We know you’ve been waiting for it. We’ve seen your tweets and Facebook posts stating that you’ve been dying to get your hands on them. And now it’s here–it’s the peak of the Hatch green chile season! We thought we would be helpful and recommend a few places at which…
In 2008, Fall Creek Vineyards in tiny Tow, Texas, released a couple of wines with a mission. They dedicated their 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon harvests to help raise money and awareness for much-needed restoration of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (aka The Alamo). Specifically, a portion…
While supermarkets do a remarkably good job of stocking various noodle shapes, most restaurants serve a pretty narrow range of pastas. Beyond Italian restaurants that have made a specialty of pasta, noodle geometry is largely limited to macaroni, linguine and penne. That’s a shame, because there are so many great…
This week’s Dallas food blog coverage is a medley of Czech chili, lamb burgers at Square Burger, good eats from Ethiopia, seafood stew from San Francisco, and gun-eating Texans. We’ll help you to prepare your sweet tooth for the weekend with a sugar rush of cupcakes, chocolate and frozen yogurt. Check out this week’s…
When my husband and I chose a wedding date, we thought about the weather. We thought about football schedules. We didn’t think about Restaurant Week, which didn’t exist back in 2006. Unfortunately, our anniversary this year fell smack in the middle of the festivities. And being new to Dallas, I…
My mom saves everything. When I helped her move last month, I begged her to jettison the trunks and boxes and tubs of old papers and letters she’d held onto for decades. She’s not a hoarder, more of an archivist. She reached into one box and fanned out 11 little…
Just over a mile from the airport outside San Salvador you will find a tiny village ripe with what many would call the national snack of the Central American country, El Salvador–the pupusa. In the village of Olocuilta little shops sell these masa harina cakes, which are filled with any…
Fuzzy’s Taco Shop6465 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 380214-370-8226Dude Factor: 9, or Peach Fuzz, on a scale of 1 (Fuzzy Wuzzy) to 10 (Fuzzbox)A lot of people around here seem to think this whole taco thing is getting out of hand–just in the past few months, we’ve seen the opening of…
The reopen date continues to get pushed back for Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company as the company continues to recover from its February snow-inflicted roof collapse. But the pugnacious brewery isn’t just sitting around waiting until they get the go-ahead to open their doors to the public. The…
Abraham Salum of Salum and the upcoming Komali shows City of Aters how to prepare his Dijon- and truffle-crusted rack of lamb this week. A note on this one: Cooks who require precise amounts of ingredients are going to have to rely on their own taste buds in deciding when…
BRC, the gastropub with the naughty name that’s been a sensation in Houston this summer, failed to impress Houston Chronicle critic Alison Cook. In her review this week, Cook declined to give Big Red Cock a single star. But the restaurant’s response was pretty classy by food-and-beverage standards: In a…
Tiki history hobbyists — a remarkably serious and disciplined group, considering its members like their drinks served in coconuts — are on the hunt for photos of Dallas’ Don the Beachcomber. Open at the corner of Meadow Road and Greenville Avenue from 1974 to 1982, the Dallas outlet of the…
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…
Gefilte fish, perhaps the most maligned food on the traditional Jewish High Holiday table, encodes its maker’s ancestry as surely as hand-me-down stories and immigration papers, a local fishmonger says. Jon Alexis of TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market in Preston Forest Village claims he can almost always pinpoint where a customer’s…
Dark Chocolate, you are such a candy aisle whore now. I love you, Dark Chocolate, but you used to be special. On Halloween, I used to get all hyped to see Hershey’s Special Dark in the fancy gold wrapper in those bags of Hershey’s miniatures (eating order was always Special…
What actor doesn’t love a free meal? But it never hurts to give theatergoers a nibble on opening nights, too. In theaters around here, there are some really toothsome reasons to buy tickets (for as little as $10 or $15, depending on the theater) for a production’s first performance. Some…
In part two of our continuing three-part chef’s series we toss a few questions at chef Abraham Salum, recent U.S. citizen and owner of his popular namesake restaurant, Salum, which is about to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Tomorrow we join the chef in his kitchen as he demonstrates how to…
Hole in the Wall, a proud burger dive that lived up to its name, is slated for temporary closure. According to a tweet this morning from owner Tom Ford, the 28-year old restaurant will shut its doors Monday “for a short time. New location soon! RT!” While Hole in the…
You wouldn’t know it from the life-sapping heat here in Dallas, but Oktoberfest is less than a month away. Already, Oktoberfest beers are starting to pop up on retail shelves and bar taps. As they did last year, Magic Hat from Vermont kindly sent three sample beers from the company’s…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef provided A) the best text messages sent by friends watching the show before I was, and B) the most quality “sheesh”-inducing insults during tasting and Judges’ Table so far this season.I knew the Quickfire was going to be good because well, I got a…
Oh yeah, burgers of Dallas? Take that! Hanna Raskin zipped down to Mckinney to try her luck at the classic, unpretentious food at Square Burger: it was impressive. To quote Hanna: “You should go to Square Burger because it’s a fine restaurant, and because there’s something wonderfully satisfying about getting…
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…
