For several weeks now, as Top Chef crews have bounced around the state shooting next season’s Texas-centric version of the popular Bravo reality show, journalists and food bloggers have wondered: How much, if anything, did the state pay for the show to spotlight our state’s culinary scene? The answer, according…
Wednesday is Arts and Life and Style Day at the nation’s newspapers, which, believe it or not, still contain no small amount of interesting food news. Our Wednesday Feed highlights the best of it. Tim Carman at The Washington Post illuminates the faltered economy may not be so stagnant –…
Last week, using your wisdom as my guide, I set out to discover Dallas’ most authentic Buffalo-style chicken wings. And it worked. You lead me to Bryan Street, and Bryan Street led me to saucy contentment. So this week, dear Aters, a new mission, should your lunchtime hunger pangs choose…
After 24 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures, there seems no way to escape the vile clutches of a sweat bath the instant you leave the house. Fortunately, City of Ate has found some places to bring your core temperature down from scalding. So before you rush out to the…
I’m still new to Dallas, but I’m not new to Restaurant Week. Most cities indulge a version of the pimped out dining orgy. In the past I’ve heard some complaints about the promotion. Some think the $30 price tag provides a lame, watered-down version of high-class dining. They complain that…
Wild Salsa, Dallas Restaurant Group’s latest addition to Dallas’ upscale Mexican scene, opened for lunch yesterday, doling out chips, salsa and pricey tamales to hungry downtowners. I stopped in just as a light lunch crowd began to ebb. There were three of us at the cement bar, and a handful…
So, a question for all of your doctors out there: If you eat bacon that cooked on the dashboard of a car parked outdoors in the midday, 100-plus degree heat, will you experience health issues?Ah, hell, never mind — that ship’s pretty much sailed. Yesterday at 1 p.m., after reading…
After months of drooling over the hedonistically obscene images of burgers, tacos and other meat and carb pornography my friends had been sending me, I finally had the chance to check out the source of their obsession: LA Burger.Along with a whimsical selection of traditionally western burgers, the restaurant, from…
I came to the ACF National Convention hungry and clearly wearing the wrong outfit. Surrounded by “white coats,” as chefs are called in the industry, I walked conspicuously through the crowd in my street clothes, making a beeline for Food Network star Alton Brown’s lecture about salt, efficiently dubbed “A…
Still feeling rudderless on the bar-food scene in Dallas, last week I asked Aters to help me find the city’s best chicken wings. I asked that they be crispy. I asked that they be sauced in Frank’s, and I ask that they be served with a side of baseball on…
When the last day of their Kickstarter campaign rolled around, Bobby Mullins and Yianni Arestis of Armadillo Ale Works were getting nervous. Although they had been approached by investors who wanted to help them open Denton’s first craft brewery, a lot of that money was contingent on the two young…
It was just after noon and the mercury was well into its death march upward as I walked up to Maple and Motor, looking for a cheap and decent meal that was close to the office. Out front under an overhang that produced a scant 12-inch strip of shade, those…
In case you were to o busy this Sunday to lounge around and thumb through the morning papers, we’ve taken a crack at culling some interesting stories. You’re on your own for coffee though.In The New York Times, Mark Bittman penned a provocative piece calling for a bad-food tax. Citing…
This week in food blogs, the T Room sold sandwiches, users decided Yelp! is even more unreliable than they thought, and the newly opened and recently gassy Redfork is down two chefs. Most important, our new food critic started posting. Read on. City of Ate Scott Reitz, his dog and…
Pecan Lodge Catering and Lockhart Smokehouse will hold a fundraiser to benefit the family of Lt. Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter who died July 7 after falling from the outfield stands at a Texas Rangers game in Arlington. The event, August 14th, at Shed 2 in the Dallas Farmers…
When I heard that Jell-O was marketing Jell-O Temptations, “The first Jell-O that’s just for adults,”I thought that was pretty ridiculous. How do they even get porn into Jell-O packaging, let alone get the clearance to sell something like that in a Walmart? But when I was searching for Jell-O…
Sunday is National Tequila Day, a “holiday” Dallasites can celebrate with extra exuberance as residents of the city that fucked up margaritas forever. Mariano Martinez birthed the margarita machine here, 40 years ago, after a frightening opening night nearly handed him his ass. Turns out his bartenders couldn’t figure out…
Three years have gone by since Saigon Block first opened to mass crowds, and although the hysteria has died down, it continues to be a must-go destination for fans of the restaurant’s two most popular dishes: the indulgent seven courses of beef and the beastly baked whole catfish. The craze…
Earlier this month we teased the launch of our big ol’ issue: Best of Dallas. Since the Rapture is rapidly approaching, we wanted your feedback on how to improve our Readers Picks’ categories. We asked which food nerd categories you liked, and which needed to be thrown to the curb.Turns…
Eater Dallas, the local arm of the Curbed Network’s popular restaurant blog, went live today. Only officially a few hours old, the site already contains plenty of content to catch up on. We put down our PBR-stained Moleskine just long enough to ask the site’s editor, former Observer-er Andrea Grimes,…
Where: Burger Girl, 4444 McKinney Ave. When: 3-10 p.m. daily, all day Sunday What: $2 canned beer, $4 you-call-it Why: Because burgers and beer are synonymous with summer, and if a backyard barbecue isn’t an option, cheap booze and a decent menu will do in a pinch. Beer priced at…
The American Culinary Federation’s National Convention comes to the Gaylord Texan this weekend, kicking off tomorrow with Alton Brown’s demonstration on how to use salt. Salt! If you can’t figure it out on your own I’m sure the talk, titled “A Brief Guide to Handling the Most Powerful Chemical Agent…
