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Are These Leather Pants Tax Deductable?

20 Feet's Midas Touch

A new East Dallas seafood joint uses beer batter like a fabled king.

The Problem With Dallas' Lobster Rolls

The lobster roll has been fetishized in Dallas. What started as an obscure menu option offered most notably at Sea Breeze, Rex's and Cafe Pacific is becoming a full blown trend in Dallas. See Also: Lobster Roll Smack Down: Rex's Versus Sea Breeze Rex's Friday Lobster Rolls: They're Good, and They'r ... More >>

East Hampton Sandwich Company in Snider Plaza is Now Open, As Are the Lobster Crates

See Also: The Lobster Roll Smack Down The East Hampton Sandwich Company opened Wednesday in Snider Plaza (Lovers and Hillcrest). Owner Hunter Pond recently ditched law school to test his hand in the local restaurant business (he makes no bones about it - he emphatically hated law school). When Po ... More >>

TJ's Seafood Market To Toss Its Net in East Dallas This Saturday

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, TJ's Fresh Seafood Market is setting up shop in East Dallas for a little impromptu fish market. Owner Jon Alexis likes getting out of the office (which is his 1,200-square-foot store on Preston Road) and will take over an auxiliary room at Urbano Cafe (look fo ... More >>

Finding A Decent Crab Cake With A Side Of Jimmy Choo Shoes

When Mark Stuertz reviewed Cafe Pacific, in 2004, he called the Highland Park Village seafood restaurant a cliché. The menu has crab cakes and veal Oscar, he said. Breaded veal cutlets with crab and asparagus were alive and well in Dallas. And here I am eight years later sitting at the bar at Cafe ... More >>

Wicked Po'Boys Set To Open In Richardson

Husband and wife team Joey and Lan Chi Le are set to open Wicked Po'Boys, a casual Cajun inspired restaurant on Greenville Avenue in Richardson, this Wednesday. The menu features po'boys stuffed with crawfish, BBQ shrimp, fried shrimp, fried oysters and soft shell crab. They had a soft opening today ... More >>

Lobster Roll Smack Down: Rex's Versus Sea Breeze

Spring Is Here, and Summer's Coming: This Week In Dallas Grubbing

If you went out for lunch today, you're well aware that spring is here. Summer probably isn't too far off, which has me thinking about crab shacks, lobster rolls and other things near the shore. Maybe that's why I decided to review Sea Breeze Fish Market and Grill. The Plano restaurant has no surf o ... More >>

Years Later, Sea Breeze is Still (Lobster) Rolling

Coupling a fish counter with a restaurant is the best path to freshness.

Victor Tango's Fried Ipswich Clams: This Ain't Long Jong Silvers, Matey

When I was a kid, I thought clams were irregular, long rubbery strips of sweet protein covered in cornmeal breading. It wasn't my fault. Even though I grew up on the Eastern Shore, my parents grew up in central PA. They weren't seafood people, so most of the seafood meals from my early youth were ea ... More >>

Mardi Gras Oak Cliff 2012 Promises a Little Workout and Lots of Gluttony

MardiGrasOakCliff.com​With the Super Bowl out of the way, our attention now turns to the next excuse to eat, drink and be gluttonous: Mardi Gras. The non-profit organization Go Oak Cliff is hosting the third annual Mardi Gras Oak Cliff February 18 and 19 with several different events planned ... More >>

The NFL Conference Championship Food Menu

Flickr​It's time Ater's. We've been watching the playoffs since the wild cards, and the championship games are this Sunday. We've been blogging about potential menus and discussing them in the comments, but now it's time to execute. If you want to put on an awesome spread to get you through th ... More >>

Introducing the NFL Playoffs of Food

I've been looking forward to this series of posts since mid-fall, when our new Sportatorium folks joined the City of Ate fray. You see, I can think of no more perfect marriage than sports and food. And I consummate this union every year with an annual football-themed degustation. Before you skewer ... More >>

Blu Cloud Restaurant and Lounge: Now Open in Deep Ellum

Donte Everett, Blu Cloud​Blu Cloud Lounge and Restaurant opened for lunch this week at 2604 Main Street in Deep Ellum, with chef Kenneth Wilson at the helm. "He is southern Louisiana cook," says Blue Cloud rep Samuel Jackson. "And has been in the industry for about 20 years. He specializes i ... More >>

Dear Tillman's Road House: Please Put Those Experimental Oyster Stacks on Your Fall Menu

Tillman's RoadhouseFried oysters, satued spinach and tomato over poblano polenta with a spicy remoulade.​Last Friday, Tillman's posted a picture of one of its weekend specials on its Facebook page along with this description: "Fried oysters with roasted poblano polenta, sautéed spinach and to ... More >>

Safety Tips for Smoke's Oyster Shucking Contestants

​If attendees at Foodways' Texas first-ever Dallas event at Smoke tonight are able to rouse themselves from their chairs after feasting on Tim Byres' lengthy menu of gumbo, roasted oysters, raw oysters, grilled shrimp and fried fish, they can compete to shuck the most oysters in one minute - a ... More >>

