North Oak Cliff residents who earlier this year set up a temporary café as an example of how a livable community might look are making their vision more permanent with a new restaurant. The team behind the project – Jason and Andrea Roberts, Eric and Amy Cowan and Eno’s founder…

All Meddlesome Moth owner Shannon Wynne wants for Father’s Day is an ice cold beer — and he’s betting a few dads out there feel the same way. The Oak Lawn gastropub is buying a beer for every father who visits the restaurant this Sunday. In a YouTube pitch explaining…

Urban Pantry, the upscale convenience shop that opened in North Dallas earlier this year, is now peddling its organic milk and crunchy energy bars at all hours of the day. The store on Alpha Road switched to a 24-hour schedule last week. Cashier Joe Denton reports the store’s drawing a…

The rap on Dallas is that it’s a meat and potatoes town, a reputation that seems likely to be cemented by a new Food Network show. The Food Network will be in Dallas next month to film Meat and Potatoes, a new show slated for the cable network’s fall schedule…

Nothing gets me on my bike faster than the words “boudin stand.” So when I heard a Lafayette transplant had opened a shop around Duncansville, I filled my water bottle and went — after first charting a course that would allow me to dip a bit deeper into Dallas’ culinary…

Yelp, the reader review website that’s currently fighting a class action lawsuit from retailers and restaurateurs (the plaintiffs claim the company strong-armed them into buying ads in exchange for deleting negative reviews), has recruited 15 Dallas restaurants for its upcoming Yelp Eats! Week. Participating restaurants will offer a $25 app,…

Sweet tea vodka has its detractors, but few can make a better case against the typically artificial-tasting drink than a tea manufacturer. “You look on the backs of the bottles; they use high-fructose corn syrup, caramel coloring, red dye number five and rotgut vodka, pardon my French,” says Clayton Christopher,…

From the “trivial things newcomers notice” file: It’s ridiculously easy to find strawberry Fanta in Dallas. I always grouped strawberry Fanta with those esoteric soft drinks that take a good Internet tip and a full gas tank to find, but in Dallas, strawberry Fanta’s everywhere — including in my building’s…

Houston’s in Preston Center is now officially Hillstone, a name change that executive general manager Francis Luttmer reports has provoked some worried inquiries from longtime customers. “Their concern is we’re going to take away their favorite dish,” Luttmer says. “We’re telling them ‘No, relax. We’re not taking anything away’.” Instead,…

As if hot weather and surly drivers weren’t incentive enough, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff is giving folks another reason to travel by two wheels this month. The Greek Café and Beckley BrewHouse have both joined the list of local eateries offering discounts to pedaling patrons. Diners who cycle to Greek…

Whataburger is kinda sorta looking out for your health. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and we want to give it the attention it deserves,” marketing director Rich Scheffler is quoted as saying in a release announcing free egg-and-meat sandwiches for everyone. The Texas-based chain is giving…

A leading chronicler of culinary trends has singled out Burguesa Burgers’ milkshake presentation as a leading example of one of the nation’s top 10 dessert trends. According to The Food Channel, the Dallas-based chain helped excite diners’ suddenly insatiable desire for reconfigured sweets by ringing its milkshakes’ straws with mini…

Go Fish Ocean Club is making sure Top Chef contestant Tiffany Derry has one of the best nights of her life — or the most humiliating evening ever — by inviting every eater in the metroplex to join her for the show’s premiere this Wednesday. Derry, who serves as Go…

Maker’s Mark master distiller Kevin Smith believes Maker’s new bourbon might persuade some Texans to give up on Canadian whiskey. “Bourbon’s very big in Texas, but one of the things that’s always surprised me is the number of Canadian whiskey drinkers,” says Smith, who was born at Fort Hood. “Maybe…

With a name ready-made for commemorative merchandise, Pho King Way just needed a reason to give its T-shirts away. Ergo the Fort Worth’s eatery new six-course challenge, in which diners who polish off the first three dishes earn their very own “No Pho King Way” shirt. But there are greater…

The conversation topic getting the most exercise on Scardello’s local dairy tour last weekend didn’t have anything to do with cheese: From the front of the bus to the back, most everyone was talking about what happened in the bathroom line after lunch at Bolsa. Since I was standing in…

Casey Thompson, the former Top Chef contestant who scored her first Quickfire win by encrusting foie gras in pecans, is committed to serving Texas products at her new Fort Worth restaurant. But she revealed by phone this morning that she’s having trouble sourcing critical ingredients, including organic cream, chicken feet…

A managing partner for the reincarnated Green Room today told City of Ate that the Deep Ellum eatery “will absolutely be open this month.” Although the restaurant’s still short a chef, Taylor Allday says he doesn’t anticipate the formerly habanero-hot dining destination will be afflicted by typical opening delays. Still,…

Diners have a better chance of getting into Harvard Law School than scoring a seat at El Bulli, the gastronomic temple in Spain that annually fields more than one million requests for reservations, but visitors to SMU’s Meadows Museum next month can console themselves with a chef Ferran Adria-designed spoon…

Jacksonsville, the tiny Cherokee County town that 1930s Wall Street traders used to ring up when they needed to know the price of tomatoes, is taking aim at the world record for the biggest bowl of salsa this weekend. “We’re going to make 2000 pounds,” says Chamber of Commerce president…

The Boardroom is not out of business, even though a sign on the front door of the closed Victory Park sports lounge indicates the landlord’s changed the locks. “I don’t want to say it’s closed,” says Lonnie Moore, owner of management company The Dolce Group. “We’re closing for the summer…