Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week’s foodfull best. Hurry — ending today: Google Offers: $10 for $20 Worth of Sushi at Otaru If last week’s date went well, perhaps another dinner is in order. Sharing…
If you’re a Baseball Person, walking through the concourse of a stadium and seeing that massive expanse of emerald turf for the first time each year fills your soul with the feeling of potential. For a northerner, baseball invokes the potential for warmer weather ahead; interrelationships of the celestial bodies…
Rex’s Seafood Market was running wide-open, full-throttle on a recent Friday afternoon. Lent and the army of Catholics who adhere to its dietary restrictions might have had something to do with the surge, but I think it was the lobster roll that inspired the droves. Rex’s puts the New England…
When Jim Schutze wrote a story calling for the demise of a farmers market, I was pissed. What kind of out-of-touch a-hole doesn’t like farmers markets? Who doesn’t love spending $28 on a local pumpkin for their autumn pie? Who doesn’t like driving though downtown to shop in a building…
Welcome to the return of The Box. Last time, Craig Cottier turned the ingredients from The Box into radass St. Paddy’s Day drinks. This time, we gave our big box of crap to Chad Houser, Cafe Momentum do-er and Parigi cheffer (“Parigi” means “fucking delicious deviled eggs” in French talk)…
Oysters may be nature’s most perfect food. They’re rich and sensual and best served with little intervention: freshly opened and raw, with a few drops of liquid sunshine from a lemon. But April is here, and while oysters can safely be harvested in northern waters year round, Texas oyster season…
The Dram, the local chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild and Campari recently teamed up for a cocktail competition showcasing many of Dallas’ finest bartenders. The game: to create an aperitif — that is, a drink meant to be enjoyed prior to a meal — featuring Campari, an Italian…
With food truck mania showing no signs of letting up, I figured I’d hit up the Arts District at lunchtime and see if there were any viable options for veggie-friendly eating. A rotating group of trucks cluster on Flora Street between Leonard and Crockett (right across from the Meyerson) every…
Call me Nancy NosyPants. I was driving past the building that used to house RedFork on Fitzhugh the other day and noticed some sweaty manbeasts covered in drywall dust. I stopped, sauntered inside and, as luck would have it, Khanh Nguyen appeared. Nguyen was busy, but he stopped for long…
Savor went off smoothly this weekend. The International Grand Tasting, hosted at the Irving Convention Center, did not sell out but felt very near capacity by 8 p.m.. You can check out the food and the people-watching in our slideshow. Folks in the know ate quickly and spilled out onto…
Last week seemed slow: I could hardly find any stories to string together into a Lettuce wrap up. This week, however, I’m having trouble deciding how to fit all of these interesting stories in. Happy hour’s in only getting closer, so I better cut to the chase. This was the…
Here’s a serious one for you, Aters. Maybe you’ve heard this story that went viral recently: On St. Paddy’s Day, a man named Jeff Beaurline walked into Pub 25 in Newtown, Connecticut, and asked the manager if he could leave a cold Guinness on the bar all day for Navy…
While talking with David McMillan about CVap burgers this week we took a small detour after he told me the Commissary was ditching the massive communal table that graced the dining room. For whatever reason, communal tables didn’t really work in Dallas like they might in other cities, according to…
This is an important invention. It was hard not to assume this was some sort of early April Fools’ prank, but visiting the Italian source proved it (thankfully) true. Besides being City of Ate’s New Official Pant, we’re just thrilled there’s now a flap system that allows us to drop…
The West Village, and perhaps all of Uptown, has a reputation for a rather homogenous following. When I first heard about Union Bear, the subject of this week’s review, a fellow staffer called it “Hipster Island,” referring to the customers the new restaurant was drawing in comparison with a typical…
This week, the guys at Deep Ellum Brewing Company have been hard at work transforming their backyard into a beer garden. And on Saturday they’ll celebrate their new digs (at 2821 St. Louis St.) with an open house, tour, “general merriment” and a concert with Fish Fry Bingo. For grub,…
Oddfellows restaurant and Dallas Odd Fellows Lodge #44 are hosting an Odd County Fair on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. at 7th and Madison streets in the Bishop Arts District. The aim of the fair is to raise money for the Sunset High School marching band to make the…
Don’t be fooled by the gratis basket of chips or the enchiladas or the plastic bowls of salsa (which is quite good, loaded with tomato, fresh cilantro and garlic and enriched with oil). Veracruz Cafe is not a Tex-Mex restaurant. Not even close. As evidence, I submit this hearty bowl…
When Campo Modern Country Bistro first opened, it did so to much fanfare. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde built a charming space from a rundown bungalow in Oak Cliff, and they hired Matt McCallister to consult as a temporary executive chef. In the weeks preceding the opening, McCallister…
As pink slime walks in shame to the doghouse this week, another important movement that transcends many aspects of the beef and processed-food industries met a milestone. Just Label It, a campaign initiated by Organic Voices, whose aim is to require labels on genetically modified foods, gathered one million signatures…
Burgermeister Jack Perkins announced via Facebook yesterday that the Food Network will be airing the Maple and Motor-featured episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on Monday, April 9, at 9 p.m. The gloriously douchey (But somehow still lovable? No? Just me?) Guy Fieri tore through Dallas in late 2011 and…
Victor Tango chef Greg Bussey is a chef’s chef. By that, I mean so many other cooks in Dallas mention Bussey’s tables as one of their favorites to dine at. After meeting the soft-spoken, quick-to-smile chef, it’s easy to understand why. After attending the California Culinary Academy, Bussey spent some…
