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: The Ginger Man, 2718 Boll St., 214-754-8771When: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m…
Pizza Inn and Wingstop are two DFW-based chains making some national food news. While Wingstop continues to grow at rapid speed, Pizza Inn is hoping franchise incentives and a kids-friendly concept will help propel their new prototype restaurants to success. The Colony-based pizza chain is offering royalty-free franchise opportunities in…
When Aurora announced its closing early last month, owners Celeste and Avner Samuel hinted that they were in the process of searching for a location for a brand new concept. Looks like their search is over, and that they won’t be moving, after all. While Aurora’s days are behind it,…
Café Express has long been a fallback when I can’t get anyone to agree where to meet for a quick dinner. The menu is diverse, dishes are reasonably priced (most are under $10) and there are enough options to satisfy carnivore-befriending vegetarians. Also, the one in Uptown is next door…
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…
I earned my culinary education south of the Mason-Dixon Line, so my insufferable food snobbery centers on slaw dogs and sorghum syrup. And bourbon. Especially bourbon. While I’m not a stickler for fancy, small-batch bourbon — I think Evan Williams’ Black Label is terrific — I do care more than…
Don the Beachcomber, the Dallas restaurant whose hazy history I wrote about last week, was a relatively late arrival to the region’s Polynesian dining scene. Kevin Tucker and Dennis Haberkern, two local tiki aficionados, are busily chronicling the stories of a few DFW bars that plugged into the tiki trend…
Apparently, Paula Deen has been hookin’ up with Serta. Or, she paid them an awful lotta money to let her fulfill her Me In PJs On A Serta Showroom Floor fantasy. What’s the appeal of having Paula Deen as a celebrity spokeswoman for your mattress brand? Were the execs like,…
If you ask a random Dallasite to name the best local restaurant, the answer might well be The Mansion on Turtle Creek at the Rosewood Hotel. Ask that same person when they last ate at the 30-year-old Dallas icon, however, and you just might elicit a long pause. This trend…
You may have noticed a shortage of posts and the inability to comment on City of Ate today. Well, our servers crashed, our technical people tell us. (We think that’s just their way of saying “stop downloading those high-def food-porn movies from Tajikistan.”) Whatevs. We were lost, but now we’re…
I recently went to dinner with a friend whose least favorite server expression is “Are you still working on that?” He’d just wrapped up his screed about the essential wrongness of equating work with eating when a server stopped by the table and uttered the offending phrase. I thought my…
Two San Antonio companies have partnered to create a distinctly Texan breakfast taco, now available at dozens of area drive-through windows. Taco Cabana last week started serving tacos made with Kiolbassa country-style sausage; the item will remain on the menu through mid-October. While DFW’s not suffering a sausage taco shortage,…
One of the reasons I was attracted to this Cockrell Hill taquería, located catercorner to the Westmoreland DART station, was the paucity of information about it online. There’s much on its sister location in Lakewood. But again, zip about Los Altos de Jalisco No. 2. I had 20 minutes before…
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…
Mad Men didn’t exactly blow its reputation for verisimilitude when Don Draper and his lady friend wandered into Benihana on last night’s episode, but it sure seems like one of the restaurant-goers would have mentioned the shrimp sauce. Hibachi fans have been infatuated with the uniquely American combination of mayonnaise…
Kroger has pulled out as a wine garden sponsor at the State Fair of Texas, taking its West Coast wines with it. With the Texas Department of Agriculture left as sole sponsor of the wine tasting and teaching space, all of this year’s featured wines will come from Texas. Jeff…
Second only to Christmas holidays for bringing in customers, the 15th annual Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market stores, going on now through August 31, creates shopping cart gridlock. What is it about the smoky vegetable from the nightshade family that earns such devotion from foodies? “It’s the flavor,” says…
For the past several weeks, Brunch Drunk Love has sampled many and various brunch menus, from Lakewood to Uptown to Deep Ellum to Oak Cliff and even south to Austin. And in each, Brunch Drunk Love has turned its critical eye to that most difficult to perfect of brunch drinks,…
While plenty of masochistic local eateries are gearing up for a second consecutive Restaurant Week, the charitable promotion officially ended last night. And according to the comments posted here and on other local food blogs, the event was again exasperating for diners, servers and chefs. With rare exception — I…
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…
We know you’ve been waiting for it. We’ve seen your tweets and Facebook posts stating that you’ve been dying to get your hands on them. And now it’s here–it’s the peak of the Hatch green chile season! We thought we would be helpful and recommend a few places at which…
In 2008, Fall Creek Vineyards in tiny Tow, Texas, released a couple of wines with a mission. They dedicated their 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon harvests to help raise money and awareness for much-needed restoration of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (aka The Alamo). Specifically, a portion…
