Writer Andrea Grimes has been chronicling her brunch excursions across Dallas in her column Brunch Drunk Love. The meals have been so decadent and delicious that we were forced by our own foodie-obsessions to take photos. Lots of ’em. The photo essay this week covers the delicious brunch-tasm at Smoke:…
This week’s Dallas food bloggers learned to trust empty parking lots, took Mary into their own Bloody hands, and found peace on Earth at Potager Café and the Dallas Islamic Center. More Dallas restaurants have Gone Texan, and don’t expect to find wines from any other place except the homeland at the State…
Move over, Boston Market. There’s a new bird in town. 7-Eleven, home of the Slurpee, is adding roasted chicken, for the low, low price of $7.99, to its menu, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. This comes on the heels of the Dallas-based convenience store chain’s other new…
Americans have a habit of co-opting and recreating global cuisines, arbitrarily assigning ethnic labels to dishes unknown in their purported homelands. In the process, of course, they’ve created some very good – if inauthentic – food. Is a deep-dish pepperoni pie any less delicious for being a purely American invention?…
Since Jose Ralat Maldonado announced on this blog the finalists for this years Big Tex Choice Awards for Best Fried Foods at this year’s upcoming festival, it brought back memories of fairs past and all the folderol created last year by Abel Gonzales’ award-winning Fried Butter — or the Chicken-Fried…
Earlier this year Toque brought you the throw-down between up-and-coming chain Five Guys Burger and the Oak Cliff standard, Wingfield’s Breakfast and Burger. It was a messy proposition that actually took us to many burger fronts all in one day. We visited Smashburger and Mooyah, as they were new entries…
Kids are back in school, which means their summer diet of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Mountain Dew is giving way to … black bean burgers and hummus? What the what? In our day, school lunches were composed of compressed mystery meat, gubment cheese and sugar. We’d have laughed the lunch…
As the summer winds down from its scorching heat, you can still enjoy this treat featured on The Mansion’s menu, which was offered as one of the salad choices during Restaurant Week. The zesty pink peppercorn vinaigrette can dress up other salads as well. Make this dish at home, or…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
We look forward to coming within a hair’s width of a coronary every September, thanks to the State Fair of Texas’ fried-food bonanza. This year is no different. The State Fair has announced the 2010 finalists for the annual Big Tex Choice Awards, with promising entries, ones that could top…
A license plate design approved yesterday by the Department of Motor Vehicles could pave the way for tags adorned with sliced brisket and cheese enchiladas. Mighty Fine Burgers, a restaurant with three Austin-area outlets, is the first for-profit food business to issue a novelty plate through Texas’ specialty plate vendor…
Ozman Kazan, outreach coordinator for the Dallas Islamic Center, isn’t planning any political discussions for tonight’s interfaith Iftar dinner at Congregation Kol-Ami in Flower Mound. “There are things going on, and we are aware of those things,” says Kazan, obliquely referencing the anti-Islamic rage that’s swelled around a proposed Islamic…
UrbanDaddy, a free daily e-mail service, touts its ability to suss out the “single thing you need to know every day about your city.” What many subscribers don’t know is the magazine’s also in the business of creating the screwball foods and drinks that populate its hot list, including a…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Figuring omnivores shouldn’t have all the greasy fun, DallasVegan.com is hosting its own fried food contest at The Phoenix Project, 406 S. Haskell Ave. “I would expect some of the same, off-the-wall type of foods you see at the State Fair of Texas,” says James Scott, organizer of the Texas…
The group of Oak Cliffers that’s been busily remodeling the former Vitto’s space today revealed just what’s in store for the space at 316 W. 7th Street at Bishop Avenue. Aliza Shier, who previously handled pastry duties at Local, will serve as executive chef of Oddfellows. According to the release…
Yesterday posted a short profile of chef Bruno Davaillon of The Mansion on Turtle Creek in which he discussed his farm background and rise to success as a chef. Today we ask the chef a few questions to get an idea of some of his passions in life. Tomorrow Davaillon…
Last night Top Chef opened with our fair Tiffany Derry’s boisterous guffaws. Ed, the cheftestant who is her show BFF and who totally adores her, was parading around in one of her dresses. At that point, with just six left in the contest, a little unflattering cross-dressing seemed an appropriate…
In case you haven’t read this blog, other food blogs, turned on the television or driven on Central Expressway in the last month, let us remind you that this is Hatch chile season, with peppers from Hatch, New Mexico, hitting grocery shelves and restaurant kitchens. The recipes for chiles, roasted…
The Burger Spot brags that it only serves fresh, grass-fed, local beef. Which is great because everyone knows if something’s organic, then it’s zero calories. Brang on the cheese and bacon, y’all! Burger Spot has several burger options, from The Alamo Burger (1/3-pound beef, refried beans, Fritos, onions, cheddar and…
“This is so good,” a wispy woman with a sloppy silver-white bun murmured to her dining partner at Potager Café. “I know,” the younger man nodded. “This is called Slow Food.” The Slow Food movement, which counts Potager Café’s owner and omnipresence Cynthia Chippindale among its adherents, officially combats “the…
The recent food recalls of eggs and beef (and their subsequent protests) got us thinking about food recalls that would better serve humanity. Herein, we provide a list of foods that should be taken off the market. One is worse for your heart than bacon. Than bacon! Are you reading…