Urbano Cafe: The Only Problem for a Lunch Date is That Eventually It Ends

Sara KerensUrbano Cafe: Don't call it small. Say "cozy."​Urbano Café on Fitzhugh Avenue is a great place for dates and day drinking, especially on a lazy Saturday. Before Thanksgiving, I met a date there for lunch. I drove around the East Dallas restaurant awhile before I found parking on a s ... More >>

Austin Steps Up Food Cart Game with Vegan Seafood Concept

Too long have they angered the sea.​A pair of Austin vegans is tackling the food group many ethical eaters consider the most difficult to recreate without resorting to animal slaughter: Seafood. While liquid smoke and seitan make a passable faux roast, even talented cooks have trouble conjuri ... More >>

Texas Oyster Season is Here. Time to be Greedy.

Offshore's Nextdoor: Happy Hour Begins at Nap 30.

Hash Over: Morton's The Steakhouse News, Mattito's Opens Its Third Location, Lunch Buffet at Naga Thai and More

​Have you been thinking to yourself what's been going on at Morton's The Steakhouse in downtown Dallas? Well, we have all kinds of updates for you. First, the popular steakhouse just added a few new items to its menu, including crab cake BLT, smoked salmon pizza, double cut and bone-in fille ... More >>

Aw, Shucks...Guess It's Happy Hour At Aw Shucks

​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Aw Shucks, 3601 Greenville Ave., 214-821-9449When: 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. dailyWhat: Half-price r ... More >>

Arcodoro & Pomodoro Goes Fancy, but the Fundamental Remain Solid

The Oceanaire Seafood Room vs. Rockfish Seafood Grill : The Crab Cake Conundrum

Alex Flores​Crab cake is official food of the Preakness Stakes for good reason. Just as the Preakness is the second jewel of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, the simple dish of quality crab meat, and little else, is a crown jewel of Maryland. Thought to be another one of these ancient ... More >>

Make Cyclone Anaya's Jumbo Lump Crabmeat Nachos Yourself, and You Can Call Them By Any Name You Want

Photos by Sarah Johnson​Jumbo Lump Crabmeat Nachos Demonstrated by Jose Cardenas of Cyclone Anaya's It's becoming more common for an athletes, both active and retired, to switch hats and become restaurateurs. For example, the Dallas dining scene has the popular sports-inspired Hully & Mo Res ... More >>

Fat Tuesday Festivities, Wolfgang Puck Celebrates the Chinese New Year, and a Monster Eating Contest

Flickr user Ctd 2005Except on Mardi Gras, the jackalope is rarely seen in the wild with its shirt off.​Some think the best thing about February is Valentine's Day and spending some romantic time with your significant with a box of chocolates and bottle of wine. Not us. We'd rather drink strong coc ... More >>

Grace is Worth the Weight

Days Gone Bite: Howard Johnson's Fried Clams

​In the '60s and '70s it was almost impossible to travel any distance without spotting a bright orange roof and that Simple Simon weathervane. There were close to 1,000 Howard Johnson's restaurants back then, each of them serving 28 flavors of ice cream and platefuls of fried clams.The clams were ... More >>

John’s Seafood & Chicken: Don’t Drive Through. Just Keep Driving.

Hophead: Brooklyn Brewmaster Says In Food Pairing, Beer Is The Answer

Jesse HugheyBrooklyn Local 1 with honey-pepper salmon.​Brooklyn Beer brewmaster Garrett Oliver's visit to Whole Foods yesterday afternoon was first and foremost a cooking demonstration with beer pairing suggestions. But as Oliver described how the flavors of each brew complemented each course, he ... More >>

Sizzling School

Coast Global Seafood

Skip the starters and dig right into the entrees

Cadillac Ranch Offers a Bumpy Ride for Diners

Stogie Supper

Get smoked at Chamberlain's

Roux Note

Can this new seafood joint draw the jazz lovers?

Drinking Dinner

Take a class in cooking with cerveza

Pair o' Dice

If this restaurant is really heavenly, then let's go commit some sin

Funky Quarters

Inwood Quarter Café mixes the seedy with the charming

Bold Fish

Chef Chris Svalesen perseveres with 36 Degrees

Big Fish

The Oceanaire Seafood Room is a "power steak house with a seafood center"

Fish Not Foul

Shannon Wynne scores with downscale seafood at Flying Fish

Chef Joe

Voltaire's search for a head cook finally comes to a close

On Your Honor

Big Shuckson is bargain seafood camp that has as many fresh and tasty finds as it has pitfalls

Half-Cocked

Half Shells Seafood Grill

Hurricane Warning

There's more to like about the Hurricane Grill than just the 45-ounce hurricanes

Strip seafood

Excellent is -- if you're just the average suburban diner

Cajun quest

Good cuisine--even if it involves bathtubs of boiling oil-- never goes out of style

Fish story

At the Wood Grill, too many cooks make a great broth

Seaworthy

Lefty's handles the big bugs adroitly