Just as the Internet threatens to suck the last bit of personal connection out of humanity, it’s providing interesting ways to bring people together again. Online companies like Uber and Lyft are connecting people who could use a ride with alternatives to impersonal cab services. AirBnB connects weary travelers with…
Martin House Brewing in Fort Worth is launching a new session beer, Gateway XPA, today at The Bearded Lady in Fort Worth. The name pays homage to a trail near the brewery along the Trinity. The beers pays homage to sessions, which in the beer world implies the ability to…
Newsflash: Kids are annoying (not your precious little angels, though). And yet, parents like to eat at restaurants with them. Sometimes this works out and sometimes it doesn’t, for a number of reasons. Perhaps the kids are hungry, sleepy, they peed themselves, or are just tiny baby assholes. Or perhaps…
Chivalry isn’t dead. It’s just lurking near the aisle with all the vegan whey products. A video making the Internet rounds shows Vladimir Romannikov proposing to his girlfriend, Monica Dehombre, at a Whole Foods in South Florida. It’s the kind of viral advertising that usually requires an illegally obtained monkey…
Crave DFW, the popular restaurant-news site, has been unusually quiet this week, and now we know why: Steven Doyle, the site’s founder, was arrested this week in Farmers Branch on outstanding warrants and drug charges. He’s currently being held on multiple bonds. According to the arrest report, Doyle was pulled…
An important thing to remember about science is that, like a good soap opera, it’s never really finished. No issue is really settled as long as there are more people capable of asking more questions and doing more research. This is a good thing. It’s what keeps us from accepting…
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 third in an occasional series. “This has been on your menu for a long time hasn’t it?” I asked my waiter,…
Honestly, I’m not sure why anyone would want to get in the food truck business. I’ve been fascinated with the concept since they first started rolling on the scene a few years ago, often chatting with owners, including here and here. I hear the same story line: long, exhausting hours,…
If Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz, the pair behind Bowl and Barrel, Mutts and now The Rustic, have achieved anything with their latest restaurant and music venue, it is the creation of the most outwardly Texan space in Dallas. They crammed the venue full of cattle skulls, reclaimed lumber that…
The Frank Kent Motor Company is ready to diversify its business model a bit. The almost-century old company out of the Town of the Cow is dabbling in the burgeoning food and wine scene in the trendy Near Southside district. This past fall, the company closed on an 8,000-square-foot property…
With evening lows in the 30s, you may not be thinking much about your local Farmers Market, but you should be. While tomatoes are hard to find this time of year there are other things local markets have to offer beyond cold weather greens: like knowledge. Both the Dallas Farmers…
Jeff Harris is likely feeling pretty good after the opening of AF+B over the weekend. The chef left Bolsa last year to join Consilient Hospitality, the restaurant group behind CBD Provisions, Fireside Pies, Victor Tangos and others, and debuted his new menu at hit new home, sending out elevated tavern…
Back in November we told you about FoodFumble, a bare-bones mobile application that lets users search for the health department’s food safety scores awarded to area restaurants. Frisco resident Noel Geren created the app to help users make more informed dining decisions. The only problem was the app could only…
Yesterday, Chef Eric Shelton and designer Stefania Morandi were announced as the two creative minds behind the next iteration of Kitchen LTO. Chef Normal Grimm opened the restaurant last year after winning a similar contest in a dining room designed by Coveal Studios. If you were smitten with Grimm’s cooking,…
Around the end of one year and the start of another, most food blogs focus on two types of posts: the best things of the previous year and what will maybe be the biggest news of the next year (i.e. fortune-telling). Most food writers have probably missed the soon-to-be-biggest trend…
To me, this will always be the sandwich mom made. After those days of itchy grass-legs and punching mosquitoes in the face, this was the sandwich that hit the plate: thick sourdough slices, bacon crisp as a bay leaf, tomatoes, the mayo knife sweep, and cup-slice of iceberg. For its…
Plano might be getting a food truck park. City officials plan to vote this evening on a measure that would ease restrictions on mobile food vending, allowing trucks to operate permanently at a single location. Currently, selling burritos from the window of a kitchen with wheels in Plano is significantly…
Already bored with dining this year? That seems impossible with all of the new restaurants that have opened in the past few months. Still, it’s nice to break out of your mold and explore new dining options that exist outside the traditional restaurant experience. Here are a few upcoming events…
A little over a month ago, we reported that Acme F&B was going through some serious changes. The owners had changed the name to Acme Social Club, and the restaurant once known for its “whole animal allocation program” and killer pork chop was embracing Skittles shots — vodka infused with…
If, like me, you thought that Three Sheets, the laid-back bar with a penchant for brick-oven pizza, feels a little lonely on Ross Avenue, you might be interested to know a second location is about to open in a much more cozy location. Three Sheets Uptown is expected to take…
Like chefs who strive for consistency across each dish that leaves their kitchen, big time restaurateurs try to achieve consistency across multiple locations of their restaurants. They’re trying to create brand consistency in the hopes that customers who have fallen in love with one location will eagerly charge into the…
Restaurant news that doesn’t deal with openings and closings often has a dark tone. Either a chef is cryptically leaving their position or everyone is suing each other or staff is staging mass walkouts. Today, though, there’s a more touching story, courtesy of KHOU in Houston. Brittany Mathis, a waitress…
