This Saturday and Sunday is the Jewish holiday of Purim. What’s Purim? The short answer, “Jewish Halloween” is also the wrong answer. But there are costumes involved as well as a lot of drinking, so it’s easy to see where folks could get confused. So real quick: Purim is the…
I’m almost at a loss for words. Almost. Sometime on Monday, it was revealed to the Internet that the “breastaurant” chain known as Twin Peaks would be trashing up Mockingbird Station. I have some thoughts on the announcement. If you think Twin Peaks is a super great idea, if you’re…
McKinney Avenue, the vein that cuts through Uptown and supplies all connected to it with endless varieties of bars and restaurants, has a new offering for its people: Belly & Trumpet. Miles away from the New York City-modeled, gourmet hot dog purveyor The Bowery that sat in its place mere…
Even in reality TV-obsessed Texas, where there are more shows filmed about drunks, housewives, pint-sized beauty queens, gays, bling, dance moms and cowboys than you can count, odds are you won’t score a cameo in one. Still, the more I hear about new Trinity Groves concept Kitchen LTO, the more…
Long story short, there’s this show on ABC called The Taste. It’s just like the show The Voice only instead of blindly listening to contestants sing, judges on The Taste blindly taste contestants’ cooking. Seriously, that’s like the only difference. Oh, and instead of three famous dudes and a busty…
Last year, I listed out the ten best food-based Super Bowl ads for you guys. And this year, while everybody else was eating at least a bajillion chicken wings, lamenting over all those poor chickens or tweeting about the “Blackout Bowl,” I was diligently watching all the commercials once again…
The new, new, old Sunset is back. And this time it has gone tiki-style. Wednesday marked the grand re-reopening of the bar on Ross Avenue, this time with Free Range Concepts owners Josh Sepkowitz and Kyle Noonan and celebutender Lucky Campbell heading up the bar program. According to the bar’s…
I don’t know about you, but I am enjoying the trend wherein “healthy” does not mean “low fat, low calorie, tastes like cardboard warmed over.” Something can be healthy, good for you and not devoid of all fat and calories until there’s nothing left but a shitty attitude. In fact,…
Good news, those of you whose New Year’s resolutions have expired, this Wednesday is National Pie Day! Not to be confused with Pi Day, which is on March 14, or 3.14 for you nerds out there, Pie Day is the day in which we celebrate the miracle of pie. Pie…
Every once in a very long while I like to make believe I have a little something called willpower. And like most other folks on this planet, I get a surge of confidence in my nonexistent willpower right around January 1. See also: Our Best of 2012 Winners Now, I…
Next to where the old Dave & Busters was laid to rest, lies Nazca Kitchen, a bright and colorful beacon of hope for anyone looking for a taste of healthy, fresh and flavorful foods with South American roots. Walking in, you’ll notice the space’s lightness; there’s even a dining room…
After a few of the usual permit-type delays from the city, a new coffee joint has officially opened its doors to the coffee-obsessed masses of Dallas. If you’re not the type to define yourself as coffee-obsessed, that’s OK. All you need to know is that there’s a new, locally owned…
There are only a tight handful of restaurants in Dallas that offer serious upscale Mex-Mex. Meso Maya is one of them, and now, luckily for us, there are two locations to choose from. But there’s even more good news. In the latest expansion from Firebird Restaurant Group (the group that…
Heads up, gentiles, Chanukah starts tomorrow night . I hope you have all your gifts picked out for all your Jewish friends. You know that’s eight gifts per friend, right? No? You sonofabitch. Better click over to Amazon or something, quick. But first, read the rest of this post. See…
What do you get the person who has everything? This question comes up year after year, birthday after birthday, holiday after holiday. And while there are plenty of creative ways to answer it, there are few solutions more rewarding than a gift that ends with the receiver cooking the giver…
Heads up, Triptophan-lovers. It’s time to trade whipped cream and marshmallows for buttercream and …marshmallows, because breaking news: Bubbles the Airstream’s mommies have a new home base. And Dallassites have a new permanent spot to get their teeny tiny cupcake on. Trailercakes, one of the first food trailers to hit…
In case you missed last year’s diatribe, Thanksgiving is my favorite American, history-ignoring, food-based holiday. This year, now that social media has fully seeped into every single orifice of our existence, I decided to turn to Pinterest, the pinnacle of everything food-porny, weird, magical and un-natural in this world, for…
Kunda. It’s like a cross between a panda and kung fu. It’s an ode to Kung Fu Panda, basically, but with a website that looks like it sells network solutions or technical writing services. Not really any of those, Kunda Eats is designed to be “a comprehensive resource to find…
The latest restaurant from restaurant mogul Alberto Lombardi, Café Des Artistes is a Cali-Euro brasserie inside the former Screen Door space in One Arts Plaza…
To be quite honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of Bitchin’ Kitchen. It’s just that it’s an assault on the senses. Loud, busy, with lots of costumes, oiled up half naked dudes and whatnot. It’s too much. If you haven’t heard of Bitchin’ Kitchen, it’s a show on The…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day is upon us. Today is the one day you can indulge without guilt, as it is clearly a national holiday that should be celebrated. Because America. See also: – 100 Favorite Dishes, No. 54: CFS At All Good Cafe – Peace, Love…
I’m kind of a sneaky bitch. I happen to work in the Quadrangle in Uptown (AKA The Quad — yep, I’m still trying to make that one happen), so as the British Beverage Company (or BBC) has been building out the gutted, cavernous remains of the former Hully and Mo,…
