Tre Wilcox

Austin Food & Wine Festival to be a Buffet of Food, Wine, Music and Stars

Andrew Zimmern. Marcus Samuelsson. Marc Murphy. Brian Malarkey. Tim Byres. Tre Wilcox. Tim Love. Aaron Franklin. Paul Qui. Where can you hang out with the likes of these national and local food greats all in one place? The answer is The Austin Food & Wine Festival, coming up at the end of the mont ... More >>

BREAKING: Restaurant People Love Crossing Their Arms in Photos

Dallas chefs and restaurant owners looooove crossing their arms in photos. We should make it stop. It's the most important change that needs to happen in our restaurant scene. Seriously. Evidence:

Your Dallas Foodie Gift Guide: Chocolate, Coffee, Breads and Barbecue

If you haven't started your holiday shopping, then good for you! I think we all perform best under the pressure of deadlines, so just let it happen. Wait another few days, then get around to it. Most places will be open on Christmas Eve anyway. And a lot of gas stations are open 365. Lotto and scrat ... More >>

Saturday's Food for Thought to Feature Chefs, Celebrities, Charity and Now, a Coupon Code!

If you're looking for somewhere different to dine this Saturday night, consider the sky. This year's Food for Thought dinner will be held at the Frontiers of Flight Museum near Love Field. In addition to the dishes prepared by celebrity chefs like Tre Wilcox, Tiffany Derry, Michael Ehlert, Lisa Garz ... More >>

Join Chef Tre Wilcox of Marquee Grill as He Hosts an Online Cooking Demonstration at 1pm

Today Chef Tre Wilcox of Marquee Grill is participating in a Google Hangout, which is a program designed by Zagat that brings foodies behind the scenes with top chefs around the country. Like this video of Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco and New York. At 1 pm, you can log on ... More >>

How Dallas Chefs Grill: The Tools, the Meat and the Techniques

We tracked down a few Dallas chefs to get a little insight on how a Memorial Day cookout in their backyard might look, taste and smell. From grills and smokers to favorite cuts of meat, plus some tips for the novice, let their words serve as inspiration as grilling season officially begins this week ... More >>

Dallas Chefs Support The Farm at Paul Quinn College with Culinary Cookout

Back in 2010, students at Paul Quinn College, Dallas' only historically black college, tilled up their football field to create an urban garden in a food desert. Since that time, the "We Over Me Farm" has cultivated over two thousand pounds of corn, squash, greens, tomatoes and other produce for the ... More >>

Social 121 Has a New Menu, a New Chef and a New Concept. Other Than That, Status Quo.

The restaurant at 5760 State Highway continues its dance to please Plano natives. It first opened as Loft 610 with superstar Tre Wilcox at the helm, cooking Top Chef plates intended for fancy palates. Then Wilcox left for the Marquee Grill and Scott Siers bought the space. He renamed the restaurant ... More >>

Chef Tre Wilcox on Masks, March Madness and the Perks of Being a Private Chef

Walking towards the back of Marquee to interview Tre Wilcox, I spot him having a rather intense conversation with a guy in a suit about the menu. I grab a seat in a plush booth and wait. No more than a minute later he starts to walk over, but gets interrupted twice by two other employees with just a ... More >>

The Marquee Grill's Shrimp and Grits Stand with Dallas' Best

​Shrimp and grits, the low-country fisherman's breakfast staple, has been a mainstay on elevated southern menus for more than three decades. If you're interested, Robb Walsh wrote up a history on the dish over on the Houston Press, but regardless of the lineage of the dish, its permanence as a ... More >>

Tre Wilcox's Five Favorite Dallas Restaurants

Marquee Grill​Former Top Chef contestant and Marquee Grill chef Tre Wilcox recently revealed his "Guide to the Best Restaurants in Dallas" on Gogobot, a social networking travel site. November is Food Travel Month on the site, where 16 different celebrity chefs share their favorite restaurants ... More >>

Marquee Grill & Bar: Tre Wilcox's Starring Role

Former Top Chef contender aims to please both Bubbas and foodies.

More Burgers. Always More Burgers. And Other Stuff.

Mai Pham /Houston Press Remember when a burger was just a damn burger? Man, you're old.​If you like burgers or the word "unctuous," this week in Dallas blogs was a delightful bounty. If you prefer barbecue and invention conventions, just 'til tomorrow. Read on. City of Ate Andrew Marton stre ... More >>

More Things You Shouldn't Give Your Mom This Mother's Day

A gift for the constipated mom who likes gnats.​She boned someone, got super fat, made your whole body from scratch and then successfully shot you out of her lady parts. And to thank your mother for all that, you give her a Hallmark card and call it even? No. No, you do not. You're an adult n ... More >>

Revolving Doors: April Showers Bring New Eateries

​We can all agree today that April showers don't bring May flowers, and stormy April was particularly unkind to Metro Diner as the bacon and eggs institution shuttered their doors last month. But the month wasn't completely clouded by these unfortunate closures, and several new, mostly casual ... More >>

