It’s been a long day. You’re at home watching Top Chef. After three-to-four minutes of actual show, you get an ad blitz (Yes, this scenario implies you don’t have TiVo).There’s the ad where Burger King’s new meat is getting licked with devil flames, and the throbbing music is trying to…
The Starbucks new Trenta coffee cup, which can hold 31-ounces of iced coffee, can carry an entire bottle of wine. There’s video evidence to that fact, thanks to the good ol’ Internet. This news came after the calculation that the new plus-sized cup is about as large as the average…
When it comes to beer, there are those of us at City of Ate who select our favorite brews based on tried and true traits like flavor, head and color, and there are those (Noah) who just pick the label with the most cleavage on it and call it a…
This certainly isn’t the week to jog the Katy Trail (Fountain Place is frozen, man!), so instead, Jose Ralat Maldonado — who has traversed the taco scene for City of Ate — and the rest of us implore you to eat. Eat as much as you can to pad those…
(Editors’ note: Look, we warned you last week that we opened the door to poetry from City of Ate staffers who wanted to praise their Thanksgiving faves. So, here goes: a bit of blank verse — that’s a technical term for prose with funny line breaks — from Merritt Martin…
Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists and think tanks, let’s put the Star Wars Strategic Defense-enhancements down for a second, and get cranking on some of these…
A City of Ater found this poster — artist unknown — in Exposition Park yesterday. Don’t get it? Well, as the Morning News reported, Michael William Liebermann, co-owner of the Pizza Lounge in Exposition Park, was charged with misdemeanor assault last week, accused of beating a 61-year-old man with a…
Not sure if it’s the photo, or the report through Vat 19 (the company that created this Frankenstein) that the worm has a “five-inch girth,” but this “World’s Largest Gummy Worm” is the most startling, dildo-esque Halloween candy ever. Vat 19 is also reporting the calorie-count, which at 4,000 is…
Editor’s Note: Of the gazillion people who yearly visit the State Fair of Texas, a good number of them are outlanders. One of those visitors this year offered to share her fair reflections with City of Ate. Kat Robinson, who blogs about food back in Arkansas, reveals here which fried…
Carl’s Jr., in its infinite wisdom, has developed a foot-long cheeseburger. Like Burger King’s BK Shots, this is another burger innovation beyond the limits of imagination. Clearly, human minds will be puzzling over this long-food-meat and bun invention for some time. While scientists dabble in supernatural wonder, we’d like to…
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…
Right now, it’s hot as hell outside. There’s no stopping it: You’re going to sweat and look uncomfortable. There’s lots of options, of course, you could walk around without a shirt, wear breathable socks, or consume a series of refreshing summer treats that lower your body temp.There’s a problem. While…
It’s a dangerous world out there. Some of these foods are scary; some create tooth, skin or jaw damage. We’re not talking about the unhealthy monstrosities in the fast-food world or the trans-fat-laden chain-restaurant menus. For the purposes of this list, we’re picking a choice bunch of oversized and overstuffed…
Last week, we discussed The New York Times’ article on “haute-stoner cuisine” and, in response, we offered up some dishes from local restaurants that totally speak to the high mind.This sparked (ha!) some discussion regarding much more low-brow, what’s-left-in-the-pantry culinary invention. The City of Ate has polled um, some, uh,…
Ok, focus. Must…focus.The recent NY Times chronic-le about weed smokage in the kitchen was not shocking, to say the least, but it did spur a few imaginative thoughts: Do we have “haute stoner cuisine” in Dallas? Why is haute such an annoying word? The idea behind the Times’ haute stoner…
As all people know everywhere, it’s National Burger Month and National Masturbation Month. So, it seems only logical to combine the two, as some of the burgers around this glorious meat city have gone seriously soft-core. Here are five burgers to chow down on as you settle in for a…
Mom always knew what to feed us, and on Mother’s Day we grown-ups celebrate that. But we can’t forget those moments when you, Mom, devised new ways to get us to eat better–and the products that assisted in this war against all-things-Little Debbie. In honor of Mother’s Day, we selected…
In honor of today’s holiday (don’t act like you don’t know what it is, unless the boss is around) City of Ate presents a list of Ten Foods Not Traditionally Prepared With Pot That Maybe Ought To Be. The Internet is full of recipes for the old standbys of brownies…
Last week, like the Doomsday Clock in Dr. Strangelove, the KFC Web site started a countdown to the release of their new and terrifying sandwich.The big reveal came on Monday. The sandwich is two fried chicken breasts sandwiching bacon, cheese and a thick sauce. That’s right, kids–no bun. If that…
It’s no easy thing, hiring a food critic. There’s the slogging through countless resumes and writing samples, the wining and dining of potential candidates, the follow-up phone calls and e-mails to find that one voice among the many whose writing pops off the page and knows what in the wide…
After an extensive search, the Dallas Observer is proud to announce the promotion of Night & Day editor and frequent City of Ate contributor Noah W. Bailey to the position of food critic. City of Ate readers are probably most familiar with Bailey from his biweekly contributions to Dude Food…
Top 10 Things We Wish Waiters Would Never Say Again–Ever Face it: Your waiter can make or break a meal. It’s all about attitude, baby, and if he or she has a crappy one, well, it doesn’t matter what the hell they dish out. Because you can’t take it. Pissed…
