I hope you haven’t packed your shorts for the summer yet. The weather for opening day at the State Fair of Texas is hot and muggy with a fine aerosol of crisp and clean frying oil. I zipped over to Fair Park today to find the winner of this year’s…

Today is National Drink Beer Day, apparently, and I’m sure you were looking for an excuse to knock back a cold one. It’s a shame it’s not National Drink Beers day, but what can we do. Please limit yourself to one. While I’m sure the rest of Dallas is busy…

If you’ve been using Oak’s lunch service as a cost effective means to explore Jason Maddy’s cooking, you have two more weeks to get your fix. A spokesperson for the restaurant says that lunch service in the Design District’s fanciest restaurant will end October, 12. Maddy’s desire to focus more…

Dallas-based Brinker International has joined a growing list of restaurants that have pledged to improve conditions for pigs in their supply chain. The group owns Chili’s, which is responsible for 1,500 casual restaurants known for their baby back ribs. The new policy also applies to Maggiano’s and Romano’s Macaroni grill,…

News of a pending bacon shortage is taking over the Internet. According to the thread, high corn prices pushed English pig farmers to slaughter more of their sows. The reduced herds threatened future bacon supplies and promised to drive prices sky high, or worse, temporarily remove bacon from the meat…

A news story on US News suggests that fast food could actually be good for your health, but before you run off to McDonald’s and pound a double Filet-O-Fish with fries and a large Coke, super-sized, you should read the fine print. The article describes a generic “Sharon’s” choice to…

CraveDFW posted a story yesterday that Uchi, the sushi restaurant in Austin that’s earned considerable national attention, would be opening a location in Dallas in six to eight months. The writer was told the news by an unnamed manager after dining in the restaurant. Eater confirmed the story with a…

Cliff Payne has had nearly a year to bask in barbecue glory. Last October the pitmaster from Cousin’s Bar-B-Q took home the title in the Texas Oklahoma Red River Barbecue Shootout. Payne beat out Leo’s BBQ of Oklahoma in an annual event hosted by the DRG Concepts in Main Street…

UPDATE: John Tesar’s publicist called, letting us know he was not happy with our suggestion that he’s screening for uggos. He’s not, the publicist said. Tesar uses head-shots in order to keep names and faces straight among his job applicants. OK, then. Anyhoosy, here’s the post that pissed him off…

Greek Fest is right around the corner, so it’s time to lay out your plans for a weekend of loukoumathes, gyros and a few hundred Fix beers. Before last year’s event I talked to Mary Carter, who does PR for the event, and busted her chops about the festival’s lack…

I’m fascinated with Indian cooking. Obsessed. I love the way cooks build layers of flavor and aroma with onions and other aromatics, a cadre of spices and a long, slow simmer. If you’ve ever cooked a robust curry in your kitchen, you know that the smell that overtakes your entire…

The folks behind Acme F&B announced Norman Grimm has been hired as their new executive chef. Grimm’s resume includes the opening of Mercury and three years at York Street with Sharon Hage. He also worked in California, Portland, Ohio and France. Grimm also spent a few months at Nosh before…

May this week forever be known as CoA’s restaurant first look week. As evidence… Max’s Liberty Burger take two Tried and True Macdaddy’s GOGHEE no longer to go You’ve got a lot of new places to check out this weekend, a few hundred roof decks to drink on, and there’s…

On a Thursday evening, just past 10 p.m., Oak Cliff was sleepy. Yelp said Boulevardier was open till 11 but the staff said otherwise. Same went for Bolsa, which offered cocktails and beer but no food. That’s what I get for trusting a third-party source instead of getting operating hours…

I have a lot of respect for Brian Luscher’s hot dog project primarily because I know first hand how difficult it is to make hand-crafted links. Hot dogs are an emulsified sausage with a significant amount of fat. That means the ground meat and fat are whipped until they resemble…

Feral hogs are taking over Texas. The wild beasts have been ravaging the state in numbers in excess of 2 million, and their wallowing, rooting and feeding activities are responsible for more than $50 million in damage in rural parts of the state alone every year. Texas Parks and Wildlife…

This October, 1 Jack’s Southern Comfort Food should open up on Lower Greenville Avenue, provided permits and all those other things that keeps restaurants from opening when they say they will go through. A new release about the opening uses the word “biscuit” an unprecedented 22 times, in case you’re…

A few months ago I received a series of cryptic emails from an anonymous source telling me John Tesar was going to be on Bravo’s latest chef shit show, Top Chef, Season 10. The email didn’t say much, so I sat on the unsubstantiated claim. There were a few clues:…