Texas Restaurant Association

From Silverware Theft to Fights in Bars, The Legal Low-Down for Restaurant Owners

OK team, huddle 'round and take a knee. We realize we cover a lot of topics pertaining to burgers, beer and tacos here at the City of Ate. And that's all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out. And by that we mean jabbed in the eye socket with a lawsuit. Suppose an errant knife or deep- ... More >>

Conventional Thinking: Get Ready for Southwest Foodservice Expo

​Mark your calendars for June 26-28, girls, boys and foodies. The Texas Restaurant Association's annual Southwest Foodservice Expo is coming to the Dallas Convention Center and with it (aside from yours truly who won't be competing for a title this year due to overbooking) chef Marcus Samuelss ... More >>

Greater Dallas Restaurant Association Seeks New Director

The Greater Dallas Restaurant Association is seeking a new executive director, according to an ad posted this week on Craigslist. ​Former executive director Jamee Jolly, who joined the organization in 2007, resigned last fall to become president of the Plano Chamber of Commerce. The Greater ... More >>

Hash Over: Norma's Has Another Reason to Celebrate, Taste of Texas Dinner, Tour of South Africa Wine Dinner, and more

​Norma's Café recently turned 54, and if a restaurant lasting more than 50 years wasn't enough reason to celebrate, they now have another reason to add to the list. Ed Murph, owner of the restaurant, was inducted to the Texas Restaurant Association Hall of Honor, winning the organization's h ... More >>

Wine, Wine, Wine (Beer Too): Once More, a Petition Push to Make All of Dallas Wet

Flickr user: lopolis​A little while ago, Rudy Bush posted an item about a new push to allow beer and wine sales citywide, thus eliminating the so-called "dry" parts of town in which booze can't be sold for off-site consumption. Big news, to be sure, but also old news: I called Gary Huddleston, the ... More >>

Turning the Restaurant Business Inside Out at the Southwest Foodservice Expo

Patrick MichelsA show of buttoned-down professionalism, typical of the restaurant business, at the Seat-B-Clean booth.The Southwest Foodservice Expo, in the Dallas Convention Center last week, was an sprawling, facsinating deconstruction of the business, as if some omnipotent conventioneer had taken ... More >>

Bones to Pick

Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?

Hooked Fish

Big Fish Little Fish space to get big makeover

Cooking With Class

Soon, Dallas students can learn the restaurant biz in school

Dining Tyranny

Are we choosing ourselves crazy?

Eat My Briefs

Plus: Attention Spanwich; Homesick

Vice Grip

In Dallas restaurants, 2003 was all about smoke. The future may be all about hooch.

The Color of Money

Does restaurant service differ because of race? Depends on whom you ask.

Tip Gyp

Throw out the old rules. Here's a guide to tipping in Dallas.

Cloudy Issue

Bill proposes to ban smoking in Texas restaurants

Playing Chicken

Come boom or bust Dallasites gotta eat--out, that is

Eat these words

The Dallas scene was everywhere -- and nowhere -- in 1999

Running hooch

Quick, someone call Walker, Texas Ranger -- there may be bootlegging going on

Hash Over

Hash Over

Honky-tonk from Hell

Liquor and lawsuits keep flowing at the legendary Crystal Chandelier

Give and take-out

Marty's is still the best when you're ready to eat on the run