There’s certainly a lot of talk about meat, and rightly so, when it comes to Chef John Tesar’s Knife Modern Steak, opening soon in the Hotel Palomar. But what about the hotel guest with a sweet tooth, or the film geek who wants to break down the third act after…
Brunch! That beautiful tradition of carbs and meats and caffeine and booze. And yes, we talk about it quite often. Had enough yet? Of course not! Because guess what? There’s another weekend coming up at the end of this very week! And if weekends are just good for one thing,…
Would you believe that if you had a dollar for every Dorito consumed on Super Bowl Sunday you’d have enough money to buy a spot during halftime? Sure you’d believe it. But I just made that shit up. Folks eat up statistics about Super Bowl ad spend, but do they…
Newsflash: Kids are annoying (not your precious little angels, though). And yet, parents like to eat at restaurants with them. Sometimes this works out and sometimes it doesn’t, for a number of reasons. Perhaps the kids are hungry, sleepy, they peed themselves, or are just tiny baby assholes. Or perhaps…
You all have seen me write a lot about Kitchen LTO and the upcoming exciting stuff going on in the Trinity Groves area. I think there’s a lot of opportunity there for refreshing restaurant concepts, great shops and an entirely new area to explore in our city. But a lot…
If you’ve been following along, then you know that we are nearing the climax of the Fork Fight series of showdowns. Last night, chef Larry and Karen Williams from Amberjax Fish Market Grille and chef Uno Immanivong from CHINO Chinatown each took 10 steps away from each other, turned and…
As Americans, our love of brunch has been well documented. The combination of carbohydrates, fats, meats, sweets and eggs is completely intoxicating to us, even before you add in the liquor component. There’s nothing better, really. Brunch is what makes Sunday awesome for a lot of us. In fact, you…
“The bridge to nowhere now goes to somewhere.” – MC Mark Brezinski Things are heating up in Trinity Groves, y’all. As the eight-week-long Fork Fight series heads toward its climax on Thursday, August 29, the events have gotten better and better. The contenders have now all got a win under…
I’d give this weekend’s Greenville Avenue Trader Joe’s opening a disappointing 5 out of 10 on the dramameter. When the Ft. Worth location opened just over a year ago, I was all for freaking out and being prepared. I faked an illness to drive to Cowtown and fight the crowds…
The winners of Fork Fight rounds 1 and 2 grabbed their forks and fought last night at 3015 at Trinity Groves. If you’ve been following closely, that means chef Yaser Khalaf of Souk battled Uno Immanivong of Chino Chinatown for the chance to advance. Both of these teams have fans…
It was an ALL-CAPS throwdown last night at 3015 at Trinity Groves, where restaurants have been throwing down as a way to build anticipation for that development’s completion. Chef Daniel Pittman and his team of “gypsies” from LUCK (Local Urban Craft Kitchen) pitted their culinary chops against Chef DJ Quintanilla…
The gloves came on at last night’s Fork Fight, round two of a friendly competition among restaurants at Trinity Groves. Chef Uno Immanivong was decked out in head-to-toe pink, including a pair of hot pink boxing gloves. She was ready for a fight. The folks from Kitchen LTO, including crowd-sourced…
Last night was the first Fork Fight battle over at Trinity Groves. The contenders in the first round of friendly competition were from incoming restaurants Casa Rubia and Souk…
Entering Pakpao was refreshing, and I’m not just talking about the fresh lychee juice I ordered. The space is light and warm (probably due to an entire wall of windows along its side), and the staff is friendly, if almost too knowledgeable…
Unless you haven’t been paying attention, you’ve probably heard about a lot of new developing food-related things over in Trinity Groves. “What’s Trinity Groves,” you ask? Y’know that big-ass white bridge some people love and others hate? The one they call Margaret? If you start out on the downtown side…
Opening quietly just over two weeks ago, Le Bilboquet has confidence that can only come from experience, which makes sense, since the restaurant is actually a transplant from the Upper East Side in New York City. The original in New York is expanding, and expanding quite far to boot, since…
Last night, Kitchen LTO opened its doors (well, 3015 Trinity’s doors, technically) to the $25-per-ticket-paying-public for a sold-out night of tasting, schmoozing and drinking. The event was all in the name of introducing the chefs and designers who are in the running to create the very first Kitchen LTO concept,…
Remember the Klondike Choco Taco that Taco Bueno offered back in the day? It held all the same ingredients as a Drumstick with the fun of being taco shaped. Ice cream plus taco equaled good. But then somewhere around 2009, according to the Internet, Choco Tacos suddenly became hard to…
Like I said back in January, I like to experiment with healthy eating every once in a while. And when I do, I love to stumble upon a salad that makes me go mmmm. In honor of Salad Month (or is it BBQ Month?), here is a list of salads…
Last weekend’s Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party offered up celebrity, entertainment and gourmet eats in a surprisingly badass setting at the Glass Cactus. And while my focus tends to be on cuisine at these sort of events, I’d like to tell you about the stuff that…
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…
If you watched tonight’s The Taste, featuring Dallas’ own Uno Immanivong, then you know that — spoiler alert — she was eliminated. If you didn’t catch the episode, you missed some testicle pokes and quite a bit of drinking. You missed oxtail (my favorite of all the offals) and pig’s…
