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Where And How To Drink Like a Mad Man

Everyone's favorite booze-soaked, chain-smoking, adultery-laden television series is about to disappear until 2013; yes, Mad Men's season five finale airs this Sunday on AMC. (If you need to catch up, the first few seasons are on Netflix. You're welcome.) But there's no reason that your thirst for ... More >>

Starck Contrast

Another new documentary on the Starck Club revisits the storied Dallas nightclub of the '80s

Marquee Grill Barkeep Jason Kosmas on Giving Advice, Books and Hangovers

Jason Kosmas found his calling in booze while tending bar in New York City at Pravada, Employees Only and Macao Trading Co, the last two of which he co-owns. He's also penned two books, You Didn't Hear it From Us, and Speakeasy: The Employees Only Guide to Classic Cocktails Reimagined. Jason's wif ... More >>

Brackets Declines to Replace Departed Executive Chef

The executive chef at Brackets has left, and the restaurant's management team has decided against filling the position. ​Pedro Castrejon, late of Aventino and Ferre Ristorante e Bar, was at the helm when the table tennis-themed sports bar opened late last year in the former Trader Vic's locat ... More >>

Brackets: Dining Here is Up the Creek If You're Without a Paddle.

As The Green Room Revamps, We Wonder:
Can Deep Ellum Support Fine Dining?

​There's no shortage of good food in Deep Ellum, but does The Green Room's extended vacation mean fine-dining restaurants can't make it there? The Green Room hasn't gone out of business yet, although circumstances surrounding its unannounced closure were sufficiently suspicious to excite the ... More >>

Revolving Doors: All's Well That Ends Well

​As December comes to a close, it seems all is well, or at least better, as many highly anticipated restaurants made their debuts. David Uygur was back in the kitchen, plus a New York deli and the latest Lombardi venture both opened. We were expecting few restaurants to shutter since, being the ... More >>

Footpulls: Anti-Grubber Device Slow to Take Off

​The bathroom doors at Brackets, the sports bar that's taken over the space vacated by Trader Vic's, are equipped with contraptions that allow guests to pull the doors open with their feet. The rounded metal pulls make good sense at Brackets, where guests are eating pizza and grasping ping po ... More >>

Get Happy With Moustache Rides For A $5 Suggested Donation At J. Black's

​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: J. Black's Feel Good Lounge, 2409 N. Henderson Ave., 214-613-2525When: 4 to 8 p.m. daily an ... More >>

The Rise of the Il Cane Rosso Empire

Cane Rosso's Truckin'​Pegasus News reports this morning that Il Cane Rosso is putting down roots in Deep Ellum. Owner Jay Jerrier couldn't be reached for comment, but Teresa Gubbins has posted a photo of the tip-off TABC window sign at 2612 Commerce Avenue. Jerrier last week confirmed on his Fac ... More >>

Bali Ha'i: Searching for Dallas' Elusive Tiki Dining Past

Not Dallas' Don the Beachcomber, but you get the idea.​Don the Beachcomber, the Dallas restaurant whose hazy history I wrote about last week, was a relatively late arrival to the region's Polynesian dining scene. Kevin Tucker and Dennis Haberkern, two local tiki aficionados, are busily chroni ... More >>

Combing for Photos of Dallas'
Don the Beachcomber

​Tiki history hobbyists -- a remarkably serious and disciplined group, considering its members like their drinks served in coconuts -- are on the hunt for photos of Dallas' Don the Beachcomber. Open at the corner of Meadow Road and Greenville Avenue from 1974 to 1982, the Dallas outlet of the ... More >>

New Restaurants are Blossoming This Spring

​ This March kept true to the saying "in like a lion, out like a lamb," kicking off with a four-alarm fire on Lower Greenville on March 2. The fire started in Terrilli's and soon destroyed Hurricane Grill, Mick's and Greenville Bar & Grill only a few weeks before one of Greenville's biggest ... More >>

For Those Tikiheads Wondering If Trader Vic's Is Returning, The Answer Is: No.

​It was, for groovy old-timers still recovering from their Mai Tai Boat fog, a big deal when the announcement was made in June 2005: After years in mothballs, Trader Vic's would be reopening as part of the Hotel Palomar, which still counts it among its two dining options on the Web site. But, once ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: The Riviera

​Seven years ago today Dallas' grand old fine dining destination was in its death throes. The Riviera would close for good in February of 2003, leaving as its legacy some of the finest chefs, restaurateurs and managers in the city.David Holben (now at Del Frisco's) and Lori Finkelman served as the ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Female Chefs In Dallas

Yeah, yeah--pretty damn juvenile of us...not to mention downright sexist.But, damn it, if Danica Patrick can embrace beauty as well as hard nose racing skill, then we're allowed the occasional foray into 'babe-licious' territory.​Now, it wasn't an easy process. After much hemming and hawing, we ha ... More >>

10 Questions: Travis Rachal of Trader Vic's

Patrick MichelsHow many service industry careers begin in college? Hard to say, really--but one assumes the number is significant. After all, the income is good and you can work through the summer.Rachal intends to graduate from SMU next year with a degree in finance. In the meantime, the Chicago na ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Mai Tai

Demonstrated by A.J. Iammarino of Trader Vic's Dallas Guess what? Marilyn Manson is now shilling absinthe. Yep, as if Cabo Wabo and Trump Vodka weren't enough, now everyone's favorite goth poster boy is in bed with the naughty green fairy. We'll file it somewhere between the Danny DeVito Limonce ... More >>

10 Questions: Mickie Crockett

She's worked in some of the city's most respected kitchens, including Cafe on the Green, Mediterraneo and The Riviera. As executive chef at Trader Vic's, she picked up a spot in the Dallas Morning News' list of top new restaurants in 2007.Crockett now serves as general manager for Cadillac Ranch, th ... More >>

Reikyu Sushi is a Hip Hibachi

Victory: That Gasoline Smell...

2007 started with the scent of napalm in the morning

TV Tré's a Sell-Out

Deathless Tiki Tacky

Kitsch is cool again at Trader Vic's

Rusty's Tiki Dare

Trader Vic's returns in nostalgic glory

Settling In

Luqa restaurant meets its deadline

Vic's Fix

Old classic reborn in new hotel

Dead and Kicking

McKinney Avenue is alive and well

Tiki Tacky

Tiki Bob's is hanging on by a vine

Scene, Heard

Manson takes on Weathermen

Jingle bells, Jingle sells

The industry aims for the heart of Christmas-- with a shotgun

Pure delight

At Majella's and Palayok, you'll get your Filipino of fine imported flavors

Strike up the band

The Capitol's American melting-pot menu makes it cool to be a patriot

Mall food al fresco

The Terrace offers jazz and a forgettable trendy menu