Food & Drink

Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Ozona Grill & Bar, 4615 Greenville Ave., 214-265-9105When: 4 to 7…

Thanksgiving is about spending time with the family. It’s about giving thanks. And sure, eating turkey and stuffing is great, but Thanksgiving has always been missing that one key item that every epic party needs: Jell-O shots. Luckily, Sandra Lee, of Food Network Semi-Homemade Cooking fame and the creative mind…

It’s a safe bet Thanksgiving coverage fatigue’s set in when a national publication looks to a French-born Dallas chef for a vegetarian holiday dish. But The Mansion’s Bruno Davaillon came through for Tara Parker-Pope, who blogs about health for The New York Times. His recipes for endive salad, chestnut-apple casserole…

Yesterday, we gave you an in-depth profile of Casey Thompson, Top Chef star, former executive chef at Shinsei and currently parking her toque at Fort Worth’s Brownstone. Today, we lob a few questions her way, yielding such important personal tidbits as her fondness for The Kings of Leon and The…

Sadler’s Smokehouse this week donated 13,000 pounds of pit-smoked brisket, ribs, pork and chicken to the North Texas Food Bank, a gift that poses a holiday cooking quandary for recipients: Just how do you build a Thanksgiving celebration around a nontraditional protein? According to Katherine Lindholm, the food bank’s nutritional…

According to Dallas Area Interfaith’s website, the nonprofit’s lobbied for more police officers, organized immigration reform marches and helped house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. But the network of more than 60 faith institutions — many of which hold regular socials and suppers — has never put together a food event…

Savvy locavores already know the sad story of declining bee populations; as The Dallas Morning News put it earlier this week, “Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that huge numbers of honey bees across the United States are succumbing to a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse…

The closure of York Street this weekend, reported first today by Teresa Gubbins at Pegasus News, leaves a void that produce salesman Tom Spicer suggested he might be inclined to fill. “One of the reasons I haven’t opened a restaurant is because (York Street owner Sharon Hage) was in business,”…

Food & Wine has showered some of its list-love on Smoke’s Tim Byres, naming his smoked pork jowls with pickles a best restaurant dish of 2010. As Editor Kate Krader describes the dish: “He slowly smokes cured pork jowl over pecan wood and serves thin slices of the luscious meat…

I’m a great believer in the restorative power of cheese. I’ve found even the dreariest meal can be salvaged by a great cheese plate. But that discovery doesn’t seem to have done me much good lately, as I’ve encountered a few fairly pathetic cheese programs. I’ve always assumed a restaurant…

“Our tacos have had a cult-like following since the 1950s, when they gained a permanent place on our menu. This is especially true in Dallas, where our guests are counted among our long-term favorites,” Brian Luscomb, Jack in the Box spokesperson, told me over the phone. With those words in…

In sleuthing around for the primary culinary influences on Casey Thompson — yes, the same Casey Thompson who first impressed The Mansion’s Dean Fearing, bowled over the Dallas dining establishment with Shinsei, wowed the cable-ready food world on Top Chef, and whose Brownstone in Fort Worth is the area’s latest…

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists and think tanks, let’s put the Star Wars Strategic Defense-enhancements down for a second, and get cranking on some of these…

Trying to suss out ownership based on the many incarnations of the name of Pepe’s & Mito’s Mexican Cafe online, on menus, and on the restaurant itself, is a copy editor’s nightmare–is it Pepe’s and Mito’s? Pepes Y Mito’s? Pepe and Mito’s? To whom can we address our letters of…

That’s right, we have both. We’re talking to you other states. While In-N-Out is making its reverse manifest destiny across the United States, Five Guys has laid stake in North Plano and North Dallas. Let’s also remember that Fat Burger is headed this way like a stampede of fat elephants…

Pity those drinkers who were in search of an expertly made cocktail last night: All of the state’s best mixologists were gathered on the pool deck at the Joule, drinking daiquiris and cheering on participants in the North Texas Bartenders Guild’s Legacy Cocktail Competition. Sponsor Bacardi flew in bartenders from…

I’ve been looking forward to seeing Horne & Dekker’s new menu since late September, when owner Flynn Dekker jumped in on a discussion over at Sidedish to say “I agree that there were things we needed to improve on after we opened our doors less than 3 months ago. Many…