Food & Drink

The Rangers have been a drink-worthy team ever since their inception. For 35 years, they’ve induced summers of binge-drinking to drown out varying degrees of sorrow. The last two seasons, on the other hand, have made us raise our glasses to cheer on our suddenly sweet swinging club. So in…

You find yourself in the drive-through line at the Starbucks. You’re not necessarily proud of choosing Starbucks over White Rock Coffee or Pearl Cup, but it’s early, they’re convenient and you’re an un-coffee-ed bitch who needs a fix right now dammit stop judging. You yell your coffee order at the…

Chef Brad Albers is charged with keeping everyone fat and happy at Eddie V’s in Dallas, a job at which he seems to excel. Originally from Dallas, he attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco followed by an unplanned German-language immersion program in Switzerland, where he learned about French…

The Sunset Lounge will host a Food Truck Smackdown this Friday, October 21, to benefit Ten for 10: Water for Africa, a nonprofit whose primary mission is providing safe, clean drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa. The group uses dinners and social events to raise both money and awareness for a…

Goodfriend Beer Garden and Burger House has opened at 1154 Peavy Road, next to Good 2 Go Taco in East Dallas. Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling, who respectively own and manage Vickery Park on Henderson, have been working on this project for quite some time. The bar will offer an…

There’s more to the State Fair of Texas than deep fried my little pony turds, you know. If you find your way past the funnel cakes, Cuban sandwiches and fried beer, you might stumble on the DFW Truck Farm. The pickup truck outfitted as a mobile garden has been attending…

McDonald’s new phase of mind control and world domination is upon us: McTV is here. [ACTIVATE MIND CONTROL] McDonald’s is launching the “McDonald’s Channel,” according to the LA Times, The “digital network of exclusive original content targeted at dine-in customers” is called McTV, and it will include “local news and…

Let’s be honest: You really shouldn’t be able to eat a pulled pork sandwich for $1, and the fact that the Dickey’s barbecue chain is willing to sell theirs for that much, even for one day, even in honor of their anniversary, raises some questions about from where they pulled…

Robb Walsh and the folks at Ten Speed Press are putting together Texas Eats: The New Lone Star Heritage Cookbook. Walsh’s latest, a “colorful and deeply personal blend of history, anecdotes and recipes,” comes on the heels of several cookbooks compiling Tex-Mex, barbecue, cowboy cookery and other recipes from Texas…

The not-so-new-anymore uptown sports bar, The Nodding Donkey is celebrating its one-year anniversary tomorrow with a free buffet from 4 to 7 p.m., drink specials and an appearance from their real-life mascot donkey, Willy. Penelope Carlton, in-house baker for The Nodding Donkey (and sister restaurant State and Allen), will even…

Officially, yesterday was National Boss Day. But for most of the working world, any day this week would work for excessive, strategic ass-kissing. If you forgot to get your boss that bottle of liquor, don’t sweat it. We’ve got you covered. Here, our five best ideas for a lunch worthy…

What a week. I drink too much beer and ate too many spring rolls during my review of My Lan in Garland, and I ended up with some great beer pairings from Matt Quenette over at the meddlesome Moth. Elsewhere in the City of Ate we hated on candy corn…

Recently we ran a little ditty about a few new eateries in central Arlington. In response, a couple of dive-savvy readers asked about the often-overlooked older bars in the area, all of which are just west of the Ballpark in Arlington and Cowboys Stadium. They’re perfect for avoiding the lackluster…

Last night in Oak Cliff, booze enthusiasts swarmed to Bar 828, the city’s first ever pop up bar, to see some of the area’s top mixologists at work.  The guerrilla bar, as it’s known to Michael Martensen, the man behind the project, will take place in an empty space at…

Only a true food lover could turn warmed, lightly browned bread into a thing of poetry. But juxtaposed against nightly meals of tinned entrees heated on the stove, English food writer Nigel Slater did just that in his memoir, Toast, recalling a simple meal of toasted, buttered bread with prose…

In part one of our three parter, Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams told us about his icy road to cooking, while part two covered his take on the Dallas food scene. Today we learn a little about how he runs things in his restaurants and end with a discussion on music,…