In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. Smoking fish: It may be the oldest kind of cooking there is. It predates refrigeration. You can find…
Last month Souk Moroccan Bistro and Bazaar opened immediately over the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Trinity Groves. Neighboring Kitchen LTO and LUCK, it’s the creation of Dallas restaurateur Yaser Khalaf and Moroccan-born, Spanish-raised chef Najat Kaanache The restaurant is designed to evoke a marketplace, with strategically placed baskets and…
Only yesterday, it seems, did Trader Joe’s appear in the Greenville skyline, bringing with it the promise of a grocery experience unlike anything else in Dallas. But Trader Joe’s has shown that like all grocery stores, it’s prone to disease and the occasional recall. The California-based Glass Onion Catering is…
The term “post-racial” is a surprisingly popular one these days, and one that also seems to be pretty undefined. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t talking about race. From now until mid-December the Kitchen Dog Theater, 3120 McKinney Ave, will perform Race, one of the newest plays by David Mamet,…
Competition can be a wonderful thing, if properly applied. Bring together bragging rights with a good cause and you’ve got a winning combination. Artist vs. Architect isn’t a typical fundraising auction. A panel of experts in the fields select emerging and known local artists and architects of standout talent, then…
This has certainly been the Year of the Kennedy with all the hullabaloo over the anniversary of the JFK assassination. Amidst all the talk about conspiracies and the City of Hate and what this all means for America, there’s been little discussion about other people more intimately affected by the…
The McRib is returning to McDonald’s restaurants across the country, and in honor of that special season we bring you another look at one of America’s most popular “meat” sandwiches. We all know the McRib, with its patty machine-molded to resemble bone-in ribs and its spare dressing of onion and…
In its ever-expanding quest to make its restaurants more authentically Mexican, Chipotle has unveiled that it’s adding tofu to the regular menu. The vegan “sofritas” are made from tofu from Hodo Soy, shredded and braised with chipotle and poblano peppers. Chipotle, which is building a new store in the heart…
According to new signage up in Preston Center, Dallas can soon expect another notch in its Vietnamese restaurant belt. The new Miss Chi Vietnamese appears to be from the folks behind Tanoshi Ramen, which itself is a new noodle restaurant in Deep Ellum. Joey and Chi Le are the pair…
Back in March, Liberty Burger, the fast-exmpanding local chain of casual burger joints, announced that it would be opening a third location in the Lakewood Shopping Center, 1904 Abrams Parkway. Their doors have finally opened. The first Liberty Burger opened back in 2011 and garnered praise from our swearbomb-dropping editor…
Texas pride is a funny thing. There are natives and newcomers to every state who have pride in their chunk of the States. For a lot of people Texas, unofficially the Don’t Mess With State, couples that with haughtiness. But the guys behind Lone Star Attitude want to undo that…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. Popular opinion of barbecue sides is that they should support the primary meat. Cole slaw cools the mouth…
As Dallas and North Texas grudgingly edge toward, winter many of us are craving our comfort foods. Few things can warm the gullet and the soul the same way a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of soup can. That in mind, Oregon-based Tillamook Cheese is coming to the Pop…
Beer and wine certainly have the run of the alcoholic festival circuit. Home brewers competitions, wine tastings, entire dinners built out of dishes incorporating beer — the list goes on. But there’s no reason whiskey shouldn’t share some of that spotlight. Whiskey is a unique booze. In the popular imagination…
The growler is an efficient and environmentally friendly way for craft beer drinkers to indulge their potable of choice. You pick up a 32 or 64 ounce glass jug, down your favorite beer, then get it refilled. The kicker is you can’t just stick one under a tap. Your beer…
On the first Saturday after Halloween, I woke up next to a case of bear masks and made sure nothing looked like it had moved while I slept. I survived a night at the Dallas Museum of Art. Last Friday the DMA hosted Overnight at the DMA, the newest addition…
Bull Game (winner loses action figure) is the newest play with a grammatically challenging title from the Dead White Zombies, Dallas’ most bizarre theatre troupe. The Zombies’ latest project is structured as a fight for success and survival, and the audience interacts as fans of the different competitors. Starring reigning…
This generation may not have a Walter Cronkite, a universally respected and trusted news anchor, but as far as modern talking heads go there may not be anyone more beloved than Anderson Cooper. The Peabody-winning CNN anchor appears at UT Arlington’s College Park Center, 601 Spaniola Drive, Arlington, at 7:30…
“I saw David Sedaris and it was just OK” is a thing you will never hear about one of the most popular comedic authors in America. You can see just why at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St. in Fort Worth. Sedaris’ writing has taken a…
You may not have heard by now, but we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. “Celebration” may not be the right word, but with all the archive newspaper reprints and the tasteless sexy JFK corpse Halloween costumes, there are a lot of mixed-messages about how America and Dallas…
Comedian Simon Amstell, sounding a little in awe, summed up the pending live Radiolab show thusly: “You came out here to watch two men sit behind a desk and talk about science.” He was right. The mostly-full Verizon-Theater-worth of people drove out to Grand Prairie on a Monday night to…
Good news for those of you who like quick bites and meeting your daily recommended allotment of vegetables. Crisp Salad Company has announced that it will open its Lower Greenville location on December 4, giving Dallasites another place to score roughage on the go. Crisp Salad Company is a build-your-own-salad…
