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…
The Woolworth is the newest downtown watering hole, located in one of the funkiest parts of the city center (we dig it, Mayor Rawlings). This new drinkery inhabits the old Stone Street Martini Lounge space. It’s a little bit easier to find than the last joint was, thanks to the…
Yesterday Side Dish reported that Louie Canelakes passed away. If you’ve had a pizza at his restaurant on Henderson Avenue and sat at the bar, you likely know him. Louie has been working behind the bar since he opened the place with his brother Chris in the 1980s, and if…
Editor’s note: 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. To start, we asked our own Alice Laussade, James Beard Award winner and co-founder of Meat…
Do health scores matter to you when you’re making a dining decision? Maybe if they were easier to find they would. While restaurants in other cities, including New York and L.A., are required to display their scores prominently outside the building, the restaurants in and around Dallas have much more…
As we saunter into the weekend and the official start of North Texas Beer Week, there are a few beer events you’ll be expected to partake in. There will be a quiz come Monday morning. When we dedicate an entire week to the craft beer movement, we need everyone’s full…
As Dallas and North Texas grudgingly edge toward, winter many of us are craving our comfort foods. Few things can warm the gullet and the soul the same way a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of soup can. That in mind, Oregon-based Tillamook Cheese is coming to the Pop…
One-time barista Liz Goulding drinks coffee around Dallas so her head doesn’t hurt and so she can help keep yours from hurting, too. Got a place to suggest? Leave it in the comments. If there is anything people love in Dallas, it’s new stuff. New is shiny and exciting and…
Beer and wine certainly have the run of the alcoholic festival circuit. Home brewers competitions, wine tastings, entire dinners built out of dishes incorporating beer — the list goes on. But there’s no reason whiskey shouldn’t share some of that spotlight. Whiskey is a unique booze. In the popular imagination…
The growler is an efficient and environmentally friendly way for craft beer drinkers to indulge their potable of choice. You pick up a 32 or 64 ounce glass jug, down your favorite beer, then get it refilled. The kicker is you can’t just stick one under a tap. Your beer…
There’s a second bar at Dee Lincoln’s Steak and Burger Bar that has me thinking. The new Uptown restaurant is the subject of this week’s review, and in addition to the regular bar where the beer, wine and other good stuff happens, another large bar wraps around the kitchen. From…
Here we go again. Every time a beloved consumable product is threatened with extinction the hoarding begins. Surely you remember Twinkies, which commanded prices you might associate with a sizable yacht when Hostess went under. You can get those on Amazon right now for six bucks. A similar fervor broke…
The fancy spinning show 560 feet above Dallas just got a little fancier. Along with the new observation deck, GeO-Deck, the restaurant Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck also got a little facelift, including the opening of Cloud Nine, a casual daytime dining spot. The space, which is one level above…
Dee Lincoln could have opened any kind of restaurant on Howell Street, but she decided to stick with what she knows best. The restaurant maven is widely known as a co-founder of the Del Frisco’s empire, built almost entirely on a foundation of well-seared beef. And while Dallas needs another…
Remember Richie Whitt? He was the sports columnist for the Observer for six years before he was lost to layoffs in 2011 and went into radio full-time. His loyal commenters, a real haggard bunch, laid siege on City of Ate after he left, peppering the blog with unsavory comments and…
You know that beer you’ve been hiding in the fridge in the vegetable bin behind the acorn squash? The one you’re saving for a really special occasion? You should consider hosting a bottle share for the occasion. Bottle shares are like play dates for hopheads. Instead of bringing babies and…
Revolver Brewing in Granbury, Texas hopped onto the local craft-brewing scene last year and is already releasing a special beer to commemorate its first year of brewing and bottling. Father-son founders Ron and Rhett Keisler picked out a parcel of land about 35 miles southwest of Fort Worth in part…
Kraft announced recently that it would be removing artificial dyes from three of its macaroni and cheese products. To create that neon-orange color we all grew up with, Kraft will replace the artificial dyes with spices such as paprika. Despite that the artificial colorings have been under attack based on…
Dallas is not a hot dog city. This is evidenced by the lack of hot dog carts patrolling streets downtown. Sure, there are a few hot dog shops scattered around, but the tube-steak is in no way a significant contributor to the local culinary culture. There is, however, a surge…
The first time I noticed the receipt phenomenon I had just finished lunch at a bar. I was scanning the receipt because I’d forgotten my bartender’s name and amidst the time stamps, item descriptions and other information was a field that said something like “redshirtbar.” Because I’m a completely clueless…
Chad Houser told me things were going to be different at his next Café Momentum dinner, but when a large hunk of sod landed in front of me at my table, I felt a little unprepared. I wasn’t the only one. In every direction questions rose up out of the…
Good news for those of you who like quick bites and meeting your daily recommended allotment of vegetables. Crisp Salad Company has announced that it will open its Lower Greenville location on December 4, giving Dallasites another place to score roughage on the go. Crisp Salad Company is a build-your-own-salad…
