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A Couple's Whole Foods Romance Led to This Probably Not-Staged Proposal Video

By Luke Darby
Jan 16, 2014

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just lurking near the aisle with all the vegan whey products. A video making the Internet rounds shows Vladimir Romannikov proposing to his girlfriend, Monica Dehombre, at a Whole Foods in South Florida. It's the kind of viral advertising that usually requires an illegally obtained monkey...
Now Scientists Say Coffee Doesn't Dehydrate, Another Reason to Never Drink Water

By Luke Darby
Jan 16, 2014

An important thing to remember about science is that, like a good soap opera, it's never really finished. No issue is really settled as long as there are more people capable of asking more questions and doing more research. This is a good thing. It's what keeps us from accepting...
Potato Flats, a Chipotle-Style Potato Bar by Phil Romano, Planned for Trinity Grove

By Luke Darby
Jan 14, 2014

Around the end of one year and the start of another, most food blogs focus on two types of posts: the best things of the previous year and what will maybe be the biggest news of the next year (i.e. fortune-telling). Most food writers have probably missed the soon-to-be-biggest trend...
The Owner of a Texas Restaurant Is Selling the Business to Help a Sick Employee

By Luke Darby
Jan 10, 2014

Restaurant news that doesn't deal with openings and closings often has a dark tone. Either a chef is cryptically leaving their position or everyone is suing each other or staff is staging mass walkouts. Today, though, there's a more touching story, courtesy of KHOU in Houston. Brittany Mathis, a waitress...
Franconia Brewing Is Taking Advantage of the Polar Vortex and Making an Eisbock Beer

By Luke Darby
Jan 8, 2014

When life hands you a swirling blast of Arctic air, it's best to find a way to make lemonade out of it. Franconia Brewing has done that, announcing that they're taking advantage of the cold front besieging the country by using it to make eisbock, or ice bock. The German...
Sundown at Granada Has a New, More Organic Menu with Fewer GMOs

By Luke Darby
Jan 8, 2014

For the past year Sundown at Granada has been making a name for itself as a restaurant that serves vegan and vegetarian food that's damn good -- and not just damn good for vegan and vegetarian food. As executive Chef Patrick Stark told Lauren Smart last week, he's also been...
Vending Machines Are Getting Calorie Counts, Because Obama Thinks You're Fat

By Luke Darby
Jan 2, 2014

Amidst all the kerfuffle over healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act is affecting one sector that no one really anticipated: American vending machines. A provision of the ACA will require vending machine companies to post nutritional and calorie information on their machines in an effort to let consumers make more...
Eddy Thretipthuangsin, Star Chef at the Design District's Pakpao, Is Out

By Luke Darby
Jan 2, 2014

Pakpao Thai Food has been getting a lot of praise lately, from Scott Reitz's fondness of the unyielding spice of their curries, to ranking among our list of Dallas' most interesting restaurants, to Leslie Brenner at The Dallas Morning News calling it one of the best new openings of the...
Five Good Options for a New Year's Day Brunch in Dallas

By Luke Darby
Dec 30, 2013

New Year's Eve can be a pain if you're stuck with the wrong crowd. No one can figure out where to go, everyone is whiny about staying in, that one guy gets too drunk again this year and starts moaning about never having anyone to kiss at midnight. It's the...
Macaulay Culkin's Pizza Underground Band Is Coming to Dallas

By Luke Darby
Dec 27, 2013

A little background for those who are unfamiliar: Macaulay Culkin, otherwise known as "Kevin!?" from Home Alone, has a pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute band. If you need more of an explanation than that -- well, there is none, sadly. Pizza Underground rewrites the Velvets' hits with a pizza-centric twist. The...
Bonchon, Dallas' New Korean Fried Chicken Joint, Is Back in Business

By Luke Darby
Dec 26, 2013

Last week the newly opened Korean fried chicken restaurant Bonchon announced that it would temporarily close to give management time to hire and retrain new staff. Bonchon was barely a week old by that point but was already so popular that the kitchen and waitstaff couldn't keep up with the...
Vegan Noms Food Truck Will Hit the Streets of Dallas (and Hope Dallas Doesn't Hit Back)

