The official numbers are in for Dallas’ first-ever Carrotmob, a reverse boycott in which participants patronize a restaurant that pledges to spend a certain percentage of its one-night sales on energy efficiency upgrades. According to organizer Tajana Mesic, more than 300 people ate at LaGrange in Deep Ellum last Wednesday…
Restaurant bent on doing good could just donate food to local non-profits. But what’s the fun in that? Various Dallas eateries have dreamed up more creative ways to help their community: Read on for details of this week’s charitable happenings…
Three of Dallas’ best beer joints are teaming up to offer the rarest beers available from one of Colorado’s finest breweries all week, beginning with a food pairing at The Libertine featuring Avery Salvation and continuing with pairings and tappings of Avery’s Demons, Trinity and Dictators series at the Meddlesome…
Editor’s Note: Since we’re not especially scholastic at City of Ate, we recruited our intern Brooke Nottingham (who’s probably a whiz with a highlighter and page marker flags) to attend a few local cooking classes. Her occasional series of reports begins today with a cheese class at Central Market. Fortunately,…
Hookah buzz has filled local food blogs since Stephen Pyles brought Samar to Dallas, cementing a trend already adopted by eateries including Al Amir, Kush Mediterranean Grill & bar and Urban Café & Bar. Yet most restaurant reviewers have kept their focus on the food, perhaps pausing to note how…
Dallas woodworker Sean Springer’s trunk show at We Are 1976 this week includes tables, bookcases and chairs, none of which appear to be especially good to eat. But Springer, a Rhode Island School of Design grad, has entered the edible realm with a line of chopsticks, spoons and coffee stirrers…
We’ve got a week’s worth of food, festivals and fun for you, plus we’ll tell you where you can meet a celebrity chef today. You’ll have to get in line behind us, of course, but we’ll save you a spot. We’re nice like that. Let’s start first with a TOGA…
Fort Worth’s Brownstone has decided to celebrate its four-month anniversary by launching Sunday brunch. The Fort Worth restaurant – the gastronomic love child of Dallas’ Top Chef finalist and fan favorite, Casey Thompson (late of the Mansion on Turtle Creek and Shinsei), and local club-e-sario Sam Sameni — is bringing…
First truth: I didn’t go to Meddlesome Moth on a date. Second truth: I did go there with three couples and my “date”–a girlfriend. Third truth: A man did pay for my meal. So the dinner had some date-like aspects to it, right? Not really. The man who paid for…
As the State Fair roller coaster eases back into the station, the setting sun is casting a clichéd orange glow and Dallas bloggers are beginning to reminisce about what they wish they’d seen. Five Sixty initially wanted to see a gaggle of veterans in pressed khakis and pastel polos. The…
Walking into the crisp, white linen-and-dark wood decor of Rockwall’s Restaurant Ava on Sunday morning was a welcome change from my weekend of fireside beer-swilling in East Texas. It’s not that campfire kebabs and Jiffy Pop don’t make for a great meal, but it’s nice to go from one extreme…
Novel and atrocious fried foods aren’t the only foodstuffs available at the State Fair of Texas. Among the alternatives are tacos, one of which threw me for a loop. To begin my hunt, I searched the State Fair’s Food Finder web page for tacos. With the search results in hand,…
Spirits aren’t seasonal in the same way as tomatoes and strawberries, but drinkers tend to craft their own rules about which liquor’s right for which time of year. And for many drinkers, October’s the month to transition between their summer and winter selections. My friend Bill Addison (a familiar name…
When I first moved to Dallas, and was trying to figure out my neighborhood’s food scene, my online research kept pointing me toward Kuai, a dumpling joint on Elm Street. I scoured Elm Street, but couldn’t find it. I had no idea then that the restaurant was beneath me, tucked…
It always surpsrises me when I return home from Vietnam a few pounds lighter. Keep in mind that the nation still is a third world country, and the general mindset of the Vietnamese isn’t as diet-fanatical as it is here. Although I’ve traveled back to Vietnam quite frequently over the…
There’s always that one house in the neighborhood that rocks the effin’ ween out of Halloween. The house that every kid is excited about. That house that has such good candy, it inspires adults to pimp out their not-even-eating-solid-foods-yet infants. So, how do you become the best Halloween candy-havin’ house…
Tallies of how much food was consumed at the State Fair of Texas this year aren’t yet available, but the amount of food donated was record-setting. The North Texas Food Bank this morning announced its haul over a series of collection Wednesdays came to 177,558 pounds, breaking the previous record…
Today Brian Luscher takes us into his kitchen at The Grape where he shows us how to make a pate-like dish that originates from the Indre-et-Loire department of France (the same region where Rosewood Mansion chef Bruno Davaillon hails from). The meat is traditionally cooked for long periods of time,…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: VIckery Park, 2810 N. Henderson Ave., 214-827-1432When: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday…
Let’s just say that last night on Top Chef Just Desserts, Dallas’ Morgan Wilson made quite an impression. Good, bad, sweet, saucy and everything else in between. He was even bold enough to overshadow the super enthusiastic and over-confident Team Go Diva (Flamboyant Zac, aka Zamboyant, Yigit and bitchy Heather…
All photos by Jesse HugheyThough you may not have known it, as the brewery’s products are carried by fewer than 20 retailers and pubs in the area, Boulder, Colorado’s Twisted Pine Brewery has made its way into North Texas. In Dallas, you can find Twisted Pine brews at Pogo’s, Trinity…
Matronly home cooks clutching recipe cards inherited from their kitchen-wise grannies are no longer shoo-ins to win culinary contests at the State Fair of Texas. The number of young men competing in the various contests featuring Dr Pepper, Spam and Malt-o-Meal has been steadily increasing over the past decade, but…
