Food & Drink

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…

Two veterans of the restaurant group that includes Houston’s have announced plans to open a Thai-Vietnamese restaurant in West Village. Braden Wages — who most recently served as general manager of R+D Kitchen — and Yasmin Wages, his wife and former assistant general manager at Park, will debut Malai in…

Big-name food stars, like most sane travelers, have pretty much steered clear of Dallas this summer: While Houston hosted Anthony Bourdain, and the University of Texas announced an upcoming lecture by Michael Pollan, Dallas has been making do with its homegrown talent and a one-off appearance by Mexican cooking legend…

If we had to pick a theme for this week’s Hash Over, then it would be cheap, very cheap, celebrations. So, we’re going to need you to cancel whatever you have going on this Wednesday and Thursday, and join in on the fun, cheapskate. The Quarter Bar, part of the…

For a long time, wine-making in North Texas was pretty much limited to the city of Grapevine. In recent years, that has slowly but surely changed, and now more purveyors can be found on the eastern side of the metroplex, with Fuqua, Times Ten Cellars, Calais and Inwood Estates setting…

Yesterday’s Blues, Bandits & BBQ competition in Oak Cliff was a success on every score but flavor. Organizers estimate more than 1,000 people turned out to celebrate tunes and barbecue at the grassroots festival, which may have been the first in the nation to require its pit teams to use…

The still-current trend in menu-writing is to append a place name to every dish, proclaiming its local origins. But back when Texas was largely unsettled, folks did it the other way around: They named their towns after food. Dozens of Texan towns have shared their names with fruits and nuts…

Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neighborhood and includes…

The lemon bar, that tasty pastry made up of a shortbread crust and lemon-curd filling, is easily found on tables across the Midwest, especially on Sundays at potlucks among Jell-O salads, meat loafs and the requisite dozen or so slow-cookers filled with assorted cuts of beast. But the lemon bar…

Could you eat a 5-pound grilled cheese sandwich? Should you? If there’s anyone who can and will, it’s Adam Richman, star of Travel Channel’s cross-country chow challenge series Man v. Food. On Monday’s episode (7 p.m., September 13, on the cable station), Richman attempts to conquer the Monster Grilled Cheese…

​W Dallas’ Living Room Terrace bar in Victory Park is hosting “Vinyasa and Vino” nights for the next four Sundays. The hotel and the Lululemon Athletica yoga-wear store at NorthPark are teaming up to offer a free yoga class, 6 to 7 p.m., September 12, 19 and 26, and October…

In the third part of our series with Tillman’s Roadhouse chef Dan Landsberg, he shares the restaurant’s recipe for green beans flavored with a touch of bacon. For parts one and two of our interview with Landsberg, click here and here. The recipe follows on the next page. Tillman’s Braised…

It’s salty. It’s alcoholic. That’s right, it’s, now famous, FRIED BEER! You knew you were ready for it. Though it didn’t win “Best Taste” at the Big Tex Choice Awards (Fried Frito Pie did…mmm…fried chili), it took home the “Most Creative” fried fair. The good thing: the fried delicacies of…

At an independent fashion-and-crafts art show/flea market in the Essex Street Market in Lower Manhattan, my wife chastised me for taking photos of some of the finer products available for sale — noveau velvet paintings of the latest Brooklyn It band, shirts with images of unicorns sectioned into cuts of…

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: Uptown Pub, 3605 McKinney Ave., 214-522-5100When: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday…

The P’Zone is reason enough to be seriously suspicious of Pizza Hut’s motives, but the results from survey in The Economic Times of India carried a reminder that the brand we Americans all know as The Hut is the most trusted name in the Indian dining world — and has…

Manga and anime, Japanese comics and cartoons, respectively, have a long history of sexually objectifying female characters. This extends to food, specifically in the food-themed manga subgenre, which is unofficially called mangia manga. Among the popular series in that subgenre are Food Girls, Kitchen Princess and Oishinbo, of which the…