Update, 4/19: We accidentally jumped the gun a bit when we said below that the raw milk bill was on its way to the House floor for debate. Actually, first it has to make a stop in the Calendars Committee to get placed on the calendar to be debated on…
The Original Pancake House has teamed up with Medical City, Carter BloodCare and RunOn! for a blood drive in support of the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Straight from the release: What: The Original Pancake House is teaming up with Medical City, Carter BloodCare and RunOn! to show support for Boston…
Two weeks ago we told you that the original Snuffer’s was no more. Earlier today Instagram (which has been proven to be marginally more accurate at breaking news than CNN) reports that it is gone. See also: Snuffer’s to Rebuild Iconic Greenville Location Instagram user Doylerader posted this photo to…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Pinterest will kill your soul. Pinterest is select-league baseball for 9-year olds. You think it’s just a silly game, but you’re wrong. This is life: It’s real and it hurts. Don’t you dare come to this game and pick dandelions in…
Our Englishman in BBQ Sauce finally made it down to Lockhart, the Vatican City of Texas barbecue, where he and his posse gorged on smoked meat from Black’s Barbecue, Smitty’s and, as you’ll see below, Kreuz Market. He went. He ate. He was conquered by a deep, some say oddly…
Editor’s note: Last year we published an instructive blog post detailing the various stages queso exhibits as it emerges from the kitchen and sits on your table. Since it’s cheese week, and queso is the greatest cheese dish in the history of ever, we decided it was a good time…
Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare have announced the opening date of their much anticipated Vietnamese concept. Mot Hai Ba will open next Tuesday, serving a blend of North Vietnamese cooking including a selection of street foods that may just be perfect for snacking. See also: An Open Letter to Mot…
Wednesday, April 17 Heads up, hopheads. The founders of Founders Brewing Co., Dave Engbers and Michael Stevens, will be at The Common Table around 5:30ish. There will be $15 flights of Founders that include Centennial IPA, Red’s Rye PA, Dirty Bastard and KBS. From their FB page, “38 flights available…
It’s Cheese Week here on Earth. While Scott says things like “affinage” and “huffing bathroom cleaner,” let’s talk about the cheese that we all eat whether we admit it or not (because sometimes the electric bill is WHAT and you’re broke for a week or three). So I’ll just go…
Here are some samples of the beautifully plated cheeseboards we photographed for cheese week. SEE ALSO: PHOTOS: The Awesome Cheese Boards of Dallas. Scardello Artisan Cheese (3511 Oak Lawn) 1. Dried Cherries 2. Apricots 3. Black mission figs 4/5. Marcona almonds (skin off and on) 6. Italian Baguette: Empire Bakery…
Surely you’ve asked the question while eating funky cheeses with friends. “Are we supposed to eat the rind or not?” Unless you’re surrounded by a bunch of cheese nerds, the answers that come back likely have as many holes as a cartoonish slice of Swiss. Even with the mild rind…
Total bummer about American Airline’s computer glitch out at D/FW Airport. The bad news is your stuck in the awkward space between nowhere and home (or, even worse, vacation!). The good news is, you have some food and beverage options to pass the time. Funny thing about the airport bubble,…
The fancy-pants gourmet food and travel magazine, Saveur, has recently nominated a Dallas-based blog In Sock Monkey Slippers for a food blog award. Meredith Steele is the one in funny socks. She started cooking when she traded in her craft as a graphic-designer to be a stay-at-home-mom. The transition left…
Cheese week in Dallas just wouldn’t be a real cheese week if it didn’t include the mozzarella queen-bee Paula Lambert. Several decades ago while studying Italian in Perugia, Italy, Lambert, who is originally from Fort Worth, fell in love with fresh mozzarella. While in Italy, she came up with the…
Our Englishman in BBQ Sauce finally made it down to Lockhart, the Vatican City of Texas barbecue, where he and his posse gorged on smoked meat from Black’s Barbecue (see yesterday’s post), Smitty’s and, coming tomorrow, Kreuz Market. As soon as the Border Patrol rounds him up, he’ll be back…
If you got to the White Rock Local Market at 9 a.m. you were already too late. A few bunches of chubby carrots and just 3 pounds of asparagus disappeared in an instant. The signs of the coming season are just beginning to awaken and only the early birds take…
Occasionally there is ramen served in Oak Cliff. It’s ladled into disposable bowls in an English pub after the other neighborhood restaurants have locked their doors. Ten Bells Tavern has a reputation for well-executed riffs on bar food classics with an Anglophile slant. Ramen doesn’t quite fit into the mold…
As Lance Lynn and I wrapped up our cheese tasting at Scardello, I asked him to show me one more product. “Give me something that’s a little scary,” I asked. I was looking for a cheese that was as far away from the mass-produced slices we all grew up on…
Are you afraid of cheese? My editor posed the question in light his experiences at Scardello, the gourmet cheese shop in Oak Lawn. Certainly to an enthusiast, a veritable treasure trove of flavors wait to be discovered inside the cheese counter. But to the uninitiated, a cheese case can look…
Fort Worth-based Firestone and Robertson Distilling Co. won double gold medals and Best in Class in the category of American Craft Whiskey for their TX blended whiskey at the 13th Annual World Spirits Competition in San Francisco recently, where more than 1,407 spirits were poured from 63 countries in 85…
You remember burger week, right? The five-day-long tribute to bliss on a bun featured more burger bloggage than we’ve ever seen here on City of Ate — and that’s saying a lot considering how burger obsessed we are on a regular week. Life can’t always be about burgers, though. So…
No doubt you’ve heard of Lockhart. It’s a small, attractive town out somewhere south of Austin. It has an antiques shop that contains items from a more questionable period in America’s history, a large building in the town square reminiscent of Denton and a gigantic metal fish that, while an…
