The greatest trick Pizza Hut ever pulled was convincing the world it had more than one kind of good stuffed-crust pizza. The Hut has found a way to cram, bowl and thread cheese into the crust in confounding ways over the years, and the newest version is the Cheesy Bites…
Doritos come in multiple forms and dimensions these days. There’s the two dimensional-like flat chip option, which have been Street Tacoed, nacho cheese explosioned, Tapatioed, and, more recently, contorted into the taco dimension. On the taco axis, Doritos is often filled with “beef” and sour cream and stuff. Now, 7-Eleven…
I was born a not-Texan, but I moved here from Virginia when I was 4. On one of my first trips to Dallas in the late 1980s, I napped under my dad’s chair while he and my mom voraciously ate Tex-Mex at El Fenix. I was a Texan. And yet,…
It’d be fair to say that I’ve never thought so much about what makes up a perfect burger more than the few hours after eating CBD Provisions’ cheeseburger. It may have started with Sam Sifton’s story for The New York Times, where a perfect burger means a deepening crust from…
Let me explain to you what the Hella-Peño burger is. The Hella-Peño burger from Jack in the Box is the new, severe-heartburn-timeframe-only available (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.) burger that is topped with jalapeños, other jalapeños with cheese in them and a liquid cheese “taco sauce.” In this press photo,…
The new Taco Bell Quesarito, which is a burrito sheathed inside a cheesy quesadilla, is perfect. It was released Monday, June 9, and has already been referenced as the best quesadilla-wrapped food item in the country. There are few moments during the quesarito narrative where you think: “Oh, I’ve made…
Taco Bell’s newest thing is the Spicy Chicken Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco, and at this point we’ve strayed so far from the world of actual food that we’re in some Jim Henson-like fantasy land. Just saying the full name of the taco in the drive-through felt like I was…
In our film section this week, we take a look at some of the coming summer movies that will offer us a chance to cool off in the dark for a bit. Here on Mixmaster, asked a few local luminaries in the film scene to share some of their favorite…
Mutt’s Cantina will make you feel like the very model of a major American eater. I did, anyway, at the newish dogparkstaurant in Uptown, which I visited yesterday. What’s more American than eating a bacon cheeseburger while freshly live animals look on? An evening at Mutt’s, beginning to end, is…
IT STARTED, as it often does, with an online order of a Domino’s Chicken Specialty. First, there were important questions to solve before punching in the credit card information: Do I want the jalapeños and pineapple on the Chicken Specialty “normal,” “light,” or “none”? I went with “normal,” because I…
First: What’s a Not Taco? A taco is that glorious lime-showered thing you dangled cilantro over. You already know that a taco can be novelty, like Cheeseburger enigma at Velvet Taco or Torchy’s Tacos’ Trailer Park taco, which has fried chicken and queso. You also already know that tacos can…
You with the Instagram camera. Taco Bell is looking at you. The latest idea that came down from the YUM brand Olympus: In the style of the Arlington-born Super Chix, KFC’s anti-Chick-Fil-A spot, Taco Bell will launch a hip, Instagrammy restaurant called U.S. Taco Co and Urban Taproom. Basically, it’s…
What have I done? Should I be experiencing fear? What did I expect, after rolling through the KFC drive-thru, cautiously, and saying — with a finger point of purpose — “I’ll have the Double Down”? Simply because it recently returned to the menu after a probably sensible absence? Should I…
What a week for omens. At this point, the only way we’d top the amount of doomy metaphors is if Nostradamus was resurrected onto a 100 tortillas and the tortillas all rolled, upright like tires, to Stonehenge and burst into flame under a gaggle of crows. Here’s a quick snapshot…
Fast food breakfast is coming in all sorts of portable shapes and sizes these days. There’s the billfold shape, the cylinder, the oddly perfect sphere and the oblong doughnut, and — looking at you,Taco Bell — the frisbee / ninja star. Thanks to the enduring charm of the fast food…
The good news is: Dallas will not crumble tomorrow if a new cheeseburger isn’t debuted in the city limits. All new cheeseburgers are welcome, of course: I’m not purporting some sort of cheeseburger xenophobia here. I’m just saying that on the burger majesty scale we here in Dallas are Burger…
How’s it going, Texas burger taco? Hope all is well on your end. I’m heading out to see you soon — in just a few minutes I’ll be all smoking tires and fishtailing-Honda out of my apartment building. My plan was to order you, with a glacially cold local root…
Welcome to Dallas, Texas. We’re glad to have you. We have explosive live music, exciting local beer, a Calatrava bridge, a crisp downtown park and cheese cheddar fries so good you’ll go ahead and valet park. Holy cheese dome, the Snuffer’s on Greenville has reopened. In case you missed 2013…
It is now known that the Socal burger at Ten Bells Tavern comes with two omens. The first came in the form of a kind waiter, who warned me of a possible doom: “Leave the wrapper on as a long as you can.” I thought, “the prophecy of the meat…
There’s a good chance you’ll be roving Deep Ellum soon, hunting for food. If you’re a City of Ate regular, it’s a safe bet you’ll be on the brain-eating-zombie-like hunt for a cheeseburger that doesn’t suck. So here’s some great news: The Green Room, which shed its fancy skeleton last…
We’re nearly three months into the new year, and the most commonly used suffix must be “pocalypse.” So, send in Godzilla: these things have all happened in the year-to-date. We’ve got: – Cinnabon-scented air fresheners – Tacos named after extra, extra large t-shirts…
Tomorrow is the day this year’s Oscar nominations are revealed, also known as national Gah! What Were Those Idiot Voters Thinking Day. We can’t wait, so in the meantime, we give you this: 1. Marvel Films has become Taco Bell, with plenty of sour creamy, cheesy wrap-up menu items scheduled…
