Food & Drink

Inexpensive and cheap are two completely different things. Not everyone has a ton of coin to blow on a lunch now and then, but financial restrictions don’t necessarily have to relegate you to the likes of Chipotle and Jersey Mike’s. Here are some great lunches that will cost you more…

For the past several months we’ve documented the progress of the new Uptown restaurant Jojo. This is the first concept for chef Laurent Poupart, who is originally from France and worked in New York and California before taking a job as a private chef locally. See also: – Meet JoJo…

Taco Cabana fans in Dallas have another option for their late-night black bean burrito cravings. The fast food chain opened another location on Stemmons Freeway just south of the Medical District this week. The updated restaurants are marked by the enclosed patio seating that features collapsible windows to let in…

By now you’ve surely heard that the folks at Cane Rosso love to invite celebrity chefs and other local food personalities to sit in as guest pizzaiolos. The story was almost getting stale before Alice Laussade got in on the action. This Monday night she’ll be joining the ranks of…

If it seems little morbid, well, that’s because it is. Dia de los Muertos, November 1, is a day to celebrate those who have died. But, the key word is to “celebrate,” not mourn. Manual Tellez, who owns Maroches Bakery in Oak Cliff, explains that in Mexico people spend the…

The air constantly chatters outside of the Village Baking Co. There’s an almost-constant warning bell from a nearby DART station and every single car on University Drive and nearby Central Expressway are in a really big hurry to get somewhere. And then there’s Greenville Avenue just a 100 yards up…

In 1994, if you were to drive east along Commerce Street in downtown Dallas (perhaps in a new convertible Mazda Miata) past all the skyscrapers and under the banal veins of Central Expressway, you’d soon enter Deep Ellum. At the neighborhood’s gateway under the freeway, you’d be greeted by the…

Boulevardier, the subject of this week’s review, has received nothing but gushing press until Leslie Brenner reviewed the restaurant for The Dallas Morning News last week. For the most part, I agree with Leslie’s review, but I think there are some great things to focus on should you pay Oak…

This Saturday (October 27), FOX is holding a casting call for season four of MasterChef at the Le Cordon Bleu of Dallas (11830 Webb Chapel Road). This is one of about a dozen casting calls across the country as they try to 18 find amateur cooks for the show. See…

In a few weeks City of Ate will transform itself from the snarky food blog you’ve come to know and love to a snarky burger based food blog you won’t be able to resist. In addition burger how-to’s, burger interviews and burger porn sultry enough to raise your blood pressure…

Following North Texas’ big win at the Great American Beer Fest, this week’s cover story by Lauren Drewes Daniels profiles the rise of the DFW craft brew. To see what kind of growth we’re talking about, Lauren’s broken down each of the local brewers. Check it out below. Rahr &…

The folks behind Cedars Social are coming to the north side of Dallas to open their next venture. Brian Williams and Michael Martensen have announced the pending opening of The Establishment, which will feature a similar cocktail-centric experience to their Lamar Street bar with one major difference: oysters. The news…

I do it. You do it. We all utter a short string of colorful words when we miss Happy Hour at Sonic. And it’s always at 4:08 in the afternoon when all you’ve had to drink that day is bottle of room-temperature water and maybe some questionable orange juice. It’s…

Food Policy Action is a group of “healthy food advocates, animal welfare and anti-hunger champions,” who have designed a platform for grading members of congress on their overall food policy record. Today, October 24, the group released their first order of business, a National Food Policy Scorecard based on legislative…

The 3rd annual Blues, Bandits and BBQ is this Friday and Saturday in an old sunflower patch in Oak Cliff (715 W Davis Street). The two-day will have live music, Four Corners’ beer and 23 teams cooking more than 1,000 pounds of meat. Admission is free, but if you want…

This past Sunday I was in Waxahachie on account of a little baseball tournament. There was a big break between games, so we went in search of a something local and, hopefully, interesting to eat. But, that’s hard to do in small towns on Sundays because most mom-and-pops are closed…

Be it a neck-straining wrestling move or some sort of Tolkien-esque adult film, one of the options for Denny’s new Hobbit-themed menu definitely is the “Build Your Own Hobbit Slam.” It launches on November 6, and will, of course, be the synergetic byproduct of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: an Unexpected…

National Food Day is a nationwide celebration of and attempt to raise awareness for sustainable, healthy food; and it’s happening tomorrow. The University of North Texas, up there in Canada Denton and proud owner of the first vegan cafeteria in the nation, is celebrating the foodiest of days via their…

When I was working my way through my 100 Favorite Dishes I received many emails with list after list of recommendations. Some of them were good, and some were terrible, but it was definitely fun to explore Dallas through my readers’ eyes. I didn’t get through all of the recommendations,…

SCIENCE IS AWESOME. NBC News (and Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers) reported last week that scientists have cured cancer developed a soothing, dissolvable mouth strip to help alleviate the dumbest feeling ever: pizza mouth burn. We repeat offenders simply refer to it PMB. Symptoms of PMB include bleeding sores on…