Jeff Kloster, owner of Dublin Bottling Works, didn’t sit on his ass and sulk after his company’s settlement with Dr Pepper Snapple stripped him of his top-selling product, Dublin Dr Pepper. The day after the news hit, he says, he picked up the phone and did the same thing he’s…
“It’s like trying a drug for the first time,” my tablemate said, as she watched me take a careful bite from a grilled serrano pepper. The plate of chiles and onions had been laid out like a gauntlet, and the anticipation was only heightened by the antics of our waitress,…
This week in The New York Times, Pete Wells reviews someplace called Parm. His intro points out the lack of coverage food snobs give Italian-American cooking — red-sauce pasta on red-checkered table cloths — despite that it’s a prominent comfort food for millions of Americans. That’s why it’s so painful…
Every once in a while someone mistakes Scott for a food expert and risks ruining dinner by trusting him to answer to a burning question. Got a question about food or restaurants? Send it via Twitter @scottreitz, Facebook at /cityofate or in the comments. Here’s a question I got a…
We’re doing some construction around here, which has prompted some early spring cleaning. It’s funny the things you find when you rummage around old desk drawers and file cabinets. Like this dinner menu from the Hotel Adolphus, drafted for the Dallas Southern Clinical Society, whatever that was. Had you attended…
Remember when we wrote about Hypnotic Dounut’s new storefront way back in November? We told you it was scheduled to open early this year. Looks like that actually might happen. First day of business will be Sunday. I called owner James St. Peter and asked him what the deal was…
Apparently you guys like it when I’m angry, so I was all ready to launch into my next rant about the odd concept that is the modern yogurt shop, including Yumilicious in Uptown, which I visited last week. But it didn’t feel right to rail on the shop. Everyone in…
A Washington, DC-based sushi chain recently released a promotional video about shooting a sushi roll into space. Getting sushi into the stratosphere should be easy enough. A weather balloon was used to take a chair into space for a very similar commercial. Still, the video seemed a little fishy. I…
Dear Dallas, I’ve had enough of your authoritarian valet system. I think the hatred began this summer at Wild Salsa. It was a slow weekday night, and we pulled up, handed over $7 and watched the valet back the car up three spots and throw the transmission in park. I…
When I moved to Texas I was very upset about the weather. Multiple weeks of triple-digit heat and no rain had me begging for relief. I asked everyone if winter was at least mild. No, everyone said. There’s ice and it’s so cold it burns your skin. Fortunately you guys…
Every now and then I page through the hundreds of photos in my iPhone and wonder what the hell I’m doing to myself. I am a man made of burgers and fries and tacos, and apparently since coming to Dallas I’ve eaten a shit-ton of Reuben sandwiches. Most of them…
I visited the Chesterfield when the bar first opened, and have been back a handful of times. Downtown’s newest bar promises great drinks and a stylish space. And I want to love the place, I really do. But it’s too crowded and too noisy at times, and I often feel…
It’s time, Aters. We’ve been watching the playoffs since the wild cards, and the championship games are this Sunday. We’ve been blogging about potential menus and discussing them in the comments, but now it’s time to execute. If you want to put on an awesome spread to get you through…
Chad Houser and Janice Provost are gearing up again. The faces behind the non-profit organization Cafe Momentum are preparing to announce their next pop-up dinner, to be held in February at Bolsa Mercado. The event will feature chefs Jeff Harris and Matt Balke. Last year, Houser and Provost used similar…
If you’ve consumed drinks at Marquee Grill, Black Swan, the Chesterfield, or any of the other high-end cocktail den around Dallas, you’re going to get a kick out of this video. The short depicts a mustachioed bartender-douchebag pontificating on the finer elements of mixology, through short, punchy snippets. It’s pretty…
It was Saturday night, and Campo Modern Country Bistro, the latest house-turned-restaurant in Oak Cliff, was loud and crowded. A jeans-clad waitstaff donning gray Campo T-shirts — all fit, muscular guys, oddly — whisked plates from the pass in the back to painted-white tables. The bar, flanked with angular stools…
If ever there were a week for a foodie to pick up a print copy of the Observer, this is that week. Editor Joe dropped the proof of Lauren Drewes Daniels’ cover story on my desk last week, and I devoured the story beginning to end on the spot. In…
It’s odd putting time into a restaurant review when you know the restaurant you’re writing about will most likely not exist as it does for very long. Campo Modern Country Bistro, the subject of this week’s review, opened last year with Matt McCallister as its “consulting executive chef.” After designing…
The Wall Street Journal shines light on kombucha, a fermented beverage made from freshly brewed tea, bacteria and yeast. The preparation, popularized by health nuts, is slowly becoming a trendy alternative beverage and ingredient at bars and restaurants everywhere. Joel Levin, the service manager at the Meddlesome Moth, confirms that…
Nothing says toned and sexy like endless piles of free pancakes. But at least this order is stacked up for charity. IHOP announced that Laura Kaeppeler, recently crowned Miss America, plans to serve as spokeswoman for IHOP’s annual National Pancake Day celebration on Tuesday, February 28. The event benefits Children’s…
Over the weekend I dropped into the office to jot down some thoughts on a recent meal and checked out the #boycottdrpepper feed I’ve been keeping an eye on. This tweet popped up just as I was watching: DrPepper @Galcos pulls all Dr. Pepper/Snapple products from shelves after @DublinDrPepper shut…
Late last year, Forbes named Smashburger America’s most promising company. The article describes an American population as burger-obsessed and compares the Denver-based smashers to other chains, including Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Jack in the Box and Hardees. (Shake Shack, the undisputed fast food burger champion of the world, was…
