Duck Fat Will Change Your (Cooking) Life

I first stumbled upon duck fat as an everyday kitchen ingredient about five years ago. I was testing a particularly chefy set of recipes for a magazine, and two of them called for a tablespoon of the stuff. Since I couldn’t find it anywhere locally, I ordered rendered duck fat…

Battle of the Pork Ribs: Lockhart Smokehouse Versus Baby Back Shak

In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. Trying to compare two barbecue restaurants with meals from your distant memory is always tough. Eat at them…

Dallas Needs More Open Kitchens So We Can Nerd Out Over Our Chefs

There’s a second bar at Dee Lincoln’s Steak and Burger Bar that has me thinking. The new Uptown restaurant is the subject of this week’s review, and in addition to the regular bar where the beer, wine and other good stuff happens, another large bar wraps around the kitchen. From…

Mexican Coke Isn’t Going Anywhere

Here we go again. Every time a beloved consumable product is threatened with extinction the hoarding begins. Surely you remember Twinkies, which commanded prices you might associate with a sizable yacht when Hostess went under. You can get those on Amazon right now for six bucks. A similar fervor broke…

Restaurants Are Ditching Paper Menus, and That’s Not Good News

My iPhone and I are currently not on speaking terms. While I couldn’t begin to guess what I have done to damage our relationship, my laundry list of grievances is growing more quickly than my backlog of software updates. My home button works with such irregularity I’m convinced it’s being…

Del Frisco’s Grille Is Conquering the Meat Globe

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I reviewed Del Frisco’s Grille, the casual restaurant from the Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group that opened in Uptown in 2012. The place had a laid back and youthful vibe that stood in stark contrast to the more polished experiences of Del Frisco’s…

A Welcome Truck Yard in a Food-truck Wasteland

With your backside sinking into the crosshatched nylon of a well-loved lawn chair, a cold beer in your fist and perhaps a few crumpled napkins piled into a grease-stained paper tray at your feet, it might be hard to imagine Dallas was ever hard on food trucks. Jason Boso’s Truck…

Thomas Keller Visited FT-33 and Left an Impression on Matt McCallister

Chances are if you’ve ever donned chef whites, you know Thomas Keller’s name. If you’re a serious home cook, there’s a decent chance you’ve heard of him, too. If you’re the type who salivates over multi-course tasting menus that cost hundreds of dollars and take hours to consume, you’ve definitely…