Food & Drink

In a soon-to-be-published survey of the top 50 Mexican restaurants statewide, Texas Monthly food editor Patricia Sharpe concludes Texas is shifting from Tex-Mex to Mex-Tex – and one of the best edible examples of the trend is found in Dallas. According to a teaser for the December issue story, the…

The North Texas Food Bank won’t face the same turkey shortages plaguing food pantries in West Texas. As KOSA-TV reported this morning, the West Texas Food Bank is scrapping turkey distribution for the first time in a decade, citing the high cost of turkey meat. Inflation and a poor harvest…

Does this sound familiar? There’s going to be a street festival this weekend in the Bishop Arts District featuring a cooking contest and blues covers played by middle-aged white guys! This one’s called Cliff Fest, though, and unlike Blues, Bandits & BBQ, it features a more widely varied music lineup…

A waiter at City Diner and Oyster Bar in Corpus Christi broke the appalling news to my wife, in-laws and me last weekend as we made a trip to the coast: No fresh Texas oysters on the half-shell. Not one. Sorry, he said. Dealer prices a week into the start…

Thanks to a quirk of the new health care law, eaters may soon have to dash to chain restaurants to claim the unhealthiest foods on their menus. Starting next year, chains with 20 or more outlets will be required to add calorie counts to their menus and drive-through signs. Not…

Fogo de Chao4300 Belt Line Road972-503-7300Dude Factor: 9, or Seu Jorge, on a scale of 1 (Anderson Varejao) to 10 (Pele).Last week we celebrated — or more accurately, mourned — our 30th birthday. And because she’s such a sweetie, the old ball-and-chain decided to take us out for a fancy…

Fellas, you may want to think hard before you nab a box of Godiva Chocolate Top Chef Just Desserts Collection for your wife this holiday season. One of the four chocolates in the set designed by the Ritz Carlton’s executive pastry chef Morgan Wilson, who won the Godiva deal in…

In part three of our look at Loft 610’s executive chef Tre Wilcox, the chef shares his recipe for the Triple C — Crispy Confit Chicken. He says it’s the duck fat and the time the chicken spends in it that makes it so special. Not to mention that duck…

Eating a taco helps fight your hunger. It also helps fight your neighbor’s hunger. Well, at least that will be true next week. From November 14-18, The United Way of Tarrant County and a class of 23 seniors at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business in Fort Worth are…

I just have to come clean here: For the last few weeks, when it comes to Top Chef Just Desserts, I am officially bored with pretty much anything that doesn’t have to do with a special guest I already adore or Morgan Wilson. It has nothing to do with Wilson…

Sigel’s in Addison is putting together a line-up of liqueurs for its upcoming Holiday LiqueurFest that’s rarely seen outside frat houses. The store’s serving Baileys, Kahlua, Jagermeister and three kinds of Southern Comfort at its tasting event, which will also feature dozens of flavored drinks with more savory reputations. According…

Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Tre Wilcox, executive chef at Loft 610. Today, we asked Wilcox to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his no-nonsense recipes. (Note: Wilcox’s words are after the ellipses.) My friends say I’m… a gym rat. And a very…

Spike Lee’s at the University of North Texas tonight, and fellow Brooklynite Amaya Santos, 17, knows what she’d like to ask the filmmaker. “Spike Lee, what’s going on here?” was Santos’ first thought when she counted up 28 ads for Lee’s Absolut Brooklyn in the Utica Avenue subway station. Santos…

Locally owned restaurants are typically hip to holidays. Any sort of celebration is an excuse for a scrappy restaurant to promote a thematic tie-in, as the Rangers’ run for a World Series ring proved. But on Veterans’ Day, the major chains have the mom-and-pops beat. The only local restaurants that…

The day after Foodways Texas threw a party that some participants are characterizing as a secession from the Southern kitchen, voters in a CNN poll selected Tex-Mex as one of their favorite Southern foods. Foodways Texas is a new organization with the stated mission of preserving, promoting and celebrating the…

I once spent an entire birthday in the company of a friend who thought embarrassment was the greatest gift: Everywhere we ate, she recruited servers to clap, sing and flip light switches — ostensibly in my honor. I’m not eager to repeat that experience. But a birthday lunch today left…

Wine experts have pretty much given up the annual tradition of naming the perfect wine for Thanksgiving, acknowledging the array of flavors on the table — and diverse palates assembled around it — mean a good case can be made for just about any varietal. But if I was doing…

The iTunes library’s shuffling between the culturally transcendent songs of El Mariachi Bronx and Calexico did little to help the taco. The taco was filled with what appeared to be the beloved, vermillion-oozing crumbled sausage, that meat so worthy of a hug. What it was really filled with was a…

This past weekend I stayed in Austin to cover Fun Fun Fun fest — one of the best rock and indie festivals in the country, and easily the greatest in the state, in my opinion. But with the music ending at 10 p.m. nightly and ears (and feet … and…