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Burger Bubble: Two New Concepts Coming to Garland and Richardson

I'm reminded of the dot com internet boom every time I see the announcement of a new burger restaurant cropping up somewhere in Dallas. As Internet stocks exploded, pundits listed myriad reasons why traditional valuation methods did not apply to these new companies that had no revenue but were still ... More >>

Now Michelle Shocked Is On Yahoo! News, Because That's What Internet Outrage Does

The internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about, so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super- ... 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 >>

This Weekend's Best Bets: Roky Erickson, Mark Farina, Quintron & Miss Pussycat and More

Roky Erickson, James Hall & The Futura BoldFriday, July 13, at The Kessler TheaterPsychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erickson will be at the Kessler tomorrow night with opening act James Hall, who is legendary in his own right, and one of the greatest front men I've ever seen. Easily the top bill of ... More >>

SNACK is Open on Henderson (Photos)

From the outside of the building, you might recognize tell-tale remnants of the old facade of Horne & Dekker: the patio with its big garage door to the rest of the dining area, the bar that runs the length of the place. But once inside, the similarities end.

The Texas Farm Bureau Applauds Domino's Support for Gestation Crates, Orders a Pizza

Confining sows in small gestation crates has come under great scrutiny lately. Major companies like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and most recently the nation's second largest grocery chain, Safeway, have announced a phase-out of pork supplied by farms that use gestation crates. However, recent ... More >>

McDonald's Austria Now has a Deep-Fried McRib Sandwich

Listen up America! It's time to step up the game. Japan McDonald's has been whipping America's ass in weirdo novelty sandwiches in the past few months, and France is debuting some sort of fancy burger-on-a-baguette thing. America's Fast Food, it's time you jumped into the ring. It's not enough to ha ... More >>

Domino's Japan Has a $50 Pizza

Domino's recent trend of gourmet-ing the shit out of their food jumped to new heights recently. Introducing, from the company's Japanese chain (via Eater), the Prestige Quattro, which is not a sequel to the Hugh Jackman film. This is the $50 (¥3,900) unbelievably fancy pizza that features four sid ... 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 >>

Ten Signs Your Favorite Band Is Past Its Prime

​Earlier this week, Weezer announced plans to partner with Carnival Cruise Lines to arrange the first ever "Weezer Cruise." The four-night voyage from Miami to Cozumel will also feature sets by the likes of Ozma, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves and loads of others.Never mind how awesome we think all this sou ... More >>

Stoker's A Natural Beauty

In-N-Out's Here. What's Left to Talk About?

​This week, presumably, Dallas has moved past waiting three hours for and crying over hamburgers. We're on to more sophisticated things, like hamburgers with 8,000 calories, ballpark grub and how much we all hate the word "gooey." Read on. City of Ate Jenny Block couldn't find much wrong with ... More >>

Breathalyzers for the City Council, Now There's an Idea Worth $10 Million

​I have a new idea for controlling costs at City Hall. Breathalyzers for the city council, because those people must be drunk. The city is in the toilet, so broke it can't mow the parks. So broke it can't fix the streets. So broke it can't keep the rec centers open. On and on. So tomorrow th ... More >>

A Dollar Goes a Long Way at Pokey O's Tomorrow

​There's not much you can get for a buck, and when it comes to food there's not much you can get that qualifies as actual food. Skip the McDonald's drive through tomorrow and head to Pokey O's (3034 Mockingbird Lane) tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for a treat that only costs $1, including t ... More >>

Chocolatier Stephen Smith On Cooking With Mom and the Guilty Pleasure of Twinkies

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

This Week Online: Superfood are Spawning, Spaghetti is Good and More

​This week in the blogosphere, we learned eaters prefer spaghetti to pineapples and how to satisfy the growing numbers of Hispanic wine drinkers. Besides that, it's time for superfood to spawn and vegan burgers to rise above "decent." Read on. City of Ate Like so many other of its patrons, Ha ... More >>

Dallas Children's Theater Gives the Big Bad Wolf his Day in Court in the musical 3 Little Pigs; hear Etta sing in Deep Ellum production.

