Lakewood Brewing Co.’s founder and brewer, Wim Bens, is getting kind of creepy. He’s released the second in a Legendary Series of beers, the first of which was Brabo’s Cut, made with “blessed water” and named after a Roman soldier, Silvius Brabo, who slayed the giant Druon Antigoon, a ogre-like…
The unofficial start of summer is here, and the three-day weekend promises smoldering grills, coolers full of beer, and if you stumble over to 20 Feet this weekend quick enough, the first of this season’s soft-shell crabs. Let’s get this week wrapped up. This week I reviewed Lark on the…
Tonight at Garden Café there will be a screening of the movie “Viva Les Amis,” a documentary about the funky, small coffee shop in Austin, Les Amis, that was part of the actual real weird movement prior to everyone figuring out 1) Austin was, in fact, a little weird and…
We’ve written plenty about the new massive food monsters available at Rangers Ballpark, but while I was at a game recently I was able to see them next to their old school counterparts. It’s kind of shocking how far things have come in recent years, and makes you wonder how…
This Sunday there’s a mission to make the best margarita in Dallas at the 3rd Annual Margarita Meltdown in the Bishop Arts District between 7th and 8th Street (408 N. Bishop). Just after you arrive by taxi, you’ll work your way along the street while imbibing in two-ounce samples of…
Marc Cassel, owner of 20 Feet Seafood Joint in East Dallas, threw an interesting post up on his Facebook page this week. Holy Flying Decapod Crustaceans Batman! A few dozen soft-shell crabs (can I get a Hallelujah?) will be boarding a red-eye flight from the Chesapeake to Big D this…
After 49 years of liquoring up Lower Greenville Avenue, the original location of Goody Goody Liquor will close its doors permanently on June 22. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the closure, saying the company was unable to negotiate a lease with a new property owner. John Dragna, a banking…
There’s a barbecue revolution afoot. Put a tiara on that slab of meat and give it a dozen roses. Barbecue is the new beauty queen in the culinary world. For many of us, smoked meat is as right as being born a Texan, or getting here as soon as you…
Late last night, after a tense end-of-session standoff on the Senate floor, the beefed-up Cottage Food Bill, HB 970, passed and is now on the way to the Governor’s desk. As we reported last week, there was some fear the bill wouldn’t make it on the final calendar for a…
Lark on the Park, which I review in this week’s paper, feels like the start of something to me. Downtown Dallas can be such a sleepy place in the evenings, and pedestrians are few and far between. There are a few lines outside of the clubs deeper downtown, and the…
Remember last year when we stumbled on Stephan Pyles’ Twitter feed? The chef was traveling around Mexico, gathering ideas for menu items for Stampede 66, and tweeting up a storm. See Also: – Stampede 66 Teases Tacos de Chipolines Pyles snapped a picture of a bin full of grasshoppers and…
Downtown Dallas was starved for natural beauty. Not that a five-acre deck park built atop a busy freeway is natural, really, but there are large swaths of grass that are sometimes green alongside the plastic turf dogs seem to love. The grass would be greener if a large part of…
Each week we track down a chef for a few burning questions. This week, Omar Flores at Driftwood shares some cookbook advice, spills on a few crazy requests and has a suggestion for a damn good margarita. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks? I love anything by Thomas…
High prices have lead many farmers across the country to look for cheaper feed sources. Now NPR reports that a Seattle butcher stumbled on an alternative that’s doubled as a very successful marketing ploy. William von Schneidau is feeding weed to his pigs. Now everyone’s out to get some of…
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. will host its Third Annual Brew-B-Que this Sunday, an event that was a launch party of sorts back in 2011. It will a chance to pack the brewery and courtyard with hopheads, sip local beer and have Pecan Lodge barbecue, all while listening to tunes of…
We’ve all been there, hopefully: that moment in the adult world when we’re invited to dinner by another grown-up. Specifically a grown-up we’re not close enough with to have the understanding that grabbing a case of Shiner and showing up “whenever” is appropriate. Societal custom dictates the invited guest brings…
Deep Eddy pool in Austin is the oldest man-made swimming pool in Texas. According to the Friends of Deep Eddy site, in the early 1900s locals flocked to this natural pool where a large boulder in the Colorado River created a natural eddy. Springs from the banks of the river…
If you happen to like pizza, which is pretty much everyone, and you like helping people, which should be everyone, then Cane Rosso is probably the restaurant you want to visit tonight. Jay Jerrier sent out an email earlier today announcing 100 percent of this evening’s sales at the Deep…
Regular readers may remember that I found it amusing to review cream teas and high teas around Dallas, comparing them to their British counterparts. While many of you didn’t agree that this was in fact amusing, that’s never stopped me before. For the third in a highly infrequent series, I…
Luck Ducky Dogs, the “silly truck with serious food,” will be at the Dallas Arts District (2403 Flora) todayuntil 2 p.m. giving out 100 free “Hangover Part III” dogs, as an ode to the film that will be released Friday. Make haste! That spreadsheet can wait. Next is the character-based…
If you can’t get enough of blogger-turned-professional barbecue snob Daniel Vaughn, you might want to tune your radio dial (does anyone still do that?) to KERA 90.1 this afternoon at 1 p.m. The entire second hour of Krys Boyd’s Think will be devoted to brisket, ribs, sausages and the endless…
We recently spilled several pixels over the glut of food holidays vying for the month of May. You helped us sift through National Asparagus Month, National Gazpacho Month and National Chocolate Custard Month to determine that, from now on and for all time, May is National Barbecue Month. But the…
