The day after Thanksgiving is known for two things. For those with materialistic inclinations, Black Friday is a day to shop till your AMEX hurts. For those who prefer couches, televisions, magazines and food, this is the greatest sandwich day of the year. But the biggest question isn’t what is…
Earlier this summer the folks at Urban Acres started a Kickstarter campaign. They wanted to create a one-of-a-kind farmstead, a business that would bring together farmers and artisans under one roof. It sounded a bit like a farmers market but promised better air conditioning. See also: Urban Acres Beats its…
Grub Burger has been showing low rumblings of being alive for the past few months, and now like a Coke-ad polar bear it’s finally rousing to take advantage of the holiday shopping season. The last thing any of us want to do right now is to look past the mountain…
It is an act of marketing genius. On the fattest day of the year — the day you are most likely to be as filled with self-hatred and guilt as you are stuffing, turkey and the baby marshmallows you picked off the top of the sweet potato casserole — Roots…
Despite the perplexing news that Dallas drinks less than any other major city, now is a good time to be a beer lover here. The city just keeps getting more and more good beer news lately. Tap-crazy restaurants with beer-based desserts are opening. Growler-filling stations are spreading to different neighborhoods…
It’s been exactly a year since Babb Bros. BBQ opened in Trinity Groves, kicking off the restaurant development project that hopes to anchor future growth in the West Dallas neighborhood. Hoffmann Hotts, a casual hot dog restaurant soon followed, and then openings slowed down until recently, when Kitchen LTO, Souk,…
Of all the seven deadly sins, if you subscribe to that sort of thing, gluttony is probably the most enjoyable. Although, Netflix and slothiness do pair quite well, especially during a holiday. But gluttony, man, that’s good times. We’ve pretty much mastered the craft of shameless gluttony here in the…
OK, turkey revelers, it’s about time for elastic pants, pie and plates of regret. But, before we get too deep in the holiday mood, let’s pull back a little. Don’t hit the season too hard. Walk in softly. After hours of being stuffed like a turkey in a small house…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more charming chef than Dean Fearing, the man behind Fearing’s Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. Known fondly as the “father of Southwestern cuisine,” he earned a world-class reputation as The Mansion on Turtle Creek’s executive chef. He left that post in 2007 to head…
Abacus executive chef Kent Rathbun is now taking reservations for his Dirty Dozen cooking class, and if you want to get a slot for yourself or as a Christmas present you better act fast. Over at Sidedish Nancy Nichols predicts that they’ll be sold out by the end of the…
Doughnut shops are one of the few establishments that can get away without actually having a proper name, either on their building or anywhere else. All they need is a sign, preferably one that lights up, that proclaims “DONUTS” to the world. Pawn shops may be one of the only…
Last week Pat Snuffer announced Snuffer’s Restaurants Inc., responsible for a number of Snuffer’s restaurant locations around the DFW area, had ceased operations, and a new restaurant called Pat’s Burger & Cheddar Fries would be opening on Greenville Avenue. Snuffers had been providing Dallasites artery clogging fries in a casual…
Last week Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead hosted a telethon called “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can Choose,” a fund raiser for a variety of Lady Parts Justice, a Texas-based pro-choice organization that promoted the event under the Twitter handle @TXWomenForever. During the telethon chef Mario Batali encouraged people to donate…
My excitement runneth over. With the best holiday of the year just a few days away, it’s about time to start getting prepped. But it’s hard to know where to start. That in mind we asked some of Dallas’ best chefs for some Thanksgiving cooking tips. Omar Flores, Driftwood “Thanksgiving…
There are some foods that aren’t legally available in Texas due to federal import bans. Haggis from Scotland, for example, is banned because of restriction on importing sheep’s lung. The Kinder Surprise, the Italian-produced chocolate egg filled with toys, has been banned because of the choking hazard that comes from…
Remember Tony G. from the Russian Banya in Carrollton? His sauna is hot enough to turn your brain cells to mush and the dumplings served at his cafe are still unforgettable. It has a lot to do with Tony himself. His thick accent, his brooding personality, and the way he…
Meat Fight 2013 from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. If you prefer your pictures stationary, check out this Meat Fight 2013 slideshow. If you prefer them with too many words, here’s a recap of this year’s event, which raised $50,000 for charity…
Now that Meat Fight and the recaps of Meat Fight are over, all eyes can turn to the grandest of all food-centered holidays, Thanksgiving. Sure, lots of other holidays involve eating, but Thanksgiving is completely about the food. Supposedly there is a little in there about being thankful and glossing…
It’s been a foregone conclusion for months that Pecan Lodge, Dallas’ Mecca of smoked meat, would leave its perch in the downtown Dallas Farmers Market, which has been turned over to private developers apparently unmoved by the Lodge’s cult following. The question, until today, was where the smoke trail would…
Abraham Salum announced a significant change yesterday at his restaurants Salum and Komali. Ian Tate has been named executive chef at both restaurants, replacing Anastacia Quinones, who’s been cooking there since February, 2012. Tate brings experience from his time at Brownstone in Fort Worth as well as Rathbun’s Blue Plate…
With the holidays approaching, the nation is once again sweating with fantasy-football fever, sending the NFL’s popularity further into the stratosphere and office productivity further into the tank. But there are more important things in life than football, or at least one more important thing: Food. Specifically Thanksgiving food, which,…
First, some background info for those who don’t keep up on the finer details of McKinney Avenue restaurant news. Colleen O’Hare and Jeana Johnson of Good 2 Go Taco teamed up Barcadia owners Brooke Humphries and Brianna Larson to create sorta-casual, sorta-refined restaurant on the corner of Monticello and McKinney…
