This Saturday (October 27), FOX is holding a casting call for season four of MasterChef at the Le Cordon Bleu of Dallas (11830 Webb Chapel Road). This is one of about a dozen casting calls across the country as they try to 18 find amateur cooks for the show. See…

Following North Texas’ big win at the Great American Beer Fest, this week’s cover story by Lauren Drewes Daniels profiles the rise of the DFW craft brew. To see what kind of growth we’re talking about, Lauren’s broken down each of the local brewers. Check it out below. Rahr &…

Food Policy Action is a group of “healthy food advocates, animal welfare and anti-hunger champions,” who have designed a platform for grading members of congress on their overall food policy record. Today, October 24, the group released their first order of business, a National Food Policy Scorecard based on legislative…

The 3rd annual Blues, Bandits and BBQ is this Friday and Saturday in an old sunflower patch in Oak Cliff (715 W Davis Street). The two-day will have live music, Four Corners’ beer and 23 teams cooking more than 1,000 pounds of meat. Admission is free, but if you want…

This past Sunday I was in Waxahachie on account of a little baseball tournament. There was a big break between games, so we went in search of a something local and, hopefully, interesting to eat. But, that’s hard to do in small towns on Sundays because most mom-and-pops are closed…

Today (October 23) Domino’s Pizza is giving away slices of “handmade pan pizza” from noon to 2pm at each of their “participating location,” although they fail to tell us which locations are participating. And each spot is only giving out 100 slices. So, let’s just all guess and spend half…

Tomorrow Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare of Acme F&B and Good 2 Go Taco are partnering with “Outstanding in the Field” to host a dinner at Sloans Creek Farm in Dodd City. See also: – Interview with Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare Outstanding in the Field is a group dedicated…

The SoupMan, made famous by the “No soup for you!” line on Seinfeld, is now being delivered fresh from Al Yeganeh’s soup kitchen near Hell’s Kitchen in New York City to local Tom Thumb grocery stores. OK, maybe that’s not the exact logistics, but it’s close. After years of work,…

The Great American Beer Festival in Denver earlier this month drew 49,000 brew-lovers thirsty to sample more than 4,000 beers from 580 different brewers. A few Dallas brewers made the trip, including Deep Ellum Brewing Co., gold medal winner Peticolas and Chris Rigoulot, who will open Noble Rey Brewing Co…

Nancy Nichols reported Wednesday afternoon that Kathleen’s Sky Diner on Lovers Lane abruptly closed. Lock-out notices were posted to the front door. This spot originally opened in 1988 by husband and wife team Robert and Kathleen Ellington, the latter who is the baker for the dessert-inclined restaurant. Back in November…

Qariah Lebanese Restaurant and Lounge is coming soon to 1811 Greenville Ave. Per their Facebook page, a grand opening is slated for October 22. The menu includes everything one would imagine a Lebanese restaurant would offer: baba ghannouj, hummus, falafel, pies, shawarma, kabab, lamb and much more. All sounds good…

Last week we received an email about food porn addiction, which was really just an effort to promote the book Eating Mindfully by Dr. Susan Albers, Psy. D. Usually we discard these things, but we thought it’d be sooooo freaking hilarious to ask sly porn questions! Then we’d all laugh…

The 3rd annual Texas State Veggie Fair is this Sunday, October 21, at Reverchon Park (3505 Maple Ave.) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be lots foods samples, vendors, music and art – all in the name of a plant-based diet. Not to be shown up by other…

BuzzFeed recently expanded its repertoire to include a site dedicated to food, and one of its first bacon features (we anticipate many) is “11 Ways to Cook Bacon That Will Probably Kill You.” They beat bacon not to “within an inch of its life,” but rather they beat it so…

Tu-Lu’s Gluten Free Bakery is opening a second Dallas location in the West Village Shopping Center this Thursday. Owner and baker Tully Phillips is originally from Memphis and graduated from SMU. After completing culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin, Philips moved to New York City, where she interned…

A new restaurant, Victoria’s Mexican Grill, will be opening soon in two-story house at 607 Willomet Ave., just down from Norma’s Café. The house is undergoing a remodel right now, including new doors and windows. Wrap-around patios both upstairs and downstairs look like they have a lot of potential, and…

The Londoner in Uptown needs to borrow an Aston Martin for a James Bond “Skyfall” party on November 9th. Per their Facebook post, they promise it will be in good hands. It’s a roll-out-the-red-carpet, black-tie event. Nary a crazy shenanigan to be seen! The owner even gets to be their…

I’ve learned a few things from competitive eaters lately. There’s some interesting psychology at play in the sport, which arise from two opposite camps: some take a certain laissez-fair approach, while others embrace the masochism for all its worth. See Also: Interview with Kobayashi Makes sense, right? It’s either: “I’m…

Saturday was the conclusion of the 31st annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. This Super Bowl of beer competitions sold all 49,000 tickets in just 45 minutes when they went on sell back in July. This past Thursday through Saturday, 580 breweries poured over 4,300 different beers that…

The competitive eater and hot dog champion of the galaxy, Takeru Kobayashi (Kobi), is in town for the State Fair. This morning I met him and his people for a little chat. First things first: nicest guy. Just really so polite and nice. He looks intense and insane in some…