Visiting Austin is like visiting your grandmother’s house. As soon as you arrive, you’re required to sit and eat, and then until your host is satisfied or you take leave. In this case, you have hundreds of grandmothers all insisting you look peaked, in dire need of sustenance. “You know,…

Tequila is more than the Mexican Jägermeister, and Monday night’s media tasting event of Tequila Familia Camarena proved that. Six writers and/or bloggers from various local media outlets were invited to partake of the mixing and tasting of four tequila-based cocktails at Hotel ZaZa. The ebullient account manager quickly took…

A trip to Austin isn’t complete without a trip to Tacodeli, the quintessential nouveau taquería with a culinary base firmly rooted in tradition and a stalwart dedication to the local — as is true of all foodways. The most apt comparison here is to Tex-Mex, but it also works for…

Arts District executive director Veletta Lill remains true to her word. Dallas’ biggest booster for food trucks promised there would be mobile food vendors selling their fare during the Arts in October celebration and especially at the Sunday, October 31 Closing Day of Art in October event. City of Ate…

On a Sunday morning when our son was at his grandmother’s house, the missus and I headed to Deep Ellum for brunch at All Good Café. Mike Snider’s restaurant and live-music venue is a fantastic place for brunch — if you can tolerate waiting in line. Then I saw the…

Through my taco-eating adventures, I have crossed paths with those who so revile Tex-Mex, specifically Tex-Mex tacos, that the dish’s mere mention elicits a reaction similar to the one they might have if forced to watch the drowning of a child’s Christmas puppy. Needless to say, I don’t break bread…

Halloween is so passé. It’s nothing more than Christmas, a commercial boon for cheap decorations, terrible eats and overdone getup far removed from its cultural and religious foundations. What people, especially those with an unending love for Mexican food, should celebrate is Día de los Muertos, or the Mexican Day…

Novel and atrocious fried foods aren’t the only foodstuffs available at the State Fair of Texas. Among the alternatives are tacos, one of which threw me for a loop. To begin my hunt, I searched the State Fair’s Food Finder web page for tacos. With the search results in hand,…

The odds were against us when we set off west on Northwest Highway armed only with the address of a taquería and a phone number that was out of service or recently changed. At least we knew there were other taquerías and Mexican restaurants in the vicinity of Webb Chapel…

Having done midget wrestling and sword swallowing, the folks at Duke’s Original Roadhouse are now paying homage to David Hasselhoff’s expert burger consumption (as seen in the infamous video recorded by one of his daughters) by hosting a burger-eating contest of their own at Friday, October 15 at 8 p.m…

Fusion cookery is great. It can make global eats accessible to novices, turning something initially unpalatable to timid taste buds into something irresistible. It can be a gateway to bigger and better things. Fusion can also suck. It can water down amazing foodways. When I moved to Dallas, I set…

Latin American businesses line many of Oak Cliff’s streets. Because of those mom-and-pop operations, the Dallas enclave is reminiscent of my old Brooklyn nabe. Walking about the barrio was a bit of a homecoming. There was warmth, fuzziness, all that sentimental crud. Then, the tacos at El Rincon Tapatio slapped…

The Marquee Club, a new Highland Park Village restaurant and lounge from Twomey Concepts, has bumped back its opening date. A press release issued this summer suggested the group behind The Common Table and Loft 610 would open The Marquee Club by late fall. But executive chef Tre Wilcox, who’s…

Being relatively new to Dallas, it behooves me to sample all the tacos this city has to offer — even the least authentic of the lot. So, I spent my National Taco Day touring some of Big D’s tweakier taco joints. While I was sated enough by the food at…

In the last few years, the taco has become a mad scientist’s laboratory. Many well-intentioned Vincent Prices — whether from south of the border or homegrown — have sought to elevate the taco, fusing it with disparate parts. Their experiments are to be commended; the masses that have dipped into…

Some choke down too many beers at Duke’s Original Roadhouse in Addison. Others inhale sliders. But this Friday, October 1, at 10 p.m. and on Saturday, the entertainment will be swallowing swords and balloons, eating glass and — get this! — vomiting razor blades. The folks at Duke’s aren’t strangers…

No-frills and hole-in-the wall are phrases at risk of becoming as hackneyed as “I love you.” However, when you walk into Tacos El Guero, those will be the first words that come to mind. If you’ve been to New York City and visited any of its Chinatowns, odds are you’ll…

The temptation to rend clumps of facial hair as a response to a child’s incessant “whys” is much like the reaction to being left hungry after a large meal. However, a little one’s unbridled curiosity is difficult not to appreciate. Had I been able to ingest the trompa (lips) and…

Dallas continues to be slighted by culinary bigwigs. This time, Dallas has narrowly missed getting hit by a cream pie thrown by New York fine food arbiters – and that’s not a good thing. Said pie landed smack dab in the middle of Paris Coffee Shop in Fort Worth, the…