Local restaurants are continuing to try to capitalize on the Rangers’ success, with the first burger named for a ballplayer becoming available at lunchtime today. Scotty P’s Hamburgers’ Cliff Lee burger features a mound of jalapenos and jalapeno jack cheese, in honor of the star pitcher’s “on fire” performance. According…
The official numbers are in for Dallas’ first-ever Carrotmob, a reverse boycott in which participants patronize a restaurant that pledges to spend a certain percentage of its one-night sales on energy efficiency upgrades. According to organizer Tajana Mesic, more than 300 people ate at LaGrange in Deep Ellum last Wednesday…
Dallas woodworker Sean Springer’s trunk show at We Are 1976 this week includes tables, bookcases and chairs, none of which appear to be especially good to eat. But Springer, a Rhode Island School of Design grad, has entered the edible realm with a line of chopsticks, spoons and coffee stirrers…
Spirits aren’t seasonal in the same way as tomatoes and strawberries, but drinkers tend to craft their own rules about which liquor’s right for which time of year. And for many drinkers, October’s the month to transition between their summer and winter selections. My friend Bill Addison (a familiar name…
When I first moved to Dallas, and was trying to figure out my neighborhood’s food scene, my online research kept pointing me toward Kuai, a dumpling joint on Elm Street. I scoured Elm Street, but couldn’t find it. I had no idea then that the restaurant was beneath me, tucked…
Tallies of how much food was consumed at the State Fair of Texas this year aren’t yet available, but the amount of food donated was record-setting. The North Texas Food Bank this morning announced its haul over a series of collection Wednesdays came to 177,558 pounds, breaking the previous record…
Matronly home cooks clutching recipe cards inherited from their kitchen-wise grannies are no longer shoo-ins to win culinary contests at the State Fair of Texas. The number of young men competing in the various contests featuring Dr Pepper, Spam and Malt-o-Meal has been steadily increasing over the past decade, but…
The vast majority of fine dining dishes are fraught with ingredients that give vegans the willies. High-end chefs instinctively saturate their food with butter and cream, costuming even the most innocuous vegetables in animal products. But for one week this month, vegan options will be on the menu at five…
Paul Quinn College’s community garden, the most visible element of a massive rebuilding effort the troubled school launched earlier this year, produced one thousand pounds of food this summer. Director of Service Learning Elizabeth Wattley reported on the garden’s progress at yesterday’s Pecha Kucha, a design-driven show-and-tell held in conjunction…
Central Market is hoping its patrons can muster more enthusiasm for Limburger and Gouda than they’ve shown for the current crop of political candidates. The grocer is rolling out a cheese promotion tomorrow that calls upon shoppers to vote for their favorite cheeses in an online poll. “Which cheese is…
Having dined at Go Fish Ocean Club only on weeknights, I can’t imagine the clamor that must quake the far north Dallas restaurant on weekends. Perhaps it’s a function of the way the dual-level space is divided, but Go Fish can be frightfully loud. Every punch line uttered and touchdown…
The North Texas Food Bank is on track to set a record for most cans collected during the State Fair of Texas. Today’s the third “It’s a Fair Deal” Wednesday, on which three canned food items are redeemable for $2 admission. The food bank’s haul last week was a record-breaking…
Ok, maybe we don’t want this.It’s the rare visitor who leaves the State Fair of Texas wishing there had been more deep-fried delicacies available, but there are a few fried and stick-impaled snacks missing from the fair’s line-up. Here, a look at five popular sweet and savory items sold at…
Bundt cakes have become birthday party must-haves at some downtown Dallas offices since a Nothing Bundt Cakes outlet opened on Preston Road last November. “I used to make a lot of cakes, but I will never make another cake again,” swears Suzanne Caesar, a legal secretary who handles cake orders…
Two celebrity chefs are planning to serve pigs from out-of-state at a pair of upcoming dinners celebrating Texas food and small farms. Craft hasn’t made any local food claims for its Whole Pig and Beer dinner on October 27, although a release touting the event points out the featured Berkshire…
When I worked in restaurants, I was always surprised by how many guests opted to wait over an hour for a table rather than just eat at the bar. I consider eating at the bar the quintessential restaurant experience, since the setting fosters the camaraderie that makes restaurant-going worthwhile. Plus,…
Neighborhood Services Tavern’s Jason Kosmas, who’s today celebrating the release of his book Speakeasy: The Employees Only Guide to Classic Cocktails Reimagined, says Dallas’ cocktail scene isn’t as stunted as some naysayers fear. “I keep hearing about more people opening places,” Kosmas says. “Dallas is going to have its own…
No contest prize better symbolizes American abundance than the classic “year’s supply,” which conjures images of winners with endless closets full of puppy chow, baking powder or floor wax. But just what constitutes a year’s supply? Should food contest entrants be prepared to feast on the same meal 1000 times…
When I first moved to Dallas, I made a list of all the canonical restaurants I absolutely had to visit if I wanted to get a handle on the city’s food scene. Unfortunately, my list amounted to what politicians would call an unfunded mandate, which is why crossing off every…
Professional cooking is a high-risk job, as a feature in this Sunday’s New York Times graphically reminded readers. But chefs aren’t the only restaurant workers stoically sustaining bodily harm: Restaurant servers get hurt too. Here, a guide to the top five physical dangers facing waiters and waitresses…
A new minimalist movement may be taking hold in cookbook design circles. There aren’t any finished dishes pictured in The Geometry of Pasta, a new noodle field guide and recipe collection authored by Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy. The stunning black-and-white book is illustrated with life-sized line drawings of dozens…
Stephan Pyles’ Samar, which this weekend celebrated its first anniversary with cheap drinks and belly dancing, was today named to Esquire’s list of best new restaurants. Samar is the only Dallas entry on the list, compiled annually by culinary gadfly John Mariani. Haven in Houston also got a nod: The…
