The Third Annual Peep at the Coops: The East Dallas Urban Coop Tour is this Sunday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are few rules for the tour. First, you can’t bring your dog. (Really? Do we have to make that a rule? If you thought you…
American Craft Beer Week kicked off Monday and fine watering holes throughout the city are celebrating with rare keg tappings and tastings. Design District gastropub and beer-nerd destination the Meddlesome Moth is creating special dishes each night this week to complement its beer offerings. Tuesday night the Moth presented Grand…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email us. I never expected to eat some of the best ribs in…
It’s a nice enough image. A sizable square of mahi mahi boasts perfect 90-degree hashes: the mark of a careful quarter turn on a searing hot grill. The visual perfection carries through to the very center of the fish, where my fork encounters firm and fresh flesh, cooked a moment…
When I was in elementary school our menu was extremely one-dimensional, relying on a handful of staples rotated throughout the week in a failed attempt to keep things fresh. We did not eat well. Fish sticks were prominent, and I remember watching in disgust as some of the other kids…
When the pink slime fervor began, Beef Products Inc, the largest national producer of what it prefers to call Lean Finely Textured Beef, halted production at a few of its plants. They claimed that free-falling demand, caused by Kroger, McDonald’s and other large scale retailers’ rejection of the ammonia-treated beef,…
DFW Food Truck Foodie reported last night that the Fort Worth Food Park is opening its own cantina, which sounds great until you realize the rub: The park is no longer BYOB. Food truck dining can be a little, well, not cheap. But the BYOB aspect made it completely pleasurable…
Other people in line in front of me count: 8 Days I’ve been thinking about this chicken since I ate it: 3 (whole) As I yelled, “Elaine just popped my jerk-chicken cherry and my goat-curry cherry and I really liked it!” in the parking lot of Elaine’s Kitchen, I realized…
As previously noted on several occasions, last year the Texas legislature passed a law that allows home bakers to legally sell their goods from home under some very specific guidelines (Senate Bill 81). And each time I type out another article about this issue, I think, “Well, that should do…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to include this dish…
I’m pretty sure there is a holiday honoring some sort of food product every single day, with overlapping weeks and months to celebrate others. They reach a saturation point at which I tune them all out. But American Craft Beer Week, which began yesterday and runs through Sunday, is an…
Oh it’s just another beer festival, that’s all. ‘Cause that’s how we roll here in Dallas. Beer festies every weekend. This one even involves running, which is great because there’s such satisfaction in digging a hole just to fill it right back up. Sunday brings the Third Annual BrewRiot Homebrew…
Confining sows in small gestation crates has come under great scrutiny lately. Major companies like McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and most recently the nation’s second largest grocery chain, Safeway, have announced a phase-out of pork supplied by farms that use gestation crates. However, recently Domino’s Pizza shareholders rejected a resolution…
The mobile food eatery Rock and Roll Tacos is taking over the kitchen at LaGrange in Deep Ellum in an effort to help both businesses spread taco love. The partnership solves a couple issues: For one, LaGrange is primarily a swanky lounge offering up local music and good drinks. “To…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Last year Cane Rosso’s pizza made our 100 Favorite Dishes list…
That contest was the humor-writing division of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual awards, which were given out earlier this month, apparently in secret. She lost to this woman. I’m sure Alice will gladly accept your praise in the comments. Or she’ll call you a shithead. One or the…
Recently a new 73,000 square foot Kroger Fresh Fare grocery store opened at 4901 Maple Avenue in what is considered an “economically distressed Census tract.” It is also adjacent to two food deserts as defined by the USDA, a designation that indicates limited access to groceries, particularly fresh food. A…
It’s been one week since I pledged to abstain from all animal products, and I kept a journal to track my progress during the week. Here are some highlights for your amusement: Monday, 10:30 a.m.: Day one. Cold-brewed coffee with a splash of almond milk and a vegan banana muffin…
As many Dentonites are aware, especially those (un)fortunate enough to live a stone’s throw from the UNT campus, the “high rise” apartments going up on Fry Street have created quite a state of multi-variable chaos. Construction, no parking, there-is-seriously-another-nail-in-my-tire syndrome: the list goes on for miles. In the end, however,…
My first encounter with a session beer involved power tools. I was working on a kitchen project, and a both a reciprocating and circular saw were strewn about my front yard. The sun was beating down on me and my tools, and a friend dropped by with a case of…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It could just be the picture. I’ve admitted my obsession with…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals, and we’re no different. That’s why we built the above calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each day. Every week, we’ll do our best to keep you up-to-date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced…
