Food & Drink

If you were thinking 2011 was shaping up to be a selfish year, think again. Get your philanthropy in shape with these upcoming events: The Place: Smoke The Cause: Foodways Texas On January 24, Smoke is holding a “Gulf Coast Gathering” — a Gulf-inspired seafood feast (and that means shrimp,…

A commercial for a new Kraft macaroni and cheese product claims the family-sized meal kit could save moms from the embarrassing situation of having nothing on the stove when their husbands unexpectedly bring a client home for dinner. Gee, Kraft, how would women find time to get dinner ready when…

Today, Burger King’s staking its claim to the title of “World’s Most Batshit Crazy Food Engineer,” kicking off a national TV ad campaign for its new BK Stuffed Steakhouse Burger, sporting a patty peppered with gooey cheese explosions and jalapeño bits. It’s just one more step down the trail first…

Back in December, the Taco Trail led José Ralat Maldonado to Kor-BQ, a Korean taco joint operating in a Plano strip center. Now Goghee To Go is bringing Korean/Tex-Mex fusion to Dallas. Goghee To Go (2222 Inwood Road) is celebrating its grand opening today by giving customers a free taco…

Our table yesterday morning at Trinity “an Irish pub” Hall in Mockingbird Station had the advantage of being as far away as we could get from a long booth full of kids and their tantrum-inured parents, but had the disadvantage of being out of the direct line of sight of…

Cupcake backlash has been brewing for some time, but so stubborn was the cupcake trend that every single year there is another hope-filled pronouncement of its heir apparent. First, there was the whoopee pie. Too regional. Then there was the cake ball. Too divisive. And most recently there was the…

If hairy chicken, beer-flavored popcorn and frozen yogurt on hiatus should have anything in common, it’s only this week in Dallas blogs. City of Ate Hanna Raskin found a hairy situation at Saint Ann, where it seems as the restaurant splurged on interior decorating and had nothing left for the…

Maybe you’ve heard: Dallas is going to be crawling next month with fans, good-timin’ party lovers and the elitest of the elite pro athletes the country has to offer.Not Arlington. Dallas. Because Major League Eating is bringing reigning hot dog champ Joey Chestnut and a slate of other top competitive…

In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Julian Barsotti, owner and executive chef of Nonna. In part two, we asked Barsotti to complete our thoughts for us. In today’s final installment he shares a recipe for Fussilli alla Gricia. Barsotti says, it’s…

A San Francisco chocolatier has added Dallas to its roster of popular city-themed tins. Bridge Brands Chocolate plans to debut its three tins adorned with images of the Dallas skyline at the Winter Fancy Food Show this weekend. Dallas is among 10 cities getting its own “landmark tin” from the…

It was dark and cold yesterday morning when I biked past the empty storefront alongside Press Box Grill, so I elected not to check out the brand new permits posted in the window. But D Magazine’s Tim Rogers is obviously a better — or at least warmer — cycling newshound…

Valentine’s Day means chocolate, Thanksgiving means turkey and Martin Luther King Jr. Day means somebody gets in trouble for serving fried chicken. Last year, the Denver Public Schools issued an apology for putting “Southern-style chicken” and collard greens on its cafeteria menu under the heading “In honor of M. L…

Good news, everybody! We’re expecting warmer weather this weekend, as in it’s going to be just plain cold rather than cheek-blistering cold. Resist the urge to hibernate at home tomorrow night and head to dinner at Scardello (3511 Oak Lawn Ave.). Fondue Night has returned, and this month’s dinner features…

There’s no shortage of good food in Deep Ellum, but does The Green Room’s extended vacation mean fine-dining restaurants can’t make it there? The Green Room hasn’t gone out of business yet, although circumstances surrounding its unannounced closure were sufficiently suspicious to excite the blogosphere yesterday. After Sidedish’s Nancy Nichols…

Real quick, here’s a breakdown of last night’s Top Chef All Stars so I can get to the point (the real point): There was no Quickfire. The chefs woke up at the ass-crack and drove to Montauk for a four-hour fishing trip. They were split into four teams of three…

Rise No. 1’s co-owner Hedda Gioia Dowd says she isn’t worried customers will stop flocking to her restaurant after reading the secrets of soufflé-making in her new cookbook. “We have people who are pregnant, delivering babies the next day, come here for their last meal,” Dowd says. “We have people…

My first meal at Saint Ann, the subject of this week’s print review, was marred by sloppy service, gummy pasta and — most memorably — a hair in my chicken. As human products go, hair is relatively innocuous. There are far worse bodily secretions in food that no eater can…

Smashburger2222 McKinney Ave.Dude Factor: 8, or Orson Welles, on a scale of 1 (Britney Spears) to 10 (David Hasselhoff)We’d been hearing positive buzz about the Addison Smashburger ever since it opened a little over a year ago. Unfortunately, we rarely go to Addison for burgers. We might venture up there…

Because there just aren’t enough sandwich joints in Uptown, the folks at Which Wich have bestowed us with another location at which to build unique sammies. The new branch, which will open tomorrow at Inwood and Lemmon, is celebrating its grand opening by offering $3 sandwich, chips and drink combos…

During a dinner shift a few weeks ago, I returned with a guest’s drink and asked if he’d like to start with a cup of soup or an appetizer. He stared at me. Then he said, “Do those cost? Do you have to pay for those?” I stuttered something like,…