Food & Drink

Hey beer nerds: this post’s for you. By now, after attending many beer-themed dinners, wherein a chef sets up a menu with beer pairings selected by a cicerone, you’ve realized the power of matching beer with food. The residual sugars present in all beer play nicely with sugar-containing components of…

The best German restaurant in America is just around the corner, according the the GermanDeli.com. This year the Bavarian Grill in Plano received the award. They won in 2009 too. The restaurant is celebrating this evening at its bi-monthly stein club meeting. Inga Bowyer started her online grocery in 2008…

Burgers and wine. Isn’t that enough?! Kidding.

There were actually a lot of really cool reasons to attend this delicious event for DIFFA Dallas held at One Arts Plaza, besides the food and drink opportunities. First of all, it gave quite a few local chefs the opportunity to do one thing and do it really well: craft a creative signature mini burger. Or lots of them.

In part one of this week’s Three-Course Meal series we hear from chef Brady Williams of Oddfellows, who discusses his first job at a greasy-spoon diner, what his grandmother taught him about cooking and what lead him to Dallas after playing hockey. How old are you? I’m 25. When was…

Recently some businesses along Knox Street colluded, but not in a mafia-ish way, to “brand” their neighborhood, officially calling it “The Knox Public Improvement Project.” Catchy, isn’t it? To celebrate their new collaborative identity and goal of improving things, this loosely knit group of restaurants, retails shops and artsy places…

The Association of Food Journalists met in South Carolina over the weekend, presumably engaging in heated debates over critic anonymity and restaurant-review waiting periods and whether a large slab of bacon should be carved into Mount Rushmore. (Of course one should). The group also handed out some hardware. For fans…

Carl’s Jr. seems extremely excited to be opening its 50th restaurant in Texas this Saturday at 550 W. I-30 in Garland. To commemorate the occasion they are deploying a food truck, which will hit this city over the next few days with free samples of burgers, fries and drinks. Below…

Last week we reported that Deep Ellum’s It’s A Grind Coffee House would close immediately. A few Twitter users reacted, half disappointed and half not surprised. I called several times to talk to the owners but manager Carlos Guerrero said an official communication would be released in a few weeks…

Since October is National Cheese Month, it’s fine time to “Meet the Cheeses” at Central Market, where, in addition to their standard vast collection, they’re hosting a few classes. For the industrious cheese devotee, Allison Hooper is in town to host a class this Thursday, October 13, from 6:30 to…

Pizza is a provincial food. A New Yorker will tell you a slice should be thin and floppy, the sauce just like so. A New Havener would skulk if a crust was missing that requisite char and might prefer clams over peperoni. Chicagoans turn pizza into a literal pie, practically…

Deep Ellum dabbles in variety of things. The familiar: bars, music venues, restaurants, tattoo parlors and stores filled with vintage tchotchkes. Then there are a few surprises, like a winery, a cheese shop and ninja parking lot attendants. Hopefully soon they’ll add to the list of familiar a community garden…

I distinctly remember my first encounter with deviled eggs. I was at a Penn State football game, probably eight years old. I was nearing double-digit eggs before I realized I’d gone too far. To me the snack will always be a tailgating food, but to bars and restaurants, deviled eggs…

Main Street Garden hosted the inaugural TX/OU Red River BBQ Shootout on Friday night, and the BBQ carnage that ensued left folks young and old victim to great rib artistry. Amidst a backdrop of thick country music and a setting sun, Cousin’s BBQ of Ft Worth squared off against Leo’s…

Esquire has released its annual Best New Restaurants list. Sorry, Dallas, we weren’t included in the slideshow of winners. We did, however, get an honorable mention in the intro that described several growing trends in national dining. While describing gastro pubs, the continued rise of southern cooking, and the return…

While the rest of Deep Ellum bounced from music venue to serious slices on Friday night, I sat in a small makeshift restaurant in an unmarked building on Elm Street. The simple gray structure typically hosts My Private Chef, a Dallas-based food service that provides pre-cooked meals customers can eat…

Chef Aarón Sánchez, a regular on the Food Network and executive chef of Centrico in New York City, will sign copies of his new cookbook, Simple Food, Big Flavor, at Central Market on Lovers Lane this Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In his Latin cuisine-inspired cookbook, Sánchez features…

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. It’s true. Vegetarians do exist, even in Dallas. And not only that, they should be celebrated, if for nothing else than for eating all the world’s tofu so you don’t have to see it. Here are a few ways to help make everyone aware of…

Popular Deep Ellum coffee house It’s A Grind will close this evening at 6 o’clock. I was tipped off to the closure by Murray Street Coffee Shop’s Facebook page. They posted the following on their wall today. We understand today is the last day for It’s A Grind. A good…