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May 23, 2012
The City of Ate Interview: Grape Sous Chef Danyele McPherson on Life as Luscher's No. 2
The Grape's sous chef, Danyele McPherson, sat down with us last week to chat about the life as a sous. Let's just jump right in. How did you initially get into cooking? Well, I went to normal college - got a degree at North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked in offices full time, in a cube. Cube ... More >>
Dining
January 19, 2012
The State of Dallas Dining, As Told By Its Chefs
Starring Stephan Pyles, John Tesar, Katherine Clapner, Kent Rathbun, Teiichi Sakurai and a dozen other local chefs.
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January 13, 2012
The Most Amazing Thing Stephan Pyles Ever Ate
FacebookStephan Pyles: Founding Father of Southwestern Cuisine, Eater of GrubsChefs for Farmers, a Dallas based group who celebrate small, local farms, is having some fun on their facebook page to promote their annual event.They asked Brian Luscher from the Grape to come up with a random ques ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Stephan Pyles To Pack High-End Airport Lunch Boxes at DFW
FlickrAirline dining has been synonymous with substandard eats forever, as multiple decades of prepackaged, lifeless meals have graced our flimsy fold-out tray tables. We've became collectively aware of a basic and undeniable fact: This stuff is absolutely terrible. In response, airlines ha ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
An Interview with Campo Chef and Stephan Pyles Vet Matt McCallister
Kevin MarpleChef Matt McCallister worked his way up from line cook to executive chef at Stephan Pyles in Dallas, then took off around the country to stage at other top restaurants: Daniel in New York City, McCrady's in South Carolina and Alinea in Chicago. Now he's opening a new restaurant in ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Hey, Stephan Pyles: Eat This!
Alice LaussadeBehold, Samar's caramelized apple empanadas with cinnamon ice cream. Yeah, the dessert is super pretty and yeah, it's shockingly small. If we're just talking about looks here, this is the Salma Hayek of desserts. But, hey, you're the kind of person who orders dessert at lunchtim ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Homesick Restaurants: How Dallas Became a Dining Nowhereville.
Alice LaussadeBehold, Samar's caramelized apple empanadas with cinnamon ice cream. Yeah, the dessert is super pretty and yeah, it's shockingly small. If we're just talking about looks here, this is the Salma Hayek of desserts. But, hey, you're the kind of person who orders dessert at lunchtim ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Stephan Pyles Thanksgiving Cooking Class: You'll Never Want Another Butterball
Stephan PylesAmong other things, the Thanksgiving cooking class at Stephan Pyles taught me that the main things I know about journalism are wrong. I had a journalism professor open his class with, "You think you're going to be happy? You're not. You think this career is going to be easy? I ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Ace Chefs
Stephan PylesAmong other things, the Thanksgiving cooking class at Stephan Pyles taught me that the main things I know about journalism are wrong. I had a journalism professor open his class with, "You think you're going to be happy? You're not. You think this career is going to be easy? I ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Part 3: Matthew McCallister Show Us
To Whip Up Something Cool, Smokey and Fishy
Photo by Robert BostickIn part 3 of our interview with Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles, he shows us how to create a cooling fish dish perfect for these sweltering summer days: Stephan Pyles' Lenguado Ceviche. It's a fairly straightforward to prepare, but one note: It requ ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
There Is Strength In Flavors
Photo by Robert BostickIn part 3 of our interview with Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles, he shows us how to create a cooling fish dish perfect for these sweltering summer days: Stephan Pyles' Lenguado Ceviche. It's a fairly straightforward to prepare, but one note: It requ ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Stephan Pyles Executive Chef Matt McCallister
Is Living Every Food Fan's Dream
Photo by Robert BostickWith the crush of talented wizards working magic in Dallas kitchens, it pays to know just who is behind the saute pan at your favorite eatery. To help you keep track, City of Ate brings you Three-Course Meal, a three-part chat with some of the best, most inventive chefs ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Dallas Chefs Choose Sides in the Fray Over Children's Menus and Kids in Restaurants
White couches in The Second Floor's Lounge, the natural prey of juice-box-slurping knee-biters.Chicken fingers to the left. Chicken fingers to the right. For years, the issue of kids in restaurants and children's menus has divided chefs and patrons alike. From New York--where one Brooklyn piz ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2010
Will Loft 610 Push Tre Wilcox from Top Chef to Best Chef?
Chris MeeseyFearing, Pyles, Gottlich, Hage, Luscher. These are some of the names that are automatically given as answers whenever the question is asked, "Who is the best chef in Dallas?" They have all prepared thousands of wow-inducing meals for their grateful patrons, they have worked in some ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Work up an appetite for the Super Bowl with NFL Dinner Series; Attend Backyard Braising Class and $30 Dinners at Landmark
Sarah Johnson Chef Kent Rathbun and the Taste of the NFL are partnering up again with a new event called Taste of the NFL Dinner series. This will be a string of culinary events leading up to next year's Super Bowl XLV and the annual Taste of the NFL's Party with a Purpose. The dinner series will ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Hash Over: Six Dallas Restaurants Earn Four-Star Forbes Rating, The Place At Perry's Opens For Happy Hour And More
Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide, has named six Dallas restaurants to its four-star and five-star hospitality ratings for restaurants and hotels. According to the comprehensive rating system, which uses more than 750 standardized criteria (which is approximately 748 criteria m ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
Seasons Eatings
Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide, has named six Dallas restaurants to its four-star and five-star hospitality ratings for restaurants and hotels. According to the comprehensive rating system, which uses more than 750 standardized criteria (which is approximately 748 criteria m ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
Seasons Eatings
Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide, has named six Dallas restaurants to its four-star and five-star hospitality ratings for restaurants and hotels. According to the comprehensive rating system, which uses more than 750 standardized criteria (which is approximately 748 criteria m ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
The Year/The Decade: Best Chefs
Best is a matter of degrees, whether you're talking about the top chefs over the course of months or years.Certainly this city's kitchens are staffed with more than competent sorts: Brian Luscher, Jean-Marie Cadot, Marc Cassel, Joel Harloff, Graham Dodds...we could go on and on. So in defining ou ... More >>
Dining
December 17, 2009
Stephan Pyles is Back in Fine Form -- Again -- With Samar
Best is a matter of degrees, whether you're talking about the top chefs over the course of months or years.Certainly this city's kitchens are staffed with more than competent sorts: Brian Luscher, Jean-Marie Cadot, Marc Cassel, Joel Harloff, Graham Dodds...we could go on and on. So in defining ou ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2009
Review and Gallery: Samar
Sara KerensThis week Dave gets to know Stephan Pyles all over again, with a visit to Samar, his new Pan-Mediterranean-Indian spot on Ross.For more photos from inside Pyles' latest endeavor, please consult this week's Dish slideshow, shot, as ever, by Sara Kerens.
