This post marks the end of Drinking Week here at City of Ate, where we spent the week drooling over Dallas’ best cocktails, learning the secrets of the cocktail-making trade, professing our love for simple, classic drinks and our disdain for the opposite. Now, everything hurts. So we asked some…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. I had always wanted to go to Cocktails Dancing (6521 Abrams Road). On Abrams Road, right next door to a…
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It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. There comes a time in every person’s life when you realize you love Miller High Life. When you understand it,…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. *Not with with. You know what we mean. It’s hard to recall, now that your brain is sleep-starved and littered…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. Mustachioed, bowtie-and-fedora-wearing Newsies extras shaking out cocktails is so last year: This is the year of the “ladytender.” Much more…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. Sometimes you’re at a tailgate and they’ve run out of Dallas Blonde, Local Buzz and Lakewood Lager, and you’re faced…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. It may be less than a month until the official start of fall, but this is Texas, so it’s best…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. “Mixology” has officially gotten a little out of hand. Who hasn’t witnessed a mustachioed barman pour 37 different ingredients into…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. Maybe you don’t care about graphic design. Maybe the only reason you look at a beer bottle label is to…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. If you drink boozes, you’ve probably had a giant ice cube or ice sphere thrown into your beverage at a…
Since opening earlier this year, AF+B has been cranking out food and cocktails that are impressive enough to justify a drive to Fort Worth even if you don’t have other plans. What hasn’t gotten as much fanfare, though, is the restaurant’s impressive (if short) cocktail menu. In an effort to…
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Fear not, Dallas citizens, for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people aged 21 and over. For unto you is served this day, in the master-planned restaurant complex of Trinity Groves™, a summer indulgence, which you’re going to want to pour into…
As you may or may not know — or care, for that matter — last month, D Magazine devoted its cover story to Dallas’ craft beer scene. Of the many articles revolving around our favorite brewed beverage, one was a printed listicle of sorts, titled “The Best Beers in Dallas.”…
Last week we showed you some of our favorite summer drinks, including this stunner from Bolsa. Now, see how it’s made in this video from Kathy Tran:…
Soon enough the Polar Vortex will be rightfully consumed by summer and the sweat will start pooling again. When it does, douse it with one of these summer cocktails, either using the recipes below or just showing up at the bar. Violet Beauregarde, above (Bolsa): 1 1/2 oz Tito’s vodka…
It’s one of those rare but perfect summer nights when, for at least a few hours, it actually does feel like the livin’ is easy. It’s hot but not oppressive. And I need something to wet my whistle. It isn’t a speakeasy, but from the first time I followed my…
These days it seems like you can’t swing an empty growler in Dallas without breaking a freshly-screened pint glass from a new local brewery. Is our market saturated? Is there room for another new brewery? What makes this one different from the last? *insert incessant hand-wringing* Well, I’ll tell you…
Even though successful microbreweries are still a fairly new phenomenon in North Texas, we’ve had an avid homebrew scene since homemade beer was finally legalized in 1978. By my count, there are around two-dozen homebrew clubs based in DFW today and the oldest — the North Texas Homebrewers Association –…
Listen up, baseball fans. In March, over half of ESPN’s experts predicted the Rangers would make the playoffs. Now, there’s not a Lemon Chill’s chance in an August afternoon game that we’ll finish higher than third place. With the All Star break behind us, Your Texas Rangers® are officially the…
Remember when rosé first became a thing? It seems without much notice that many Americans collectively put down the Boone’s Farm, or perhaps a fizzy Bartles and Jaymes and picked up a bottle of pink wine from France to fill in as their summer sipper. Speedos suddenly became OK, along…
