You remember Mark Zable from last year’s State Fair of Texas Big Tex Choice Awards: He’s the one who won last year’s Most Creative title for inventing that little thing called fried beer.It wasn’t my favorite thing at the fair, but Zable has serious fried talent. “I just love our…
Instead of going to stupid Macaroni Garden and ordering a build-your-own, never-ending, disgusting-ass pasta bowl, check out the Easy Italian Dishes cooking class at the Dallas Central Market, 5750 E. Lovers Lane. You’ll learn how to make your own fresh tomato and basil pasta, veal piccatine with mushrooms and marsala…
A new study conducted by UT researcher Fawaz Almansour finds that today’s power parents are the worst lunch-packers ever.”The main finding of our study is that more than 90 percent of perishable items were at an unacceptable temperature — according to USDA guidelines — an hour and a half before…
I stumbled upon the SSahm BBQ food truck while walking through the Arts District playing hipster bingo. (“Another fedora. Dang. Already got that one. Wait — there’s a dude in somehow-baggy-size-zero skinny jeans walking with a girl in a too-short romper!! She’s got a sugar glider in a bonding-pouch necklace!!!…
But when the makers of Itty Bitty Bra say that “Many whom nature ‘blessed’ with less than a ‘B’ cup size are underserved by today’s bra choices,” we can’t help but want to punch them in their tiny, tiny tits…
Watching Bravo the other night, it happened: John Stamos tried to make Greek yogurt sexy at me. I was just sitting there, watching a yogurt ad like us 30-year-old women are supposed to, when Uncle Jesse tried to tell me that bringing yogurt to a dinner party is not only…
My Fit Foods is what would happen if Eatzi’s ate Jenny Craig. It’s a wall of refrigerators filled with premade, preportioned, ready-to-wave, better-for-you-than-horking-down-a-stuffed-crust-pizza meals. The goal of My Fit Foods is to help us buncha lazy tubtowns learn how to not eat triple cheeseburgers with bacon every damned day. You…
As if you needed another reason to have a beer besides “It’s Hump Daaaaay!” and “It’s daytime!” and “I like beer!,” here are five “facts” drunks will throw at you to convince you that getting hammered is actually good for you. “Wine is nature’s sunblock!” — your mom and these…
It’s hot. People won’t shut up about it. We’re not quite sure why you people are cheering for the stupid hot to continue (we’re looking at you, @CBS11Larry). Rather than get annoyed, here at City of Ate we think it’s about damned time we made this shitty streak of unthunderstorms…
”Hang on a sec, y’all,” Randy Johnson (director of horticulture) says as he stomps through his lush, native flowerbed at the Texas Discovery Gardens in Fair Park. Classmates whisper uncomfortably, “Did he seriously just shove that Texas lantana out of his way?” Yep. Randy disappears into the flowerbed with some shears…
August 14, Pecan Lodge Catering and Lockhart Smokehouse will hold a fundraiser to benefit the family of Lt. Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter who died July 7 after falling from the outfield stands at a Texas Rangers game in Arlington. There are $30 tickets are still available for the event,…
Tired of spending $10 for a mediocre lunch? Let the Cheap Bastard show you how to spend way less for something better, every Thursday on City of Ate and in the Dallas Observer. This week: Gandolfo’s New York Deli Food Truck. Minutes I waited for food: 3 Times the guy…
Driving through the Design District totally lost (except for the fact that I knew I was in the Design District because of the signs on every tree, lamppost and fire hydrant that label the area as such; you’d think that of all places, the Design District would know that less…
Pecan Lodge Catering and Lockhart Smokehouse will hold a fundraiser to benefit the family of Lt. Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter who died July 7 after falling from the outfield stands at a Texas Rangers game in Arlington. The event, August 14th, at Shed 2 in the Dallas Farmers…
When I heard that Jell-O was marketing Jell-O Temptations, “The first Jell-O that’s just for adults,”I thought that was pretty ridiculous. How do they even get porn into Jell-O packaging, let alone get the clearance to sell something like that in a Walmart? But when I was searching for Jell-O…
Tonight, the Kessler Theater (1230 W. Davis St.) is presenting BedPost Confessions, “a fabulous and diverse group of sexy writers, readers, and actors with performances about sex, sensuality, and the steamy side of life.” “Fabulous and diverse?” We haven’t been to one of these shows before, but it sounds like…
Days after paying $3 at a Taste of Dallas taco stand for the blandest taco experience I’ve ever had, I was in serious need of taco redemption. (Thanks for punishing me for trying something new, Three Guys and A Taco. Maybe you were just off your game that day? I…
California import In-N-Out Burger arrived in Frisco, and people lost their minds. They waited in line for hours. They cried tears of joy. And immediately after all the “OHMAHGAWDY’ALLIT’SFINALLYHERE!” crazydust settled, it was clear that among our readers there are two serious-as-their-obviously-impending-heart-attacks fast-food burger camps: You’re either Team In-N-Out or…
Hey ladies (and mid-40s Dallas douchebags), you ever skooch yourself into the sausage-casing that is Spanx? Yeah, us too. And we just discovered that Spanx, who brought you the shapewear that made you look un-muffin-toppy and awesome in that fancy outfit you wore recently, has a swimwear line. Yep. They’re…
Nammi is “cruisin’ Vietnamese fusion.” It’s a food truck! Yay! We begged heaven and its opposite, City Hall, to let us have food trucks in Dallas, and we’re so excited that they’re here, and now that we have them…apparently none of you effers go to them unless it’s opening day…
You’ve been to gas-station taquerías. You’ve been to snow-cone stands. But have you ever been to a gas station taquería/snow-coneria? If not, lemme tell what I know about heaven. Cool & Hot Tacos is just off of Interstate 35 at Eighth Street. You’ve driven past it a million times on…
Love the 4th of July, but hate making the same tired, old desserts every year? Us, too. So, we asked ourselves, “What’s more American than apple pie?” Turns out, a lot of things. Here’s our list of the top four most American desserts you could make to celebrate our great…
