Nuts and Edible Seeds

Holy Holly! Actually Good Christmas CDs

The Texas Rangers' Biggest Fan

Back To School

North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

Hot Dish

North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

Out There

North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

Best dumplings

Tabil spiced pork dumplings, The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel

Best sports spectator experience

MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament

Best Sushi

Teppo Yakatori Sushi Bar

Glogg

The alternative to eggnog

Best Hamburger

Keller's Drive-In

Best Chocolate Fix

Super Target

Best Thin-Crust Pizza

Scalini's Pizza and Pasta

Best Jazz Dinner

Watel's

Best Orange Chicken

Jade Garden

Best Cooking for Canines

No Bonz Barkery

Best Frozen Custard

Wild About Harry's

Best Free Bar Snacks

Nana

Veggie Girl: Nana

It only took one vegetarian to convince Nana chef Anthony Bombaci to draw up a meat-free tasting menu. "They made reservations, they told us they were vegetarian and they paid for their food," Bombaci recalls. "And we served them meat." After their visit to Nana, Bombaci got a letter--"snail mai ... More >>

Woodshed Trip

It only took one vegetarian to convince Nana chef Anthony Bombaci to draw up a meat-free tasting menu. "They made reservations, they told us they were vegetarian and they paid for their food," Bombaci recalls. "And we served them meat." After their visit to Nana, Bombaci got a letter--"snail mai ... More >>

Review: Cafe R&D

Café R&D serves up pretty, tasty dishes, but where's the meow mix?

Review: Spiral Diner & Bakery

Spiral Diner & Bakery lets you avoid sins of the flesh

Birthday Luau

Roy's turns two decades old

Elegance Is Key

Learn to cook for some of your friends

Hash Over

Learn to cook for some of your friends

Review: Aló Cenaduria & Piqueos

Learn to cook for some of your friends

Bland on Bland Crime

September's CDs produce more beef than a Western Sizzlin'

Holy Buzz

Shinsei froths with sincere creativity

Brown Study

Aqua doesn't impress-doesn't even try

Risotto Fix

Taverna may be loud, but its menu is silent lucidity

Asch Wipe

You will like Elephant Bar, whether you like it or not

Ripened Kiss

There are only a few rough spots at Chez Gerard

More Bang for Your 'Burb

Legacy Grill offers a reason to say, "Let's go to Frisco."

Top of the shops

When you've got nothing better to do, you might as well go buy something

Hot Dish

When you've got nothing better to do, you might as well go buy something

Food For Thought 4.28.09

"This is a journey, and we still have work to do, but expanding our sourcing of beans from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms and partnering with the Gates Foundation represents significant steps." (Steve Yucknut, vice president of sustainability, announcing Kraft's intention to increase coffee be ... More >>

On The Range: Chiles Rellenos

Chiles rellenos, Emeril-stylePoblano peppers or Anaheim? When making chiles rellenos, the chef must first consider which pepper might better serve his or her vision of the completed dish. Indeed, they are similar and both are widely used, but tasting reveals subtle but noticeable differences. ... More >>

Veggie Guy: Roy's Natural Market

​After a rough Saturday night--I'll spare you the details, but I will say this: there was much vodka involved--Sunday's hangover carried into Monday. Tuesday--still not human. So I got online to Tweet about my misery. Then I saw a Tweet from one of my raw food friends that read, "Alcohol acts a ... More >>

Veggie Guy: Spiral Diner's Faux Meatballs Win National Acclaim

The prized dish.​A recent survey conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), ranked Spiral Diner's Sketti & Meatballs among the nation's top ten faux meatball dishes. You'd think the Spiral crew would be doing somersaults and touchdown dances over the news, but these guys ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Secret Toffee

Recipe Shoebox​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what's wrong with me.Every year around the holidays, my mom sends a tin of what she calls "Secret Toffee."Actually, I learned the name of this chocolate-toffee cookie thing just last week, having spent a few ... More >>

Noshing On Nutella

Recipe Shoebox​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what's wrong with me.Every year around the holidays, my mom sends a tin of what she calls "Secret Toffee."Actually, I learned the name of this chocolate-toffee cookie thing just last week, having spent a few ... More >>

Baskin Robbins Fans, Texas Pecan Growers Bugged by Flavor Changes

​When Baskin-Robbins recently announced it was axing five of its 31 signature flavors, the resultant uproar centered on French Vanilla, a fixture since the company's founding in 1945. More than 1000 people have joined a "Save French Vanilla," group on Facebook, pleading with the company to ke ... More >>

Texas Hill Country Cooking Takes Manhattan, Sort Of

This New York City restaurant is serving up something called a "Texas hand roll." Someone should tell them city folks that the Chicken Ranch was in East Texas, not the Hill Country.​Hill Country, the wildly popular New York City barbecue joint that's been busily indoctrinating Yankees in the w ... More >>

Chosun BBQ's Pork Ribs: What Are You
Waiting For?

​These pork ribs off Chosun BBQ's specialty menu are insane. The fork-tender meat falls from the bone with the slightest nudge. Slathered on the succulent meat is an appropriately sweet sauce that packs the slightest punch of heat. A bed of sautéed onions sits beneath the bountiful ribs, soak ... More >>

Si Tapas: You Should Taste What You're Missing

​Each week, Happy Eating will highligh a different restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals are out there. This week, we pay a visit to the State Thomas neighborhood and explore the extensive happy hour menu at Si Tapas. Where: Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine, 2207 A ... More >>

Oishii Renames Beloved Off-Menu Sushi Roll

The first thing one receives at Oishii Sushi & Pan-Asian Cuisine is a large laminated menu and paper menu overflowing with sushi options. But if you sit at the sushi bar, there's a small, wall-mounted chalkboard above the chopping and dicing sushi chefs. The very top of that chalkboard reads #42, an ... More >>

Duckin' Tasty

The first thing one receives at Oishii Sushi & Pan-Asian Cuisine is a large laminated menu and paper menu overflowing with sushi options. But if you sit at the sushi bar, there's a small, wall-mounted chalkboard above the chopping and dicing sushi chefs. The very top of that chalkboard reads #42, an ... More >>

Supper Club! Smoke Chef Tim Byres Sends Along His Menu

Tim Byres of Smoke​Supper Club at the Kessler, (presented by City of Ate)our dinner series that features local chefs whipping up bad ass food alongside local tunes, is happening soon (June 8 y'all.) This month's chef is Tim Byres of Smoke. Oh yes, we're excited too. Chef Byres will prepare a four- ... More >>

Eat Street: James Cunningham Celebrates Street Food ... Not Here, Of Course

Eat Street host James Cunningham lets food serve as the real star of his show.​Eat Street leads with one of its many trump cards when it starts out each episode with chrome-domed host, James Cunningham, just taking up some space on a city sidewalk, shooting the breeze. Cunningham may have been ... More >>

Dude Sweet's Crack In a Box: I GOTTA HAVE IT, GIMME SOME, CRAAAACK

​ The first time I bought Dude, Sweet Chocolate's "Crack in a Box," it was on a whim and possibly because the name was amusing. Later that evening, as I polished off the last bite of the two large slabs that were inside the box, I had my "ah-ha!" moment: the name is in reference to the fact th ... More >>

The State of Pecan Pie in Texas: It Ain't That Good

​Texas Pecan trees have taken a punch. The USDA predicts our state's trees will collectively produce 40 millions pounds of pecans this year, which is 30 million pounds less than the 2010 crop. The Sunnyvale Pecan orchard east of Dallas is closed for the season. And today I spoke with Red Gra ... More >>