Whitt's End: 10.29.10

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I know this sounds crazy, but I honestly think there's something to it: The World Series has been a psychological letdown for your Texas Rangers. Winning the ALCS and beating the Ya ... More >>

If You're Going to Break Into Downtown McDonald's ATM, At Least Don't Drop the Loot

​At 4 this morning, the two gentlemen you'll find in the video on the other side decided to break into the downtown McDonald's on Commerce and Griffin Streets. Their goal: the ATM in the front window. And, for a little while, it goes so-far-so-good -- using crowbars, it takes them a sweaty minute ... More >>

Our Deep-Fried Decade: Ten Years Of Gluttony And Progress At The State Fair

Photos by Patrick MichelsAfter 10 years, this is where we ended up: four deep-fried butter balls topped with garlic and grape sauce. How did we get to the point where we'd actually eat this?​In the early 2000s, we came to the State Fair of Texas with a doe-eyed, innocent kind of hunger. We'd get a ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Steak And Kidney Pie

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn strange.We lived just off Hampstead High Street in London. This was back in the days when Brits in search of a decent meal headed for French restaurants. On trains you could buy tomato and butter sandwi ... More >>

Dude Food: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers

The Royal Red Robin Burger​Each week the Dude Food guys assess the 'masculinity' of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating...Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 229 N. U.S. 67, Cedar HillDude Factor: 5, or Boy Wonder, on a scale of 1 (Robin Ventura) to 10 (Robin ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Brother's Pizza

Something's wrong with this picture.​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Brother's Pizza 4151 Travis214-219-5200 Promised delivery time: 50 minutes Actual delivery time: 90 minutes The ScoreActually experien ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Underneath The Tropical Sun

​When it feels like the rest of the world is out on vacation, daydreams about island living come easily -- and even if a tropical refuge in Bishop Arts doesn't quite give the same effect, sometimes the right table in the right restaurant is vacation enough for now. Plus, there are plenty of "tropi ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.26.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ventured down to the Mavs' draft last night and it was ... sad. Not the selection of Rodrigue Beaubois - though underwhleming - but more the lack of buzz. I remember when a much worse Mavs' orga ... More >>

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 >>

"If They Go Ahead and Create It or If They Don't, It Don't Make No Difference."

After pestering would-be voters in the West End last week for their opinions on Proposition 1, Megan and Patrick headed over to Fair Park yesterday to see how folks were feeling about the city getting into the convention center hotel business. Patrick's video's here; Megan's wrap-up follows. If noth ... More >>

At Tonight's Found Footage Festival, Big Ambition and Little Talent Make for VHS Gold

Nick Prueher, left, and Joe Pickett, the touring kings of forgotten VHS.If, after years of YouTube, unintentionally funny strangers just aren't that funny anymore, there may be only one cure, and -- lucky you -- it's stopping in town tonight at the Lakewood Theater.The Found Footage Festival is a co ... More >>

Bowling for Morning Items

Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

Oh Brothers, or: "There Is No God."

You Betcha: Week 7

Time to Make the Doughnuts

Zales Corp. smells sweet success in expanding Dunkin' Donuts

The Greg Williams Pre-Game Show

McRat Gets McSettled

Steppin' Out

Take your baby to Celtic Woman

Cast-Iron Stalk

Girly Meat

McRats | The Last Days | Smart Doggies | Margaret, Phone Home | Chain of Fools

Fed Up in Farmers Branch | There She Goes Again | Borat on Rock and Roll

Griddle Games

Junk Food City

Calla Lilies to Cowboy Hats

Gut Blast From the Past

Cheeburger Cheeburger captures the essence of the greasy spoon--not in look, but in bloated regret

Every Picture Tells a Story

Putting a face on tragedy

Schindler's Fist

Maya Schindler's traumatized sirens pack a powerful punch

2002 Revealed

An aging Buzz finds little to celebrate in the year gone by. What did you expect?

Buzz

Gutter ball

The food at the Bronco Bowl Sports Grill scores a zero

Rushes