Dude, Sweet Chocolate, the city’s sauciest chocolatier, has opened up a new permanent store at 1925 Greenville Avenue, just down from the new Truck Yard and Trader Joe’s. The spot quietly opened Friday and will have a grand opening this Friday at 7 p.m. Katherine Clapner opened her first little…
On Saturday the Cotton Bowl converted to the 2013 Diwali Mela festival, and food booths flowed out from the stadium to the shimmery dreamscape of the Chinese Lantern Festival nearby. I arrived on a mission. Six years ago I went with two friends to Ahmedabad, in western India. For three…
East Hampton Sandwich Co. is opening its new location in Plano’s Shops at Legacy on Wednesday, just in time for you to don flannel, drink cider and do whatever else it is that people in the Hamptons do when they aren’t inhaling lobster rolls. Founder Hunter Pond hoped to open…
Village Baking Company offers plenty of reasons to smile. There are the fresh baguettes that are still warm from the oven and the tangy pain au levain that make other sourdoughs seem dull. There are the slightly sticky, eggy canelé, and other gorgeous, glistening pastries. There is the wonderful smell…
Back in 2011 a teenager allegedly stole celebrity chef and human au jus-blasted pizza roll Guy Fieri’s yellow Lamborghini from a California dealership. Then the teen allegedly tried to shoot his ex-girlfriend. Fast forward to this week and the teen in question, Mark Wade, is on trial. Fieri took the…
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I reviewed Del Frisco’s Grille, the casual restaurant from the Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group that opened in Uptown in 2012. The place had a laid back and youthful vibe that stood in stark contrast to the more polished experiences of Del Frisco’s…
Got all of that Halloween nonsense out of your system last night? Good. Now you’ve got more important matters to deal with. Diwali Mela is back, and from a culinary standpoint especially, it’s one of the most interesting cultural festivals in the area. The variety of food at this behemoth…
Earlier this week came news that Balls Hamburgers, the burger joint that presumably predates ball jokes, was suing its landlord for over $1 million for breach of contract. And now, to spice things up even more, the four entities that act as landlord of Balls’ North Dallas restaurant have issued…
Hot on the heels of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes Movember, a month-long event dedicated to raising awareness about prostate cancer. Officially, by presidential order, September 2013 was National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, but Movember is a tradition that comes to us from Australia, where their November is our…
Rahr & Sons was crafting before craft beer was cool. Even though they started just nine years ago, the Fort Worth brewery is the original hipster dad with tall tube socks and side burns. So next Saturday, November 9, founders Fritz and Erin Rahr are having a little party to…
The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week about a handy little gadget you might want to get in line for. A straight line. And hold your hands down to your side. Breathometer Inc. makes a smartphone breathalyzer test that can instantly tell users if their blood alcohol level…
If you’ve had the cheesesteak at the Truck Yard and found it to be life changing, congratulations. You’ve just found one of the better sandwiches served in Dallas and a homage to a great Philadelphian classic. The Truck Yard has gotten a lot of attention for its food trucks but…
Dallas’ Truck Yard: A Guided Tour from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. We asked Leslie Brenner to give us a video tour of the Truck Yard but she was too busy Googling “Los Angeles food critic openings West Side please mmmmmm the beach,” so we settled for crack video intern,…
I have to admit the menu of the upcoming True Food Kitchen is looking attractive. I was never the type of person that went nuts for juice bars and dishes that prominently featured kale, but two years of dining as a food critic have taken a toll. I crave fresh…
With your backside sinking into the crosshatched nylon of a well-loved lawn chair, a cold beer in your fist and perhaps a few crumpled napkins piled into a grease-stained paper tray at your feet, it might be hard to imagine Dallas was ever hard on food trucks. Jason Boso’s Truck…
I couldn’t begin to tell you how we got to the subject. I was at a party thrown by my neighbor in my own back yard, surrounded by drunk people I didn’t know. It’s strange coming to a party late when the drinking is heavy. Everyone speaks a different language…
Sriracha is a condiment with a cult following. It’s inspired web comics, a Lay’s chip flavor, a documentary and a festival in downtown Los Angeles. It’s even worked its way onto NPR’s recipe blogs, space normally reserved for lentils, eggplants and handmade pickles. But no one can fly so high…
Patio weather might be a little spotty as fall stumbles into Dallas. Rather than sweat through your pumpkin lager on the sunny days, we’ve compiled a list of the best places to get margaritas in this town. Because until those crisp breezes show up for long enough to pull out…
The world of Dallas hamburgers is rife with intrigue. CultureMap brings us the story of Balls Hamburgers in Preston Hollow, which is getting in deep litigation with its landlord. A million clams deep. Carol Hobrecht, owner of Backbone Corporations/Balls Hamburger, and her business partner, JDBurger Dallas, are suing four entities…
Kitchen LTO, the perennial pop-up restaurant in Trinity Groves, is now accepting applications for its second iteration. Every four months the restaurant gets overhauled by a new designer and chef, which depending on how you look at it is either promotional shtick or commentary on the transient, sand mandala-like nature…
There’s speculation in grocery-store land that Tom Thumb’s parent company, Safeway, is looking to sell off of its Texas stores. The company has been dropping some dead weight lately, including stores in Canada and Chicago, and recently hired Goldman Sachs to scout the market for potential buyers. A CultureMap article…
The Pyramid Restaurant and Bar at the Fairmont Hotel has announced two new chefs to go along with the hotel’s $10 million renovation. Leigh Mills joins as chef de cuisine and Eric Burrell as the new pastry chef, the restaurant announced this week. Born in England in Kidderminster (new favorite…
