Design District stalwart Meddlesome Moth celebrates its fourth birthday this week. The last fourth birthday party I attended featured a face painter, a quarter sheet cake from Costco, and a trove of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot merchandise. The proprietors of the Dallas Observer’s favorite beer wall, however, will be…
You know how some fast food joints have a “secret menu?” In order to make you feel like an exclusive, in-the-know customer, these places have come up with combinations of ubiquitous ingredients that most, if not all, of their employees know how to whip together. If you order a Quesarito…
On Saturday, the third iteration of Dallas’ Big Texas Beer Fest went down at the automotive building in Fair Park. Every year that Chad and Nellie Montgomery have hosted the event, it has sold out — a testament to the huge interest in craft beer in North Texas and their…
The old-timey glass containers known as growlers may be bulky and don’t necessarily fit well in your cabinets, but they do allow you to do something magical — enjoy fresh draft beer at home. Once only known to your beer-nerd friend who just got back from some microbrewery tours in…
Community Beer Company started brewing in January 2013 in Dallas’ trendy Design District. Over the course of a little more than a year, they’ve released ten different beers, installed a bottling line, and racked up a half dozen national awards. Every Saturday, they host a Brewery Open House & Tour…
Last year was the year of Peticolas Brewing Company. They burst out of the shadows of the Design District to take the beer universe by storm, becoming the first North Texas brewery to win a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012 after only being in business…
Last fall we heard rumors about a second growler filling station/bar opening in Dallas to serve the citizens of Lakewood. After a few unexpected delays that pushed the opening back a few months, Lakewood Growler finally opened last Friday, delighting those poor, environmentally conscious Lakewood-ites who wanted a place within…
As 2013 comes to a close, we could focus on all of the peace and goodwill toward men that we wish for in the coming year. We could put aside our differences, invite some vegans to a barbecue and toast a gluten-free beer with our friends. Or we could look…
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. In case you weren’t aware, there is a position taken by many Texas barbecue enthusiasts that a most…
You kids these days and your super-trendy downtown Dallas beer festivals. Untapped. North Texas Beer Festival. Dallas BrewFest. Big Texas Beer Fest. Oh, there isn’t one this weekend? No problem, because you can just stroll in to one of your 187 microbreweries around town on any given Saturday, expecting (EXPECTING?!)…
Fall is here, which means there is fresh oxygen, football and lots of food and beer in your near future. Here are our five favorite food events of the fall. Addison Oktoberfest Outside of the original festival in Munich, Addison hosts the largest Oktoberfest celebration on the planet. More than…
The term “artisan” is hot in food marketing, joining its precursors “natural” and “gourmet” as a way to make consumer-grade food products sound like authentic works of culinary art. Tostito’s Artisan Recipe chips? Wendy’s Artisan Flatbread Sandwiches? Domino’s Artisan Pizzas? That creepy Sargento commercial where the dude in the Authentic…
