The Dallas Arboretum is beautiful this time of year. It’s also fucking crazy. If you’re driving down Garland road during arboretum business hours, you’ll see a ridiculously long line of minivans stuffed with sticky-toddler-filled cars eats, brides-to-be and chicks decked out in their quinceañera dresses all super frustrated that they’re…
This week, Three-Course Meal catches up with Patton Robertson, chef at Five-Sixty by Wolfgang Puck . Who are you? I’m a Texas boy. Just turned 40. Cooking is something that I’ve done since childhood, and I have been cooking Texas-based food and California cuisine for 14 years. After focusing on regional…
Reservations just got more difficult to acquire at The Grape, chef/owner Brian C. Luscher’s wine bistro, as Danyele McPherson was named sous chef today. McPherson is late of Stephan Pyles, where she began as line cook and worked her way up dice by dice to sous chef. She was educated…
Yesterday, we had the chance to chat with Nova’s chef Kelly Hightower about a thing or two — community gardens (which he says are trending in the food community), his very own top-secret guerrilla supper club (about which he assures we’ll be getting an email blast sooner than later), and…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we learned about chef Tim Love’s inspiration for his Love Shack burger joint, along with a secret, off-menu item he likes to order when he’s in the mood for one of his burgers. Yesterday, we shared a recipe for grilled pickles…
Not everything is Tecate and tequila with a smattering of high-pitched mariachi howling on Cinco de Mayo — not anymore at least, thanks to the rise of Mexican craft breweries. The individuals behind these operations aren’t going the usual lager route, as the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month…
The first concert I went to without a parent was the Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill, at the Summit in Houston, circa 1986. I was 11 and my brother was 16. We had floor seats, and I remember it being a crazy show. Afterward, we walked to a hotel across…
At the risk of getting punched in the face and having my journalist card revoked, I’ll repeat the cliché: There’s no such thing as a free lunch. But what about a few free drinks? Or a couple of appetizers, if you’re friends with the staff? Casual restaurants are great because…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we learned about chef Tim Love’s inspiration for his Love Shack burger joint, along with a secret, off-menu item he likes to order when he’s in the mood for one of his burgers. Tomorrow, we’ll give you the lowdown on the…
I’m going to lose some Asian points for this blog, so I’m just going to put it out there: I am not a fan of the lazy Susan. Why this rotating serving contraption was ever considered a good idea is beyond me. What is supposed to bring people together during…
At City of Ate, every day is an excuse to party, especially when we’ve enlisted a talented chef who wants to cook a fancy four-course dinner and some spicy musical stylings from a local jazz performer for that party. Oh, and did we mention we want you to come party…
We can all agree today that April showers don’t bring May flowers, and stormy April was particularly unkind to Metro Diner as the bacon and eggs institution shuttered their doors last month. But the month wasn’t completely clouded by these unfortunate closures, and several new, mostly casual, eateries opened their…
What do Dallas restaurant-goers do when news spreads that U.S. military forces have killed Osama bin Laden, the man behind the most heinous attack on American soil? They don’t embark on drinking binges. That’s too pedestrian. No, they make plans to gorge themselves on fine-dining fare, giving in to far…
There was a time when anyone drinking hooch ran the risk of blindness. Those days are behind us in Dallas. People can now drink to help the blind, as the U.S. importer of Michel Chapoutier Cotes du Rhone Belleruche is donating 50 cents for every bottle of Belleruche Rouge 2008,…
Wurst runs in my family. You see, I wouldn’t be here without it. In the early hours of a cold, very cold, Icelandic winter day, my grandfather, the great Hvatr Luster, returned home from a year and a half of copious Nazi-butt-kicking and name-taking and found himself hungry outside a…
Chef Tim Love of Fort Worth’s Lonesome Dove Western Bistro is a very busy guy. On top of his flagship fine-dining restaurant, the Denton native owns the White Elephant Saloon and three Love Shack burger joints, the third of which opened in early April in Denton at 113 E. Hickory…
This week, Dallasites get cheesy and try to wash away their troubles with meat soap. No, really. Read on. City of Ate Cedars Social isn’t all that great, concludes Jose Ralat Maldonado. The “comfort” food is ultimately disappointing and over salted, but hopefully you’ll be too drunk on the delicious…
I first spied and became a closet fan of New Yawk’s home cook supreme, Mark Bittman, when I wandered over to his video segments on The New York Times website. OK, technically speaking, I first fell for Bittman’s totally unprepossessing way with words and ingredients in his “minimalist” column that…
God Bless the Texas Legislature. No amount of political discord will prevent them from the serious work for which the people of this great state sent them to Austin. And it has nothing to do with cuts to a cash-strapped educational system. No, ma’am. Our state government has bigger things…
All this month, mixologists from Abacus, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen, Jasper’s, Shinsei. and Zea WoodFire Grill and have been competing via conjuring up delicious drinks using Ambhar Tequila. The final showdown is set to take place this Sunday at The Flats Aqua Lounge at The Heights at Park Lane and…
Not all bartenders are boozy, party after last-call types. Some are family men, like Sean Conner, the Whiskey Cake muddling and shaking engineer who is one six bartenders up for the National Restaurant Association’s “Star of the Bar” mantle, part of the 2011 International Wine, Spirit & Beer Event to…
So, two guys are sitting at a bar — one is a priest, the other is a carpenter. A guy in a starched shirt hands them each a shot of rum, which they drink… This past Wednesday, DonQ Rum hosted a little event at The Cedars Social to find Dallas’…
