Whitney Filloon, our resident pastry chef/booze correspondent, took the week off from drinking to bring you these winter cocktail ideas. We have her assurances that she was sober when she wrote them. I enjoy a $12 cocktail as much as the next Dallas girl, but I decided I better trim…
Ouch. Remember that whole Bar 828 thing in Oak Cliff? Seems like a distant memory. While milling around out back of the event, I asked a bartender (details fuzzy for obvious reasons) his best hangover cure. He told me a gin and tonic water poured over a couple of alka-seltzer…
‘Tis the season for cliche. I could do with fewer references to chilly weather and the warming bowls of soup I’m reading on food blogs lately. How about booze? How about hot booze? That’s the stuff to warm up with. Observer bar-and-clubs guru Daniel Hopkins came to my office this…
An article in The New York Times has me thinking about the contents of my refrigerator again. The last time we looked in my icebox an empty cardboard six-pack holder of light beer and withered strawberries graced the shelves. Not much has changed since August. The strawberries are gone, replaced…
It’s getting late. There are only eight shopping days left before Christmas. If you’re doing your shopping online, you should blow off work the rest of the day and get to it. We’ve compiled a list to guide you. These unique items will give the impression you searched far and…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she’s full of sugar at Sweet Sue Diner, 3813 Bird St., 469-734-1864. At least, we think it was sugar. Something beginning with an “S” anyhow. Other times…
Free this Saturday? Feel like doing some good for all of humanity? The kind of good that tastes like tacos, cupcakes and grilled cheese sandwiches? Then you, sir or madam, might want to check out the Food Truck Holiday Party hosted by Three Men and a Taco in the Arts…
Jay Jarrier confirmed today that he’s signed a lease on the space next door to his Deep Ellum pizza restaurant, Cane Rosso. The 1500 square-foot space will be turned into a mixed-use area, filled with private dining space and tables for overflow when the main room gets crowded. And that…
In 1985 Andrea Pedraza found herself in need of a little extra cash when a friend told her about a new chocolate shop that had just opened and was hiring. Going to the interview, Pedraza was hopeful, but didn’t think working in a chocolate shop was realistic. Three weeks later,…
Over on Pegausus News, DFW Food Truck Foodie reported yesterday that the Dallas City Council has released the headlock they’d had on many North Texas food trucks by resolving a few code compliance issues. The biggest change is to allow retrofitted trucks. Previously the code allowed only original food trucks…
If you consider yourself a lover of good food, you ought to check out NPR’s Food Podcast. Every Thursday they drop 30 minutes highly digestible food news , and while some of it’s a little campy, it’s mostly quite good. Last week’s podcast featured the next great food trend: meatballs…
My taco post about El Si Hay earned me some shit. A few commenters said those tacos are trash. They called me a gringo. Get yourself to El Tizoncito, one said. Another agreed. Next thing you know, I’m sitting in a silver minivan with another Ater, teetering down Interstate 35…
Lounging on the couch, still rumpled and disheveled from last week’s steak dinner competition, Edward coined the gang of chefs the “dirty dozen.” “Ooohh, dirty dozen,” they laughed in unison in a perfect television moment, as though “dirty dozen” was a product placement as staged as their trusty Toyota Siennas…
The Chesterfield opened this week at 1404 Main St. in downtown Dallas. Deep burgundy couches and velvet armchairs along with brass chandeliers and a dark-wood bar gives this mixology den a distinguished, swank feel. With an “official” capacity of less than 50, the narrow restaurant and bar is cozy and…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Jimmy’s Food Store Sandwich: Philly Roast Pork Sandwich ($6.99) Bread: Soft, half-jus’d hoagie Toppings: Roast pork, broccoli rabe, peppers, auricchio provolone, aujus The Case:…
A few weeks back we told you (reminded you, really) about the evils of McDonald’s pork supplier, Smithfield Foods. The Humane Society was roasting the commercial pig factory for its use of gestation crates, noted for their impossibly small size and generally considered a cruel and unusual way of breeding…
Every morning around 9, a large pot of water containing dried white corn and lime comes to a boil inside the kitchen of Meso Maya — the first step of a two-day process that yields fresh hand-made tortillas for hundreds of diners each day. The procedure is straightforward but hardly…
Does authenticity matter? What the hell is authenticity, anyway? Look it up in a dictionary and words like “real” and “genuine” stab at a definition. Framed this way, authentic seems a prefect descriptor for a Topps baseball card or a Rolex watch. Put the word authentic next to a taco…
Each week, we browse local food blogs to find the most jaw-unhingingly tasty photos for you gastro deviants out there. Here are some of this week’s best images…
Jennifer Newbold has been the chef at Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen for about six months now. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she grew up eating food from her family farm and would like to see an easier way to bring the farm to the table here. She came to Dallas…
The much-awaited Bolsa Mercado opened this week in Oak Cliff, just a few doors down from its farm-to-table mother ship Bolsa. This high-end grocery store and deli boasts shelves stocked with dips, sauces, honey, spices, root beer, local cheeses, breads, chocolates and countless other items. And for the boozers: 100…
We all know that Dallas chefs are great at cheffing. So we thought it might be fun to give them a chance to show off their chef creativity and skills with a new challenge we’ll be calling “The Box.” Once a month or so, we’ll invite a new lucky soul…
