There’s a new nut in town. A brand-new, Irving based company, called Lord Nut Levington, is offering a line of seasoned peanuts that come in five less than predictable flavors: Rebel Mary (tomato, garlic, Worcestershire Sauce, etc.); El Cheddarales (cheddar cheese and jalapeño); Mamma Mia (tomato, garlic, and cheese), Thai…
Madrid was a little lighter this past weekend and Dallas a little fuller as chef Sergi Arola of Spain traveled here to dispense his passion for food, music, Harley Davidsons and life in general. Through Central Market’s Passporte España event, Arola hosted three cooking classes locally and one in San…
Do you think your lasagna could beat Bobby Flay’s version in a throw-down? Do you firmly believe that your pot roast is better than everyone else’s recipe, including your grandma’s? Are you the self-proclaimed Top Chef of your household? If your cooking is so good that your kids even eat…
The first rule of ordering pizza from Serious Pizza: Read the menu. And when you read it, notice that the large pizza is 24 inches. (For reference, a Domino’s large is a mere 14 inches.) The large from Serious Pizza does not, how you say, fuck around. It’s so big,…
Indian food can be a challenge to the unadventurous diner. Too spicy. Too gloppy. Too exotic with its bevy of sauces and fantastical sounding names. But Vijay Sadhu’s new restaurant Sutra seems to have remedied that problem by mixing the old with the new and creating a modern, user-friendly version…
A hat tip, along with a couple of corrections, to UrbanDaddy, which scooped us on this beer bar and package store, but must have spent a little too much time coming up with a trademark story-ending zinger to get the name of the store or the date of the soft…
If you and your liver have been IMing back and forth all day about how things just aren’t how they were back in college, listen up, because we’ve got some good news for you and your nostalgic liver. Tonight at Blackfinn Addison (4440 Belt Line Road, Addison), the Observer is…
Entering a supermarket–or a mall, for that matter–is a stressful venture packed with potential pitfalls, so it’s always comforting to see food options as an escape or security blanket. Super Plaza, a market in Upper Greenville’s Little Ethiopia, is no exception. The market has a funky smell, but it offers…
The problem with bars with food is bar food. But Chad Kelley, 34, executive chef at the Meddlesome Moth, has fixed that problem with choices like meat pies, mothballs, venison tartare, arctic char and pork belly. Nary a wing or mozzarella stick in site. Good thing. Any of the brews…
It didn’t take a study of Vermont farmers markets to tell us what we knew for a long time: Supermarkets aren’t cheaper. That being said and this being spring, it’s a good time to riff on farmers’ markets, plus give you a few shopping tips on how to navigate them…
With all the excitement surrounding the grand opening of In-N-Out Burger last Wednesday, it’s only natural that competitors are looking to capitalize on the hype. That’s exactly what local burger joint Twisted Root Burger Co. is trying to do anyway, as we received a press release late last week stating…
Central 214 has rolled out its new summer menu. And, as chef Blythe Beck explains, “It tastes like Texas. I’m all about it. I love it.” The menu keeps some 214 faves, like Beck’s signature chicken and waffles (spicy fried chicken and buttered waffle with jalapeño gravy, $28). But it…
All jokes aside, no one eats more penis on television than Andrew Zimmern. From cobra to yak penis, Zimmern is the all-time animal wang-devouring king of modern television (using the “find” tool to search “penis” on Bizarre Foods Wikipedia is quite an experience).After years of watching Zimmern drink blood, devour…
I am suspicious of at-home remedies. I don’t believe in a cure until a stranger in a white coat feels up my glands and then prescribes it to me, in the form of an innocuous-looking pill, a potentially addicting spray or a vile-tasting serum. I believe in pumping my body…
For centuries, people have been boozing it up while they hike. (Ask your mom.) But now that it’s becoming popular to do wine-tastings on hikes, the activity has been given a new name: wiking. We’re really excited for this new trend, and can’t wait for these other leisurely sport +…
The adult cupcake. No dirty pictures on these. It’s the ingredients, not the decorations, that make these for the 21 and over set only. They’re tequila cupcakes from Elizabeth’s Cakes in Plano. And I don’t know if it’s just the power of suggestion or not, but I would swear that…
As exhibited by my tribute to junk foods post last month, I don’t always have the best buying habits whenever I make my Asian grocery store visits. Fortunately, aside from the occasional evil treats, Asian market aisles can also harbor several items associated with very useful health benefits. Here’s a…
I’m a huge fan of ballpark food. In my fantasy world where I inherent a fortune from an obscure king of a remote island in which I am somehow unknowingly the sole survivor of the royal lineage, I travel to ballparks across the United States to try out the grub…
Copper River salmon is nearly back in season, and Dallas plans to open up a new Central Market this year. A recipe for soft shell crab emerges. That’s all that happened this week in food bloggery. Oh, and some burger joint named In-N-Out opened in Frisco…. City of Ate Andrew…
A neon sign hangs in the window of a new Dallas burger shop. “Taste worth dying for,” it reads. The neon in the window confirms your suspicion that some less-than-subtle gimmickry is at play: “Over 350 pounds eat free.”It’s the Heart Attack Grill. The first one, in Phoenix, opened its…
If you’re a passionate beer drinker or state-legislation fetishist, you’ve probably read by now that two of the House bills favoring Texas craft brewers are dead, and things ain’t looking too hot for the last one. HB 602, which would allow relatively small breweries to let consumers take home a…
Everybody knows that contest-based reality shows give out different roles to play and that level of casting certainly extends to the judges. After all, American Idol all but invented the boosterish judge (paging Paula Abdul), the urban cool-cat judge — as in Randy Jackson, and, of course, every fan’s favorite…
