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…
“I feel it right inside my head somewhere.””I feel like I’ve been shot.”Maybe you already forgot. It’s cool — it’s been almost a year. But yeah, this Sunday’s another July 11 — 7/11, right — so just like last year and the year before that, 7-Eleven is celebrating with free…
Over here on that other Dallas Observer blog, Unfair Park, sometime City of Ater Andrea Grimes has the latest word on Taste of Dallas, which begins tonight on continues through Sunday at Fair Park. Don’t feel like clicking over to read the news about Andrea’s appearance as a judge for…
Paul Hightower’s recent Dallas Craft Beer Examiner blog item about The Common Table reminded me that I still needed to check out the Uptown gastro-pub. Today at lunch seemed the perfect opportunity, so I talked a couple of Dude Food dudes, a Girl Drinker and one very Roasted compadre into…
Starbucks has joined the growing list of chains intent on bowdlerizing adult beverage traditions, suggesting today that flavored coffee’s a good substitute for alcohol. Earlier this week, City of Ate chronicled the new low-cal cocktail trend, a backlash to drinks made with super sugary mixes. Rather than return to classic…
Toque has been craving a chicken-fried steak for some months now, but the dish has been on our no-fly list because it’s a grease bomb. A delicious, wonderful, traditional, heart-stopping, butt-expanding grease bomb. Deep-fried or pan-fried beef is slathered in cream gravy and served with mashed potatoes, also laden with…
Cooperative weather has put plenty of grapes on Texas vines, and wineries are now recruiting volunteers to help pick them. In a stratagem with shades of Tom Sawyer, small wineries annually appeal to connoisseurs to join them for harvesting. As Jeanette Raines of Bernhardt Winery in Plantersville concedes, if agritourists…
Carhops and cows shared real estate when this former drive-in was opened in 1957 by “Big” Al Mathews. The hops and bovines might be gone, but Al’s Hamburgers still serves juicy burgers (try the cheeseburger or mushroom burger). What’s more, Al can be seen at a cocktail table near the…
Last week I wrote about the Alaskan Brewing Co. beers that I tried on a recent trip to Ketchikan, Alaska. But Alaskan Brewing Co. isn’t the only Alaskan brewing company. Patrick Michels recommended Fairbanks’ Silver Gulch in the comments. While I didn’t see any Silver Gulch offerings on my trip,…
Bros icing bros? Oh mah gah, we are so over it. Running up to a dude and flashing a bottle of Smirnoff Ice so that he has to chug it? Whatever. Not only is just an easy cop-out for when you wake up naked on the pool table spooning your…
The Londoner2909 Thomas Ave. 214-979-2333 Dude Factor: 9, or Clive Owen, on a scale of 1 (Daniel Radcliffe) to 10 (Keith Richards). I’m pretty much the exact opposite of an Anglophile. Sure, I love the Rolling Stones and Sacha Baron Cohen, but when it comes to those pop culture touchstones…
Tuna Tartare Demonstrated by Mike Pacheco of The Landmark Restaurant in the Warwick Melrose Hotel For today’s Appetite for Instruction, chef Mike Pacheco chose to demonstrate one of his favorite and most colorful dishes, satisfying both the palate and the eyes. Tuna tartare, which is finely chopped raw tuna with…
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…
When I waitressed at a country club where the manager didn’t approve of us servers disparaging any dish, my stock response to customers who asked about a notoriously bad entree was a cheery “People order it!” I always figured guests understood what my honest non-endorsement meant. But in this age…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Jack’s Backyard 2303 Pittman St. 214-741-3131 When: 4 to 7 p.m…
A recent University of Texas at Dallas release that was ostensibly about T-shirts raises an interesting food issue: Explaining why he’d decided to display 300 commemorative T-shirts in a university building, Dean J. Michael Coleman said, “Free food and free T-shirts are the common denominators of most events planned for…
This week, Top Chef finally got interesting. That’s not to say it wasn’t totally bassackwards, but it was almost intense, and I officially started my yelling at the screen. I still haven’t gotten the names of all the cheftestants straight, but that time is nearing.At QuickFire, the chefs found Tom…
Since none of the 334 questions that form the skeleton of Wes Marshall’s incredibly useful and straightforward new wine guide directly address the Dallas scene, City of Ate this morning hit the one-time Observer music writer with a critical 335th query: What’s the biggest problem with local wine lists? “I…
