I am a hand-crafted food lover. I spend way too much time making meatballs and go out of my way to find out if the mayonnaise on my sandwich was emulsified on site that morning or arrived in a giant plastic tub. There is one item though I usually prefer…
Tickets to Meat Fight, the barbecue competition and fundraiser being hosted by Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum, are sold out. Never fear, though, because City of Ate has a pair of tickets that will let some lucky duo gorge themselves on delicious dead…
Henry’s Tavern opened this week in the Shops at Legacy in Plano (5741 Legacy Drive). A Portland import, this is only the second location of the brewery-inspired restaurant, which seats more than 500 guests and pours more than 100 different local, regional and national beers. The menu is mammoth with…
Cook Hall, pegged as a modern “American gastropub” has taken over the space that once housed Tom Colicchio’s Craft. The restaurant has been transformed from a formal dining room to a laid back-ish (let’s keep in mind this is the W Hotel) gastropub. The space is steeped in rich woods,…
Editor’s note: Our foreign correspondent gives up the barbecue sauce trail this week to go where angels fear to tread, reviewing Alice Laussade’s stint in the kitchen at Il Cane Rosso. This meal cost more than $10, but it was for charity, the National MS Society Waiter with cool haircut…
Tim Love, or one of his techies, announced on Twitter and Facebook an hour ago that he will be closing the Denton Love Shack location to renovate for a new concept. The closing comes as quite a surprise to many Love Shack patrons, as the restaurant famous for juicy burgers…
Qariah quietly opened this week in East Dallas, offering residents Lebanese cooking along the newly renovated stretch of Greenville Avenue. The space is open and bright (the owners may think about turning down the lights) with indoor seating and a patio that offers hookah service. The real reason to check…
Dallas needed a restaurant like Boulevardier. The casual Oak Cliff bistro named for a classic cocktail comprising bourbon, Campari and sweet vermouth promised to hit a sweet spot. For too long, French cuisine here was reserved for upper-crust patrons who think nothing about dropping a Benjamin or three on a…
I chose the saddest day of all to go the State Fair of Texas. The death of Big Tex (flame-grilled is the way he’d have wanted to go) cast a shadow over the whole event, which had Big Tex’s now non-existent face on every piece of merchandise, every map, every…
Remember the upscale doughnuts at Rosemont? Tracy Miller drops a dense batter in hot oil, resulting in pastries that resemble a sweet, fresh version of the cake doughnuts you buy in bags at the grocery store. The doughnuts at East Hampton Sandwich Company in Snider Plaza are served in a…
Spreading my barbecue wings (geddit!) this week, I ventured to the highly recommended Omi Korean BBQ in Carrollton for an all-you-can-eat spectacular feast. I was very excited, envisioning as I was a huge stack of barbecued meat that I could insert in my face without damaging the City of Ate…
Everyone has their own hangover cure they love to gush about, but they all suck. Most involve a greasy meal, something hydrating, and if you’re lucky, a nap, but while they may temporarily cause the worst symptoms to abate for a short time, inevitably, you’re eventually right back where you…
Tu-Lu’s Gluten Free Bakery opened its second Dallas location in the West Village on Thursday. The tiny, bubblegum-pink bakery serves up loads of gluten-free treats from cupcakes and cake balls to coffee cake, quiche and even paninis. We stopped in for a quick peek and snapped some photos of the…
When the Singh family moved to Dallas in the ’80s, kulfi was hard to come by. If they wanted the frozen Indian dessert that’s similar to ice cream they had to make it themselves, a process that entailed boiling milk down until it was concentrated, adding flavorings and then freezing…
Jack’s Southern Comfort Food recently opened and owner Scott Jones has delivered on his promise of from-scratch biscuits topped with a pinch of Southern hospitality. Stepping into this corner spot along Lower Greenville Avenue (1905 Greenville) reminded me of quaint restaurant on a Main Street in a small town, replete…
If you visit Monica’s Nueva Cocina, chances are you’ll meet the famous Monica Greene. The 57-year-old restaurateur works the room like a pro, dropping in on every table to ask how things are and staying for some time if the customers are the slightest bit engaging. She’s enthusiastic when discussing…
After a rocky start that included a dramatic chef shuffle and an opening date scoot, things are up and moving at Ziziki’s-owned THE GREEK in One Arts Plaza. Just this past weekend, there was a shakeup: Chef Richard Silva made an abrupt exit. Chef Taylor Kearney (of Boulevardier and Charlie…
Buzz-restaurant FT33 opened its enormous glass doors to Dallas’ 1 percent (and $30,000 millionaires) this past Saturday. The 80-seat restaurant, tucked between retailers in what can only be described as a glorified strip mall, has been eagerly awaited by Dallas’ foodie community since chef Matt McCallister’s departure from Campo…
My expectations for this event were high. I was anticipating rivalry, clashes, fury, rib-flinging and to see at least one football. Instead I turned up to a semi-deserted park, with only one tent serving ribs, several big smokers along the sides, and a Rusty Taco doing better business than the…
Pour House Dallas at 1300 West Davis Street in Oak Cliff finally got their liquor license, even though they technically opened back in September and were BYOB. That’s all situated now. “PhD” is a spinoff of Eric Tschetter’s Pour House on West 7th Street in downtown Fort Worth. Half 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…
Like many suburban Chinese restaurants, the dining room at Sichuanese Cuisine isn’t much to look at. The decorations are sparse and say nothing of Chinese culture, and the tables are clad in thin, plastic coverings that will quickly get stained with drips of rusty red oil after you order this…
