Lark on the Park, which I review in this week’s paper, feels like the start of something to me. Downtown Dallas can be such a sleepy place in the evenings, and pedestrians are few and far between. There are a few lines outside of the clubs deeper downtown, and the…
Remember last year when we stumbled on Stephan Pyles’ Twitter feed? The chef was traveling around Mexico, gathering ideas for menu items for Stampede 66, and tweeting up a storm. See Also: – Stampede 66 Teases Tacos de Chipolines Pyles snapped a picture of a bin full of grasshoppers and…
Downtown Dallas was starved for natural beauty. Not that a five-acre deck park built atop a busy freeway is natural, really, but there are large swaths of grass that are sometimes green alongside the plastic turf dogs seem to love. The grass would be greener if a large part of…
Each week we track down a chef for a few burning questions. This week, Omar Flores at Driftwood shares some cookbook advice, spills on a few crazy requests and has a suggestion for a damn good margarita. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks? I love anything by Thomas…
High prices have lead many farmers across the country to look for cheaper feed sources. Now NPR reports that a Seattle butcher stumbled on an alternative that’s doubled as a very successful marketing ploy. William von Schneidau is feeding weed to his pigs. Now everyone’s out to get some of…
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. will host its Third Annual Brew-B-Que this Sunday, an event that was a launch party of sorts back in 2011. It will a chance to pack the brewery and courtyard with hopheads, sip local beer and have Pecan Lodge barbecue, all while listening to tunes of…
We’ve all been there, hopefully: that moment in the adult world when we’re invited to dinner by another grown-up. Specifically a grown-up we’re not close enough with to have the understanding that grabbing a case of Shiner and showing up “whenever” is appropriate. Societal custom dictates the invited guest brings…
Deep Eddy pool in Austin is the oldest man-made swimming pool in Texas. According to the Friends of Deep Eddy site, in the early 1900s locals flocked to this natural pool where a large boulder in the Colorado River created a natural eddy. Springs from the banks of the river…
If you happen to like pizza, which is pretty much everyone, and you like helping people, which should be everyone, then Cane Rosso is probably the restaurant you want to visit tonight. Jay Jerrier sent out an email earlier today announcing 100 percent of this evening’s sales at the Deep…
Regular readers may remember that I found it amusing to review cream teas and high teas around Dallas, comparing them to their British counterparts. While many of you didn’t agree that this was in fact amusing, that’s never stopped me before. For the third in a highly infrequent series, I…
Luck Ducky Dogs, the “silly truck with serious food,” will be at the Dallas Arts District (2403 Flora) todayuntil 2 p.m. giving out 100 free “Hangover Part III” dogs, as an ode to the film that will be released Friday. Make haste! That spreadsheet can wait. Next is the character-based…
If you can’t get enough of blogger-turned-professional barbecue snob Daniel Vaughn, you might want to tune your radio dial (does anyone still do that?) to KERA 90.1 this afternoon at 1 p.m. The entire second hour of Krys Boyd’s Think will be devoted to brisket, ribs, sausages and the endless…
We recently spilled several pixels over the glut of food holidays vying for the month of May. You helped us sift through National Asparagus Month, National Gazpacho Month and National Chocolate Custard Month to determine that, from now on and for all time, May is National Barbecue Month. But the…
The first time I experienced Till and Toil, the farmhouse saison from the Garland-based Lakewood Brewing Company, the beer was blonde and nearly crystal clear. Light and floral hoppy notes danced in my nose with every sip, and a subtle backdrop of citrus marked what I found to be an…
You’ve probably heard Micheal Martensen’s name around town, most likely preceded by the word “mixologist.” As a bartender at The Cedars Social, he’s been credited with helping establish Dallas’ old school cocktail movement. More recently he has extended that charge by opening the first reservations-only cocktail den, Smyth. It all…
Ken Halverson from Larken Farms Orchard brought a few boxes of the season’s first peaches to the White Rock Local Market over the weekend. They were small, tart and firm, but they were peaches. And they’re only going to get better as the summer progresses. Halverson says the spring weather…
On Friday afternoon, at 4:07 p.m., a round of applause and cheers wafted down from the balcony seats in House of Representatives as a five-pack of craft beer bills were passed with five thick slams of the gavel. It was technically the second vote of three, and the third, as…
This past Friday amidst the mansions of Preston Hollow, Steven Stodghill (you might have heard of the burger named after the prominent lawyer at The Porch) hosted one heck of a party to mark the release of Daniel Vaughn’s new book, The Prophets of Smoked Meat. Justin and Diane Fortune…
Let’s just say you’ve found a new watering hole and decide to pop in for a drink. The bartender is so adorable you’re salivating. It seems like you have two options: A) Brazenly ask him/her out in front of God and every other drunk asshole in the place or B)…
A few more details about the new concept rolling out at Private|Social were unveiled Friday. A news release announced a free event that will showcase some of the menu items chef Najat Kaanache will feature on the new Texas-themed menu. See also: Rocco Milano on the Changes at Private|Social “Burly”…
Enjoying Craft beer week? It’s not over yet. Lauren has been detailing all the beer-laden events you’ve had to choose from all week, and there’s still a few more if you’re looking for plans. Don’t jump up too quick though. We’ve got a week to wrap up first. This week…
Timing has never been kind to me. So it was just my usual temporal bad luck that Rice and Wheat opened its doors for business last Thursday. After seven years of living next to the building that now houses this new Vietnamese/Thai/Sushi restaurant, I am bidding adieu not only to…
