Owner Jon Alexis will begin hosting Dollar Oyster Night every Sunday evening, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the new TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market & Grill at 4212 Oak Lawn. Alexis said all varieties of oyster are game and “the music will be little louder and the beer and wine…
If you like great pizza, fluffy pastries and craft beer, your stars just aligned. Tonight Il Cane Rosso is pointing its mobile pizza unit westerly towards the great Town of the Cow to serve pizzas at the painfully tasteful Swiss Pastry Shop (3936 W. Vickery Blvd.), which is admittedly old…
If you’re not a social person, if you’d rather quietly eat at a table alone and enjoy peaceful solitude while you dine out, you might have a hard time enjoying yourself at Sakhuu Thai Cuisine, the new restaurant on Bryan Street that quietly opened earlier this fall. You might want…
The reason I moved to Dallas in the first place was due to the inexplicable love of a very fine woman indeed; an internationally in-demand scientist, in fact. She, like me a Brit, got offered two jobs in one day, one in Seattle and one in Dallas. We chose Dallas…
This week, our Englishman in BBQ Sauce samples a little Memphis-style barbecue at Red, Hot & Blue in Plano (5017 W. Plano Parkway), which is a littlelike traveling to Glasgow to sample the cuisine of Rome, but please don’t tell him that. It’s much more fun keeping him in the…
Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…
A moment of honesty here, OK? It’s the holidays so we’re being forgiving and all that, right? I never really liked Blue Bell Ice Cream. I always thought of it as the old man of ice cream, sort of boring and uninventive. I like Ben & Jerry’s – blinged-out, glitzy,…
Resident English guy and barbecue sauce addict Gavin Cleaver reviews barbecue restaurants for City of Ate. Because in the end, what do any of us know, really? We’re all just dang ol’ hickory smoke in the wind. Eating at a restaurant on your own is a strange experience, isn’t it?…
“So what do you ladies think of the Czech Stop?” I’d just ordered a couple of kolaches from the Village Bakery in West and was waiting for them to heat up in the back. The Village Bakery opened in 1952. Thirty years later the Czech Stop opened up down the…
Terry Song can’t seem to get a break in real estate. When he opened Goghee To Go on Inwood Road with wife Janice in 2010, he knew homeless people were likely to congregate at the nearby liquor store. What he wasn’t prepared for was the panhandling that would occur while…
Pumpkin isn’t a food, and you all need to deal with that. Whatever it is, though (decoration? eyesore?), it is really quite delicious. I used to go to a Thanksgiving dinner thrown every year by an American friend back in Cardiff, and always refused the pumpkin pie on the basis…
Gavin Cleaver, resident English guy, weekly eats his weight in smoked meat for City of Ate. After my meal at Dickey’s, my experience of BBQ chains has been bad, and thus I set out to slaughter the Spring Creek Barbeque in Lewisville. I realize that makes me a bad reviewer,…
Sweet Potato with Torched Marshmallows from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams on Vimeo. Today I found this on the Urban Acres blog. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream is out of Ohio and specializes in hipster ice cream. Urban Acres currently has the Sweet Potato with Torched Marshmallows, Dark Chocolate Peppermint and Boozy…
My first visit to Tried and True left me in a pleasant, hazy glow. I sat at the bar of the roadhouse-themed restaurant and munched on peanuts in the shell, drank cold local beer and basked in the radiance of a red-neon sign that screamed BINGO over the dining room…
Chef John Tesar’s latest culinary project, Spoon Bar & Kitchen (8220 Westchester Drive) is now open in Preston Center (directly across from Hopdoddy Burger Bar). The dinner menu offers raw caviar, oyster and crudo options, salads, pasta (including house-made fusilli with red wine braised octopus served with bone marrow and…
Les Bon Temps (my key board doesn’t allow me to explain the phonetics in French, but in Texas we’d say “Lay-bon-ton”) opened across from Shed 2 in the Farmer’s Market this past summer. Chef Patricia Killingsworth, originally from Mississippi, previously owned a local catering and personal chef business, PK’s Main…
Earlier this summer a bad plate of oysters at Acme F&B left a bad taste in my mouth. Poorly shucked oysters at Chesterfield left me feeling burned, too. At nicer restaurants, oysters from northern waters can run up to $3 a shell and when they aren’t perfect they can be…
The latest restaurant from restaurant mogul Alberto Lombardi, Café Des Artistes is a Cali-Euro brasserie inside the former Screen Door space in One Arts Plaza…
I can’t believe burger week is coming to a close, but it had to end sometime. One can only eat so many burgers before enjoyment is lost and the cheese from one burger experience melts into another. We had six smackdowns that each pit two popular Dallas burgers against one…
With burgers, like many things, beauty is in the mouth of the be-eater. While I’ve been running around town looking for my perfect burger, I realize that everyone has their favorites, and no amount of smackdownin’ is going to change the mind of a devoted burger enthusiast. I polled the…
Dairy-ette’s Formica counter tops and shiny, red bar stools are the marker of a burger joint with some serious history, but if you need more proof, the push-board menu drives it home — they’ve been serving burgers for more than 50 years. Order a cheeseburger here and a few minutes…
The City of Ate has spent the past week parsing and pummeling through the Dallas burger scene. We can all personally attest to the wide girth of our coverage, which includes buns, off-the-beaten-path burgers, Korean burgers, smackdowns and more. See Also: Burger Week But, if we’re really going to discuss…
