Simon McDonald

Suspended Coffee? How About Suspended Beer?

According to Eater a suspended coffee trend is going viral on social media. The practice allows any customer at a Starbucks to buy a "suspended" coffee drink to leave at the counter. Those less fortunate can then come in and if there's a drink available it's theirs. Whether or not this is a viable ... More >>

Libertine Bar Hosting 4th Annual Corndog Eating Contest Tomorrow

Tomorrow marks the fourth annual Brass Knuckles Corndog Beatdown at the Libertine Bar. And just like last year, the first-place winner receives a $100 bar tab, second earns a $50 tab and third gets $25 worth of quarters all in reward for consuming an insane amount of fried corn batter and processed ... More >>

A Three-Way With Chad Davenport, Simon McDonald and Gavin Mulloy of The Local Yokel Show: "We're Not Curing Cancer Here."

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. The Local Yokel Show podcast was meant to be a fun gathering of friends who play local music, but it ended up providing a perk to those artists: in-studio video. It's a great social medi ... More >>

It's About Time Pig Wings Became a Thing

Flickr​The New York Times published an article about pig wings yesterday -- a morsel derived from the small fibula bone in a pig's hind shank. The cut, formerly left attached to a ham, has received new attention after the marketing attempts of a few pork producers have spun the pork as a bar s ... More >>

Gavin Mulloy Designed Fliers For Area Bands Before Handling The Granada's Promotions

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Gavin Mulloy​Gavin Mulloy is a young marketing pistol for Granada Theater, and he appears to be pois ... More >>

Contest: Win One Pair of Tickets To Libertine Bar's February Beer Dinner Wednesday Night

​As tasty as some of the beers created by Quebec brewery Unibroue are, they may be almost as noteworthy for their awesome packaging. Names like Trois Pistoles and Maudite (Québécois for "damned," a reference to legendary lumberjacks who made a deal with the devil) are complemented by artwork tha ... More >>

Trying Texas-Made Oatmeal Stout, IPA and Barleywine, Plus Thanksgiving Beer Help

Jesse Hughey​Earlier this month I spent a weekend in Austin for Fun Fun Fun Fest, where I was able to spend some time in the very cool Black Star Co-op brewpub and also bring back a few beers that I hadn't seen in Dallas. One of the Austin-made brews that really made an impression on me was Jester ... More >>

"Food Park!" A Detailed Look At the City's New Plans for Lower Greenville Avenue.

Photos by Patrick MichelsMadison Partners' Jon Hetzel, right, and Larry Vineyard unveiled their plans for a one-acre food truck lot along the revamped stretch of Lower Greenville. Jump for a closer look at the drawing.​As you may have read here earlier, Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano debuted thei ... More >>

Dallas City Council Members Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano Have A Plan To Help Rid Lowest Greenville Avenue Of Crime. If Only They Can Get Neighborhood Businesses To Cooperate.

Drink Discounts At The Libertine Make Being A Rake Even Easier

Jesse HugheyLibertine Bar co-owner Simon McDonald, with a few possible beer choices. ​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: The Libe ... More >>

Inside Pre-Meeting Meeting With Businesses On Proposed Lowest Greenville Rezoning

Photos by Daniel RodrigueClick to embiggen this "Where's Waldo?" snapshot of Lower Greenville familiars at yesterday's Kush confab. Name 'em all?​Late last week, the newly formed Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association requested a meeting with council member Angela Hunt and Deputy Mayo ... More >>

Tracklist: The Local Hang with Playlister P, Vol. 10

​Another month, another Local Hang at the Libertine, where, every first Monday of the month, bar owner Simon McDonald lets me take over his room's P.A. and fill his patrons' ears with nothing but local music. And, despite an especially long, trying weekend of partying, people still showed. Go figu ... More >>

Hungry For Freedom? Libertine Still Accepting Entrants For Sunday's 'Brass Knuckle Corndog Beatdown'

​Nothing screams "America -- fuck yeah!" like a corn-dog eating contest. Is there another country where revelers would celebrate the brave patriots who fought for its freedom with a monstrous display of gluttony? Is there anything more American than the corn dog, that creation of chemicals, vaguel ... More >>

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Matt Reddick Named Head Chef At The Libertine Bar

Matt Reddick​The Libertine Bar may have earned last year's Best Bar Food award with Rosanne Dileo heading the kitchen, but owner Simon McDonald is trying to look at her departure to LaGrange as an opportunity. Matt Reddick, formerly of Nonna, starts work tomorrow."The big thing is that he's traine ... More >>

Which Format Is Superior: Bottle, Tap Or Can?

