According to DiGiorno’s Official Facebook page, the frozen pizza chain is about to launch new, yep-these-are-real products: Pizza & Cookies and Pizza & Boneless “Wyngz*.” Fascinating! It’s a good thing they went with the mind-blowing, alternate spelling of wings, as they want to avoid customer confusion due to the wyngz…
As impressive as I found Commercial Suicide, from Austin’s Jester King Brewery, I didn’t have a chance to sample any of Jester King’s other offerings until last week, when The Common Table featured Black Metal Imperial Stout on BrewsDay Tuesday. And while I wasn’t completely blown away, it really was…
Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, and if the Academy gets the least bit cutesy, I’ll have hours and hours of movie-watching ahead of me. For more than a decade, I’ve made a ritual of seeing every nominated film in every category: I was probably the only person as…
It’s disappointing, though not surprising, that Uptown is one of the few reliable neighborhoods for Saturday brunch in Dallas. Uptown is young, Uptown is packed, and Uptown loves drinking on all available weekend nights and most weekdays, too. They brunch accordingly. With heads ablaze and stomachs afire for something greasy…
If you haven’t made plans for this week, consider your schedule completely booked now. The week-long celebration of barley wine at Flying Saucer (4821 Bass Pro Dr., Garland) kicks off tonight. Known for its high alcohol content, barley wine is a bold beer, often with either strong hops or fruit…
Good things come in threes. This week, two benefits are going strong in their third year, benefiting humans on down to their companions. For some great food and feel-good, check out what’s going on this week. The Cause: The Stewpot Alliance The Place: Union Station Tuesday’s Third Annual Soups’ On!…
Know what beats going on a lunch date to a restaurant that has a dance floor? Two lunch dates. In all honesty, if you went at night during dancing hours, you might have more fun, well, dancing. Lunch will only tempt you. Last week I met two of my former…
T.G.I. Friday’s, a place known for its red-and-white stripes and flair for shrugging off the work-week, may be feeling the crunch just like everyone else — or it may just be changing its game. Within the last week, the location at NorthPark Center shuttered its doors amidst numerous T.G.I. Friday’s…
Dallas is about to get scrutinized by one of the nation’s leading dining critics. In a call put out via Twitter this morning, the New York Times’ chief restaurant critic Sam Sifton announced he was “Heading to Dallas” to “figure it out for those heading to Texas for Super Bowl.”…
Dallas-based specialty salad restaurant Greenz and Beautiful Brands International on Wednesday announced an agreement to open the first Greenz franchise in Uptown. An existing McKinney Avenue store will be converted into the first franchise location. The franchise restaurant has two counterparts that will remain under corporate ownership; a smaller venue…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Jean-Marie Cadot, owner and executive chef of Cadot. In part two, we asked Cadot to complete our thoughts for us. In today’s final installment he shares one of his tilapia recipes with us. CRUSTED TILAPIA…
Three days after The Green Room was supposed to reopen with a “new menu and new wine list,” the Deep Ellum restaurant remains closed and publicists are mum on future plans. The restaurant hasn’t changed an outgoing voice mail message promising a January 18 relaunch and soliciting requests for reservations…
We’re obsessed with pie, as you can tell from this slide show, and our obsession will be shared across the country this weekend. National Pie Day is Sunday, but you can enjoy the classic American dessert today for free at both Norma’s Café locations (1123 W. Davis St., 17721 Dallas…
There’s only one thing we think when we see a video like this: “Yummy bunny.” All right, so maybe that particular video wasn’t intended to be food porn, but this one definitely was, right? C’mon. It’s a bunny. Humping a balloon. That bunny is so hilarious it deserves to be…
Everything about Guy Fieri is big and boisterous, and has been that way ever since he walked off a winner in the Food Network’s second season of the Next Food Network Star. His voice’s volume and rasp call to mind an overworked cattle-auctioneer. His shock of hay-colored hair has only…
The “to” in farm-to-table will get plenty of attention at an upcoming conference hosted by the Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association The theme of the group’s annual three-day conference, scheduled to start on January 28 in Killeen, is “Texas Farms Direct.” As the website explains it, “the conference will…
“Disheveled wait staff” is a cliché on Yelp! – people love to pluck away stars and blame the stained shirts, dirty fingernails, bad haircuts or collection of piercings glittering from a server’s face. But the worst, least appealing bits of the wait staff may be lurking in the dark crevices…
Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Jean-Marie Cadot, owner and executive chef of Cadot. Today, we asked Cadot to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. (Cadot’s words are after the ellipses.) I was raised in…Paris My friends say I’m…a hard worker. They…
Downtown restaurants hoping to rent out their private dining rooms for Super Bowl viewing parties and pre-game festivities — Morton’s The Steakhouse sends word its boardroom’s still up for grabs, and it “can seat up to 70 guests at one time!” — will have additional competition from pop-up venues. Don…
A scaled-back version of the House of Blues’ gospel brunch, which was mothballed in August, is set to return to the West End restaurant next month. According to featured performer Lady Diamond, who starred in the weekly hallelujah-and-hash show until January 2010, “Gospel Sunday” will be a monthly event starting…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd.When: 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday…
We’re not big on anniversaries — we tend to forget our own every year — but this is one anniversary we made sure to put on our calendar. Visit Ginger Man (2718 Boll St.) tonight to sample the four brews from Sierra Nevada’s 30th Anniversary collection. The event is $15…
