The Western Mexican state Michoacán has been called the country’s sustainable avocado Mecca, praised by celebrity chef Rick Bayless for its production of incredible Hass avocados. It also may be one of the most lawless places in North America. “Michoacán isn’t a problem. It is a nightmare,” George W. Grayson,…
On Tuesday morning, news broke that employees from both Smyth and Cedars Social, two of Dallas’ finer cocktail bars, had staged a walkout, temporarily shuttering both bars. The unnamed employees complained at an unnamed pub, according to the Central Track story, citing creative differences as the reason for their hastened…
Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison and Stevie Ray Vaughan walk into a bar owned by Jesus and they all eat a cheeseburger and drink a Velvet Hammer and laugh about stuff. There isn’t really a punchline here because this actually happened in Denton last night. Well, sort of. The LSA Burger…
The first time I encountered the phenomenon, I was sitting at the bar at Sheba’s Ethiopian Kitchen, my fingers pinching a small portion of raw beef from the bread-lined plate in front of me. Two men were at the end of the bar, also eating with their hands but from…
We all spend time hunting down the best in life, but as a food critic I’m inordinately slammed with requests for superlative restaurants. If I’m out in the world, at the bar or the grocery store or a really long stoplight, and someone finds out that I eat and write…
Some rooster. Michael Wyatt’s coffee roasting studio has been toasting beans for weeks each morning in South Dallas without making a sound. Meanwhile, what sounds like an old and soon-to-be-dead rooster across the street from my apartment manages something that sounds like cock-a-doodle-cat-mating every single morning. Full City Rooster, though,…
It’s been more than a year since schools in California, Illinois and New Mexico banned the sale of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos on campus, but the pungent Plano-made snack food is still the source of trouble for kids. New evidence suggests that eating several bags of the stuff can cause, along…
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 first in an occasional series. By definition, dessert offers a conclusion. Growing up, if we wanted dessert at home, we’d first…
For months, things had been pretty tired at Trinity Groves. With only Babb Bros. BBQ and a hot dog restaurant opening since the project began, the options at Dallas’ restaurant incubator felt a little one dimensional. Then Kitchen LTO opened, offering a rotating concept that changes every four months, and…
For a city that’s quick to tear down most any building, Dallas has embraced its history with gusto. Not that it’s possible to pretend that the Kennedy assassination never happened, but across the city people are enthusiastically touting their history and connections to event. Really, it’s a surprise we haven’t…
North Texas has had its fair share of brewery openings the past two years, but nary a one that is dedicated strictly to Irish beers. Shannon Carter is set to change that. Last month the City of Keller approved Carter’s plans for Shannon Brewing Co., which he hopes to officially…
Some of the best pie in North Texas just got a little bigger. Emporium, the pie-in-the-sky-idea that started out as a pop-up in the Bishop Arts District less than two years ago and quickly won over waistlines throughout the city, just opened its second shop in McKinney over the weekend…
For a couple weeks, all we knew about Miss Chi is that it was coming. The signs of its arrival were all there, specifically an actual sign with the name of the restaurant and a couple posts about it on the Facebook page for Tanoshi Ramen. Since then we’ve been…
See our full slideshow from Sunday’s Meat Fight here. Sometime on Saturday I started prepping my wife for her first Meat Fight, the annual barbecue competition organized by our long-time columnist, Alice Laussade, and her husband, Mike. It’s more meat than you realize, I cautioned. You don’t want to finish…
New research out of Harvard is strengthening the argument that coffee helps curb the risk of Type II diabetes. So coffee is alongside nuts, citrus, leafy greens, beans and sweet potatoes on the list of super healthy foods that help prevent diabetes. According to the Harvard research, the main reason…
The North Texas Food Bank is heading into the holiday season with a novel event: the construction and consumption of a 100-yard-long sushi roll at AT&T Stadium. On November 20, Legends Hospitality and Chef Yutaka Yamato, of Yutaka Sushi Bistro and lead sushi chef of concessions at Legends, will oversee…
*ish The most devout pie lovers won’t purchase pies on principle. The enjoyment they derive isn’t just from pie consumption but the preparation of beautifully constructed pies. Rubbing butter and flour with cool fingertips and working fragile pastry with a wooden pin are tactile pleasures that can rival that first…
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. An oft-overlooked brisket is the lunchtime variety, guaranteed to make your afternoon at work a slow and lazy…
Jay Jerrier is looking for a few good pizzaiolos, according to a recent post to his Facebook page. It links to an ad on Craigslist that asks experienced applicants to stop by the restaurant for a tryout. And it turns out Zoli’s isn’t the only prominent restaurant in the Dallas…
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. When fortune smiles on something as bloody and delicious as meat, it seems proof like no other that,…
In late September, Restaurants America’s Central Standard opened in the Design District. The Chicago-based group is also responsible for Park Tavern at The Shops at Park Lane and Primebar in Uptown. This is the second location for Central Standard. The first opened in Chicago earlier this year and features a…
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. Smoking fish: It may be the oldest kind of cooking there is. It predates refrigeration. You can find…
