Remember last summer, when Lakewood Brewing Co. hosted its first birthday party at Goodfriend? The front parking lot was packed and most cars were flagged into satellite lots. The patio was packed and inside the dining room, drinkers tipped back glasses elbow to elbow. Lakewood Brewer Wim Bens brought nearly…
There’s a dichotomy brewing among fast-casual restaurants. Burger places have enjoyed decades of dominance, and continue to expand in a market as saturated as their overwhelmed burger buns. If a new strip mall arises, there stands a good chance that a burger restaurant will take at least one of the…
It’s been just longer than two years since Jon Rudin and Erin Kirby took a tour of Franconia Brewing Company’s facilities in McKinney. Brewers of all sizes offer tours as a way of connecting with customers, sharing knowledge and offering plenty of beer. This tour, however, came with an unexpected…
There’s a new Whole Foods headed to Frisco. The grocery store will anchor the retail portion of yet-another-mixed-use-development project that promises upscale retail, fine dining, entertainment, hotels, places to work and places to live. This one is right beside the Tollway and south of Lebanon Road. The new Whole Foods…
Another Valentine’s Day is upon us. And if you’re one of those people who forgot to book a table for your loved one, I have no sympathy for you. Perhaps you can snag a table at Red Lobster, or pick up one of those heart-shaped steaks at Whole Foods. This…
Cooking meals for your dog is nothing new. Before dog food, everyone cooked for their dogs because they had to. Now a growing number of dog lovers are returning to these pet care roots. Jeffrey Steingarten detailed his foray into canine cuisine in an essay called “The Man Who Cooked…
Lakewood Brewing Co.’s Raspberry Temptress has been all talk — at least for me so far. But a recent announcement named a handful of bars to which the popular local brewery would be releasing a Milk Stout infused with raspberry puree. I set off to finally get a taste. I…
If the past month’s dismal performance of the Dow Jones has you spooked on stocks this year, there’s good reason. The old trader’s axiom that “as January goes, so goes the market” has proved accurate more often than not. Perhaps your money would be better off in commodities or bonds…
Shannon Wynne is giving Dallas exactly what it’s yearned for, and what it needs the least: a burger restaurant. With the success of Rodeo Goat in Fort Worth, the restaurateur behind the Meddlesome Moth, Lark on the Park and more recently announced a second location planned in the Design District…
It’s still cold out, if you haven’t noticed. And as long as the mercury is low and the skies are gray, American kitchens will be filled with the smells of chili. We proved as much right here, when a quick scan of the Lakewood Whole Foods determined onions, canned tomatoes…
If you spent much time on Facebook over the weekend and have any “friends” from Los Angeles, you were likely peppered with posts and pictures about Dumb Starbucks. A coffee shop bearing the corporate java giant’s logo, prefixed with the word “dumb,” opened in Los Feliz, giving away free coffee…
It’s been more than two years since a new Walmart was proposed as a solution to the food desert status in South Dallas. The store finally opened this year, but now researchers are saying grocery stores like it will likely have no impact on the health of nearby residents. “Food…
Last but not least – with John Lewis @la_Barbecue @iamguillermo #Austin pic.twitter.com/a9IJquvbA7— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 8, 2014 There’s a good chance Jimmy Kimmel is holed up in a hotel room this morning with high sodium and cholesterol levels, and an old-fashioned case of the meat sweats. There’s an even…
Last year, when the folks behind Origin Natural Foods said they were going to close shop, remodel and re-open as a full service restaurant, they hardly made it clear how significant the changes would be. The renovation changed the entire space floor to ceiling. If you haven’t been back since…
Vani Hari, commonly knows as Food Babe on the Internet, is getting things done. Subway recently announced that it’s removing the azodicarbonamide from the bread it uses to make its sandwiches, and the 65,000 digital signatures (and counting) on Hari’s Internet petition likely had a lot to do with the…
Since taking over the International Bakery Cuban Dulceria for their father in 2009, Rita and Sara Vazquez have been taking steps to modernize the family business. They installed a point of sales system so they could better track products and orders. They designed a website and set up a profile…
Well this sucks. It hasn’t even been a year since I wrote about the temporary closure of Samar and its potential impact on the sandwich scene here in Dallas. Samar earned four stars in the Dallas Morning News, and it was arguably one of owner Stephan Pyles’ most exciting restaurants…
They don’t look like much, but Local Oak’s Texas Surfers make for totally worthy bar food. The neighborhood bar opened late last year in Oak Cliff, but it wasn’t till January that they released their current dinner menu. There are burgers, wings and the other expected staples to choose from,…
Hungry? You will be eventually. And when those grinding stomach noises rise up from within, you’ll have this list printed out at the ready. Here are 10 restaurants that I’ve dined in, reviewed, or otherwise written about and enjoyed in recent months. Put them in your regular rotation, and never…
Walk into Max’s Wine Dive on a random weekend evening, and you might wonder if it’s opening night. It’s been a year since the restaurant, which serves self-described gourmet comfort food, rode up from Houston on a public relations blitzkrieg that filled the dining room to capacity. It’s been packed…
If you’re a fan of the annual Taste of Addison event as it has been for the past 20 years, you’re about to get a little sad. The culinary celebration has been cut, to be replaced by a new event that will tax your wallet a little harder in an…
I promised myself that 2014 would be the year I refrained from writing about Kickstarter campaigns. After watching too many potential business owners and restaurateurs grovel for money, I’d decided they all should just go the bank for a loan or leverage their credit cards to the hilt like the…
