Since news about Texas food tends to find its way to my inbox, I know way more than I should about Texas Roadhouse happenings. I don’t usually find too much in the Roadhouse oeuvre that’s worth sharing, but I was oddly riveted by a recent announcement regarding the restaurant chain’s…
The classic culinary loss leader is a supermarket gallon of milk, which is probably why the mondegreen “loss liter” persists. But the poor sap who settles for a sale at the dairy case isn’t taking full advantage of Dallas restaurateurs’ sudden inclination to discount their food. On the right night,…
It’s funny how fast word travels around town when a new coffee shop opens its doors. No sooner had Roasted heard about Mercantile Coffee House than people were telling us — or asking us — about it left and right. The coffee shop, located downtown a stone’s throw from Main…
My first experience at the brand new 99 Market Ranch in Plano was not a pleasant one. The Asian supermarket chain opened its first location in North Texas last week to much buzz. I paid a visit to the monstrous market during its soft opening on the hopes that I…
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…
My counterpart at the Houston Press recently tweeted about how pleased she was when an entrée arrived topped with an egg. Eggs, most culinerati agree, make everything better. Chefs have lately been cracking eggs with abandon. It’s not just burgers and salads getting the cooked egg treatment: There are eggs…
Yesterday, I made love to Don Draper.He was gentle when he needed to be gentle, and he was rough in all the right places. We talked. We caressed. And as I laid there in his 3,000-thread count sheets and watched him pour me another Scotch, I knew that I would…
I recently traveled with a contingent of Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference attendees to Archer City, where we were supposed to meet with Larry McMurtry and tour his family’s ranch before speeding back to cocktail hour in Grapevine. But McMurtry was laid up with an aching eye, and our bus’ fan…
Alligator Café, a Cajun restaurant in East Dallas, is dedicating 10 percent of its sales each Tuesday to the Gulf Coast relief effort. “We’re hoping to collect about $15,000,” says Alligator Café manager Stacy Nicholson. The “Fishermen’s Fund” drive began the first week of July; Nicholson wasn’t sure how long…
Texas Folklife, a nonprofit organization that got its start documenting folk art across Texas, has launched its first food-focused research project. The group plans to spend the next four years collecting information about eating habits statewide. “Food is the centerpiece of festivals and celebrations,” executive director Nancy Bless explains. “We…
A co-founder of the Eat Green DFW blog, who earlier this month told City of Ate he suspected the sudden glut of farmers’ markets might prove unsustainable, this weekend announced the closing of another local market. Markets atFirewheel Town Center and West Village didn’t open as usual this Saturday, Brian…
Last week was spent building tolerance: It was the annual week of the Dallas Observer Music Awards. The tolerance of which I speak really has nothing to do with music, but of crowds, heat and hooch.Allow me to elaborate: The DOMAXXII (the 22nd year of the DOMAs) showcase took place…
By now, you should have made your reservations at your favorite establishments for KRLD Restaurant Week (or Month as I like to call it, since the entire event can last up to three weeks at some places). If you used the link on www.krld.com, you were probably guided to the…
Convention season is upon us. San Diego Comic Con, where comic book companies and movie studies give fans just enough of a taste of upcoming releases to elicit a collective geekgasm, concluded yesterday. Next month, Lucasfilm is holding the fifth official Star Wars convention, Celebration V, in Orlando. The spotlight…
It’s finally happened! The two worlds of sushi and video games have finally joined forces and become one…but only for one night a week during the month of August. RA Sushi will kick off Tournament Tuesday next week on August 3. Every Tuesday night from 11 p.m.-1 a.m., hardcore (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…
This week’s Dallas foodie coverage is an assortment of organic, frozen and fried foods, dried and proscuitto-wrapped figs at the height of fig season, fancy Finnish foods and a battle at the Pyramid. Check out this week’s Sloppy Seconds. The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: This week Hanna Raskin…
Do you remember eating King Ranch casserole in the 1950s? Can you prove it? The Food Timeline, the ambitious and exhaustive online reference tool maintained by reference librarian Lynne Olver, recently tackled the classic Texan dish and couldn’t find any reliable sources dating the messy meal to before 1966. “If…
Rice 1 Roll’s very slick takeout menu proudly announces the “Indian Chinese Café” serves Indian, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese foods. It’s a strange claim to make, because there’s nothing but south Indian food on the menu. There’s no half-hearted pho or lackluster pad Thai at this strip-mall eatery in Plano:…
Angus Wynne Jr. is credited for many things in his long life and illustrious career. Besides developing a major portion of Oak Cliff in a post WWII building frenzy, he also played a major role in saving Love Field from the clutches of a monopoly that gripped the airport tightly…
Pizza Patron and Little Ceasars may have the market cornered when it comes to the whole hot-and-ready-to-go-pizza-pie thing, but those chains’ pies don’t hold a caper to the savory pizzas you can pick up at both Eatzi’s locations every Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.Sure, “Pizza Night” is only…
It’s weird. Today I have no appetite at all, and I am seriously considering never eating again, but I have been thinking about nothing but food all day and how we don’t think enough about where our food comes from. I mean really comes from. Yesterday when I went home…
