I haven’t written a Pho From Home in some time, as I’ve been reserving it for when the cold temperatures return. Last week, however, I found myself in the odd position of craving pho in the middle of the Texas summer. After botching a job interview in Las Colinas, I…
Dallas Farmers Market 1010 South Pearl Expressway 214-939-2808 Try: La Popular tamales Don’t try: Eating bath fizzies Obviously, if you go to the Dallas Farmers Market this summer you should pick up some Texas peaches, some tomatoes and any other fresh fruits and veggies your heart desires. But, while you’re…
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…
Editor’s note: Apparently, feeding kids is a lot more complicated than tossing them a box of Pop-Tarts and a 3-liter jug of root beer. Who knew? For the breeders among you readers, here’s a wrap-up of newsy, nutritional items Hanna shipped in from the School Nutrition Association conference under way…
LA Gourmet Pizza 2709 McKinney Ave. 214-981-9337 Quoted time: 40-45 minutes Actual arrival time: 30 minutes Extensive menu: 20 Lots of cool toppings: 20 Out of certain toppings: -5 Very nice phone and delivery guys: 15 Pears: 5 Whole-wheat crust option. Cool. : 15 Whole-wheat crust execution: -5 Tasty salad…
Spicy foods, much like bikinis and personal cell phones, aren’t just for adults anymore. Young children are increasingly demanding school lunches dabbed with jalapenos and chipotle peppers; dishes on display at the School Nutrition Association conference in town this week included green chili pork and curried chicken. “It’s a crazy…
Perry’s Steakhouse, which I praised in last week’s Dish column, isn’t typically associated with dainty portions. On Fridays, when mammoth pork chops are sold for just $10.95, the exiting crowds, armed with giant rope-handled leftover bags, look like successful shoe shoppers. But Perry’s has brilliantly downsized its cocktails, a move…
KRLD Restaurant Week is hungrily awaited every August by members of the Dallas dining community. For $35 per person, people can dine like royalty on three courses in fine establishments where the entrees themselves sometimes cost more than that. Some friends of mine even suggest that they would rather spend…
Here at City of Ate we love happy hours. Hell, we even wrote a feature about them not too long ago. So, we’re always on the lookout for our readers when a new chance for happiness — or cheap drinks, whatevs — pops up in Dallas. Uptown Bar and Grill…
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…
Monday morning, Roasted headed to Buzzbrews Kitchen to get our buzz on. And, now that we got that stale caffeine-addled joke out of the way, we really did get pretty jazzed up after repeatedly helping ourselves to the diner’s “Drink ’til you Buzz” self-serve coffee bar. Which at only $2.50…
No matter how many talented chefs Michelle Obama invites to the White House, or how many vegetable costumes Jamie Oliver dons, it seems unlikely school nutritionists will ever be able to strike pizza from their cafeteria menus. “You can’t stop buying pizza for kids,” says Sherry Brokenberry, food service supervisor…
Organizers are calling this past weekend “Taste of Dallas” an overwhelming success, despite heavy rain on Friday that depressed attendance and aggravated vendors. While official numbers won’t be available for days, spokesperson Suzanne Gentry Slodin characterized the turnout as “amazing,” citing the 200 people who lined up for an 11…
The Fairmont Dallas hotel, home of Pyramind Restaurant & Bar, continues its support of local foods with the Friday, July 16, Cooking with Finlandia dinner. The event is a partnership between Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Finlandia Vodka and Slow Food USA. As a matter of fact, 100 percent of ticket…
Each year Taste of Dallas gives everyday working Joes a chance to rub elbows with some of the best chefs in town and sample the fanciest food in the city out of paper trays from a carnival booth. Friday night in the Automobile Building, Bolla chef David Bull treated a…
Today’s the official start day of KRLD Restaurant Week’s reservation season, a surprisingly meaningless date to some of DFW’s most serious gourmands. Although the list of 132 participating restaurants was officially unveiled today, prospective diners who accessed the list through the Open Table online reservation system this weekend discovered all…
Dropped by the Green Spot neighborhood farmers market Saturday morning on the parking lot at the Green Spot gas station and store on North Buckner Boulevard at Northcliff Drive on the east side of White Rock Lake. It was sort of Bedouin — a gathering of tents, stalls and tables…
We’ve oohed and ahhed over Green House Truck before. Now, Michael Siegel and Ben Hutchinson, the owner-chef team behind Dallas’ high-end food truck, will be offering a new menu for at least the next few weeks. “In developing the menu, the same founding principles still apply — a focus on…
Taste of Dallas, the ultimate sample-athon, took place July 9-11 in Fair Park’s beautiful (rainy) Esplanade. Local chefs, joined by a slew of vendors, provided some of their favorite dishes. The Mavs ManiAACs (and later Saturday, The Old 97’s) were also on hand to cook in an Iron Chef Competition,…
When your Saturday morning dawns late, accompanied by a face-assaulting headache, puffy eyes and a stomach that writes checks its proverbial ass is pretty intent on cashing, brunch offers a ray of shimmering hope through the hangover cloud. If you want — actually, if you need — to eat the…
A leader of the North American Elk Breeders Association says the newest addition to Fuddruckers’ menu could help push elk meat into the mainstream. The burger chain this summer introduced Fudds Exotics, a line of sandwiches made from meat that didn’t come from cows. The first entry in the series,…
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…
