Food & Drink

The term “artisan” is hot in food marketing, joining its precursors “natural” and “gourmet” as a way to make consumer-grade food products sound like authentic works of culinary art. Tostito’s Artisan Recipe chips? Wendy’s Artisan Flatbread Sandwiches? Domino’s Artisan Pizzas? That creepy Sargento commercial where the dude in the Authentic…

We told you last week that FT33 and Spoon had been nominated among the 50 best new restaurants in the country. It was a nice honor, with the potential for more accolades. Bon Appetit would eventually name the top 10 placeholders, and Dallas restaurants had the chance to grab two…

It was back in June when Matt McCallister announced that he and his crew would be headed to New York this September to cook at the famous James Beard House for a ticketed event. The FT33 chef posted his invitation letter to his Facebook page, and he talked briefly to…

The weekend is here, which means many of you about about to fill your lives with beer. You should take it easy though, because there’s going to be a lot of suds next week on CoA, and then BrewFest happens. Pace yourselves: Drink bourbon instead. This week I reviewed HG…

The winners of Fork Fight rounds 1 and 2 grabbed their forks and fought last night at 3015 at Trinity Groves. If you’ve been following closely, that means chef Yaser Khalaf of Souk battled Uno Immanivong of Chino Chinatown for the chance to advance. Both of these teams have fans…

Since everything needs its own day, week and month — today alone it’s national rice pudding day, apple week, and catch fish, peach and brownies-at-brunch month — this week we’ve all been asked to celebrate farmers markets. That’s a noble cause, so we’re all in. Aren’t we? Yes. We are…

News broke this week that a lab at Maastricht University in the Netherlands produced the world’s first petri-dish “beef” burger. Mark Post and his team used cells harvested from a cow’s shoulder to grow enough muscle tissue to make a burger patty in just three months. It was less than…

Fields in Hatch, New Mexico, are bright green and prime for picking. The small farming town tucked in the southwestern corner of the state (population 1,648) has become famous for its green chiles, which are a variant of the Anaheim pepper. For decades the town has hosted a Hatch Chile…

Remember last year’s BrewFest? Yeah, it’s a little foggy for me, too. I do remember large quantities of humans drinking large quantities of good booze, though. Beer snobbery was in full effect, too: The lines for the craft breweries were significantly longer than those that lead to the conventional kegs…

Bishop Arts District will be featured on the Cooking Channel tonight. Chuck’s Eat the Street will feature Dallas, and David Uygur’s Lucia makes an appearance on the episode. Will Fleishman from Lockhart Smokehouse will show off his brisket and shoulder clod, and Katherine Clapner’s addictive Dude, Sweet Chocolate shop will…

Bon Appétit has released its list of America’s 50 best new restaurants, and for the second year in a row two local restaurants are on the list. Last year, Oak and Time Love’s Woodshed got the nod. This year, Matt McCallister’s FT33 and John Tesar’s Spoon both received accolades. Andrew…

Somehow, despite being impossibly far from the ocean, or any other water feature of consequence (sorry, Trinity), Dallas is a bit of a seafood town. And in the last two years, new restaurants have added more options for chowdah heads, oyster lovers and fish-and-chips addicts. Some offer dishes you’d never…

Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare are the proprietors of the little hot spot in East Dallas, Mot Hai Ba, as wells as Good 2 Go Taco. Their culinary trail winds far and wide through the Dallas landscape. Collectively, the pins on their map include Ciudad, Daddy Jack’s, The Standard in…