The Texas Department of Agriculture is compelled to promote all the permitted wineries in Texas, a mandate that doesn’t resolve the thorny issue of how to address varying degrees of quality within the industry. But a recent event proposed by industry members has allowed the department to discern without discriminating:…
Perusing the Daily What this morning, we came across the photo from Reddit user adam1988, who posted the above photo with the title “Just a Dr. Pepper can from Okinawa.” So, in case you’re keeping track of Texas-based Dr Pepper updates today: Can art for the soda in Japan looks…
With one voting weekend left in Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef online poll, the Southwest category’s shaping up as a three-way contest, with DFW darlings Casey Thompson and Tim Byres leading the pack. As of this morning, Thompson and Byres were locked in a vise-tight race, with Thompson…
The organizers of Dallas’ first-ever Beer Week say the city’s lack of microbreweries has proven to be a selling point in luring leading craft brewers here for the November event. “Because there aren’t a lot of local breweries here, other breweries stand a chance,” Cathy Clark explains. “Breweries are realizing…
As the Academy has expanded its list of Oscar nominees to a whopping 10 films, it’s become harder for even interested movie fans to see every movie on the Best Picture roster. So City of Ate today presents an edible shortcut: The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominees in dinner party…
It’s soups and suits this week in eater philanthropy. Read on. The Event: Empty Bowls The Cause: North Texas Food Bank If you need a bowl or plans for lunch on Friday, multiply that with a good deed and attend the 12th annual Empty Bowls event, put on by Tom…
For most of the crowd gathered there Sunday afternoon, the birthday bash at Spiral Diner was about celebrating three years of vegan eating in the always-friendly Oak Cliff spin-off, but for Mario Sanchez it was about something else entirely: “Retribution.” That was the word on Sanchez’s lips moments after he…
Veal producers who worried their meat was bound to go the way of once-fashionable dishes like turtle soup say the future’s suddenly looking brighter for the embattled protein. The veal industry, which made a point of being omnipresent at the 2011 Meat Conference held in Dallas this week, is in…
If you didn’t get a chance to celebrate National Drink Wine Day last Friday, then you have another chance to have an extra happy happy hour today. Yes, folks, it’s time to for another national day of drinking — National Margarita Day — so raise your salt-rimmed glasses in honor…
It’s been a long day. You’re at home watching Top Chef. After three-to-four minutes of actual show, you get an ad blitz (Yes, this scenario implies you don’t have TiVo).There’s the ad where Burger King’s new meat is getting licked with devil flames, and the throbbing music is trying to…
American shoppers aren’t swearing off meat — 80 percent of home-cooked meals still include a piece of animal flesh — but they’d prefer not to buy their meat in packages sized to feed a baseball team. Reviewing a newly released study of consumers’ meat buying for a national meat industry…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we’re on Lower Greenville for sashimi at The Blue Fish. Where: The Blue Fish Sushi, 3519 Greenville Ave. When: 5-7 p.m. Monday-Friday The Scene: Dining at any Blue Fish will always feel like eating sushi at a…
An expectant hush falls over the table as the waiter finally reappears, platter in hand. He ceremoniously and deftly dips and drops your meal, wishes you bon appetit and silently glides away. You admire the pretty midnight purple package before you and then, like a child at Christmas, joyously rip…
Congratulations to Justin Bitner, who created the masterpiece Maudite menu you see here. Bitner’s entry to our menu-art contest makes him the winner of a pair of tickets to Wednesday night’s Unibroue beer dinner at the Libertine Bar. Astute drinkers of the Canadian company’s products will recognize references to a…
Many of the beloved restaurants that introduced the concept of casual dining in the ’70s and ’80s have not kept pace with the times, relying on nostalgia and brand recognition to keep their bottom lines alive. One chain that has tried to remain current is Houlihan’s, introducing such fashionable items…
Some may argue that a Bloody Mary or a little hair of the dog is the best cure for a nasty hangover, but a cup of black coffee and a dozen or so doughnuts always seem to do the trick for us. Serious hangovers call for serious doughnuts, and the…
If you live for drafting your fantasy football team or completing your March Madness bracket, then you’re going to want to be at Brackets (5300 E. Mockingbird Lane) this week for their first-ever beer bracket showdown. Tonight, order your favorite pint and you may secure it a spot in the…
Interested in trying a cozy pizza place with great date ambiance? Take a drive across the viaduct, or walk down to the Bishop Arts District if you live in Oak Cliff, and eat at Eno’s Pizza Tavern. My date and I went to Eno’s on a Thursday night without a reservation…
So, you like to eat out a lot, eh? Got a signed Rachael Ray poster in your living room, do you? You say your cooking skills involve more than a microwave and HotPockets? You’re the sort who spends your weekend hours sniffing produce at Central Market? Are you — God,…
In-N-Out has poked its head out of the ground again, looking for its shadow. Besides that, muffins may be coming back in a big way. In case you missed either post or are hesitant to believe BEE’s boastful name, Dallas blogs and writers are here to enlighten you. Dallas Observer…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Salvatore Gisellu, executive chef at Urban Crust. In part two, we asked Gusellu to complete our thoughts for us. In today’s final installment he shares a recipe for Black and Blue Pizza. Now, it won’t…
The breastaurant scene in Dallas is about to get bigger. Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill, which got its start in Austin, is opening its first Dallas area location in April. According to founder Doug Guller, the Arlington location is one of three DFW grills scheduled to open this year. “We’ve…
