The ABC show Shark Tank had its season opener on Friday evening. The basic concept of the show is budding entrepreneurs showcase their inventions or business ideas to a group of “sharks,” or investors, hoping to get financial backing. Mark Cuban is one of those sharks. The Beer Buckle (or…
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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. Restaurant Y Taquería Cristina tacos may be greasy as hell, but…
Gloomy day in Dallas today, and the weekend promises to deliver more of the same. Perhaps a little liquid sunshine will brighten your weekend? I know I’m excited to try a few hundred beers while strolling around the Arts District. Before we start celebrating beer, though, we have a week…
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,…
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…
Today 7-Eleven begins a tryst into pre-election voting by offering customers an opportunity to show support for their preferred presidential candidate by choosing a blue coffee cup for President Barack Obama or red for Mitt Romney. Undecided voters, or those who don’t want to endure the wrath of any lurking…
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…
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…
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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,…
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 name Mughlai Fine Indian Cuisine might refer to a style…
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…
Downtown historic Plano has gained some character as of late. While dining at Urban Rio, the subject of this week’s review, I talked to Nick Rallo a ton about how Plano has changed since he grew up there. While West Plano had a resurgence that centered around Preston and Park…
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…
For the past month and a half we’ve been tracking a Frenchman’s endeavor into restaurant ownership, as he transforms what started as an empty shell into JoJo, an upscale pan-Mediterranean restaurant and bar on Howell Street in Uptown. Laurent Poupart started his career as a chef in Strasbourg, France, then…
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…
This coming Monday, McDonald’s will let you know just how many calories you’re throwing down. (If you read that sentence like the movie trailer voice-over guy it gets more ominous). According the release, the menu won’t change other than you’ll see a bunch of scary numbers by the chain’s burgers…
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…
Previously we’ve told you about the new restaurant JoJo in Uptown, owned in part by French chef Laurent Poupart, which is slated to open within a month. Poupart has worked at many great restaurants around the world including Au Crocodile in Strasbourg, France, and Metropole and Les Celebrites in New…
See Also: The Lobster Roll Smack Down The East Hampton Sandwich Company opened Wednesday in Snider Plaza (Lovers and Hillcrest). Owner Hunter Pond recently ditched law school to test his hand in the local restaurant business (he makes no bones about it – he emphatically hated law school). When Pond…
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…
