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"Mezcal Finds You": A Dallas Bartender's Long, Strange Search for Tequila's Mysterious Cousin

You've probably heard Micheal Martensen's name around town, most likely preceded by the word "mixologist." As a bartender at The Cedars Social, he's been credited with helping establish Dallas' old school cocktail movement. More recently he has extended that charge by opening the first reservations- ... More >>

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 >>

La Ventana and a Second Meso Maya are Now Open Downtown (Photos)

There are only a tight handful of restaurants in Dallas that offer serious upscale Mex-Mex. Meso Maya is one of them, and now, luckily for us, there are two locations to choose from. But there's even more good news. In the latest expansion from Firebird Restaurant Group (the group that also owns El ... More >>

Support for Guest Worker Scheme Shows GOP Still Doesn't Get It

Why Won't My Mexican Mom Accept My Gabacha Girlfriend?

Why Do Mexicans Put Stickers Honoring the Dead on Their Car Windows?

And why do Chicano Studies professors always wear guayaberas?

Sunday Feed: Taxin' Junk Food Edition

In case you were to​o busy this Sunday to lounge around and thumb through the morning papers, we've taken a crack at culling some interesting stories. You're on your own for coffee though.In The New York Times, Mark Bittman penned a provocative piece calling for a bad-food tax. Citing the well doc ... More >>

Central 214's New Summer Menu Celebrates Texas

Central 214's Blythe Beck.​Central 214 has rolled out its new summer menu. And, as chef Blythe Beck explains, "It tastes like Texas. I'm all about it. I love it." The menu keeps some 214 faves, like Beck's signature chicken and waffles (spicy fried chicken and buttered waffle with jalapeño gr ... More >>

Alma: Great Mexican Food, but Give Us Tea for Texas.

Komali Aims to Elevate Authentic Mexican Food. It Misses.

BEE (Best Enchiladas Ever) Lives Up to Its Name

Why are Mexicans Turning Arizona's Sonoran Desert into a Trash Dump?

Abraham Salum Hopes to Open Komali This Month

Abraham Salum​Komali, Abraham Salum's eagerly anticipated restaurant dedicated to regional Mexican cuisine, will hopefully open the last week in January, Salum told City of Ate. Salum, a native of Mexico City, is well-known for his popular eatery Salum, where the menu plays with elements of Me ... More >>

Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

The Nodding Donkey Plays Long Ball

Photos by Jose Ralat Maldanado​A week-long soft opening is the way to go when you want to draw in the crowds, at least that's what State & Allen Lounge owners Jonathan Calabrese and Anthony Winkler bet on -- and won -- with their the new Texas-themed sports bar, The Nodding Donkey. At the corn ... More >>

What the Dead Eat: A Día de los Muertos
Party Menu

​Halloween is so passé. It's nothing more than Christmas, a commercial boon for cheap decorations, terrible eats and overdone getup far removed from its cultural and religious foundations. What people, especially those with an unending love for Mexican food, should celebrate is Día de los Muerto ... More >>

Celebrated South Florida Chef to Open Mexican Restaurant at the Renaissance Hotel

Dean James Max, a James Beard nominee who was crowned "King of American Seafood" at this year's Great American Seafood Cook-off and earned our sister paper's endorsement as the "Best Chef in South Florida", is developing his first Dallas restaurant. ​The not-yet-named restaurant is scheduled ... More >>

Military Appreciation Cook-Off Needs More Participants, Natsumi Kitchen Opens at Farmers Market, Wine and Cheese Pairing Class, and More

​Just because summer is over doesn't mean barbecues and cookouts are no more until next summer. We mean, come on, this is Texas, any time is barbecue time. On October 2, The Dave Kenoly Show on CNN Radio 1190 AM, will be host its First Annual Military Appreciation Cook-Off to -- obviously -- ... More >>

Hash Over: Hatch Green Chile Season is Here; Sprinkles Fights Childhood Hunger; Pappas Bros. Steakhouse's Jason Huerta Wins Texas Best Sommelier, and more

​We know you've been waiting for it. We've seen your tweets and Facebook posts stating that you've been dying to get your hands on them. And now it's here--it's the peak of the Hatch green chile season! We thought we would be helpful and recommend a few places at which chile lovers could celebrat ... More >>

Why Are So Many Mexicans Becoming Mormons?

Eat, Drink, Rock and Remember the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts Saturday Night

Photos by Patrick Michels​Andrea, Patrick and I just spent the last half hour getting baked in the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts parking lot on Fort Worth Avenue -- sadly, not that kind of baked (though I guess we could have ...). Broiled is more like it -- that concrete alley is mothereffin' hot. Neve ... More >>

Everything's in Place for a Great Meal at Maximo Cocina Mexicana & Margarita Lounge--That is, if You Choose Right

Duo of Soups​Last night I was a guest at Maximo Cocina Mexicana & Margarita Lounge's Media Night. Being wined and dined is a perplexing situation to be put in when you have to write about it afterward. As the night progressed, however, despite the VIP treatment, subjectivity came surpris ... More >>

Do Hot-Blooded Mexicans Not Need Winter Coats?

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

Oh, Sure, Gabachos Loved Amnesty When It Was Applied To Confederates, But Not Mexicans

If you think Mexicans don't appreciate the American way of life, just look how many of them got screwed over by the mortgage meltdown

Mi Cocina vs Carolina's Mexican Cuisine: Mole Melee

Alex Flores​Like so many of the world's most famous dishes, the true origins of mole are shrouded by time. Is it, as many insist, from Puebla or did cooks in Oaxaca first concoct the spicy bitter chocolate sauce? Maybe it was created by nuns. Some say it resulted from a kitchen accident.Hardly see ... More >>

Blue Chiles

Ru-Fi-No! Ru-Fi-No!

On The Range: Cabrito

Goats helped settle America. Not kidding: According to Robb Walsh, author of The Tex-Mex Cookbook, goats were the preferred diet of common folk in Europe, so when Columbus sailed to the New World on his second voyage in 1493 he brought goats for meat, cheese, and milk--along with Spanish sheph ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Del Maguey Mezcal

Mention a bout with mezcal and at least one of your acquaintances will fire back with the "did you eat the worm" question.But insect larvae added to bottles of mezcal are a relatively recent marketing gimmick rather than some age-old tradition--an attempt to counter the spell its cousin, tequila, ho ... More >>

Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

Ask A Mexican

All good things come from Texas—in food, anyway

Spelunk Punk

Hey, don't call me Wilma Flintstone

Bejeweled and Bedeviled

La Joya makes boilerplate Mexican transcendent

Kicking Down the Door at the "House of Death"

¡Ask a Mexican!

Monsters

Confessions of a white middle-class parent

Eye of the Beholder

Annie Murdock shows some glove

Bump in the Road

You'll be drinking faster than you eat at Wahoo Grill & Cantina

Two Fingers Too Much?

Agave shortage drives up tequila prices

Funny Valentina

The food's OK, but the service leaves a bad taste in your mouth at La Valentina

Night & Day

July 9 - 15, 1998

Holiday Highlights

Keeping the pita puffed

Hedary's Lebanese Oven & Grill offers reverent interpretations of ancient dishes

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