Food & Drink

We asked a handful of North Texas chefs about the worst things they’ve ever eaten, found in the back of the walk-in or basically anything that induced a gag reflex or created a stench that permanently singed their nostrils. Braden Wages of Malai Kitchen has traveled extensively, and so we…

Breweries, festivals, filling stations: It’s a golden, foamy age for craft beer in North Texas, and nothing is shepherding us though it more than the small shops that help cater to the craft beer lover. These shops have endless lists of local, national and international brews for the connoisseur to…

Twenty miles southwest of Jerry Jones’ football gallery and the Rangers Ballpark is a rare swath of Arlington that hasn’t yet been bulldozed over with stadiums, matching suburban houses or strip malls. It’s a narrow, two-lane street called Mansfield Cardinal Road, and it goes pitch black at night, with no…

Pecan Lodge is quickly achieving legendary status, and actually getting in before all brisket and sides have been piranha’ed is getting harder and harder. So it’s pretty exciting that W.T. White High School is offering plates of Pecan Lodge barbecue along with tickets to school’s performance of The Odd Couple…

Deep Ellum Brewing Company, fresh off some controversy over their marketing tactics, has fallen back to two ideas we can all get on board with — gigantic dinosaurs who terrorize Japanese cities, and pumpkins. They even have a mascot for the special occasion. Ironically, Godzilla does not go down easily,…

I can’t help but fantasize that like many other scandals involving our pedigreed leaders, the government shutdown will lead to some sort of hearing. And that the wasted money, disrupted lives and other indirect costs of the budget standoff that accomplished nothing will force some sort of nonpartisan investigation that…

Richard Gras is the sort of newish chef at Oak in the Design District. Gras grew up in Troy, New York, then earned his culinary arts degree from Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island, where he also cut his teeth in some high-profile kitchens like Empire, which received one…

Chip Tate, the founder and distiller of Waco’s Balcones Distillery, packed his suitcases full of booze and headed to New York City recently for the World Wine and Spirits Competition. The tiny distillery tucked under a bridge has been racking up the hardware of late, the first distillery to have…

After nearly a year of closure the wait is over. Oishii opens today at 11 a.m. for lunch. Thanh Nguyen closed his Oak Lawn neighborhood restaurant last December after it was completely destroyed by a fire. The same blaze shuttered Sal’s pizza next door, but the damage to the pizzeria…

It seems as if Levy Restaurants executive chef Joel Pena has a bit of a bacon problem. Or maybe he just has a thing for incredibly strange food. Earlier this spring, he put together concoctions that made use of cotton candy, bacon and vodka, and tossed rabbit and antelope meat…

Twisted Root keeps twisting up things with their menu. A few years ago they introduced a beaver burger; they do bison, bunny, elk and other things. Plus the exotic black bean. But recently they’ve pushed the envelope a tad further with a camel burger, sold at their Arlington location only…

You can’t ignore it now. There’s an undeniable cold snap in the air, and pumpkin fever has taken over. It’s time to switch up your cocktail, and if you’re like me, the go-to cold weather spirit is usually bourbon or rye. Maybe it’s the smoke from the barrels recalling memories…