There are a lot of things that irritate me about clubs (long lines in the girls’ bathroom, aggressively flirty dudes in Tapout tees), but the thing I hate the most is shitty, expensive drinks. Fourteen dollars for a poorly mixed gin and tonic made with well liquor that’s guaranteed to…
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind,” Humphrey Bogart once said. His wise words are printed on the menu at Tate’s, a craft cocktail outpost housed in an old Victorian house on Mckinney Avenue that opened last December, and where I found myself in…
The 2nd annual Margarita Meltdown goes down Sunday from 3 to 10 in the Bishop Arts District. Local bartenders will compete head-to-head for the title of Best Margarita while hundreds of people get sloshed sampling the entries and eat tacos. If you can’t wait for Sunday, more than 20 restaurants…
I’m pretty sure there is a holiday honoring some sort of food product every single day, with overlapping weeks and months to celebrate others. They reach a saturation point at which I tune them all out. But American Craft Beer Week, which began yesterday and runs through Sunday, is an…
My first encounter with a session beer involved power tools. I was working on a kitchen project, and a both a reciprocating and circular saw were strewn about my front yard. The sun was beating down on me and my tools, and a friend dropped by with a case of…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals, and we’re no different. That’s why we built the above calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each day. Every week, we’ll do our best to keep you up-to-date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced…
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I’m trying not to obsess, but it seems like every day feels a little warmer than the last. The climbing mercury is making me want to grab onto the last days of spring and hang on as tightly as I can. And there’s other signs of the season slipping away…
Summer is close. Maybe it’s already here. And as the air thickens and becomes heavy, finding places to have a drink that aren’t dark and super conditioned caves becomes more and more of a challenge. In my perfect life, I’d have a small house, somewhere in Oak Cliff or East…
Dear Ms. Libertine (or is it Mr.?), Hi. You probably don’t me, but I know you pretty well. (At least I thought I did.) I’ve patronized you many times over the past four years, and consider you one of my Old Faithfuls for tasty bar food, especially on Tuesday nights…
SideDish reported late yesterday on the ongoing saga at The Chesterfield, where majority owner Ed Bailey has continued his efforts to have bartender and minority owner Eddie “Lucky” Campbell removed from the premises, after an apparent dispute over how to run the business. Hearing that Campbell was standing his ground…
As the curb says, “watch your step” when entering the front door at Mason Bar; the sudden step up could be potentially lethal for tipsy girls in heels. Inside, a couple occupies stools at one end of the bar, and save for them it’s empty — just a quiet Monday night…
Eater reported the other day that Jason Kosmas, Marquee Grill beverage director, co-owner of Employees Only in NYC and author of two books, is now dabbling in showbiz. Kosmas confirms there’s a possible show in the making. “It’s basically a travel show,” Kosmas says, “where we go to a city…
First introduced in the 1660s for Champagne, the coupe glass reached the height of its popularity in the 1930s with the introduction of Prohibition-era cocktails, and in recent years its popularity is on the rise again, namely with a special class of drinkers called me. The coupe shape is a…
Bust out the sombreros (and whatever other ethnically irrelevant garb you might have), because the second-annual Margarita Meltdown is coming to the Bishop Arts District. Last year’s event drew more than 2,500 people, and founders Nico Ponce of The Chesterfield and Tony Fernandez of OC’s Espumoso Caffe hope to capitalize…
The buzz for Big Texas Beer Fest on Saturday morning was palpable miles away from Fair Park. From the Mockingbird Station where I embarked, people of all stripes, many sporting T-shirts from breweries and the bars where they’re served, were packed like anchovies into the DART train. Despite the occasional…
Don’t forget: Big Texas Beer Fest is 1 to 6 p.m. tomorrow, and noon for the VIPs who paid $25 more for the opportunity to be first at the taps and close down the event at the Deep Ellum Brewing Co. after-party. But if you haven’t gotten around to obtaining a…
Confession: I love cucumber drinks. Muddled with vodka, soaked in gin, even just sliced and floating in a glass of water, the addition of cucumber gives an unparalleled refreshing note, perfect for summertime patio sipping. Obviously I’m not alone in this — every cocktail bar in town has at least…
I don’t know a ton about wine, nor do I know much about “real” housewives in New York City (shout out to Oak Cliff Housewives, who truly keep it real). But word on the street, according to Jasper Russo at Sigel’s, is that Skinnygirl wine “HAS ARRIVED!” I pass along…
Attention all bourbon enthusiasts, gin guzzlers, Manhattan drinkers and budding mixologists: a massive four-day craft cocktails event is coming to Dallas June 14 through June 17; The brainchild of local booze magicians Brian McCullough (Smoke, The Standard Pour) and Nico Ponce (The Chesterfield), the event is brought to you by…
Standard Pour, Uptown’s newest cocktail den, brought to you by Brian McCullough of Smoke and pop-up bar fame and the team behind Sfuzzi, opened last week in the old Lotus space at 2900 Mckinney Avenue. The patio was packed on a breezy Wednesday night, and inside was at about three-quarters…
A well-balanced cocktail is a work of magic. A handful of quality ingredients, combined with a sometimes subtle and sometimes vigorous agitation, transform into something significantly larger than the sum of their parts. While slurping oysters at the Chesterfield, the subject of this week’s review, I asked my tablemates whether…
