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Chef Burning Questions: Tim Byres on Cookbooks and Crazy Requests

Each week (or thereabout) we track down a chef for a few burning questions. This week, Tim Byres of Smoke and Chicken Scratch was willing to participate. He indulged us in a few of his favorite cookbooks and weird surprises in the walk-in. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks (feel free to in ... More >>

Burning Questions for Pecan Lodge's Husband and Wife Duo, Justin and Diane Fourton

Each week (or thereabout) we ask a local chef three burning questions about his or her favorite culinary reads, food shames and best (or worst) meals. This week, we hear from Boss Lady and Pitmaster, Diane and Justin Fourton of Pecan Lodge. 1. What are your three favorite cookbooks? The Tex-Mex Co ... More >>

Free Food Alert: Jack is Hitting the Road with Free Jumbo Jacks

Jack's Burger Truck, also called the Munchie Mobile, is in town, and you might be like, "Yeah? So what? I can go to Jack in the Box anytime my little clogged heart wants." Well, burgers from Jack's truck are free. On Friday the truck will be passing out free Jumbo Jack's with cheese before the Ran ... More >>

Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet on Dinner in Thailand, Bruno Davaillon, Chef-Driven Dining and the Best Time for Cheap Tacos

Chef Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet in Uptown has been around a bit. Born in Bangkok, his family moved to Dubai and London before finally settling in Texas. And while on paper his culinary career started at the Texas Culinary Academy, one might say the cooking wheels started churning on a dock in T ... More >>

BREAKING: Jack in the Box's Hot Mess Burger Is Messy, Not that Hot

In the never-ending race to kick the fast food scene up infinite notches, Jack in the Box recently debuted their Hot Mess Burger ($3.99). Before we get a fingertip into this thing, let's put this out there. In Dallas, there is one true Hot Mess. It's at Pecan Lodge. It's a sweet potato baked and ... More >>

The Hot Mess from Jack in the Box, Taco Bell-Flavored Doritos and More Fast Food Crazy

With the big game this weekend I was trying to find some interesting and gluttonous fast-food options. Nothing insane stuck out, but I came across a few items of note, both in the States and from around our big fat globe. Some of them are good, others awful. Well, actually, they're mostly awful. F ... More >>

The Chicken Nugget Bonanza You Never Asked For

Until recently, the chicken nugget biz was a two-player game. McDonald's ruled the roost with their all-powerful tempura style, while Wendy's occupied a smaller cult market with a more "breadcrumby" version. Both have their merits and their die-hard loyalists, but now two new competitors have enter ... More >>

The 10 Worst Fast Food Trends of 2012

If civilization does collapse on Friday, December 21, 2012, which is the day the Mayans were all like Hey guys! Earth's gonna explode in a fiery saucer of flames and stuff!, then any remaining future humans (or any aliens stopping on the burnt husk of Earth to take a leak) will be able to read the s ... More >>

Ranking Dollar Menu Burgers: Don't Deny it, You Know You Eat Them

The City of Ate has spent the past week parsing and pummeling through the Dallas burger scene. We can all personally attest to the wide girth of our coverage, which includes buns, off-the-beaten-path burgers, Korean burgers, smackdowns and more. See Also: Burger Week But, if we're really going to ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant Says He Had No Idea There Were 15 Assault Rifles in His Trunk

On Thursday afternoon, patrol officers performed a routine traffic stop in Oak Cliff. They found that the driver, 24-year-old Jesus Gonzalez, wasn't wearing a seat belt, was driving without a license, and was in the country illegally. They also found a little bonus prize: 15 AK-style assault rifles ... More >>

Lightning Bolt - Sons of Hermann Hall - 8/28/12

Lightning Bolt, Drug Mountain, Wiccans Sons of Hermann Hall Tuesday, August 28 To the noisenik who wasn't able to peek over the throng parked in front of Lightning Bolt last night, Brian Gibson might have been playing an electric chair through effects pedals. His bass, with a bonus banjo string at ... More >>

Jack in the Box Waffles Your Buns with Breakfast Waffle Sandwich

Surely after the recent news of Pizza Hut threading a hot dog into their pizza crust, and KFC air-dropping a slice of shitty cheese on top of their "burger," you were wondering: what's next? Well, here comes the news this morning (thanks to writer Sara Blankenship, who sends along with photo), snag ... More >>

Jack in the Box Has a Bacon Milkshake for Its Marry Bacon Campaign. Also, Bacon.

