Food & Drink

With Thanksgiving behind us and the Christmas countdown ticking away, the next few weeks promise to be extremely caloric ones. Time to break out the hats, scarves, heavy coats and elastic pants. If you’re looking for food stuff to do this weekend, Lauren’s got you covered, but don’t start your…

Grapevine now has another craft brewery in the works (in addition to Noble Rey). Gary Humble, who lives in Grapevine, has been a pastor for the past 15 years and more recently has fallen in love with homebrewing. It’s a natural progression, after all. The process of purifying water into…

I’m sure you other Instagram users noted it too. Last Thursday the popular social media site, based on filtered photography, was absolutely inundated with pictures of turkeys, table settings, pies, fall leaves and anything else that was even remotely related to the Thanksgiving holiday. A bakery based in New York,…

Thanks to Twitter user @RodDurham for pointing this one out to me. Travel + Leisure just published a list of the 21 best sushi restaurants in the country, and two of my favorites are included. See also: – How to Order Sushi Like a Champ at Yutaka Yes, yes, Uchi…

The opening scene of this week’s Top Chef picked up where we left off last week: Valentesar fight. Tesar was being Tesar, and Valentine goes, “There’s a thing called tact, and obviously you don’t have any.” And Tesar says, “Oh, Oklahoma has a lot of tact.” And then everyone watching…

Ever hear of Lufkin? I hadn’t until recently, but I’m not as Texan as some of you Texans, so I thought I’d ask. The town 170 miles southeast of Dallas made news yesterday when Fuel City announced they’d be opening a second location of their popular gas-station-meets-car-wash-meets-taco-stand there…

Just this morning Catherine Downes dropped by my desk to bitch about Bolsa. She said their weekly Wednesday special, featuring $5 drinks, had gotten a little stale and was wondering if they’d do anything soon to reinvigorate the program. Swear it. Just happened while I was drinking my morning coffee…

Last year the Arlington Chamber of Commerce hosted the inaugural German-inspired Christkindl Market on the north side of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The open-air street market featured crafts, gifts and German food such as sausage and strudel. Evidently it went well. The 2012 Arlington Christkindl Market started today and lasts…

Driving over the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and across the west bank of the Trinity River, one quickly enters the Trinity Groves Project. If you’re not heads-up about it, you could easily miss the sign announcing it. But, most likely you’ll sense a revival in a part of Dallas that…

It’s not a whole lot to look at right now. Lemongrass grows in a pot or two, along with basil and a few chili pepper plants. In the soil, row after row of chives shoot up in green clumps reaching for the sun. Many of the rows have been trimmed…

What do you get the person who has everything? This question comes up year after year, birthday after birthday, holiday after holiday. And while there are plenty of creative ways to answer it, there are few solutions more rewarding than a gift that ends with the receiver cooking the giver…

Heads up, Triptophan-lovers. It’s time to trade whipped cream and marshmallows for buttercream and …marshmallows, because breaking news: Bubbles the Airstream’s mommies have a new home base. And Dallassites have a new permanent spot to get their teeny tiny cupcake on. Trailercakes, one of the first food trailers to hit…

If your mouth waters a little when you see one of those “I’m A Pepper” shirts, then you undoubtedly recall last summer when Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group decided to sue Dublin Bottling Works, the then-sole maker of the original-formula Imperial Cane Sugar Dr Pepper. Papa Bear said Baby Bear…

Leaving the cozy confines of the British countryside and pretty much everyone I’d ever met 5,000 miles away wasn’t an easy thing to do. I’m still surprised I did it. I didn’t grow up (in Watford, and then the Cotswolds, since you’re asking) thinking to myself, “One day, I’d really…

You can’t begin to imagine the wealth of everyday misunderstanding that’s possible when relocating from Britain to Texas. The broad stuff — obtain dwelling, consume food, aim to subsist — that’s the same. Even the language is apparently the same. The thing is, communicating with other people, that’s an issue…

As I have previously stated, everything here is subtly different in a way that serves to slightly unnerve the foreigner. What isn’t at all subtle is a Texas summer. Whose idea was it to colonize this place to start with? Who had the original desire to make their home a…

Holly Johnson takes a zealot’s approach to imbibing in a glass of red with dinner. She doesn’t always like to be told what to drink and how much to pay for it. So, she set out on a mission to find every BYOB restaurant in the Dallas region, and luckily…

I don’t normally geek out over newly released menus. They can read well, but if the dishes aren’t executed well then all the drool on my keyboard was for nothing. I’m having a hard time sitting on Bowl and Barrel’s new menu though, and it’s not just because popular Dallas…