Mark this as the week Jay Jerrier blew up the Internet. Again. The owner of three Cane Rosso pizzerias has long made known his disapproval for ranch dressing as a condiment for Neapolitan pies, going so far as to offer customers a bottle of Hidden Valley for the low price…
In the United States, Fat Tuesday largely means going to eat a bunch of rich delicious food and getting really, really drunk. In other parts of the world, though, the holiday stays much closer to its humble Medieval origins. Since the 15th century, Shrove Tuesday has been a way for…
Thanks to Mother Nature and her complete inability to make up her mind about which freakin’ season it is, Dallas is experiencing some really disgusting winter weather this week. It was below 20 degrees. The highways iced over, causing some people to get stuck on I-45 for hours. Schools closed…
Last week the Obama administration and the FDA released the new proposed nutrition label set to replace the version that’s been in place since the ’90s. The FDA will accept feedback on the labels for 90 days. The most obvious change is the calories value is printed significantly larger than…
According to my entire Facebook feed and Pete Delkus, it’s really effing cold outside in Dallas right now. I cannot confirm this as fact because I am not leaving my house until Mother Nature gets her shit together and returns us to those beautiful 75-degree temperatures she teased us with…
What with the announcement of this year’s Meat Fight date (more on that in a minute), and the sad fact that said date is way off toward the end of the year, we thought it might be time to have a quick poke around the internet to see what we…
You know how at the beginning of Gravity (spoiler alert) George Clooney is tooting around space on a jetpack, which at a fatally important time loses all its juice? Clooney slowly and helplessly floats into space, somewhere high above the Serengeti. There’s a metaphor here (somewhere) about the cupcake trend…
The balcony at Hotel Belmont has always been a draw for its views of the Dallas skyline, but drinkers got an unexpected side show this weekend. Across the street, where construction on the Sylvan Thirty housing and retail project continues, a welding spark ignited a blaze that quickly turned into…
Where there’s smoke, there’s a second Smoke. Christopher Zielke, Christopher Jeffers and Tim Byres, the guys behind Oak Cliff’s popular Smoke, have announced that they’ve signed a lease on a space in Plano and hope to be open by the year’s end. In addition to the original Smoke, the trio…
What the? Unless you were sequestered your apartment with blankets over the windows, you had to notice it was 80 degrees at one point this weekend. Birds were singing, tree blossoms exploded, and baby deer were frolicking with rabbits along Turtle Creek, trying to remember where they parked their car…
Dallas isn’t exactly a mecca of French food, but there are a few spots to get your fix of beef bourguignon or a legit soupe a l’oignon. What have noticed, though, is that there is one major dish that is missing from some of the city’s best Frenchie-food menus: escargots…
Arlington is getting a new chef-driven restaurant with a truly locally inspired menu. R Bar and Grill is concept from Lonnie Schiller of the Schiller Del Grande Restaurant Group — as in Robert Del Grande, the James Beard-winning chef of Cafe Annie in Houston. Schiller “assisted with this concept.” R…
In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the fifth in an occasional series. If you’ve ever been in one of those dining situations where nothing is going right, there’s…
Restaurants are notoriously bad at the Internet. They have terrible websites, yell at customers on review sites, and some still ignore the web altogether. Social media provides a unique opportunity for restaurants, who can use sites like Facebook and Twitter to push out their menus and best dishes to potential…
I have to hand it to Miss Chi, the newish pho spot in Preston Center. Owner Lan Chi Li was bold to throw a little gelatinous tendon in her pho. Other restaurants that serve the soup have told me they won’t include tendon and other challenging ingredients like tripe because…
If you’ve driven down Hillcrest Avenue across Northwest Highway on a recent evening you may have noticed the lights were out a Soleo Mexican Kitchen. The restaurant closed at the end of January after a year and three months in business. Lupe Velasquez, who operated Soleo with owners Maria and…
For this new weekly series, we’ll delve deep inside the minds of North Texas’ craft brewers to talk shop, find out what’s hiding in the back of the fridge and maybe even dig up a few skeletons in their beer closet. Who’s thirsty? Franconia Brewery founder Dennis Wehrman’s brewing roots…
While your fellow soup fiends get lost in an expanding tangle of ramen noodles, you’d do well to take notice of the smaller yet no less delicious resurgence of pho. Ramen has achieved cult status here and everywhere, as young chefs and young diners, many just learning to slurp, embrace…
Last year, Deep Ellum Brewing Company found itself being hit with some pretty steep charges. After posting a photo on Facebook of a new delivery van that advertised the brewery’s Dallas Blonde Ale, some writers and activists, myself included, accused the brewery of sexism, and even of promoting rape culture,…
The first time I encountered huitlacoche in Dallas I was at a Café Momentum dinner featuring chef Abraham Salum. The bowl had a beautiful corn chowder, if I recall, and was garnished with the tiniest dab of huitlacoche — barely enough to emit the faintest aroma and a bit of…
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…
Tink Nathan, founder of Tink’s Deer Scent Company and host of Tink’s Legendary Hunting Moments, hopes to represent the fine people of House District 53, comprised mostly of rural West Texas counties. And he’s made one of his top campaign priorities reversing a 2007 law that banned the picking up…
