Campo Closes, To Reopen as a New Concept in a Few Months

If you were planning on dining at Campo this weekend you’ll need to find other plans. News of the restaurant’s closure is spreading like and Internet bushfire on Eater, Escape Hatch and other food blogs. Owner John Paul Valverde is quoted as saying the restaurant is not gone for good,…

Edible Dallas & Fort Worth The Cookbook Coming This Fall

If you shop at Whole Foods or any number of specialty shops like Scardello or Dude Sweet Chocolate around the Dallas area, you’ve likely seen a stack of Edible Dallas & Fort Worth on display for the taking. The free magazine is part of a network of more than 60…

Meat Fight Tickets Are Now On Sale

Meat Fight is a barbecue competition and fundraiser that I’m throwing at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum on November 4. In addition to mind-blowing meats for eating, there will be beers from Deep Ellum Brewing Company. There will be Knob Creek tastings. Proceeds from the event will benefit…

Here’s the Updated, Official Beer List for BrewFest

See also: Buy Tickets to BrewFest It’s happening tomorrow, rain or shine. Over 250 beers will be flowing for our BrewFest beer party in the Arts District. ICYMI, doors open at 6:00 p.m. for VIP and and 7:00 for General Admission (it’s 21 and up obviously), and there’ll be food…

The Kolache Factory Opens First DFW Location in Plano

Most of the time my inbox is filled with boring invitations to big vineyard wine dinners, press releases about a restaurant’s seventh new menu and announements for new creations at Taco Bell. So when I got an email from Katharine Shilcutt, the food critic at our sister paper Houston Press,…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 8: Shwarma At Samar

To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The best seats in Samar undoubtedly line the back bar. Many…

Beef Products, Inc. Sues ABC News Over Pink Slime Coverage

ABC News was slapped with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit this morning from Beef Products Inc. as a result of the networks’ coverage of the great 2012 Pink Slime Shitstorm earlier this year. Oops, I’m sorry, it was the 2012 Lean Finely Textured Beef Shitstorm. The coverage, a result of…

BrewFest VIP Ticket Give-Away! (Updated)

See also: The Full Break Down on BrewFest Update: spotramer1, and JustSaying won the tickets. See you all at BrewFest! While scattered thunderstorms can always be a bummer, Saturday’s forecast high temperature of 77 degrees has me seriously excited about this weekend’s BrewFest. Weather aside, participating breweries range from corporate…

The Dallas Half-Priced Food and Drink Calendar

Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink specials, listing the restaurant and time under each day. This week we added specials at Hacienda on Henderson, which serves up half-price food on Mondays from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m…

Urban Rio’s Next-Mex

Ten years ago, downtown Plano was pretty slow as far as downtowns go. Jorg’s Café Vienna, serving delicate schnitzels and imported beers, had just opened, but there were no other interesting restaurants. There was a costume shop called the Queen of Hearts, but that would eventually close. There were (and…