesting characters, including chefs, waiters, managers, bartenders, food critics and outright celebrities. While we never intended the 10 Q segment to uncover astounding secrets, we have made a few shocking discoveries over the course of three months.For exa

  March 31, 2009

• A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End

  January 1, 2009

• Bull Ring

  July 3, 2008

• Review: The Food, Not the Setting, Impresses at Scene Restaurant & Lounge

  May 8, 2008

• Pie Towns

  October 26, 2006

• Wall-to-Wall Overhaul

  June 7, 2007

• The Fraternal Order

  Laughs, rock and a 7-foot ninja: The Golden Falcons

  May 19, 2005

• Hey, Mama

  Mum's the word this Sunday

  May 5, 2005

• Pumped for Iron

  Bartenders get down

  March 24, 2005

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  February 24, 2005

• Grape Escape

  Go ahead and stomp

  September 9, 2004

• Planet Hawaii

  Roy's holds the cheese and does Hawaiian with style

  May 9, 2002

• Kitchen Wasteland

  Just how many food shows do we need hanging out in and around Dallas, distracting our chefs and disrupting meals?Oxygen will be shooting the Naughty Kitchen at Central 214 for the next few months. The contest winner with the hair was back in the area--this time in Cowtown. A mom from Keller is vying for another Fieri-type show as the Food Network continues to seek out inexpensive talent. People still remember locals who appeared on Iron Chef America episodes. And Fort Worth chef Tim Love takes p

  June 10, 2009

• Argh Argh Yum

  June 11, 2009

• Keeping Score

  Zorilla, via FlickrSix months (plus a couple) into City of Ate and I'm still trying to figure out blogging. In the past couple of months, we've also added twitter--fortunately handed to someone else, since my response to the first mention of it was along the lines of 'I've read about it in the paper'--and a text message blast.And yet, I'm still trying to understand the older format. Oh, we discuss possibilities from time to time. Some folks around here want to crowd the space with more and more

  June 22, 2009

• Allez Cuisine!

  August 27, 2009

• Tre Wilcox Has Lofty Ambitions

  ​Loft 610 Urban Restaurant and Lounge recently named Chef Tre Wilcox their new executive chef--and announced plans to open a second concept driven by the popular cook.Yes, popular: You might know him as the former Chef de Cuisine at the five-star Dallas eatery Abacus, and he was on season three of a little known, hardly at all talked about show called Top Chef. Oh, you've heard of it? He also helped the Rathbun brothers take down Bobby Flay on Iron Chef, but believe it or not, winning wasn't

  October 2, 2009

• Chef Tre Wilcox, of Bravo and Food Network Fame, Wants to Make a Celebrity of his Restaurant, LOFT 610

  November 6, 2009

• Review and Gallery: Loft 610

  Sara Kerens​ In this week's Observer, Dave checks out Loft 610, the new home of chef Tre Wilcox of Top Chef, Iron Chef and, you know, Abacus fame.For more shots of the Plano would-be destination, check out this week's Dish slideshow by Sara Kerens.

  November 6, 2009