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Promised Delivery Time: 45 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 33 minutes Scoring Summary: Easy Order Taking: 10 Partially Mucking Up My Order: 5 Repeatedly Being Told “God Bless You” By Delivery Driver: 30 Having to Eat Without Raccoons and Possums Begging for Food at My Feet: 30 Total: 75 I have…

Breaking the fast on Yom Kippur, which starts Friday at sundown, usually calls for raiding the synagogue’s spread and making a mad dash for whichever restaurant puts the fewest obstacles between diners and food (Chinese buffets work well.) But what’s the best strategy for those ambitious hosts and hostesses who…

Pizza Patron has issued what just might be this season’s prettiest promotion. The Dallas-based pizza chain, which explicitly celebrates “the Latin life,” is now distributing loteria-style discount cards in honor of Mexico’s bicentennial. The colorful cards visually reference the bingo boards that have been a staple of Mexican culture for…

When I walk into a Latino-operated or staffed establishment, I am inevitably greeted in Spanish. It must be something about my skin color, my black hair and black Vandyke. They must be indicators of my ability to speak the language. My sisters can pass as white. Not I. Mrs. Ralat,…

Food Network magazine this week released the no doubt intentionally provocative results of an anonymous chef survey, in which chefs copped to stealing ideas, showing up for work sick, recycling bread and sabotaging orders that were sent back for recooking. As a former restaurant server, I’ve seen chefs do all…

According to the official corporate description, Pop-Tarts are toaster pastries. But after decades of pushing the treat as a ready-made breakfast, Kellogg’s seems to be repositioning the foil-wrapped snack as an ingredient. Since the Pop-Tart debuted in the 1960s, cooking with Pop-Tarts has generally meant sticking them in a toaster…

A unique twilight dinner has been scheduled at Eden’s Garden Organic Garden Center and CSA Farm in Balch Springs that will pair eight chefs from five Dallas restaurants for one evening of dining and music to benefit and celebrate our local farms. The chefs include Abraham Salum and Al Havens…

I was recently seated at Charlie Palmer near a group of seemingly-sophisticated diners (I was listening in on their conversation about the best way to get to Tanzania until Jon Voight showed up and I refocused my eavesdropping). They were working their way through a pile of sweetbreads when a…

(This is the first part of a three-part look at Jeff Harris, executive chef at Craft. Tune in tomorrow for a Q&A with Harris and Friday as he demonstrates how to prepare one of the restaurant’s dishes.) Jeff Harris was raised in a small town in East Texas near Gilmer,…

As The New York Times reported this week, Mexico’s in a dour mood on the eve of its bicentennial: An increasingly brutal drug war has dampened citizens’ enthusiasm for Thursday’s celebration. But nothing’s stopping the party at local Mexican burger chain Burguesa Burger, which plans to roll out two new…

Now that the Korean taco thing’s been done to death — except maybe in Dallas — my friend and I were batting around new can’t-miss concepts for food trailers. He’s currently refurbishing a few of them, and plans to roll out at least one soon. (And if I knew anything…

Kent Rathbun, who cracked the Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog this year with a lobster shooter kit, has advice for other restaurateurs looking to turn their signature recipes into retail sensations. “You got to start small, and you got to think in terms of what people can use at home,” Rathbun says…

Hill Country, the wildly popular New York City barbecue joint that’s been busily indoctrinating Yankees in the ways of traditional Texas ‘cue, is now garnering attention for a dish of less certain provenance. As Grub Street recently reported, the menu at Hill Country Chicken — an homage to buttermilk-fried chicken…

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourMolly’s Mary.​One expects that when one travels cross-counties to spend a Friday evening at North Texas’ finest honky-tonk, where $5 pitchers of Coors Light are on offer all day every day, one will wake up the next morning in need of some…

“That’s what it’s about. That’s what we do. We represent,” said chef Joey Guzman of Northwood Club, when asked about the significance of three Latino finalists in the Chefs Under Fire D/FW semifinal at Milestone Culinary Center, an the event to which City of Ate was invited. The other two…

An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn’t exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year’s Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the fair’s healthy snacks. The festival, billed as the nation’s largest, hasn’t leached all the fat and calories from its standard food line-up: Concessionaires…

The Emmy-winning and highly rated Top Chef franchise on Bravo puts the icing on its cake with this week’s debut of Top Chef: Just Desserts (10 p.m., Wednesday, September 15, then moving to its regular slot at 9 p.m. the following week). Hosting the competition among 12 top-flight pastry chefs…