We offer many different perspectives here at the City of Ate, and on occasion we even dabble in being good Samaritans. This is one of those times. If you order Gatorade by color, you must stop. Immediately. “Hey, I’m at the store need anything?” “Yeah, can you pick me up…
DIGG’s Taco Shop has opened its second location in Arlington (445 S. Pecan St.) near UTA as part of the College Park Development, which includes a 7,000-seat stadium/center and 27,000 square feet of retail space. In addition to the Baja-style taco spot, there’s also a Pho Xpress, Smiling Moose Deli,…
Tyler Florence, host of several Food Network shows including “Iron Chef,” “Food 911” and “Tyler’s Ultimate,” will be at Williams-Sonoma at NorthPark Center at noon today (Monday, Dec 10), signing copies of his new cookbook, TYLER FLORENCE FRESH. After a peek at the book online, in the introduction Florence writes…
The Dallas Heritage Village is holding is a candlelight holiday event at Old City Park this weekend. The event runs both Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 9 p.m. There will be carriage rides along candlelit paths, pulled either by tractors or Nip and Tuck, whom I presume to be…
Just a mere two weeks before the Mayan apocalypse, I’ve found my hands-down, close-the-door-and-go-home, it’s all over, favorite meal. Ever. Of all time. El Pollo Regio is a mid-sized chain fast-food restaurant originally out of Monterrey, Mexico, that specializes in “open flame-grilled chicken.” The first Texas restaurant opened in 1995…
In the 16 years Jan Pruitt has been the CEO of the North Texas Food Bank, food distribution has grown 300% and the “ReThink Hunger” program has succeeded in providing more nutritious meals to food-insecure families across North Texas. Recently I spoke with Pruitt about the food bank’s $7 million…
If you don’t dabble in Pinterest, consider yourself blissfully ignorant. But, let’s say you’re going to a party and need ideas on how to jazz up your eggnog. Pinterest probably has lots of suggestions. See, you get “boards” that are based on topics and you “pin” things you like to…
Why is peppermint so ubiquitous at Christmas? Why not pistachios or rutabagas? One could essentially put two drops of peppermint extract in any edible product and BAM! It’s a new holiday product. It made me wonder about the history of peppermint and Christmas. Obviously, the movement has roots in candy…
Tapping into the burgeoning local craft beer scene, The Dallas Winter Warmer is a one-day craft beer festival on December 15 featuring some local and national craft brewers. See also: – The Dallas Craft Beer Guide – Rise of the DFW Brew Today I spoke with the architect of this…
Saturday, December 8 Saturday brings the 4th Annual Holiday Market at the White Rock Local Market. In addition to the usual bounty of local produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods and other culinary treats, there will be more than 50 artists pedaling their crafty creations. The Dave Burris Group will provide…
We just got word that if your name is Jim, Jimmy, James, Jamie or any other related moniker, you’re entitled to a free Sweet Jim Beam Bacon Swiss Burger today, Tuesday at any Red Robin restaurant. Seems like that could open the conversation up to some bartering. I think Jim-Bob,…
ZIP code 75208 just got a new soup delivery service. Chef and founder of Oak Cliff Soup Co., Dina Light-McNeely, trained as a classic French chef “in the old school apprentice style,” but her soup career actually started when she was about 6 years old. Her mom tells the story…
Chef Kenny Mills of Chop House Burgers in Arlington (1700 W. Park Row Drive) is busy busy BIZ-EE! Last week we reported that he’s expanding with a steak and seafood restaurant in Arlington. And today Mills signed a lease for a second Chop House Burgers, this one in Mansfield. See…
This Wednesday, December 5, the Sigel’s at 5757 Greenville Avenue will raise a toast small craft-distilleries in a special tasting event with more than 60 different spirits to sample. All of the micro-distilleries participating make unique, small batches of spirits. Per Jasper Russo at Sigel’s, what makes these kinds of…
Dude, Sweet Chocolate has just opened a second location at 8304 Preston Center Plaza Drive, between Taco Diner and R&D Kitchen. And another spot is set to open next week at 2925 Crockett (just south of Seventh, near Fireside Pies) in Town of the Cow. Prior to becoming a chocolate-dealer,…
Grapevine now has another craft brewery in the works (in addition to Noble Rey). Gary Humble, who lives in Grapevine, has been a pastor for the past 15 years and more recently has fallen in love with homebrewing. It’s a natural progression, after all. The process of purifying water into…
Owner Jon Alexis will begin hosting Dollar Oyster Night every Sunday evening, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the new TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market & Grill at 4212 Oak Lawn. Alexis said all varieties of oyster are game and “the music will be little louder and the beer and wine…
If you like great pizza, fluffy pastries and craft beer, your stars just aligned. Tonight Il Cane Rosso is pointing its mobile pizza unit westerly towards the great Town of the Cow to serve pizzas at the painfully tasteful Swiss Pastry Shop (3936 W. Vickery Blvd.), which is admittedly old…
Last year the Arlington Chamber of Commerce hosted the inaugural German-inspired Christkindl Market on the north side of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The open-air street market featured crafts, gifts and German food such as sausage and strudel. Evidently it went well. The 2012 Arlington Christkindl Market started today and lasts…
Driving over the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and across the west bank of the Trinity River, one quickly enters the Trinity Groves Project. If you’re not heads-up about it, you could easily miss the sign announcing it. But, most likely you’ll sense a revival in a part of Dallas that…
If your mouth waters a little when you see one of those “I’m A Pepper” shirts, then you undoubtedly recall last summer when Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group decided to sue Dublin Bottling Works, the then-sole maker of the original-formula Imperial Cane Sugar Dr Pepper. Papa Bear said Baby Bear…
Holly Johnson takes a zealot’s approach to imbibing in a glass of red with dinner. She doesn’t always like to be told what to drink and how much to pay for it. So, she set out on a mission to find every BYOB restaurant in the Dallas region, and luckily…