Jesse HugheyCan you tell which of these Fat Tires came from a bottle, draft or can? ​Cans are starting to catch on in the craft-brew world, with more and more microbreweries offering their products in the once-maligned format -- even in Texas. Shiner has long offered its bock in cans, and upstart ... More >>

Tracklist: The Local Hang with Playlister P, Vol. 5

​Many thanks to those who stopped on by The Libertine last night for the fifth installment of The Local Hang. Yep, that's right, our fifth, which, if nothing else, proves that if you and Libertine owner Simon McDonald reach a drunken agreement, he will hold you to it for no less than five months.S ... More >>

Hophead: Warmers, Porters And Stouts To Make The Season Merry And Dark

Jesse HugheyRahr Whiskey Warmer​While last week's Hophead focused on just a very few of the great Christmas beers available this time of year, this week's is a more general look at winter seasonal beers along with beers that are well suited to drinking by the fireplace or in a warm pub escaping th ... More >>

Hophead: Do Right By The Pilgrims And Have Beer With Your Thanksgiving Meal

​If barley be wanting to make into maltWe must be content and think it no fault For we can make liquor to sweeten our lipsOf pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. --Anonymous colonist, 1630Though some dispute the story, many beer lovers cling to the legend that the Pilgrims landed at Plymou ... More >>

Hophead: Does The Right Beer Glass Matter?

Mikal Beth HugheyLibertine Bar owner Simon McDonald serves Leffe, Hoegaarden and Duvel ales in their corresponding glasses.​The importance of serving wine and spirits in the correct style of glass is pretty well established. Order a Cognac at even the most laid-back of bars and it's unlikely that ... More >>

The Libertine Offers Two Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Beer Dinner

​We know what you're thinking: "Man, that beer dinner tonight at The Libertine sure sounds great, but I don't have $100 to spare on a couple of seats." And you're right. The dinner, which we mentioned in Hash Over on Monday, features Southern Star's Pine Belt Ale (a Hophead fave) and Bombshell Blo ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Fisherman's Stew

Recipe Demonstrated By Roseanne Dileo of The Libertine BarJesse HugheyRoseanne Dileo has been cooking at The Libertine Bar for about a year, following stints as a server and general manager at the beloved lower Greenville pub. As much as she liked front-of-house money, though, she says she prefers t ... More >>

Gig Alert: John Pedigo, Michael Cox, Lyndah Gardner and Tim O'Brien Join In On Some Local Yokel Show Fun Tonight

I swear, one of these weeks, I'm gonna be able to make it out to The Libertine for its weekly Monday night event, The Local Yokel Show, where it's all local music, all the time on the bar's PA.And, actually, tonight seems as good a time as any for me--or, y'know, you--to finally get around to check ... More >>

The Libertine's Weekly "Local Yokel Show" Expands To Include Live Bands

What? Wrong Libertine? Nothing like the announcement of a slow news day to jumpstart the late afternoon news items, I guess. For instance? This fun bit o' news for Simon McDonald, owner of The Libertine, the best damn bar in town...With the bar's weekly Monday night "Local Yokel" event (where DJ Dee ... More >>

Bush and Booze. Not What You Think?

First, on this Inauguration Day afternoon, a mention of drink specials in honor not only of our new president, but the former one who will make Dallas his home, oh, any day now. A few days back, Simon McDonald at The Libertine Bar forwarded us a handful of welcome-home signs, one of which appears at ... More >>

Scaraoke Boasted Some Actual Talent Last Night

The folks in attendance last night at "Scaraoke", the weekly Thursday night karaoke event hosted at the Libertine, got to bear witness to something of a treat: Rhett Miller joining in on the festivities.Or so the reputable Simon McDonald, the bar's owner, tells DC9 via an email: "The very gracious a ... More >>

Is Expanding the Dallas Smoking Ordinance a Commie Plot?

City Council debate over expanding the smoking ban gets heated

The Libertine Launches All-Local Music Monday Nights

No one's gonna mistake Lower Greenville's The Libertine for a live music venue--DJ nights and Scaraoke aside--but anyone who's ever spent a few minutes in this phenomenal establishment knows two things: a) As Lower Greenville bars go, The Libertine's over-PA playlist is tops, and b) the people w ... More >>

Yeah, About the Meridian Room? It's Reopening Next Month.

Jumping Fish

A new gig for Marc Haines