By Luke Darby
Dec 20, 2013

Dallas has been slow to embrace the food truck the way other cities have. Newer venues in the city like Klyde Warren Park and Truck Yard have helped, and steadily Dallas is becoming a more hospitable environment. By January, if all goes well, the city will also get its first...
A New CDC Report Says Wherever You're Going for Food Is Probably Doing It Wrong

By Luke Darby
Dec 17, 2013

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year food-borne disease causes nearly 50 million people to become sick, 128,000 to be hospitalized and 3,000 to die. More than half of these outbreaks originate in restaurants and delis, so the CDC sent health inspectors to local and chain...
Bonchon, Dallas' New Korean Fried Chicken Joint, Temporarily Closed Due to Popularity

By Luke Darby
Dec 17, 2013

If you haven't made it yet to Bonchon, the Korean sports bar with the unbelievably sticky-sweet-spicy fried chicken, you're going to have to wait a little longer. The restaurant has only been open for a week, but today, via its Facebook page, management announced that they'll be shutting down temporarily...
Gemma, a New Late-Night Restaurant on Henderson, Will Open the Day after Christmas

By Luke Darby
Dec 16, 2013

The Dallas late-night eating scene is about to get a little bigger. Formerly of Napa Valley, husband-and-wife team Allison Yoder and Stephen Rogers (who, preliminary research reveals, is not Captain America) have announced that they will open their new restaurant, Gemma, at 2323 Henderson Avenue, the day after Christmas. Gemma,...
Two Dallas Restaurants Are Among OpenTable Users' Favorites, But ...

By Luke Darby
Dec 16, 2013

OpenTable just released a list of the best restaurants in the United States for 2013, as voted by their users. As CultureMap points out, two Dallas restaurants made the list, representing half of all the entries from Texas: the French Room in the Adolphus Hotel and the Capital Grille in...
Texas Researchers Find That People Who Drink Live Longer

By Luke Darby
Dec 16, 2013

Good news for fans of America's national pastime. A new study finds that even heavy drinkers have a lower mortality rate than people who are complete teetotalers. The University of Texas at Austin study, headed by psychologist and national hero Charles Holahan, just released the results under the title Late-Life...
Your First Look at Bonchon, Dallas' New Korean Fried Chicken Restaurant

By Luke Darby
Dec 13, 2013

This week Dallas got a new addition to its fried food repertoire with the opening of Bonchon, a Korean chain specializing in fried chicken and beer. Bonchon opened in Korea nearly 12 years ago and has since spread to 70 restaurants in Southeast Asia and 30 in the United States,...
Dallas' 10 Biggest Restaurant Closings of 2013

By Luke Darby
Dec 12, 2013

The end of 2013 inches closer, bringing with it the beginning of the new year, thoughts of life and death, openings and closings. Earlier we celebrated the most noteworthy restaurant openings of 2013. Now let us take a moment of silence to reflect on those we lost. The biggest closings...
R.I.P., Half-Priced Tuesdays at the Libertine

By Luke Darby
Dec 11, 2013

Since it opened seven years ago, the Libertine Bar on Greenville Avenue has drawn deal-seekers every Tuesday night by offering a 50 percent discount on its entire food menu. Last night via Facebook they announced that after December 17, half-priced Tuesdays would be a thing of the past, like Hannah...
Dallas' 10 Biggest Restaurant Openings of 2013

By Luke Darby
Dec 11, 2013

The Dallas dining scene famously is chaotic and hydra-like. Every week sees news of restaurants failing, but for every one that closes it seems two more spring up to take its place. In honor of new beginnings, we've put together a list of the 10 most noteworthy restaurants that opened...
Method, a New Coffee Shop Coming to East Dallas, Will Sport the City's First "Slayer"

By Luke Darby
Dec 10, 2013

Back in July our erudite food critic Scott Reitz put out the call that there was prime coffee shop real estate waiting on Ross Avenue for someone to move in and make a decent cafe out of it. At least one person was paying attention. The intriguingly named Method: Caffeination...