My father is American, Chicago-born. I mention this only because I feel compelled to set the record straight, since he claimed otherwise when he accompanied me on my first visit to Platia Greek Kouzina. “I’m Greek!” he yelped when one of the restaurant’s owners, also a Chicagoan, tried to establish…
Speaking of Spaten Oktoberfest, this month’s beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features five Spaten beers along with an Oktoberfest-inspired five-course meal. The dinner is at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, September 29. On the menu are apple and pear potato pancakes with spicy lingonberry sauce paired with Spaten Oktoberfest, smoked…
OK, next time I have to write a complicated story about genetically modified salmon or high-fructose corn syrup, I’m illustrating it with a picture of a hamburger. Because if I’m interpreting the results of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ annual best magazine cover contest correctly, readers can’t resist burger…
Last week, the Boston Beer Co. sent along a free sample mixed 12-pack, the company’s Harvest Collection, which includes the new Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale along with a few other varieties and a couple bottles of the flagship Boston Lager. Also included in the package was a loaf of…
State Fair of Texas Fry King Abel Gonzales, who ventured into pastry territory this year with his deep-fried chocolate, will continue messing with confections at a Dr Pepper cake contest. According to a press release, Gonzales will serve as judge for the fair competition, which is open to any bakers…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
When your Slave Leia Apron isn’t enough, there’s always room for Shatner’s favorite pizza cutter. In our minds, William Shatner slices hors d’oeuvres-sized pizzas with this to impress guests. “What’s that you say? You like my pizza cutter? Oh, this old thing [laughs].”…
A Milwaukee filmmaker who chronicled one man’s annual quest to eat every deep-fried and “on a stick” food served at the Wisconsin State Fair has a few tips for fair-goers contemplating similar missions. Mark Irving, whose 13-minute “documentary comedy” Eat Your Fill will be shown at Chicago’s Food Film Festival…
This week, Three-Course meal interviews burger meister Jack Perkins, who grills up one of the city’s most popular patties at Maple & Motor. Tomorrow, we throw a Q&A Perkins way, and Friday he hands us the keys to the kingdom, showing us step by step how a Maple & Motor…
The newest McDonald’s opened today in the West End in a fury of scampering commuters, El Centro students seeking to get amped up on coffee before class and Eddie Garza whose Dallas Mercy for Animals staged a protest.Remember Eddie Garza: He wrote the Vegan Guy for City of Ate. Being…
When I spoke to Tina Wasserman last week about the best foods to eat after a 25-hour fast, she sensibly recommended bagels and cream cheese. She didn’t mention hard liquor. But there’s a tradition of ending the annual Yom Kippur fast with a “bissel schnapps,” or a little bit of…
On weekends hungry customers line up five-deep at the chaat counter at the back of Tajmahal grocery store (501 W. Belt Line Road, Richardson). Chaat, roughly translated, means snack or street food. On a recent visit to this friendly all-vegetarian spot in a shopping center lined with Indian cafes and…
The measure of a food’s success isn’t how well it’s generally prepared, but how frequently it gets screwed up. A dish enters the mainstream when dilettante cooks start messing with it, producing their own pitiable versions of a food that seemed fail-safe in expert hands. When top chefs years ago…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Mikal Beth HugheyEach 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: Bavarian Grill, 221 W. Parker Road in PlanoWhen: 4 to…
Pardon the expression, but a recent commenter sunk to a new low when he found a novel explanation for why I didn’t like his favorite restaurant: “Eddie V must have told her that her taco smelled of sea bass.” Um, really? Misogyny is pervasive in the blogosphere, of course, but…
Messina Hof winery in Bryan is the second-most visited tourist attraction in Brazos County. The winery has a restaurant, bed-and-breakfast and an annual guest tally of more than 250,000 eager oenophiles Messina Hof is said to be the most award-winning Texas winery in national and international competitions, yet I feel…
Dallas continues to be slighted by culinary bigwigs. This time, Dallas has narrowly missed getting hit by a cream pie thrown by New York fine food arbiters – and that’s not a good thing. Said pie landed smack dab in the middle of Paris Coffee Shop in Fort Worth, the…
Photos by Man O’The HourThe Holy Blood …y Mary.A Google Maps search for the Holy Grail this Saturday turned up a location at the intersection of 121 and Preston Road in Plano. Very clever, Joseph of Arimethea. Very clever. Hide the chalice of our Lord in a prefab, pop-up shopping…
After eight months of charitable cooking, the chefs behind the ambitious 48 Nights project recently put the popular weekly event to bed. Dallas restaurateurs Chris Jeffers, Chris Zielke and Tim Byres raised more than $100,000 for charity by offering mystery chef BYOB dinners on Monday and Tuesday nights. To mark…
In-N-Out Burger is still planning a Garland location, but the store won’t be the only one in the DFW area. The popular California burger chain has signed a lease with the West Seventh development in Fort Worth. According to a release from the developer, the store at the northwest corner…
Ordering wine by the glass is always problematic. Since my husband is pretty much a teetotaler, I’m often forced to find something worth drinking on a restaurant’s anemic by-the-glass list, which is why I’ve had more than a few great meals spoiled by uninspired, overpriced, oxidized wine. (I now usually…
