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This Friday in Deep Ellum: Battle of the Underground Chefs

Dallas chefs Nicole Van Camp and David Anthony Temple (DAT) are two free spirits who regularly host private dinners in the Deep Ellum area, chef DAT under the name Underground Dinner and chef Nicole as the Secret Supper Club. In both cases, their dinners are a hodgepodge of couples and small groups ... More >>

Top Chef Seattle: It's over. Really. We Promise This Time.

The Top Chef: Seattle season finale was really good last night. Kristen and Brooke competed for the Top Chef title in front of a live audience and had to serve up dishes for the whole audience of 160 people, plus past winners of Top Chef, plus the judges. They were told to plan for five courses, but ... More >>

Tyler Florence Signing Books at Williams-Sonoma Today at Noon

Tyler Florence, host of several Food Network shows including "Iron Chef," "Food 911" and "Tyler's Ultimate," will be at Williams-Sonoma at NorthPark Center at noon today (Monday, Dec 10), signing copies of his new cookbook, TYLER FLORENCE FRESH. After a peek at the book online, in the introduction ... More >>

The Lodge's Jose Luis Nieto Talks Spices and Cooking for Bobby Flay

Taryn WalkerSee more of the Lodge's food in the slideshow.​In the third part of our Q & A with Jose Luis Nieto, executive chef of The Lodge, he muses on everything from his favorite television chef, his kitchen tools of choice, to what herbs and spices he couldn't live without. Who are your ... More >>

Five Food Shows Ready to Have a Fork Stuck in Them

Food Network Humor​After 12 years of growing grouchier and more haggard, Alton Brown announced a few weeks ago that he's putting Good Eats out to pasture. Presumably, he's ditching science class for something more lucrative, like Welch's grape juice and the warmed-over Iron Chef: America, leav ... More >>

Want to Iron Fork With Us? Or, Here's a Forkin' Giveaway!

Check out our calendar for more event details.​All right, all right, all right...So, we got this event tonight. An Iron Fork event, if you will. A kick ass night featuring bites from local restaurants like Kenichi, Lockhart Smokehouse, Torchy's Tacos and much, much more. This kick ass Iron Fork ... More >>

The Bestest of The Best Thing I Ever Ate

​One of my pet peeves about most cooking shows is how often a program's uber-foodies -- from the four-star guys in the starchy aprons to the home cooks who've lucked into a spot on television -- are reluctant to express any real emotion about how much they love the actual taste of good food. ... More >>

Let The Battle Begin!

Asador's Dean James Max: What a Lucky Man

Asador's Dean James Max​Some people just end up doing the things they are meant to do, and the lucky ones end up being successful at it. Dean James Max, concept chef at the new Asador Restaurant in the Renaissance Dallas Hotel, is one of the lucky ones. What he's dreamed up for Asador is what ... More >>

Super Bowl Food Celebrity Super Sighting at the Bud Light Hotel

Dallas ObserverWonder if his cuisine will reign supreme this weekend.​OMG! Lots of Super Bowl parties going on in Dallas--right now--and oh-so-many celebs. We're combing through the photos from The Bud Light Hotel and the F.I.G.: not exactly foodie celeb heaven. Except a couple from last night ... More >>

Soup's On! Get Your Rear in Gear and Volunteer for MLK Jr. Day

WWMLKD? We bet he wouldn't sleep in on Monday.​Monday, January 17, is when we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in honor of a courageous man who believed in all of us and believed we all deserve an equal share of the American dream. It's no wonder then that MLK Day is an official Day of Se ... More >>

Kent Rathbun: So Many Restaurants, So Little Reality TV That Doesn't "Suck"

Courtesy of Jasper's​Kent Rathbun's résumé is too extensive to quickly gloss over. Like most chefs, Rathbun started his career as an apprentice working at La Bonne Auberge, a five-star French restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. Rathbun then moved on to work in the kitchens of Mr. B's in Ne ... More >>

Five Futuristic Movie Cooking Tools We Wish Were Real

I'm thinking of a huge beer...​Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists and think tanks, let's put the Star Wars Strategic Defense-enhancem ... More >>

Tre Wilcox Gets the Iron Chef-Style SmackDown at Le Cordon Bleu: For a Good Cause!

