Sure, laugh if you want. Their wonton taco appetizers are the bomb. And I’ll stab anyone in the knuckles if they try to take one off my plate. (Full disclosure: I just lied. I haven’t eaten at an Applebee’s in 15 years.) Yes, Club Applebee’s is a real thing. It…

You may have caught this via the tele on an episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, but it absolutely deserves repeating. Because its bacon. And we can never have enough bacon coverage. Wake N’ Bacon is a giant pig-head alarm clock that cooks bacon. With this bedside contraption, you can wake-up…

Central Market has dusted off their huge black roasters for their 17th Annual Hatch Chile Festival. The scent of the sweet, acidic, charred peppers will waft through the air, as the Foodies roast the peppers in front of stores and wipe their sweaty foreheads with bandanas. Good times. Can’t believe…

Drew Huerter is the 28-year-old head brewer at Dallas’ own Deep Ellum Brewing Company. How can such a young tyke have the burly discernment necessary for a proper brewer, you ask? Well actually, he has a long history in the business. Twenty-eight years, as a matter of fact. His mom…

See also: Dallas, Meet JoJo, Uptown’s Newest Resaturant and Bar That Has Just Broken Ground JoJo is a new pan-Mediterranean restaurant currently under construction at 2626 Howell Street in Uptown. The team at JoJo is allowing us to track their progress to get a better perspective on what it takes…

Remember the other day we were arguing about the insanity of living in a landlocked area at the edge of the desert when the Earth offers billions of miles of beautiful beaches? Don’t fact check “billions,” but the point is, damn, it’s hot. And dry. Native plants are saying, “Fuck…

The McDonald’s sponsorship at this year’s London Olympic games and their subsequent massive Olympic Park restaurant has been one of the most hotly contested issues. Well, other than that whole fencing debacle and, of course, who the hell decided the trampoline is an event but baseball isn’t? Regardless, McDonalds speaks…

RestaurantNews.com reported last week that Mark Cuban has invested in Find Me Gluten Free, a restaurant search and review app for iPhone and Android users. He stumbled upon this latest venture by way of Naked Pizza, a national chain that serves up healthy pizza on gluten-free crust, which Cuban is…

This weekend, the White Rock Local Market (WLRM) wants to tell you about the birds and the bees (and the flowers and the trees) with the hot sun up above, and, of course a thing called love. The latter part should be easy. The Birds and the Bees Workshop, from…

Dean Fearing loves a good party and, seeing as such, is hosting four of them for the upcoming five-year anniversary of his namesake restaurant, Fearing’s. The first party is at 6:30 p.m. August 19 at his place in the Ritz Carlton on McKinney, and is certainly something you may want…

A white Mercedes CLS 500 slowly turns right off Clarendon and parks along the curb on the wrong side of the street. The tail end of the car is sticking out just a bit. The driver and his date, a young couple, get in line behind a family of six,…

Sylvan | Thirty, a mixed-use culinary and shopping development under construction in north Oak Cliff announced this morning that award-winning local chef and restaurateur, Teiichi Sakuri, has signed a lease for fresh fish market at the development. From the release, the yet-to-be-named fish market will connected with organic grocer, Cox…

The foodservice industry trade publication Nation’s Restaurant News recently named its Hot Concepts of 2012, which is a look at brands that “celebrate innovation, vitality and growth within the restaurant industry.” The annual list acts as a barometer of trendsetters, which are expected to experience significant growth in the near…

On Monday we reported on the grand opening of the Cedars Food Park at Dallas Heritage Village this past weekend, and in that report we included the schedule. Well, that’s been changed. They’ve decided to scratch lunch. So, beginning August 16, the park will open on Thursday evenings and after…

Sigel’s is hosting a Summer Rum Festival and Tasting this Wednesday, August 1, at their Inwood Road location. There are going to be more than 50 rums to sample with distillery representatives ready to answer all your hard-hitting questions. If you’ve spent more time than you’d like to admit in…

Downtown Dallas doesn’t offer much it terms of grocery stores. Urbanmarket closed earlier this year because it couldn’t find is place in the fickle grocery-shopping patterns of downtown residents. Other than that, CVS and 7-Eleven are the choices. It’s like a grocery store desert — with lots of tall buildings…

Babies get an aisle. And dogs get an aisle. And the entire store is designed for women. So, it seems only fair that men should at least get their own aisle, right? First question though, what should be on the man aisle? The Westside Market in New York City (the…

See also: *Liberty Burger is Opened and Slammed in North Dallas The Snookie’s on Keller Springs Road bid adieu earlier this month and is making way for a new Liberty Burger. Actually, this is a case of Dace Street, co-founder of Snookie’s, passing the torch to his little sister, Mariel…