Food & Drink

If you go into a random bar and order a whiskey sour, chances are the drink you receive will be terrible. The sour mix is usually the culprit. A similar pre-made concoction of sugar and artificial flavoring has ruined margaritas and other cocktail classics, mostly because bartenders are under the…

If you haven’t heard, next month’s Bon Appetit will name the 20 most important restaurants in America. Dallas didn’t make the list. Texas got two nods — both Uchi and Franklin BBQ in Austin were mentioned — but instead of celebrating Lone Star Pride, I’d rather examine why Dallas was…

State senator Kevin Eltife, a Republican from Tyler, filed four bills yesterday that could breath new life into the craft beer industry in Texas. The legislation “will modernize laws that unfairly advantage out-of-state beer producers over Texas’ small businesses of the beer industry — craft brewers,” Eltife said in a…

If you’re pregnant and are due in early March, go ahead and schedule things for March 7th. Because then forever and ever and ever (into infinity) you’ll be able to say your baby was born the same day as the Cool Ranch Tacos at Taco Bell. People will say, “Ooh,…

Thursday, February 14 A Valentine’s Day gift set actually worth tracking down, other than those tent sales in front of gas stations and grocery stores … Pogo’s Wine & Spirits has a gift set that includes Casa Dragones tequila paired with custom-made perique truffles from Dude, Sweet Chocolate. You can…

If you look closely you can see them: the telltale shards of ice floating on the surface of your martini at Bob’s Steak and Chop House on Lemmon Avenue. The bar is dim and dark, and martinis are the precursor of choice to meals that often feature massive cuts of…

If I hadn’t recently reviewed Ellen’s Southern Kitchen, which took over the defunct Heart Attack Grill space, I might not have written about the H.A.G. ever again. It’s hard to believe the temple to excess is still in the news at all. Unless, of course, more people die while eating…

Take another little piece of it now, baby.The white cloth drapes perfectly on the specially reserved table; the candles are lit; the staff anxiously waits in the back with the ring strategically placed on a silver platter surrounded by rose petals, and the only thing to do now is wait…

In late January, Aramis, a brilliant African lion at In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue in Wylie, stopped eating. Even when Vicky Keahey, one of his caretakers, gave him special food he typically likes, he would soon get sick and vomit. For seven days, the lion didn’t eat at all. “He was…

Dallas-based Pizza Hut made good on what started as a Facebook joke about pizza perfume. The red roofed pizza maker hired a “world renowned aromachologist” to create an elixir that smells like dough topped with vegetables, cheese and meat then put it in a fancy glass spray bottle. See Also:…

Starting today, close to a thousand members of the American Camp Association will descend on Dallas in flanneled and Teva’d droves, for what is one of the largest gathering of camping professionals in the country. As participants prepare to debate the merits of double-stitched tent seams, quote gratuitously from Wet,…

Valentine’s Day is getting closer, and while those who have a special someone are certainly sweating dinner reservations, flowers and other finishing touches for what is supposed to be no less than a perfect evening, those who are single get to kick up their heels and enjoy a night they…

I heard a rumor that they were closing. Instantly, all the best pizza parties of my youth flashed before my eyes and I said, “Bullshit.” It was bad enough when the Crystal’s Pizza across the street from Jesuit closed, but the one in Irving was supposed to exist forever. Forever…

The recently elected Senator Charles Schwertner has been busier than a beehive down in Austin. In addition to standing up for conservative values and cracking down on illegal immigration, the senator just filed a very important piece of legislation. If it passes the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas…

Plano-based Frito-Lay has announced the winners of their Lay’s Do Us A Flavors contest. Several months ago chip-eaters around the world were asked to submit their idea for a new flavor of chip. The three winning flavors and their people were on Good Morning America this morning; A lady from…

The Free Man Cajun Café in Deep Ellum is a small, dark, shotgun bar and restaurant with marginal lighting that keeps things dim, which is certainly a prerequisite for any proper New Orleans-ish bar. So, if you’re going for a truly comparable experience, this is your place. Three Quarters Fast…

“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” took on entirely new meaning in the UK this week, as it turns out many people had unknowingly fulfilled their declaration of hunger by eating what they believed to be low-quality beef. Predictably, this has led to outrage across the land, as…

A striking jet-black 17-month old European cross steer named “Lunchbox” was the belle of the ball in Cowtown this weekend. Tipping the scales at 1,329-pounds, the hunk was crowned Grand Champion of the Fort Worth Stock Show, and was later auctioned off for $205,000, courtesy of the Happy Davis Foundation,…