Blogs
December 9, 2009
On The Range: Jalapenos
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Take a couple slices of meat and stuff them into my flour tortilla, along with some handy rice, beans, salsa and, finally, jalapenos. We know the last ingredient colloquially as a pepper, yet pepper is also the name ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Pyles-Style
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Take a couple slices of meat and stuff them into my flour tortilla, along with some handy rice, beans, salsa and, finally, jalapenos. We know the last ingredient colloquially as a pepper, yet pepper is also the name ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Top 5 Bathrooms In Dallas Restaurants
Photos by Patrick MichelsThe john at Neighborhood Services: Just like being back at home, if the kids ever remembered to refill the ice in the sink.Normally we roll out a Top 10 list in this space. But, quite honestly, we stalled somewhere around number six.Yet bathrooms are surprisingly importan ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Hash Over: Libertine Fights Brain Cancer, NBC Starts Fish Fight, and Stephan Pyles Holds Celebrity Dinner Sunday
The Libertine Bar may have the Best Bar Food in Dallas, along with a great selection of beer and wine--and, of course, the monthly Playlister P local-music DJ nights. But beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the bar's brain cancer awareness event gives yet another reason to love the Lower Greenvil ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Chefs' Choice
The Libertine Bar may have the Best Bar Food in Dallas, along with a great selection of beer and wine--and, of course, the monthly Playlister P local-music DJ nights. But beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the bar's brain cancer awareness event gives yet another reason to love the Lower Greenvil ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Where Do Stephan Pyles, Tim Love and Dean Fearing Get Their Fast Food Fix?
The first Whataburger in Corpus ChristiRight -- this should probably be over on City of Ate, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to make this inexplicable (on my part) Esquire subscription count for something, so here goes. For the September issue, which just landed in the mailbox, editors asked ... More >>
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May 8, 2009
10 Questions: Terri Provencal
Provencal (second from left) with Kenneth Craighead, Stephan Pyles and Carmaleta WhitelyThe chair of Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation for North Texas is busier than ever these days as she prepares for the big fundraising dinner.Since 1988, annual events in up to 20 cities around the country ha ... More >>
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March 9, 2009
10 Questions: Russell Hodges
Not Russell, of course. But this is how he chooses to illustrate his Facebook page...He is responsible, indirectly, for the cooking in many of the city's restaurants. That's right--Hodges is one of those teaching chefs. Currently at the AIMS Academy and in the process of advancing his academi ... More >>
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November 19, 2008
Hash Over: The Pits, Pizza for the Soul And Free Wings
Clay Pit in Addison expected miracles from chef Vijay Sadhu when they hired him in June. Five months later—or “awhile ago,” according to a manager—they tired of his antics and unceremoniously canned the one time savior.
Dining
April 3, 2008
Shenanigan's Will Feature Go-Karts, Bowling and Full Service Bar and Restaurant
Also: Ferre Ristorante & Bar in West Village goes kaput
Dining
December 28, 2006
Bones to Pick
Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?
Blogs
October 13, 2006
How 'Bout Something for the 469?
Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?
Blogs
April 28, 2006
Killer Zupa
Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?
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March 23, 2006
Waiter, Waiter!
Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?
Dining
September 1, 2005
Decades Pyled
Stephan Pyles: a perfect 10?
Dining
August 4, 2005
Home Runs
Can great chefs cook ordinary food?
Dining
February 17, 2005
Chili-ing Out
Why can't they make Texas food outside Texas?
Dining
June 24, 2004
Feed the Need
What is soup kitchen food like?
Dining
December 19, 2002
Driving Pyles
Star Canyon creator helping develop new restaurant
Dining
October 31, 2002
Fly Cook
Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa
Dining
February 21, 2002
Taco Takeover
Taqueria Cañonita changes hands
News
July 26, 2001
Something about Stephan
After 25 years in Dallas' restaurant jungle, Stephan Pyles has come out respected and rich. How does he stay so clean?
Dining
May 24, 2001
Second Coming
Patrick Esquerré offers some sinful delights at ungodly prices
Dining
December 21, 2000
Taco Star
Taqueria Cañonita
Dining
October 21, 1999
Attitude adjustment
Star Canyon has replaced its smugness with smiles, and we're all the better for it
Dining
December 24, 1998
Hash Over
Star Canyon has replaced its smugness with smiles, and we're all the better for it
Dining
December 17, 1998
Hash Over
Star Canyon has replaced its smugness with smiles, and we're all the better for it
Dining
December 25, 1997
International waters
AquaKnox successfully cross-dresses fish in Dallas
News
November 30, 1995
Stampede at Star Canyon
Will success ruin Dallas' favorite restaurant?
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