If you’ve been around the city’s hottest clubs, you know Trimmer or one of his DJ crew.Known as the 12-Inch Pimps–a reference to album size–they play somewhere in Dallas every night of the week. Weekends might find Trimmer at one location, Jonny 5 at another and perhaps Kean playing somewhere…
“Consumers are more concerned about the safety of food served in restaurants than food available from supermarkets, about a 15 percentage point difference. However, feelings about food safety in restaurants have remained relatively unchanged whereas the number of consumers who feel confident in the safety of foods in supermarkets is…
Tupinamba12270 Inwood972-991-8148Eddie Dominguez’s place is the restaurant equivalent of the Grapevine Bar–an unassuming, colorful, come-as-you-are kind of place.If you’ve never been to the latter (conveniently located across the street from our offices) or if you can’t ignore for a moment the bar’s reputation, then consider Tupinamba one spot where the…
A couple good things have come out of the recession, when you stop and think about it. Some of the high end restaurants trimmed their prices, for one thing. Prix Fixe menus have become the rage. Places like Blue Collar Bar and Kent Rathbun’s new place celebrate the depression era…
Rocco’s Uptown 2916 McKinney Dallas, TX 75204 (214)871-9207 Promised delivery time: 30 minutes Actual delivery time: 60 minutes Ordering online and not worrying if you will be put on hold listening to Kenny G : 20 Singing along with the website’s Italian music while I ordered : 30 Comment box…
There are few reasons to look forward to Mondays and the workweek they begin…unless, of course, you frequently find free CDs and beer in your office mailbox. Well, The Grape (2808 Greenville Ave.) and Dallas winery (yes, you read that right) Times Ten Cellars have given local drinkers at least…
Every couple minutes, a little ping from the computer tells food writers another email from some public relations person somewhere has arrived. Yes, we complain about the pestering. But without Thomas and her ilk, news of grand openings, upcoming events, menu changes and the like would be slow to filter…
“We’re in a recession, hard times. We shouldn’t be hurting business. I’m not saying, ‘Let’s take away this issue.’ We’re just saying, ‘Let’s give these businesses some time.'” (Tennell Atkins, member of the Dallas City Council, on an effort to delay the city’s smoking ordinance, which bans lighting up in…
Well, refreshment, maybe not. Double your fun, though, sure. Toil and trouble all you want. It’s been a big week of twos here on City of Ate. A double dose of Veggie Girl, for instance. Two posts recapping the year’s first quarter. We even had a couple items for the…
If the owner of a restaurant serves you, do you still have to tip?…
Among the NFL’s labia-friendly rules changes for 2009 are that defenders knocked to the ground can’t tackle quarterbacks and kicking teams can’t bunch together more than five players for an on-sides kick attempt. A discussion on new pads to protect players’ ovaries was tabled.Richie Whitt in the Observer blog Sportatorium.Note:…
Gotta wonder if the folks at the Centers for Disease Control will come out with a list of top party schools now. A new study released by the organization says the typical American binge drinker is a white male, aged 18-34. No kidding. The news comes courtesy of Drugs.com. They…
They bill themselves as founding distillers of the infamous spirit. But Pernod should be ashamed of themselves after a performance given by their representative last Friday at Morton’s.Pernod teamed with the downtown steakhouse for an “introduction to absinthe” session, which included cocktails and samples served in the more traditional manner–dripping…
Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts Dallas announced its first ever graduating class yesterday, so con-grad-ulations (sorry) are in order to the newest crop of future Food Network stars,,,and corporate sous chefs. Along with 15 months of culinary coursework, students also slave away in Le Technique, an on-campus fine-dining restaurant. Some have…
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say he’s a fan of Texas Motor Speedway. After, all, Burton’s first career win in NASCAR’s top series came here in 1997. A decade later, he became the track’s first repeat winner.The South Boston, Virginia, native has taken the checkered flag 21 times in…
“Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said ‘I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.'” (Ricky Bobby, as played by Will Ferrell, in Talladega Nights. Quoted because…what the hell, it’s race weekend.)…
Carbonated beverages sales are fizzing out, with reports showing 2008 as the fourth consecutive year of decline. Amidst a recession, fears of childhood obesity and the recent findings of BPA in soda cans, a 2009 comeback doesn’t look like a very safe bet, either. With sodas long thought to be…
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. –Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head’s super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered…
State & Allen Lounge2400 Allen St.214-239-1990How can you not like a place that looks–from the outside, from the awning down–so damn Parisian? One set on a neighborhood corner so walkable?You don’t even have to like their menu to be drawn from your car and onto the patio for a drink…
A hat tip to the writers of Dude Food, who this February ensured that good ol’ meat-eatin’ men could dine successfully at Eatzi’s. So, it turns out, can veggie-eating types. Eatzi’s is one of those Oak Lawn institutions whose charming perks have given it staying power. It could be the…
Demonstrated by Jeffrey Kowitz of Taco Joint Ah, April. Time to gear up for another season of painfully polite pool parties and backyard cookouts set to the soundtrack of a pre-teen sleepover. Sigh. Might as well start the countdown to Oktoberfest… But wait–what if we told you that you might…
National Tartan Day, which has yet to show up on most of our day planner calendars, is fast approaching. From 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. April 6, Trinity Hall and The Macallan Scotch offer a whisky tasting with appetizers. The Macallan “brand ambassador” Jay Lidell (who revealed that he used…