Via Foodbeast​There's so little left to conquer. There's little territory left unbaconed. It's in our cookies, our perfume, our lube, and our adhesive bandages. Oh no, no, it's not a bad thing. Following in Denny's meatsteps, Jack in the Box has kicked off a new bacon campaign that wants you ... More >>

A 966-Calorie Burger King Burger is Creating a Stir in the UK. Um, 966? That's It?

​Over in the United Kingdom, healthy people who eat health food have been twisting up their knickers over Burger King's new 966-calorie Smoked Bacon and Cheddar Double Angus burger. In addition to having a thousand calories, it has 58 grams of artery-waterboarding fat. Consumerist quotes a s ... More >>

Falling in Reverse's Ronnie Radke Talks Getting Out of Prison, Getting Kicked Out of Escape the Fate

Back in 2006, Ronnie Radke was on top of the world. He was the lead singer of Escape the Fate, a post-hardcore band that had just released its debut album, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. A fateful turn of events in Las Vegas led to Radke being charged with battery, and his refusal to report to his pa ... More >>

Why Smashburger Sucks More Than It Has To

Gratuitous macro depicting maximum crustiness.​Late last year, Forbes named Smashburger America's most promising company. The article describes an American population as burger-obsessed and compares the Denver-based smashers to other chains, including Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Jack in the B ... More >>

The West Dallas Gateway, Future Site of Street Fairs, Concerts and Concession Stands

​Drove the Continental Avenue bridge several times over the weekend on back-and-forth trips to Oak Cliff; the boy and I even pulled over on the west side, at the under-construction entrance to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, to grab the quick pic seen below. As mentioned Friday, all that and more w ... More >>

The Five Most Annoying Current Fast Food Trends

​Caught an article over on Adage this morning on Domino's revamp of their "cheesy bread." In an attempt to capture what marketing executives must think are idiot foodies, the pizza chain is selling "gourmet" varieties of cheese bread (with spinach and feta and bacon and jalapeño).After blacking o ... More >>

Texans Eat Out More Than Anyone. No Wonder We're So Fat.

Alice LaussadeMeanwhile, back at the house, those leftovers in the fridge go bad.​Texans eat more than 3.5 meals a week in restaurants, according to Zagat. That's more than the diners in any other state in this great, fat union of ours. Houston leads the way, eating a full four meals a week ou ... More >>

Why Go Wiking When You Could Go Bubing?

The tricky part to beefgliding is grill storage and flare-ups.​For centuries, people have been boozing it up while they hike. (Ask your mom.) But now that it's becoming popular to do wine-tastings on hikes, the activity has been given a new name: wiking. We're really excited for this new tre ... More >>

On In-n-Out Day, Five Tips for Enjoying Your Maiden Meat Voyage

​Happy In-n-Out Day, Dallas. Decades from now, when you're stuffing your face with a Triple-Triple (we get fatter in the future) and wondering if anyone called while you were out (cell phones, the internet -- it's all going to stop working soon, I swear), we'll remember the days leading up to ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day/Greenville Avenue Parade/Toadies Concert: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. The St. Patrick's Day/Greenville Avenue Parade is my favorite day of the year in Dallas. It's the one day our city lets its hair down, drops the materialistic b.s. and has fun, with total disregard to how we may look doing it. For about 12 hours a year, I get tricked into think ... More >>

Daniele Puleo: Not Born in Texas, But He Got Here as Soon as He Could

Daniele Puleo​Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Daniele Puleo, executive chef at and owner of Daniele Osteria and Brix Pizza and Wine Bar. Today, we asked Puleo to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his yummy recipes. (Puleo's words are after the ellipses.) My frie ... More >>

Free Is Too Much for Jack in the Box Tacos

​"Our tacos have had a cult-like following since the 1950s, when they gained a permanent place on our menu. This is especially true in Dallas, where our guests are counted among our long-term favorites," Brian Luscomb, Jack in the Box spokesperson, told me over the phone. With those words in m ... More >>

