It’s time the guys got a little attention on Valentine’s Day. The pressure to fork over for chocolates, roses, diamonds, a week’s salary on a “special” V Day prix fixe meal that many would consider highway robbery weighs on a brother. After all, you love us as much as we…
Someone with a restaurant pedigree ought to know what he’s doing, right? Well, Joey Milan, owner of the newly opened Digg’s Taco Shop on Hillcrest Avenue knows exactly what he’s doing. That’s a relief considering that Digg’s is a specialty taquería, which by now should make for a yawnfest in…
Arguably the most beloved pizzaiolo in Dallas — certainly a City of Ate favorite — Jay Jerrier has suffered obstacles opening a brick-and-mortar version of his mobile Neapolitan pizza-making operation, Il Cane Rosso. But these will be over on Monday, February 14 — that’s right, Valentine’s Day! — when Jerrier…
Goghee To Go’s website says the restaurant offers “real food” with “100 percent real flavor.” I can back them up on this claim. They do serve real food. Goghee’s offers up tacos, burritos, quesadillas, tortas and nachos—only they’re all Korean barbecue-d up. It’s really not that much of a departure…
Whiskey Cake, the impressively thought-out pub by the Tollway in Plano, was designed for drinkers who don’t laugh when their bartenders spritz their cocktails with atomized oils and diners who don’t berate their servers when they learn their lukewarm tomato soup isn’t eligible for a quick nuke, because the kitchen…
If you were happy enough to see last week’s nasty weather keep the unruly Super Bowl crowds out of town — or safely contained in their hotel rooms — for a few extra days, well, you probably don’t own a restaurant. Or maybe you own a restaurant inside a hotel.Either…
Far as we know, the storied North Dallas breakfast spot humbly named Mecca doesn’t really serve 20-pound cinnamon rolls. Not yet, anyway. Update: They were closed last night when I called, but as Dawn points out in the comments below, Mecca DOES have these 20-pound rolls. Read on after the…
With more than 20 college-age folks milling about the packed parking lot in front of Stir Coffee just before 5 p.m., it was easy to spot the location of Monday night’s barista jam. Especially for those who, like Roasted, had yet to pay a visit to Stir Coffee, Dallas’ new…
It’s hard not to be envious of kids on Valentine’s Day when all they have to do is pass out store-bought cards and chalky candy hearts to classmates. You, however, are not going to win any points with your Valentine with gifts like stale candy or a Spider-Man card, but…
Just to be clear: This is not a post about what single people eat. This is about how bitter, sad people can cater their pity party on Valentine’s Day when they get home from a day of stomping around, sitting stooped in their cubicles and growling about how “stupid” and…
Each week, this blog will be highlighting a different restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals there are out there. This week, we visit an uncannily quiet (which isn’t exactly a bad thing) J. Black’s. Where: J. Black’s 2409 N. Henderson Ave. When: Monday-Friday, 4-8 p.m…
Unless you’re a school kid enjoying the surprise days off, February is indisputably the worst month of the year. And this has been an especially bad one in the Dallas area, what with the ice storms making us look like cheap clueless hicks in front of the world — and…
Monica’s Aca Y Alla in Deep Ellum has been a neighborhood staple for years, weathering bad press and a bad economic climate with quality Tex Mex and great specials. But it’s still just another excellent Tex-Mex restaurant in Dallas. Yawwwwwwwn. We need something new. Different. And Monica came up with…
The Starbucks new Trenta coffee cup, which can hold 31-ounces of iced coffee, can carry an entire bottle of wine. There’s video evidence to that fact, thanks to the good ol’ Internet. This news came after the calculation that the new plus-sized cup is about as large as the average…
Valentine’s Day is a zero-sum game. And I say that as someone who loves Valentine’s Day, as someone who knows terms like “Hallmark holiday” and “Singles Awareness Day” are just the protests of the unhappy and the bitter. The entire day is a big, wonderfully schmoopy cliché. But all these…
Valentine’s Day. It’s about love and romance and red dye #5. It’s about making your sweetheart feel special. But, more than that, Valentine’s Day is about trading gifts for lovin’. To make things easy this year, we’ve put together a base-by-base breakdown of what gifts could get you to which…
Which Wich, the sandwich chain born in downtown Dallas, announced yesterday it’s expanding its menu for the first time in seven years — and in its first phase, that expansion is literal. No longer will you have to lie to the cashier about that “friend” waiting outside for whom you’re…
b.b.bop Rice Bowls confuses me. The Carrollton-based restaurant opened a Lovers Lane/Greenville location recently, and several friends on separate occasions suggested I try it. Admittedly, when I heard about the concept, it was cause for excitement. The restaurant serves up several variations of the Korean dish, bibimbap — the popular…
When it comes to beer, there are those of us at City of Ate who select our favorite brews based on tried and true traits like flavor, head and color, and there are those (Noah) who just pick the label with the most cleavage on it and call it a…
For a lot of my friends, Mi Cocina is their go-to restaurant for Mexican and Tex-Mex food in the DFW area. I’m still partial to the New Mexican food I grew up on, with all of its green chile and tons of cheese, but I’ve come to like Mi Cocina…
If you’ve got a special someone to wine and dine on Valentine’s Day, chances are you’re going to be spending quite a bit of cash on flowers, chocolates or whatever you think it takes to get laid. But you don’t necessarily have to spend a lot to show your love–not…
Robin Leach was in Fort Worth this weekend with a saber. The “flavors of North Texas” were represented in Fort Worth on Saturday for Taste of NFL’s 20th Anniversary this Super Bowl Weekend. Of course, Leach wasn’t the only one there with a sword. Many Dallas (and celebrity) chefs had…
