What to get some attention for your restaurant? Try brewing your own beer. Malai Kitchen announced they’d be serving their own house-brewed beer on tap at the restaurant and within two weeks they’ve gotten a mention in almost every food blog in Dallas. The Huffington Post even checked in on…
Last night as I was buried in my couch watching the season premier of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, it occurred to me that we’ve done a lot of blogging about food-related television shows like Top Chef on City of Ate, (mostly when the show has a local participant featured) but…
Late last year Andrew Zimmern got a food tour through DFW with local barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn. Vaughn told us the show should run some time in April, and it turned out to be true. Dallas: Red Meat & Rattlesnakes airs tonight at 8 p.m. on the Travel Chanel. Vaughn…
From the menu description, the dessert at Victor Tangos sounded like it went against everything I stood for. It also sounded like a little bit of a train wreck. Apple bacon upside-down cake with caramel popcorn and bourbon ice cream had nearly 20 syllables and three components. But then my…
Andrew Smeeton and Jeff Douglas had a pretty good idea for their first brewery in Wylie, Texas. They’d purchased a house and spent a whole summer fixing it up. They redid the deck, and they could see themselves sitting there, watching their customers sipping amber from glasses and basking in…
When we broke the news that Primo’s would be closing, there were two primary reactions. One and was tinged with refried nostalgia; the sounded a lot like “good riddance.” Neither was particularly loud, though. It was like the air being slowly let out of a balloon. Primo’s replacement, by comparison,…
I don’t want to jinx it, but if this cool spring weather pattern keeps up, we’re going to have a lot of time to sip our beverage of choice out on the patio. We’re almost halfway through April and it’s still hoody weather after the sun goes down. Maybe that…
Yesterday my phone rang with an unrecognized number. I upgraded my phone a few months ago and lost about 10 percent of my contacts, and since calls from numbers that aren’t in my contacts usually end up being of a sales pitch of some sorts I always let it go…
If you haven’t heard the news, Yelp is now searchable by emoji, which is awesome if you happen to be a tween girl looking for the closest available ice cream cone. The new feature went into effect recently and allows users to search for food based on tiny pixelated icons…
If you hadn’t seen them hoist the sign into place, or otherwise been familiar with Victor Tangos’ facade, you would likely miss it. The new sign bearing the restaurant’s name was bolted into place recently, marking some changes that have been more than a year in the making. The new…
While Mark Lamster, Patrick Kennedy and others debate how Dallas’ car-centric design is crushing this city, I thought I’d take a brief moment to illuminate how our car addiction is keeping us from what may be the most delicious kolache ever created. Brian Luscher, chef-owner at The Grape, has been…
Sorry if this reads like One Hundred Years of Solitude. There are a lot of people and places involved. And even ice. Stick with me. Remember Chef Kyle McClelland? Our very own Lauren Drewes Daniels interviewed the chef when he took over the menu at Cedars Social back in 2011…
“Shark! And it’s so good — little kick but good.” So said Lockhart Smokehouse in a tweet announcing their latest menu special. Smoked shark was available in Oak Cliff, and since owner Jill Bergus is a bit of a power Twitterer, the message quickly circled the globe. The problem is,…
At some point in the near future, it is going to be warm outside. Not long after that it will be summertime, and you’ll enjoy poolside shenanigans, bike rides, and walks on hot asphalt that will make you wish it was December again. Winter, of course, won’t come for months…
With Knife opening just a few weeks from now, it’s almost expected that Dallasites should have beef on the brain. John Tesar claims his soon-to-open Temple of the T-bone will be the terra firma equivalent of his nationally acclaimed seafood restaurant Spoon, and if pulls it off protein lovers could…
If there is one image that sticks in my mind most from the White Rock Lake Local Market, besides one of Luscher’s Red Hots ascending toward my face, it was that of kids streaming away from the van pictured above, popsicles in hand, faces painted in a rainbow of orange,…
Stephan Pyles’ replacement for Samar was announced earlier this week. San Salvaje, which translates to “wild saint,” is expected to open at the end of this month, and it sounds like it’s shaping up to be the most interesting restaurant he’s opened to date. The old Samar focused on Indian…
Michael Martensen has announced that he and partner Sal Jafar II, co-founder of Driftwood in Oak Cliff, have taken over the One Arts space that used to hold The Greek. The barman responsible in part for Smyth and Cedars Social (he’s since parted with both bars) plans to open Proof…
Cured meats and craft beer. Simmered down to its tagline, Blind Butcher is about what you’d expect from its founders, Goodfriend veterans Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling, even if they did team up with a fine-dining chef to pull it off. Because in the mind of this fine-dining chef, Oliver…
Dana Cowin, the editor of Food and Wine is sharing some big knowledge lately via Twitter. My thought would have been a hefty squeeze of lemon juice would help overcome getting slimed by eel, but apparently the eau d’eel is a bit more sturdy. Last I checked she was scrubbing…
A few weeks ago, we told you about Pizza Patrón’s latest pizza, a spicy number topped with nearly 100 slices of jalapeño-stuffed pepperoni and then, just to drive things home, finished off with a little diced jalapeño. This pizza was badass, according to its creators. This pizza was La Chingona…
Have you bumped into Hey Kimchi yet? Hopefully not; it’s likely bigger than you are. You do want to get to know it though: Dallas’ latest Korean-fusion food truck specializes in what they refer to as CupBop Rice, a cup of rice with layers of meat that add chewiness and…