Hash Over: There's Such a Thing
As a Free Lunch

It's back to the daily grind, but we have something to brighten your spirits and fill your stomach -- for free. The good folks at Jack in the Box know how much you love free food, and they've got a giveaway Tuesday you won't want to miss. After 2 p.m., head to Jack in the Box to receive two free t ... More >>

Jack Hammers Another Nail in Rye's Coffin

​"Hey, are they happy we got rid of the rye bread?," Jack in the Box's mascot asks a fictional focus group leader in a recent commercial for the chain's new pastrami sandwich. "Totally," the researcher assures him. Customers may be pleased with Jack in the Box's decision to simplify its ingr ... More >>

Five Fast-Food Breakfast Staples That Should Go Away -- Now.

Hardees Monster Biscuit Sandwich has 2310 mg of sodium.​Most important meal of the day, right? The Associated Press announced Burger King's new business plan recently to add nine more breakfast items to their masterpiece of all-things-obese menu. The Sun-Times reported that Burger King's breakfa ... More >>

Chick Fight: Popeye's vs. Pollo Campero

Photo by Steven DoylePollo Campero takes the prize by a beak.​Toque to Toque has made strides this year, delving into various cultures and cuisines. Some of our favorites included the mussel challenge, the soup dumpling debacle and the souffle cook-off where we met a former president. A chef ... More >>

Los Cabos: Okie-Mex is About What You'd Expect.

Those Burger Commercials of Yore

It's still National Burger Month, so we here at Days Gone Bite are celebrating the ultimate meat sammich with a look back at some of the more memorable fast food burger commercials.Feel free to link to your faves in the comments, as we're really just hitting the Biggies that crop up here in the Lone ... More >>

Guess What I Had For Brinner? That's Right, I Said Brinner.

Bon appetit!​So I'm out and about last night/this morning/feels like 20 minutes ago (y-a-w-n), and I realize "Damn, I'm hongree." Also hit me that I hadn't eaten dinner. But it was closing in on time for breakfast. A little compromise and - voila - Dinner Breakfast = Brinner. And wha ... More >>

Who'll Buy Their Dallas Punk-Rock Memories?

Of course this one would be sold out.​I've spent the better part of 20 years trying to find my box of old Hot Klub fliers, which I'd swipe off telephone poles on my bus drive down Maple Ave. to junior high in the early 1980s. Turns out, all I had to do was look here: Twilite Room Records and Punk ... More >>

Norman Brinker, Dead at 78

Kristina BowmanThe News is reporting that Norman Brinker died this morning while on vacation in Colorado Springs; he turned 78 last Wednesday. Brinker, of course, is the Colorado-born chairman emeritus of Brinker International -- and the man who, in 1984, took Larry Lavine's Chili's concept public; ... More >>

Handshakes And Sissy Slaps

People we'd like to shake hands with:Jason Williams, from the cradle of NFL superstardom and Harvard of the Midwest--yep, Western Illinois University. Home of the fighting Leathernecks. WIU is many time almost-champion of 1-AA (they tend to falter in the playoffs, even when ranked #1), the team that ... More >>

Letter from Denny's: Four Cups of Coffee and a Free Grand Slam

Patrick MichelsFree today, the Denny's Grand Slam breakfastLike all the other reporters stopping by a Denny's this morning, I'd come to watch the train wreck. The Super Bowl ad announcing a free Grand Slam breakfast today suggested tremendous potential for chaos. What if they're overrun by bargain-h ... More >>

Former Dallas Police Detective Says Good Morning America

Dallas' Top Chefs Make Their Bravo Bow Tonight, So Eat Up

Icy Hot

Maybe this girl should name her next cat Mike Modano

They Know Jack

Green Day

Pinky Swear

A music critic's resolution for 2005

Heart School

Texas artists send a Valentine

Star Bright

Plus: Gimme Some Skin; Dude, You Owe Us, Like, $304

Fly Cook

Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa

Dirty or Duped?

Who's to blame for the fake-drug scandal rocking Dallas police? Virtually everyone.

Slaughterhouse Jive

Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

Grungy sipping

Il Solé's menu rocks. Unfortunately, so does the sound system.

Tasty tavern

The Cock & Bull is vaguely European, but definitely yummy

Buzz

Comforts of old Mexico

Casa Navarro reincarnates one of Dallas' original Tex-Mex restaurants