Food & Drink

A little over a week ago I threw my belongings into a 16-foot Penske, drove down 16th Street past the White House, and headed west. Finn, my 14-year-old wonder-mutt, sat shotgun, along with a spider plant, a bottle of port, some Gatorade and a bar of chocolate. I was leaving…

Dole calls it a food truck. I call it a big bus that hands out free fruit cups. Regardless of what “it” is, “it” is for a good, charitable cause! Dole, the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, is melon-balls deep into a 12-city tour in which…

This week in Dallas blogs, more people tried to settle the debate between Whataburger and In-N-Out, a restaurant in Pennsylvania banned volume-challenged five-year-olds, and a place that looks like a tattoo parlor produced some damn good lamb shank. Read on. City of Ate Alice Laussade staged a smack down between…

This is part three of our three-part interview with Pache. Click on the Three-Course Meal link for more from Pache and other Dallas chefs. What are your top five rules of the kitchen? Always taste your food. Keep your station clean. Always be on time. Always have a clean, pressed…

The Deep Ellum outdoor market is celebrating its first anniversary on Saturday, July 16. The free, monthly, market will be open from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., featuring various arts and crafts, jewelry, knickknacks, and more from local artists and businesses. Nammi Food Truck and Good Luck Truck will roll…

Like a bat outa’ organic hell, Southpaws is making its way to McKinney Avenue, where they’ll open up their second Dallas location right alongside Frankie’s Sports Bar in early September. Their new digs will include a big ol’ patio for folks looking to sit back under the hot Texas sun…

In the paper version of City of Ate this week, Alice Laussade writes of the patty smackdown we ordered between Whataburger and In-N-Out burger. We got Grape owner Brian Luscher, Angry Dog owner Todd Dickerson and Jack Perkins of Maple Motor–all burger mavens in this here Dallas, TX–to compare the…

In the department of tech-additions-you-must-have … Two Australian geniuses (Rob Ward and Chris Peters) have invented the perfect iPhone case: one that can open your beer. They’re calling it “the Opena,” and, according to the fancy pants video, it slides out of the back of the case like a box-cutter…

We’re sponsoring, we’ll be there, and we’ll be giving away tickets closer to. In the meantime, get thee to ticketmaster.com…

The original Herrera’s Mexican Café was located on Maple Avenue, right across the street from Observer HQ, where the lovable Grapevine Bar now resides. Amelie Herrera opened the restaurant in 1971, and it’s been a popular spot for Tex-Mex in Dallas ever since, featured in a 1984 issue of National…

And here’s Ramsay, in a later press conference, describing the mind blowage, which came courtesy of Starr’s carrot cake: “A phenomenal baker this year as well, which, yeah, my God, the guy’s name was Ben Starr, and what an appropriately named surname, Starr, because he cooked like a star. I’ve…

This is part two of our interview with Ocean Prime’s Sonny Pache. Read part one here. What are the five Dallas restaurants you go to most often? Mama’s Daughters Diner. Fireside Pies. Hunan Express, eatZi’s, Fearings at The Ritz Carlton…

While Sonny Pache, 29, was studying finance in college in Ohio, he always ended up cooking for his five roommates. Apparently he wasn’t half bad, because the roommates were always telling him he should trade in formulas for recipes and go to culinary school. Eventually he listened, enrolling in the…

Starting tomorrow night, the Dallas Museum of Art will stay open until 9 p.m. for nine Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, or until July 30. The event, called 9×9, includes artist discussions, performances, film screenings, “art-inspired cocktails” and small plates. Chef Coulter will prepare a new bill of fare each week,…

Up until yesterday, I believed that July was National Lemonade Month. After Googling it, I discovered there likely isn’t any such thing as “National Lemonade Month.” July is just another hot month that needs a good, refreshing beverage. It is also, apparently, the National Month of blueberries, horseradish, baked beans,…

The boyfriend recently was moved to a different position at work, one with a shorter lunch break. So we decided to check out some of the quicker and better Asian-restaurant lunch deals around the Dallas area. Along with our own personal lunch spots, I asked some friends to contribute their…

So Bastille Day is coming up, on Thursday, July 14. And you actually have options on where to celebrate in Dallas. You could grab your beret and head to Bastille on Bishop in Oak Cliff. The Alliance Francaise of Dallas and the French American Chamber of Commerce are partnering up…

News broke a couple weeks back that Bravo’s Top Chef, the king of reality food TV’s very crowded hill, is busy shooting its next season in cities around Texas, including Dallas. And last week, things seemed to take a turn for the sinister, when Eater reported that a Dallas-based advertising…

When the warm weather reminds me of barbecues I had with family and friends growing up, I start craving that charred, smoky flavor. But since I can’t have an open flame (apartments — ugh), I started searching for grilling alternatives. Here are five favorite scenic routes to getting that barbecue-grill-smoky…

Amy Curry joined East Dallas at a sneak peek of the coming-soon neighborhood spot, Goodfriends. Here’s her dispatch. It won’t open for at least a few weeks, but Goodfriends (near Peavy and Garland roads in East Dallas) finally opened its patio yesterday to invite its already devoted following, who have…