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…
The reason I moved to Dallas in the first place was due to the inexplicable love of a very fine woman indeed; an internationally in-demand scientist, in fact. She, like me a Brit, got offered two jobs in one day, one in Seattle and one in Dallas. We chose Dallas…
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…
Regular City of Ate commenter CitizenKane recently brought up the Hellman’s versus Miracle Whip debate in the comments section of one of our Thanksgiving posts. I know people have serious opinions on either side of this issue. I’m equal opportunity weird-condiment user. (Although I do believe there are proper times…
Wednesday, November 28 The Mason Bar is throwing a little Holiday Open House with complementary “select house cocktails and menu tasting” from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, November 29 A new weekly music series will be held at Klyde Warren Park, Set List on the Green, featuring local musicians. Check…
This week, our Englishman in BBQ Sauce samples a little Memphis-style barbecue at Red, Hot & Blue in Plano (5017 W. Plano Parkway), which is a littlelike traveling to Glasgow to sample the cuisine of Rome, but please don’t tell him that. It’s much more fun keeping him in the…
Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…
Kari Gates, long-time Plano resident and purveyor of Spring Creek Organic Farm, lobbied for almost a year to persuade her city to change ordinances that essentially prevent farmers’ markets from operating successfully there. It didn’t work. Monday night, the Plano City Council discussed long-awaited amendments to Plano’s health code and…
Bud Kennedy at DFW Eats Beat got the official word on a new spot from Chef Kenny Mills of Chop House Burgers in Arlington. Mills recently took over what was most recently the Blue Danube restaurant in Pantego and has plans to open a steak and seafood restaurant in its…
When I talked to Jeffery Hobbs about his departure from Sissy’s, he was on and off the record like a sauce pan is on and off the heat. All I could get him to say was that he was leaving to pursue his own interests. And that excited me…
CrowdSourcing.com. KickStarter.com. CrowdTilt.com. We’ve covered various endeavors that have been funded through one or more of those i=Internet platforms. It’s a fascinating concept: Come up with an idea. Make a video about it. Write (preferably eloquently) a few paragraphs about the details. Then, wait and see who takes the bait…
When you were a kid, were you able to ever make it through an advent calendar just one day at a time, or did you have tendencies to work ahead a bit? Don’t feel bad if you did. It was just your ambitious overachiever qualities rising up. Good news, advent…
You’re not still doing it are you? Perhaps you crave two slices of bread, a little Miracle Whip and then a spoonful of anything and everything from the apothecary of Tupperware in your fridge? Maybe you prefer your leftovers on small plates, microwaved individually so you can watch a golf…
D Magazine just released their list of this year’s best new restaurants and for the most part I think it’s a nice compilation of what’s been good in the Dallas dining scene during the past year. I sympathize with Nichols’ task. There have been a slew of exciting new openings…
A moment of honesty here, OK? It’s the holidays so we’re being forgiving and all that, right? I never really liked Blue Bell Ice Cream. I always thought of it as the old man of ice cream, sort of boring and uninventive. I like Ben & Jerry’s – blinged-out, glitzy,…
So, do you think you’re interesting? Sure. No. Hell no. Depends on how you define “interesting.” Can you write 500 words about how interesting you are in order to convince someone to buy you breakfast? Are you even inclined to share your story, or perhaps you would rather buy your…
Nailed it! #turkey held together with #bacon 100% #badass #thanksgiving done right #cool #art instagr.am/p/SWd74nFJVd/— Julien Hemmendinger (@JulienTheDinger) November 22, 2012 ***** Warning: If you read this, you will sing it all day. #howithappened #thanksgiving #indians #pilgrims #callmemaybe #instafunny #instagood #turkey #carlyrae #lol instagr.am/p/SW5i9XQGmK/— Andres Aquino (@Andrewboii4) November 23, 2012…
Resident English guy and barbecue sauce addict Gavin Cleaver reviews barbecue restaurants for City of Ate. Because in the end, what do any of us know, really? We’re all just dang ol’ hickory smoke in the wind. Eating at a restaurant on your own is a strange experience, isn’t it?…
Top Chef was pretty boring this week, even though they had Dana Cowen, editor of Fud & Wine Magazine, there to judge the QuickFire. (Dana has been on the show before, and she does not — how you say — fuck around, when it comes to judgery. If your food…
“So what do you ladies think of the Czech Stop?” I’d just ordered a couple of kolaches from the Village Bakery in West and was waiting for them to heat up in the back. The Village Bakery opened in 1952. Thirty years later the Czech Stop opened up down the…
WinePoynt is a new app that recently launched in Dallas that is like the Pandora for wine. It allows you to track wines you like, create your own personal list, then it suggests other wines you may like. Furthermore, the app will tell you where you can buy that wine…
