1. Channeling Sam Sifton. The former New York Times restaurant critic is on a roll. In addition to a career in food writing and 25 years of cooking holiday dinners, he twice manned the Thanksgiving Help Line at the Times, where he guided overwhelmed (drunk) hosts through frozen birds and…
Les Bon Temps (my key board doesn’t allow me to explain the phonetics in French, but in Texas we’d say “Lay-bon-ton”) opened across from Shed 2 in the Farmer’s Market this past summer. Chef Patricia Killingsworth, originally from Mississippi, previously owned a local catering and personal chef business, PK’s Main…
As craft beer continues to make frothy headway, one on-going debate is whether it’s better to package the brew in cans or bottles. (Imagine the tragedy if we ran out of things to debate.) There are several benefits to canning beer, like lower costs and ease of storage and handling…
Teresa Gets-it-Done Gubbins at Culture Map once again pulled a coup on Dallas restaurant scoop by breaking official intraweb news this morning of a second Il Cane Rosso location. Yes, a second red dog pizza parlor, with another custom-made Stefano Ferrara oven, which has already been delivered. Jay Jerrier’s new…
We just got word from one of the organizers of the White Rock Lake Festival that the concert and food truck event scheduled this weekend has been called off an account of the high winds, proving my theory that “wind blows.” In his own words: I’m sorry to say but…
The City of Ate has spent the past week parsing and pummeling through the Dallas burger scene. We can all personally attest to the wide girth of our coverage, which includes buns, off-the-beaten-path burgers, Korean burgers, smackdowns and more. See Also: Burger Week But, if we’re really going to discuss…
Someone’s running a boondoggle over at the White Rock Local Market. They’re hosting a pie contest at the “everything market” this Saturday and have called on any-and-all home bakers to fetch their most-prized from-scratch pies for a little judging. Brilliant plan, WRLM. They bake the pies and you eat them…
There’s another craft brewery in the works in the (far) North Texas area. 903 Brewers recently signed papers for a brand spanking new (to them) building in Sherman (1820 S. Elm St.), which they will transform into a brewery. Founder Jeremy Roberts and wife Natalie have been home brewing for…
“Beer drinkers, this is the most important week of your life.” So goes the tag line for Dallas Beer Week, which runs from this Saturday to November 17. (Beer weeks actually have eight days, no explanation needed). The goal of Dallas Beer Week (DBW) is to orchestrate a massive craft-beer…
Bolla at the Stoneleigh Hotel has been replaced with T/X, a chic Texas-inspired restaurant and bar. The menu is upscale on-the-range, sort of like wearing Wranglers and a white button down with pearl snaps, with a pair of ostrich skin boots. All with lots of starch. Some headliners include lobster…
The bun of a hamburger is what draws me in. In terms of burger dynamics, it’s your workhorse, a testament to the amount of love in the burger-maker’s labor. A slather of soft butter followed by a soft sizzle on a well-seasoned grill can resuscitate even a languid bun. Delicate…
Dallas Beer Week gets tapped this Thursday and lasts for a solid eight days of sudsy celebrations. All you need to do is get your fancy beer-drinking pants out of the cleaners then just drink local beer everywhere. The goals, aspirations and, most important, calendar for the city-wide drink-off can…
OK team, huddle ’round and take a knee. We realize we cover a lot of topics pertaining to burgers, beer and tacos here at the City of Ate. And that’s all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out. And by that we mean jabbed in the eye…
What a day to celebrate choice. Regardless of what some may like to believe, really the most important choice most of us will make this week (honestly, any week) is which burger to eat. So many choices. Well, we’re here to help you with the electoral map of burgers. As…
Yesterday Dallas’ own Deep Ellum Brewing Co. fired up its bottling line and today six-packs of their IPA will be available at Sigel’s liquor stores in Dallas and in Addison on Wednesday. See also: – Rise of the DFW Craft Beer Scene DEBC says their flagship beer, is an American…
YES MAN – We’ve Got A Fainter – watch more funny videos Chicken is a really complicated subject for me. Not because I love or hate it. I can take it or leave it. But, things got complicated in mass comm class in college when a hippie delivered a very…
Originally we ran this guide for Off-The-Beaten-Path Burgers for National Cheeseburger Day, but we’re updating it now on account of our very own Burger Week. We’ve also lost one and gained two. But, who are we kidding? “Reasons” for burger posts are arbitrary. We could rinse and repeat all day…
The new Nick & Sam’s Grill in Park Cities (8111 Preston Road) opened last week. This is the second “grill” location, and the menu differs from its sister location in Uptown, although it pulls some items from Coal Vines and Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse, all of which are on the…
Jerry’s Wood-Fired Dogs opened today at 6340 Gaston Ave. This So-Cal import uses all beef dogs in natural casings and offers more than 38 toppings; diners can build their own dog or order from the menu of Jerry’s favorites. Jerry’s dogs are cooked over a mesquite wood-fired grill, which is…
Yesterday I drove past a pumpkin patch that had at least 200 large round squashes still remaining. Their lonely abandonment made me a bit sad. Would they ever serve a purpose in this world? Last year the Dallas Arboretum told me they send some of their leftover pumpkins to local…
Many of you may know him as Ron Swanson on Parks & Recreation, or even better, from his wedding portrait. When he’s not developing his skills as a fine worker of wood or a classically trained theatrical actor, during Movember, Offerman will be taming his wild muh-staaashhhh. If you have…
Henry’s Tavern opened this week in the Shops at Legacy in Plano (5741 Legacy Drive). A Portland import, this is only the second location of the brewery-inspired restaurant, which seats more than 500 guests and pours more than 100 different local, regional and national beers. The menu is mammoth with…
