Wednesday, May 1 This Wednesday, Martin House Brewing Co. of Fort Worth will saunter over to Craft and Growler to introduce its newest brew, Daybreak, a four-grain breakfast beer modeled after cereal finished with a touch of honey. Co-owner David Wedemeier will be there and it’s a keep-the-koozie kind of…

Taverna Rossa Craft Pizza and Beer will open this summer at the Lakeside Market (4005 Preston Road) in Plano. This is a new concept for the same group that owns Palio’s Pizza Cafés and Cadillac Pizza Pub in McKinney. Chef Brian Luscher of the Grape helped create the menu for…

Chef Tim Byres of Smoke has a new cookbook out today. Smoke: New Firewood Cooking is a simple story about a boy, smoke and meat, highlighted with some beautiful photography by Jody Horton. In addition to recipes and cooking methods, there’s a section for the more industrious cooks, like how…

Saint Arnold Brewing Co., the oldest craft brewery in Texas, is releasing the next beer in its Icon series this Wednesday. Icon Green is an Amarillo hefeweizen made with two-row barley and Vienne and Cara-Munich malts. “This is a refreshing summer beer for Texas and Louisiana that has the base…

It’s Monday, start of a new week. Time to bring home the bacon, climb ladders and all that good stuff. Thinking about it just makes us plot when and where we’ll be able to decompress. Here are a few new(ish) places to add to your regular rotation. Or if you…

A proper salad can be so much more than just a salad. It can have layers, depth, a mix of distinguishing ingredients as unique and special as the creator itself — your soul in a bowl. Well, maybe that’s a stretch, but for a fast healthy lunch, a tailor-made salad…

Summer technically commences when the sun reaches the most northern point in the sky at noon. The Farmers’ Almanac suggests that day is June 21 this year. But, we prefer to use snow cone stands as our guide to the season, particularly Aunt Stelle’s Sno Cones in Oak Cliff. See…

This Sunday local restaurants and musicians will team up to raise money to help West recover from last week’s deadly fatal fertilizer plant explosion. Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, The O’s, Somebody’s Darling and Goodnight will perform, and Toadies front man Vaden Todd Lewis will play a brief set…

It’s a tale filled with corporate greed, union strikes and cream filling. But no matter how much it may appear that things have gone over an edge into a fiery pit below, there is one thing that we can rest of assured of: The American snack industry will always rise…

You know how we talk about goals and dreams? Well, an opportunity has circled around that I think a few of you should consider. Yes, it’s a job. But it’s a job that: 1. allows you to exercise (that is, in fact, a bonus) 2. lets you party 3. pays…

Remember the kerfuffle with Dublin Dr Pepper and Dr Pepper Snapple? It’s a long story that started back in the ’70s when Dublin-based bottler W.P. Kolster refused to switch over to high-fructose corn syrup, a cheap product that replaced pure cane sugar extensively in the American food industry and is…

In this week’s issue of Burning Questions, in which we quiz a chef about cookbooks, worst meals, food shames and whatever else comes to mind, we hear from Marc Cassel, the man behind 20 Feet Seafood Joint. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks? The Internet has made the…

This is the first of what we hope to be a semi-regular feature here at the City of Ate, in which we talk to restaurant owners one year out (or there about) to see how the restaurant business is treating them. We interviewed Khanh Nguyen of DaLat when he first…

Wednesday, April 24 Tonight Craft and Growler will tap a keg of Deep Ellum Brewing Co.’s new barley wine, Numb Comfort and they have the free glasses to prove it. Thursday, April 25 Goodfriend is holding a fundraiser for the family of Ben Harris of Redhook Ale Brewing in Portsmouth,…

Jay Jerrier sent word this morning that they’re firing up the big white oven at the new Cane Rosso White Rock (7328 Gaston Ave.) tonight for the first night of official pizza business. “Seeing as it is raining and temps are supposed to drop down into the 40s with high…

Chef Kenny Mills knows a thing or two about running a steakhouse. His resume includes The Capitol Grille, Sullivan’s and Dallas Chop House. But a few years ago, Mills grew tired of the Dallas scene and took a chance on a burger joint in a pretty nondescript strip mall in…

Two years ago we tracked the progress of cupcakes through the Texas Legislature, or more specifically, a bill that allowed home bakers to legally sell their goods under certain provisions. That bill passed and now there are many happy home bakers and full bellies around the state. But, equal rights…