Revolving Doors: Super Bowl Stimulus

​Everyone's trying to cash in on the Super Bowl, from those renting their homes for the week, to restaurants and bars offering cheap drinks and food specials to lure in crowds for watching parties. For restaurants that opened their doors in January, the timing couldn't be better, but for the f ... More >>

Tocque Roulette: Kitchen-Swapping Spreads Among Chefs

Tiffany Derry​Tiffany Derry will be in the kitchen at Loft 610 tonight, joining fellow Top Chef All-Stars competitor Tre Wilcox to produce a $100 nine-course meal. And while tonight's supper may be served with extra on- and off-screen drama, restaurant trend watchers say chefs showing up in ea ... More >>

Loft 610's Tre Wilcox's Got Legs
And Knows How to Use Them

​In part three of our look at Loft 610's executive chef Tre Wilcox, the chef shares his recipe for the Triple C -- Crispy Confit Chicken. He says it's the duck fat and the time the chicken spends in it that makes it so special. Not to mention that duck is the usual suspect when it comes to con ... More >>

Tre Wilcox on His Guilty Pleasure,
Beautiful Food and Adventurous Dining

​Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Tre Wilcox, executive chef at Loft 610. Today, we asked Wilcox to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his no-nonsense recipes. (Note: Wilcox's words are after the ellipses.) My friends say I'm... a gym rat. And a very disciplined che ... More >>

Tre Wilcox: Loft 610's Master of Discipline
On Food, Fame and the Future

Courtesy of Tre Wilcox and Loft 610Tre Wilcox​I was worried when I first arrived at Loft 610. Chef Tre Wilcox, 37, was running late for our interview, and when he arrived he was distracted, looking toward the open kitchen with each question, which he would think about carefully before answerin ... More >>

Tre Wilcox Gets the Iron Chef-Style SmackDown at Le Cordon Bleu: For a Good Cause!

Stephen MaskerTre Wilcox of Loft 610​There was no back-flipping chairman or electric-green squeeze bottle of Bobby Flay's signature sauce, but Iron Chef (or Bravo's Top Chef) food nerds got their fix of food competition with Chef SmackDown at the Le Cordon Bleu College for Culinary Arts on Sun ... More >>

Don't Plan on Ringing In the New Year at The Marquee Club

The Marquee Club, a new Highland Park Village restaurant and lounge from Twomey Concepts, has bumped back its opening date. Sara Kerens​A press release issued this summer suggested the group behind The Common Table and Loft 610 would open The Marquee Club by late fall. But executive chef Tre ... More >>

Will Loft 610 Push Tre Wilcox from Top Chef to Best Chef?

Chris Meesey​Fearing, 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 >>

Dallas' Top Chefs Express Themselves Through Something Other Than Food: Their Tattoos

Learn Tre's Way

The Year/The Decade: Personalities

​The other day Jesse "Hophead" Hughey said something about the role of those special edition $150 beers--something along the lines of "they generate publicity and motivate interest in beer."True enough. Basketball needed Michael Jordan and golf Tiger Woods...well, until recently. Indeed, every mar ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Not a bad week, comment-wise--especially considering how everyone is pretty much huddled up in their cubicles this time of year trying to clear things before the holidays...right?It helped that newswriter (and alcohol lightweight) Kimberly Thorpe decided to seek tolerance-building advice so she ... More >>

Top 25 Food-Related Quotes Of The Past Decade

​Almost a decade ago, I wrote this: "Every time this country ends up with a Bush in the White House, several things most assuredly occur: The government inflicts some regrettable incident on Japan, the nation tumbles into a recession, a presidential pet writes a book, and everyone worries about th ... More >>

Review and Gallery: Loft 610

Sara Kerens​ In this week's Observer, Dave checks out Loft 610, the new home of chef Tre Wilcox of Top Chef, Iron Chef and, you know, Abacus fame.For more shots of the Plano would-be destination, check out this week's Dish slideshow by Sara Kerens.

Chef Tre Wilcox, of Bravo and Food Network Fame, Wants to Make a Celebrity of his Restaurant, LOFT 610

Mama's Boy

Feel-Good Fashion

Tre Seasonal

Wilcox teaches how to tackle holiday meals

Blades of Glory

The Cooking World is Tré's Oyster

Tré Boogies

His Tre-ness

Strike Tré, You're Out

Tré Wilcox: Under -- and Over -- Fire

Imagine, Your Own Italian Restaurant

Where There's a Wilcox, There's Another Top Chef Victory

TV Tré's a Sell-Out

Casey's Recipe: Season with Teardrops

You Can Live Here and Still be a "Homesick Texan," Dang It

Tre Wilcox: From Top to Bottom

Dallas' Own Tre Wilcox is the First to Top Top Chef

Dallas' Top Chefs Make Their Bravo Bow Tonight, So Eat Up

Abacus and Shinsei Sending their Top Chefs to Bravo's Top Chef in June

The Fixe is In

Grazing Pains

Does grass-fed beef really taste better?