Stephen MaskerTre Wilcox of Loft 610​There was no back-flipping chairman or electric-green squeeze bottle of Bobby Flay's signature sauce, but Iron Chef (or Bravo's Top Chef) food nerds got their fix of food competition with Chef SmackDown at the Le Cordon Bleu College for Culinary Arts on Sun ... More >>

Chefs Clash for a Cause

Hash Over: Movember, Mojito Monday,
Melting Pot and More

October is long gone folks, and we here at City of Ate couldn't be happier. Thanksgiving is around the corner, and we've almost recovered from yesterday's sugar high. So let's all put away the Halloween costumes and get ready for a week of food events, many of which are benefiting charitable causes. ... More >>

Chefs Under Fire D/FW: Viva La Raza,
Iron Chef-style

Northwood Club's Joey Guzman at work at Chefs Under Fire D/FW​"That's what it's about. That's what we do. We represent," said chef Joey Guzman of Northwood Club, when asked about the significance of three Latino finalists in the Chefs Under Fire D/FW semifinal at Milestone Culinary Center, an ... More >>

Figs Fo Sho

Sloppy Seconds: Sweet Foods and Sour Jokes at Horne & Dekker

See the full Horne & Dekker experience in our slideshow.​This week Dallas food bloggers and critics searched for exotic pizzas, beat the heat with cold beer and colder snow cones, followed the scent to taco stands and learned a lesson in German-to-English translation. Check ... More >>

A Culture of Food (and, Now, Pictures) at Taste of Dallas

Rachel ParkerPork tenderloin by Eric Shelton of M Dining​Taste of Dallas, the ultimate sample-athon, took place July 9-11 in Fair Park's beautiful (rainy) Esplanade. Local chefs, joined by a slew of vendors, provided some of their favorite dishes. The Mavs ManiAACs (and later Saturday, The Old ... More >>

Friday Night at Fair Park, A Taste of Dallas Gas Stations

Photos by Patrick MichelsMavs ManiAAC "One Love" puts the finishing touches on a "Popcorn Worm Fetish," an improvised exercise in contrasting flavors, including gummy worms and Vienna sausages.Each year Taste of Dallas gives everyday working Joes a chance to rub elbows with some of the best chefs in ... More >>

Tonight, We Put Dallas In Our Mouths!

Mmm, gluey.​Hop on the Green Line train tonight and hop off when you see every restaurateur in Dallas -- it'll be the Fair Park stop, where the 24th annual Taste of Dallas kicks off this evening and continues throughout the weekend. Some of the Big Dizzle's best-known chefs will be in attendance c ... More >>

Chefs Under Fire Is Taking a Road Trip, Burning Rubber, Not Food (Hopefully)

​"Time's up! Put down your knives and walk away. Just walk away." That's what Chefs Under Fire's organizer Keeper Collection, LLC, wants chefs in Dallas (and three other locations) to hear on September 12, when the second annual competition rolls into town. Last year's event, held in Austin, w ... More >>

Kent Rathbun Chips in With a Recipe for a Cheesy Appetizer

Photos by Sarah Johnson ​Maytag Blue Cheese Chips Demonstrated by Chef Kent Rathbun of Jasper's Does the name Kent Rathbun ring a bell? You may know him from the many Dallas restaurants he owns and operates like Jasper's, Abacus and Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen. Before gracing us with his presen ... More >>

Celebrity Chef Ken Rathbun is Lending his Rock Star Cred to Zea Woodfire Grill--and It's Working

http://www.kentrathbun.com​Kent Rathbun.You know him best as one of the Rock Star Chefs of Dallas, the creator and driving force behind Abacus, Jaspers, and Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen, not to mention his stint on Iron Chef America, where he and brother Kevin bested Bobby Flay in Battle Elk. His ... More >>

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.

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

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 o ... More >>

Allez Cuisine!

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 ... More >>

Argh Argh Yum

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 ... More >>

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, ba ... More >>

A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End

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 ... More >>

Decadence, Thy Name is Stoneleigh

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

Dishing It Out

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

Oh, the Chefs for Humanity

An Iron Chef Moves to the Stoneleigh

Wall-to-Wall Overhaul

Pie Towns

The Big Apple goes dough to dough the Windy City

Hey, Mama

Mum's the word this Sunday

Pumped for Iron

Bartenders get down

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Grape Escape

Go ahead and stomp

Cam Bam

Do chefs watch cooking shows?

Planet Hawaii

Roy's holds the cheese and does Hawaiian with style