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May 22, 2012
Five Things I Ate in Austin That You Should Eat Too. Soon.
After nearly a year without venturing outside the loop, I finally got out of town for a brief weekend. I toyed with going to Marfa, but I'm not yet Texan enough to drive eight hours for a weekend getaway, so I chose Austin, as much for its culinary diversity as its proximity. I'm still trying to d ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Paul Qui of Uchiko in Austin Won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in Southwest Last Night
Last night the James Beard Foundation presented its coveted awards for best chef. Chef Bruno Davaillon of Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek was a finalist for Best Chef Southwest Region, along with Bruce Auden of Biga on the Banks in San Antonio, Kevin Binkley of Binkley's Restaurant in Arizona, Jenn ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
The City of Ate Interview: Union Bear's John Kleifgen
Dallas native John Kleifgen took his first job at a restaurant as a teenager because a gig carrying mulch at Calloway's didn't provide much entertainment. So, when a friend told him about a kitchen job for the Lakewood Country Club, he weighed his options and wisely chose a country club scene instea ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Chef Bruno Davaillon on Being a Finalist for 2012 James Beard Award
The James Beard Foundation on Monday announced its finalists for its highly coveted culinary awards, and included in the category for Best Chef in the Southwest was Bruno Davaillon of Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. Originally from Loire Valley in France, Davaillon joined the Mansion in 2009 aft ... 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 >>
Dining
December 1, 2011
Bistro 31 Sets Highland Park Buzzing
Simple Mediterranean-inspired plates designed for Park Cities palates.
Blogs
October 7, 2011
Chef Mike Smith on The Green Room, The Beard House and Rumors of Ghosts
The Common Table chef Mike Smith has been kind enough to play along with us this week in our Three-Course Meal series. In Part One, he divulged some of his favorite hangouts and dives. In Part Two he imparted knowledge gained after two decades in the restaurant business. And today, in the final p ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Top Chef: Texas is Official; Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson Will Judge
Emeril: Top Chef's new jurist.Official word just came from Bravo: The next season of Top Chef will be set in Texas. You already knew that if you've been following any number of blogs, including City of Ate, where we broke the story that the state will shell out an estimated $400,000 to see ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Ginning Up a New Texas Spirit
The first Texas gin and the first spirit ever created by a chef is about to make its debut. Former Coca-Cola executive Don Short and James Beard Award-winning chef Robert Del Grande are the two men behind the enterprise and look forward to its early June release here in Texas. Here's Short on ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Best in Smoke: Sugar-Coated Ribs, Sour Tim Love
Everybody knows that contest-based reality shows give out different roles to play and that level of casting certainly extends to the judges. After all, American Idol all but invented the boosterish judge (paging Paula Abdul), the urban cool-cat judge -- as in Randy Jackson, and, of course, ev ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Wrapping Up The Week That The Double Double Gods Finally Arrived In North Texas
These are the assholes who line-jumped at In-N-Out. In case you'd forgotten.Copper River salmon is nearly back in season, and Dallas plans to open up a new Central Market this year. A recipe for soft shell crab emerges. That's all that happened this week in food bloggery. Oh, and some burge ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Careful, Don't Holey Cream Your Pants. These Photos NSFW.
Completely lost in New York during my trip to the James Beard Awards, I stumbled upon Holey Cream. Based on the name, I thought it must be a sex shop. Turns out, it's better: Holey Cream Outrageous Donuts and Ice Cream is a dessert shop that will make you an ice cream sandwich out of donuts a ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Six Letdowns at the James Beard Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards
Bite us, Jimmy.Not sure if you guys heard, but this year City of Ate picked up a nomination from the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards for Group Food Blog, and I was nominated in the Humor category for a feature story we did on fried hamsters. Awesome! We City of Aters were so excited, ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Of In-N-Out and Crabs...Our Inner 12-Year-Old Howls With Laughter
He's dead! Shot in the head! Please pass the bread! Stay classy, Dallas.It sounds like soft shell crabs and In-N-Out are finally coming to Dallas, so it's been a good week in Dallas food blogs. Read on. City of Ate Kristy Yang has some mixed feelings about Il Cane Rosso. She was disappointed ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Asador's Dean James Max: What a Lucky Man
Asador's Dean James MaxSome 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 >>
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March 29, 2011
Anthony Bourdain Sort Of Responds to City of Ate Post
The question of whether an awards competition designed to confer legitimacy upon food writing should honor a writer who doesn't have an editor, discernible code of ethics or known identity has reached Anthony Bourdain -- and he's seized upon the occasion to condemn food writers everywhere. C ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Mark Donald Resigns as Observer Editor
As I write this my farewell post, I keep hearing in my head the lyrics to a song from the Marx Brothers classic film Animal Crackers: "Hello, I must be going/ I cannot stay, I came to say/I must be going." Similar to Groucho's character, Captain Spaulding, it seems as though I just said hello, ju ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Food Porn, Knorks, Facelifts and Awards -- Stuff Happens
This week in blogs, City of Ate and Alice Laussade were named James Beard Award finalists. And then some other stuff happened. Whatevs... City of Ate As Alice Laussade assured us before, B.E.E. is capable of serving delicious, choose-your-own adventure enchiladas. Hanna Raskin fills up on Te ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
At Jersey Mike's Last Night, Observer Eaters Were No Match for Mighty Challenger Ed Dravecky
Maybe you noticed Elizabeth's post about the Observer-sponsored eating contest at Jersey Mike's last night. As many of you noted in the comments, that topless photo of Jack Nicholson was pretty hard to miss. As promised, a few of us here at City of Ate -- this highfalutin' James Beard Award&nb ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Food Writers Fret About James Beard's Humor Division
This week's announcement of James Beard Foundation award nominees triggered another round of hand-wringing among food writers over whether the newly created humor award cheapens culinary journalism. The concern was raised yesterday on a listserv maintained by the Association of Food Journali ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Alice Laussade and City of Ate Score James Beard Nominations
Alice Laussade gets nominated: She was too busy changing diapers -- no, really, she has bred -- to respond right now, so we did it for her (above).The Cheap Bastard may soon be one fancy, bling-toting bastard. Our beloved Alice Laussade, a regular contributor to City of Ate, today picked up ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Dallas Restaurants Shut Out of James Beard Contest
Come to think of it, maybe we should have marked up the picture here instead.Dallas chefs and restaurants, which collected an impressive five semi-finalist spots in this year's James Beard Foundation awards competition, today were shut out of the contest's final round. Stephen Pyles, The Man ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
James Beard Foundation Award Semifinalists Include Five from Big D
The James Beard Foundation this morning released its list of semifinalists for its prestigious restaurant and chef awards, honoring hundreds of culinary visionaries and their home eateries -- including five in the Dallas area. Four entries on the list -- Stephan Pyles, The Mansion on Turtle ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Kent Rathbun: So Many Restaurants, So Little Reality TV That Doesn't "Suck"
Courtesy of Jasper'sKent 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 >>
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December 23, 2010
Turnips, Happy Meals and Tainted Eggs: The Year's 10 Biggest National Food Stories
Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left for dead when the ... More >>
News
December 9, 2010
Homesick Restaurants: How Dallas Became a Dining Nowhereville.
Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left for dead when the ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
The Anti-Gift Guide: Tips for What Not to Buy The Aspiring Chef
Damndest thing: Google "Ginsu Knives" and this picture comes up. How odd.It should be easy to shop for food lovers, since their hobby's been so relentlessly commodified. Any self-respecting big-box store stocks cooking utensils, cooking gizmos, cooking show DVDs, cookbooks and cooking magazin ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Christmas is for Cookie
Damndest thing: Google "Ginsu Knives" and this picture comes up. How odd.It should be easy to shop for food lovers, since their hobby's been so relentlessly commodified. Any self-respecting big-box store stocks cooking utensils, cooking gizmos, cooking show DVDs, cookbooks and cooking magazin ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Time Running Out to Nominate Your Own Top Chef
December's the last month for culinary civilians to have a say in who takes home a James Beard award in 2011. The James Beard Foundation has been accepting online nominations for its restaurant and chef categories since October, but promotional campaigns mounted by restaurant owners who'd li ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Tre Wilcox: Loft 610's Master of Discipline
On Food, Fame and the Future
Courtesy of Tre Wilcox and Loft 610Tre WilcoxI was worried when I first arrived at Loft 610. Chef Tre Wilcox, 37, was running late for our interview, and when he arrived he was distracted, looking toward the open kitchen with each question, which he would think about carefully before answerin ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
Chef Tim Byres Goes in Search of Himself and Finds Smoke
Walk into Smoke early on any Saturday afternoon and you'll get the sense that the year-old restaurant hums along effortlessly. Simple preparations, a small, amiable kitchen crew, a mastery of the menu. Truth is, the food takes hours to prepare and there is meticulous care in the execution of wh ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Honest food at Potager and a roll of the dice at The Mercury
Sara KerensThis week's Dallas food bloggers learned to trust empty parking lots, took Mary into their own Bloody hands, and found peace on Earth at Potager Café and the Dallas Islamic Center. More Dallas restaurants have Gone Texan, and don't expect to find wines from any other place e ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Three Good Reasons to Visit Houston.
No, Really.
According to my handy Frommer's statewide guidebook, Houston is "not usually considered a tourist destination." Sounds like the folks doing the considering don't let their guts lead, since -- as I discovered on my first trip there this weekend -- Houston is an incredibly exciting town for ea ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
John Tesar: From Self-Destructive
To Brilliantly Creative
Photo by Robert BostickWith the crush of talented wizards working magic in Dallas kitchens, it pays to know just who is behind the saute pan at your favorite eatery. To help you keep track, City of Ate brings you Three-Course Meal, a three-part chat with some of the best, most inventive chefs ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Second Floor's J. Chastain Whips Up a Blend of Simple, Local, Classic and Modern Techniques
Photo by Robert BostickTime was, the only chefs most of us knew by name were Julia Child and that Boyardee guy. Not anymore. With the crush of talented wizards working magic in Dallas kitchens, it pays to know just who is behind the saute pan at your favorite eatery. To help you keep track, t ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
Chef Tell: Keep Your Frenemies Close
At show's open, everyone's pretending they miss Timothy. It's hard to say who really does miss him and who just wants to look more sensitive after weeks of acting like a prick [cough, Angelo, cough].For the Quickfire, there was some weirdness -- and I'm not talking about the exotic proteins the c ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Quatro Leches at La Duni
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 che ... More >>
Dining
July 3, 2008
Bull Ring
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 che ... More >>
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April 3, 2008
Birthday Luau
Roy's turns two decades old
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November 29, 2007
His Tre-ness
Roy's turns two decades old
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June 29, 2006
TV Dinner
Roy's turns two decades old
Dining
May 9, 2002
Planet Hawaii
Roy's holds the cheese and does Hawaiian with style
Dining
November 1, 2001
Celebrity du Jour
Big-name chefs saturate an uncertain market
Dining
May 31, 2001
Steak Rubble
Ernest Gallo is honored

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