There are a few things you should know about Fritz Rahr. First of all, his great-great grandfather started brewing in Wisconsin after immigrating from Rhineland, Germany, to sate not only his own thirsty palate, but also fellow Europeans in the area. What basically started as a hobby grew to a…
You know how at the beginning of Gravity (spoiler alert) George Clooney is tooting around space on a jetpack, which at a fatally important time loses all its juice? Clooney slowly and helplessly floats into space, somewhere high above the Serengeti. There’s a metaphor here (somewhere) about the cupcake trend…
Arlington is getting a new chef-driven restaurant with a truly locally inspired menu. R Bar and Grill is concept from Lonnie Schiller of the Schiller Del Grande Restaurant Group — as in Robert Del Grande, the James Beard-winning chef of Cafe Annie in Houston. Schiller “assisted with this concept.” R…
For this new weekly series, we’ll delve deep inside the minds of North Texas’ craft brewers to talk shop, find out what’s hiding in the back of the fridge and maybe even dig up a few skeletons in their beer closet. Who’s thirsty? Franconia Brewery founder Dennis Wehrman’s brewing roots…
Armadillo Ale Works out of Denton (although until they get their own brewery, out of Deep Ellum Brewing Co.) needs a little help with the heavy lifting. They’ve entered a contest through FedEx Small Business for a $25,000 grant that would do wonders for the company. See Also: Armadillo Ale…
News broke recently that world-famous, Seattle-based doughnut maker Top Pot is expanding to Dallas this spring. This adds another notch in the city’s budding doughnut fascination, which includes a handful of classic spots and newer, sleeker models like Hypnotic and Glazed Donut Works. Top Pot will plop down in a…
Last week we told you the marriage of local beer and music in Fort Worth, the happy couple being Martin House Brewing Company and The Toadies. All of this is in commemoration of The Toadie’s re-release and subsequent tour of the platinum-selling album Rubberneck. Band members Vaden and Rez worked…
Pier 247 opened a couple weeks ago in Oak Cliff (247 W. Davis Street), transforming what was once a small, lonely brick building into a pretty cool seafood restaurant. There’s certainly not a glut of Cajun-inspired seafood restaurants in the area, and this spot offers just that in a nice,…
Fort Worth is getting a highbrow food and wine event this spring. The four-day eating and drinking parade will start on March 27. The aim, other than to consume a lot, is to “infuse historic venues and homegrown flavor” with local chefs, wine makers, craft breweries and the like. The…
The Toadies are hitting the road this year to promote the reissue of their 1994 album, Rubberneck. Surely they’re taking count of guitar picks, snacks, clean socks and whatever other provisions rock bands need for a comfortable road trip. And they also wanted to create an “official” beer to take…
If you dabble in craft beer legislative issues, it might not surprise you that Deep Ellum Brewing Company is mixing beer and politics. And if you just enjoy craft beer, now might be a good time to start dabbling. Texas craft beer and lawmakers have a complicated relationship. To explain…
Rabbit Hole Brewing is the latest craft brewery to open in the North Texas area, bringing the total number of beer makers up to about 17 in all, which is 16 more than there were 10 years ago (Rahr opened in 2004). Rabbit Hole is located in the small town…
Texas’ best little distillery under a bridge, Balcones, has won a new set of awards, further documenting its slow and steady conquest of the whiskey world. This time around London’s Wizards of Whisky anointed the Waco-based distiller’s Texas single malt as Whisky of the Year 2014, as well as the…
Bacon is a cat. Lee Harvey’s is a bar. Kaz is Bacon’s keeper and Lee Harvey’s social media authority. Bacon recently took an unannounced odyssey, leaving nothing but conspiracies in his wide, panicked wake. A well known local music critic, no one understood why Bacon would give up his fat,…
Our pants, palates and cheery dispositions continue to expand to along with the local craft beer scene. And as more breweries continue to pop up across North Texas, finding a local beer at a local bar is no longer a matter of availability, rather choice. Growler filling stations are a…
We hope you’ve been training for the second annual Hypnotic Donut Dash 5K, particularly the Chubby Bunny doughnut-hole eating contest. And the beer. We’re not “hopeful” there, we have faith. We “know.” It’s the sixth sense we subsist on, actually. Below are the pertinent details, broken out in doughnut-hole points…
This weekend McKinnney-based craft brewery Franconia shared a link to an article from Blog About Beer about the top five beers in the world. I’m imagining a monk in a cave in a forgotten forest in Bavaria who just released a beer graced with angel tears. Or specks of unicorn…
Martin House Brewing in Fort Worth is launching a new session beer, Gateway XPA, today at The Bearded Lady in Fort Worth. The name pays homage to a trail near the brewery along the Trinity. The beers pays homage to sessions, which in the beer world implies the ability to…
Honestly, I’m not sure why anyone would want to get in the food truck business. I’ve been fascinated with the concept since they first started rolling on the scene a few years ago, often chatting with owners, including here and here. I hear the same story line: long, exhausting hours,…
The Frank Kent Motor Company is ready to diversify its business model a bit. The almost-century old company out of the Town of the Cow is dabbling in the burgeoning food and wine scene in the trendy Near Southside district. This past fall, the company closed on an 8,000-square-foot property…
You woke up today and though it was just another Wednesday, but wrong. It’s the King’s birthday. Elvis Aaron Presley came into this world on January 8, 1935, in Memphis. And 79 years later, the king of rock ‘n’ roll continues to be celebrated primarily in two ways: impersonation and…
Because there can simply never be enough sandwich shops — and because DFW, in fact, has a dearth of them — Fork in the Road has opened in Central Arlington (1821 S. Fielder Road). Chef-owner Josh Hopkins has worked in many kitchens around the area. He started as a busboy…
