There’s a dichotomy brewing among fast-casual restaurants. Burger places have enjoyed decades of dominance, and continue to expand in a market as saturated as their overwhelmed burger buns. If a new strip mall arises, there stands a good chance that a burger restaurant will take at least one of the…
It’s been just longer than two years since Jon Rudin and Erin Kirby took a tour of Franconia Brewing Company’s facilities in McKinney. Brewers of all sizes offer tours as a way of connecting with customers, sharing knowledge and offering plenty of beer. This tour, however, came with an unexpected…
Winter is on its way out (fingers crossed), but Dallas is still serving up plenty of delicious seasonal spirits. I spent the past few weeks exploring some of Dallas’ winter cocktails (you can view the full slideshow here). And while all the drinks are a foolproof way to escape Dallas’…
There’s a new Whole Foods headed to Frisco. The grocery store will anchor the retail portion of yet-another-mixed-use-development project that promises upscale retail, fine dining, entertainment, hotels, places to work and places to live. This one is right beside the Tollway and south of Lebanon Road. The new Whole Foods…
Another Valentine’s Day is upon us. And if you’re one of those people who forgot to book a table for your loved one, I have no sympathy for you. Perhaps you can snag a table at Red Lobster, or pick up one of those heart-shaped steaks at Whole Foods. This…
Cooking meals for your dog is nothing new. Before dog food, everyone cooked for their dogs because they had to. Now a growing number of dog lovers are returning to these pet care roots. Jeffrey Steingarten detailed his foray into canine cuisine in an essay called “The Man Who Cooked…
Last week we told you the marriage of local beer and music in Fort Worth, the happy couple being Martin House Brewing Company and The Toadies. All of this is in commemoration of The Toadie’s re-release and subsequent tour of the platinum-selling album Rubberneck. Band members Vaden and Rez worked…
Lakewood Brewing Co.’s Raspberry Temptress has been all talk — at least for me so far. But a recent announcement named a handful of bars to which the popular local brewery would be releasing a Milk Stout infused with raspberry puree. I set off to finally get a taste. I…
Friday night, thousands of couples across the Metroplex will descend on Dallas’ finest (and not so fine) restaurants to spend the evening celebrating their love or whatever. They’ll enjoy an overpriced prix fixe dinner, drink a mediocre bottle of wine and, perhaps most importantly, annoy the hell out of some…
If the past month’s dismal performance of the Dow Jones has you spooked on stocks this year, there’s good reason. The old trader’s axiom that “as January goes, so goes the market” has proved accurate more often than not. Perhaps your money would be better off in commodities or bonds…
By Candace Tharp Jack Nuchkasem and Paul Singhapong, the Golf buddies turned restaurateurs who ran the kitchen at Cru, spent two years searching for the right location for their new venture, and then they found it: Quadrangle in Uptown. The long journey has proven worth it already. After being open…
Shannon Wynne is giving Dallas exactly what it’s yearned for, and what it needs the least: a burger restaurant. With the success of Rodeo Goat in Fort Worth, the restaurateur behind the Meddlesome Moth, Lark on the Park and more recently announced a second location planned in the Design District…
It’s still cold out, if you haven’t noticed. And as long as the mercury is low and the skies are gray, American kitchens will be filled with the smells of chili. We proved as much right here, when a quick scan of the Lakewood Whole Foods determined onions, canned tomatoes…
If you spent much time on Facebook over the weekend and have any “friends” from Los Angeles, you were likely peppered with posts and pictures about Dumb Starbucks. A coffee shop bearing the corporate java giant’s logo, prefixed with the word “dumb,” opened in Los Feliz, giving away free coffee…
Pier 247 opened a couple weeks ago in Oak Cliff (247 W. Davis Street), transforming what was once a small, lonely brick building into a pretty cool seafood restaurant. There’s certainly not a glut of Cajun-inspired seafood restaurants in the area, and this spot offers just that in a nice,…
It’s been more than two years since a new Walmart was proposed as a solution to the food desert status in South Dallas. The store finally opened this year, but now researchers are saying grocery stores like it will likely have no impact on the health of nearby residents. “Food…
Last but not least – with John Lewis @la_Barbecue @iamguillermo #Austin pic.twitter.com/a9IJquvbA7— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 8, 2014 There’s a good chance Jimmy Kimmel is holed up in a hotel room this morning with high sodium and cholesterol levels, and an old-fashioned case of the meat sweats. There’s an even…
Fort Worth is getting a highbrow food and wine event this spring. The four-day eating and drinking parade will start on March 27. The aim, other than to consume a lot, is to “infuse historic venues and homegrown flavor” with local chefs, wine makers, craft breweries and the like. The…
Last year, when the folks behind Origin Natural Foods said they were going to close shop, remodel and re-open as a full service restaurant, they hardly made it clear how significant the changes would be. The renovation changed the entire space floor to ceiling. If you haven’t been back since…
Vani Hari, commonly knows as Food Babe on the Internet, is getting things done. Subway recently announced that it’s removing the azodicarbonamide from the bread it uses to make its sandwiches, and the 65,000 digital signatures (and counting) on Hari’s Internet petition likely had a lot to do with the…
Since taking over the International Bakery Cuban Dulceria for their father in 2009, Rita and Sara Vazquez have been taking steps to modernize the family business. They installed a point of sales system so they could better track products and orders. They designed a website and set up a profile…
The Toadies are hitting the road this year to promote the reissue of their 1994 album, Rubberneck. Surely they’re taking count of guitar picks, snacks, clean socks and whatever other provisions rock bands need for a comfortable road trip. And they also wanted to create an “official” beer to take…
