Last Thursday evening the empty grocery store shelves told the story of our fear of being stuck at home without copious amounts of food. The basics went first — bread, milk, meat — but rest assured bags of chocolate chips, brown sugar and heavy cream were also slim pickings. Barricaded…
North Texas brewers have been a busy bunch lately. With the change in season, many have been working on snuggly versions of their beer, something to cuddle up with on these chilly 70- or 20-degree December days. These are a few beers you might consider tromping out in the ice…
Tomorrow is “Repeal Day,” the 80th anniversary of when our forefathers’ palates and good sense ratified the 21st amendment and subsequently cut off the 18th amendment, allowing We The People to form a more perfect union by imbibing freely. If you’re inclined to knock one back for constitutional amendments, then…
Balcones Distilling is tucked under the far end of the 17th Street bridge in Waco. Its windows are obscured by rusty metal bars, a callback to its former life as a welding shop, and it sits among two rows of massive cement pillars that support the bridge, so cars constantly…
OK, turkey revelers, it’s about time for elastic pants, pie and plates of regret. But, before we get too deep in the holiday mood, let’s pull back a little. Don’t hit the season too hard. Walk in softly. After hours of being stuffed like a turkey in a small house…
My excitement runneth over. With the best holiday of the year just a few days away, it’s about time to start getting prepped. But it’s hard to know where to start. That in mind we asked some of Dallas’ best chefs for some Thanksgiving cooking tips. Omar Flores, Driftwood “Thanksgiving…
North Texas has had its fair share of brewery openings the past two years, but nary a one that is dedicated strictly to Irish beers. Shannon Carter is set to change that. Last month the City of Keller approved Carter’s plans for Shannon Brewing Co., which he hopes to officially…
Some of the best pie in North Texas just got a little bigger. Emporium, the pie-in-the-sky-idea that started out as a pop-up in the Bishop Arts District less than two years ago and quickly won over waistlines throughout the city, just opened its second shop in McKinney over the weekend…
As we saunter into the weekend and the official start of North Texas Beer Week, there are a few beer events you’ll be expected to partake in. There will be a quiz come Monday morning. When we dedicate an entire week to the craft beer movement, we need everyone’s full…
The fancy spinning show 560 feet above Dallas just got a little fancier. Along with the new observation deck, GeO-Deck, the restaurant Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck also got a little facelift, including the opening of Cloud Nine, a casual daytime dining spot. The space, which is one level above…
You know that beer you’ve been hiding in the fridge in the vegetable bin behind the acorn squash? The one you’re saving for a really special occasion? You should consider hosting a bottle share for the occasion. Bottle shares are like play dates for hopheads. Instead of bringing babies and…
Revolver Brewing in Granbury, Texas hopped onto the local craft-brewing scene last year and is already releasing a special beer to commemorate its first year of brewing and bottling. Father-son founders Ron and Rhett Keisler picked out a parcel of land about 35 miles southwest of Fort Worth in part…
Dude, Sweet Chocolate, the city’s sauciest chocolatier, has opened up a new permanent store at 1925 Greenville Avenue, just down from the new Truck Yard and Trader Joe’s. The spot quietly opened Friday and will have a grand opening this Friday at 7 p.m. Katherine Clapner opened her first little…
Rahr & Sons was crafting before craft beer was cool. Even though they started just nine years ago, the Fort Worth brewery is the original hipster dad with tall tube socks and side burns. So next Saturday, November 9, founders Fritz and Erin Rahr are having a little party to…
The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week about a handy little gadget you might want to get in line for. A straight line. And hold your hands down to your side. Breathometer Inc. makes a smartphone breathalyzer test that can instantly tell users if their blood alcohol level…
There’s speculation in grocery-store land that Tom Thumb’s parent company, Safeway, is looking to sell off of its Texas stores. The company has been dropping some dead weight lately, including stores in Canada and Chicago, and recently hired Goldman Sachs to scout the market for potential buyers. A CultureMap article…
Eddie Deen is a big name in the local catering business that’s been around for almost 20 years. The Dallas-based company has pushed plates of barbecue at a bevy of swank and high-profile places and events including the state Capitol, the Olympics and Washington, D.C., where in one night they…
Ben and Jerry’s has released another celebrity-inspired ice cream, and it’s kind of a big deal. While shooting “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” Ron Burgundy found time to also churn some ice cream. The new flavor “ScothyScotchScotch” is reference to a quote in the first movie, but not the exact…
If you were driving south on Green Oaks Boulevard in Arlington on Thursday around 7 p.m., your headlights might have caught a glimpse of a group of people walking along the sidewalk carrying what looked like rifles and shotguns over their shoulders. No, the fading dusk wasn’t messing with your…
We asked a handful of North Texas chefs about the worst things they’ve ever eaten, found in the back of the walk-in or basically anything that induced a gag reflex or created a stench that permanently singed their nostrils. Braden Wages of Malai Kitchen has traveled extensively, and so we…
Richard Gras is the sort of newish chef at Oak in the Design District. Gras grew up in Troy, New York, then earned his culinary arts degree from Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island, where he also cut his teeth in some high-profile kitchens like Empire, which received one…
Chip Tate, the founder and distiller of Waco’s Balcones Distillery, packed his suitcases full of booze and headed to New York City recently for the World Wine and Spirits Competition. The tiny distillery tucked under a bridge has been racking up the hardware of late, the first distillery to have…
