Chef Norman Grimm’s work was highly praised at Kitchen LTO, but all good things must come to an end, and at LTO it happens fast. After a four-month stint at the newly-opened pop-up spot in Trinity Groves, the 23-year restaurant industry veteran accepted the executive chef position at Hotel St…
It seems like a new place for the area’s dozens of food trucks to park and serve their delicious wares pops up somewhere across the Dallas-Fort Worth area at least once a month. A bar owner in Denton just announced yesterday that he’s planning a new “unofficial” food truck park…
In the United States, Fat Tuesday largely means going to eat a bunch of rich delicious food and getting really, really drunk. In other parts of the world, though, the holiday stays much closer to its humble Medieval origins. Since the 15th century, Shrove Tuesday has been a way for…
Thanks to Mother Nature and her complete inability to make up her mind about which freakin’ season it is, Dallas is experiencing some really disgusting winter weather this week. It was below 20 degrees. The highways iced over, causing some people to get stuck on I-45 for hours. Schools closed…
According to my entire Facebook feed and Pete Delkus, it’s really effing cold outside in Dallas right now. I cannot confirm this as fact because I am not leaving my house until Mother Nature gets her shit together and returns us to those beautiful 75-degree temperatures she teased us with…
Dallas isn’t exactly a mecca of French food, but there are a few spots to get your fix of beef bourguignon or a legit soupe a l’oignon. What have noticed, though, is that there is one major dish that is missing from some of the city’s best Frenchie-food menus: escargots…
Restaurants are notoriously bad at the Internet. They have terrible websites, yell at customers on review sites, and some still ignore the web altogether. Social media provides a unique opportunity for restaurants, who can use sites like Facebook and Twitter to push out their menus and best dishes to potential…
Last year, Deep Ellum Brewing Company found itself being hit with some pretty steep charges. After posting a photo on Facebook of a new delivery van that advertised the brewery’s Dallas Blonde Ale, some writers and activists, myself included, accused the brewery of sexism, and even of promoting rape culture,…
Tink Nathan, founder of Tink’s Deer Scent Company and host of Tink’s Legendary Hunting Moments, hopes to represent the fine people of House District 53, comprised mostly of rural West Texas counties. And he’s made one of his top campaign priorities reversing a 2007 law that banned the picking up…
When I was a kid, the best eating of the year was crawfish season. My people are from Louisiana, so at least once a year, someone was buying several cases of beer and a few hundred pounds of crawfish for a big-ass party. The crawfish of my childhood were cooked…
Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for the 2014 James Beard Award. Seven of the semi-finalists for the prestigious awards are Dallas-based, including Matt McAllister of FT33, David Uygur of Lucia and newcomer Trinity Groves restaurant Casa Rubia. This selection obviously includes some of the best chefs in…
Spoilers ahead. Tread lightly. If you aren’t watching the Netflix original series House of Cards, stop reading this article immediately. If you’re at work, go home, turn on Netflix, and prepare to spend the next 12 hours being consumed by one of the best shows sort of on television. You…
Friday night, thousands of couples across the Metroplex will descend on Dallas’ finest (and not so fine) restaurants to spend the evening celebrating their love or whatever. They’ll enjoy an overpriced prix fixe dinner, drink a mediocre bottle of wine and, perhaps most importantly, annoy the hell out of some…
