After a few cocktails like the Tranny Love, any tongue that tries to say the name Cedars Social will twist. But that’s acceptable. Spraying like Daffy Duck is a small price to pay for such exquisite drinks. The team behind this restaurant and bar south of downtown must know a…
The unofficial Food Truck and Trailer Week continues, this time with Brenda and Pat Barnhart’s The Bomb Fried Pies & Fried Guacamole. The husband and wife team own and operate a trailer from which they offer fried hand pies in several flavors, among them cherry and apricot, and, of course,…
A new food truck is en route to Dallas. The mobile food vendor in question, Gandolfo’s New York Delicatessen, is part of an ambitious plan by owner Pool’s Restaurant Group for large-scale franchising of food trucks, and in the case of Randy Wolken, master franchiser for DFW, a way to…
Three bills bouncing around the Texas Legislature are being trumpeted as game-changers for the state’s beer industry. In quick review: HB 660 would permit brewpubs to sell directly to wholesalers and distributors; HB 2436 would allow small breweries to sell their product for on- or off-site consumption; and HB 602…
Google maps had failed us again. The missus and I were en route to see the season-opening bouts of the Dallas Derby Devils roller derby league in North Richland Hills when we realized we were lost, but not before coming across 5-week-old Oscar’s Taco Shop (no relation to Cowtown’s expansion-giddy…
This past weekend’s food truck fete at Earth Day Dallas had a clear winner in creativity and popularity, the chicken and waffle dish offered by City Street Grille. The new menu item, Rolled Gold, exclusively revealed to City of Ate last week was presented as a waffle pita — or…
Everywhere you look in the area east and north of Park Lane and Greenville Avenue, there is an Ethiopian restaurant or business. Within one of those shops, a pupusa maker offers a golden alternative to sour, spongy, wonderful injera. The handmade quesadilla-corn cake hybrid treats, a source of Salvadoran pride,…
In the fight for yogurt supremacy, Red Mango is quickly becoming the dominant player. Not only has the fast-casual frozen yogurt and smoothie operation recently introduced a new 80-calories per serving raspberry cheesecake, as of this weekend the Dallas-based company will have 120 stores nationwide — since opening the first…
We’re putting it out there: Fuzzy’s is the New Starbucks. The Fort Worth-based juggernaut is set to open its 32nd store in four states in late summer — in The Shops at Mockingbird at Mockingbird Lane and Lemmon Avenue. That would make it the second location on Mockingbird. An outpost…
Earth Day is this week’s cause celebre. Everyone from food trucks and arts institutions to television networks and giants of industry has jumped on the green bandwagon. Come Monday, many will have forgotten the simple message of how each of us can do our part to protect our planet. One…
Up and down we drove, hungry for tacos after La Carretera Argentina’s satisfactory empanadas consumed at Oak Cliff Earth Day. Surely Jefferson Boulevard would produce happy sustenance. It did — kind of. Jefferson is cluttered with taquerías, some advertised with gaudy neon, others off-putting with their crumbling facades and adhesive…
My email inbox has received a steady stream of special offers from the Social 121 public relations team. I’m beginning to think the correspondences might be pleas of desperation and that the newly opened restaurant-club in the old Loft 610 space is floundering after being opened for one month. The…
Happy National Rice Ball Day! Wait. You didn’t know it was National Rice Ball Day? Did you know it’s National Grilled Cheese Month, and National Grilled Cheese Day was celebrated last week? Well, if you didn’t — surprise! And whoopdi-do. It’s also National Honey Day. Tomorrow is National Pineapple Upside-down…
It was an innocent question, one I assumed the gentleman at Oak Cliff Earth Day wouldn’t be able to answer. “Where are the food trucks going to be?” “Along Flora Street,” he replied without skipping a beat, the same stretch of the Arts District mobile food vendors were stationed during…
When Katy Trail Ice House opened along the eponymous exercise trail on March 25, it was feted as the next it-bar. Capitulating to this hysteria, I too visited the bar on opening day, much to my chagrin. Anticipating a fine pint of Jester King or Thirsty Planet as a reward…
The supremacy of women has once again been made evident — this time by a man. Al Ahmedus has expanded his first restaurant, Natalie’s, into the next-door space once occupied by Al’s Steakhouse & Salad, also owned by Ahmedus, in the Preston Royal Shopping Center. When the steakhouse opened in…
Most Americans see Mexican cuisine through queso-colored glasses, content to crack open a box of store-bought hard-shell tortillas, stuff them with something fatty and vaguely chili-flavored and call the result “Mexican.” In Texas, though, some are beginning to understand that Mexican food is more than gelatinous cheese sauces and leaden…
Not enough is written about breakfast tacos in Dallas. That’s regrettable given that, like barbecue, breakfast tacos are a hallmark of the state’s foodways, something so uniquely Texan that after my initial visits after marrying a D/FW native, I scoured the streets of New York in search of the ideal…
On recent repeat visits to a new restaurant, I noticed one constant: The chef-owner’s presence in the dining room, whether welcoming customers from the host’s station or milling about the tables. The well-respected and hardworking chef — he owns more than one restaurant — was dressed in a crisp white…
The March Madness-style Burger Bracket might be in limbo, but its predecessor, the Taco Bracket, is back and is bigger. Joe Flowers announced this week that the 2011 edition of last year’s popular food fight will take a different form. We don’t mean all tacos must come in Old El…
If anyone doubts the importance and popularity of tacos in Dallas, then I ask them to look at the growing number of taco bloggers. I’m not referring to everyone with an opinion on Fuel City’s picadillo and an Internet connection. I am referring to those individuals who have dedicated large…
I found another one! This week’s Taco Trail stop hosts a drag-queen revue like other taquerías around town. The show advertisement emblazoned across the restaurant’s delivery van wasn’t exactly the first thing I wanted to catch my eye that day, but luckily, a little salsa and a tuck mean something…
