Food & Drink

Organizers for KRLD Restaurant Week have announced the haul associated with last year’s event: $695,000, raised for the North Texas Food Bank and the Lena Pope Home. The previous year brought in $605,000, as reported on City of Ate. Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Al Biernat’s and III Forks topped the list…

The Ion Network’s The World’s Greatest!… was filming for an upcoming episode at the Oak Lawn Avenue location of Eatzi’s today. The show profiles businesses that excel in the products and services they provide their customers. Adam Romo, the CEO of the store, had hoped Bakery and Market would follow…

Lisa Garza’s Sissy’s Southern Kitchen & Bar is coming. Press releases have been teasing the open of Uptown’s newest soul-food source for the past few weeks now. A post on the Eats Blog got me thinking not so much about fried chicken itself but fried chicken condiments … The duo…

During the last state legislative session, the Cottage Food Law was passed, clearing the way for home bakers to sell certain goods from their home. Guidelines were established, including limiting annual gross sales to less than $50,000, requiring in-person transactions and limiting sales to non-potentially hazardous foods. And boy did…

I got a kick out of this picture from Lauren’s Love Shack burger story earlier today. Maybe a decade or so ago, I used to buy an occasional six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon at a Giant grocery store near my place. I think I paid $4-something for that sixer. I…

A few weeks ago I tuned into an NPR broadcast out of DC. The Kojo Nnamdi show featured local journalists, and they discussed the state of dining in the nation’s capital. Tom Sietsema, food critic for the Washington Post, made reference to a survey that determined diners were more inclined…

As Scott mentioned earlier, Jack Perkins, founding partner of the Maple & Motor burger mecca — and once a proud provider of Dublin Dr Pepper on tap — is joining forces with Dublin Bottling Company to serve up the other sodas by the still-standing indie soda company. But that doesn’t…

Jeff Kloster, owner of Dublin Bottling Works, didn’t sit on his ass and sulk after his company’s settlement with Dr Pepper Snapple stripped him of his top-selling product, Dublin Dr Pepper. The day after the news hit, he says, he picked up the phone and did the same thing he’s…

Jason Maddy is the executive chef at the recently opened Oak in the Design District. Maddy grew up in Austin and, after attending culinary school in New York, worked at David Bouley’s Danube, then the Driskill in Austin. A few years ago he was recruited by John Tesar to work…

Over in the United Kingdom, healthy people who eat health food have been twisting up their knickers over Burger King’s new 966-calorie Smoked Bacon and Cheddar Double Angus burger. In addition to having a thousand calories, it has 58 grams of artery-waterboarding fat. Consumerist quotes a spokesperson for the National…

This week in The New York Times, Pete Wells reviews someplace called Parm. His intro points out the lack of coverage food snobs give Italian-American cooking — red-sauce pasta on red-checkered table cloths — despite that it’s a prominent comfort food for millions of Americans. That’s why it’s so painful…

We’re doing some construction around here, which has prompted some early spring cleaning. It’s funny the things you find when you rummage around old desk drawers and file cabinets. Like this dinner menu from the Hotel Adolphus, drafted for the Dallas Southern Clinical Society, whatever that was. Had you attended…

Remember when we wrote about Hypnotic Dounut’s new storefront way back in November? We told you it was scheduled to open early this year. Looks like that actually might happen. First day of business will be Sunday. I called owner James St. Peter and asked him what the deal was…

Last night was Industry Night at Il Cane Rosso, and the kids (Jeffers and Zielke) from Smoke and Bolsa were serving up pie. Local and delicious were the themes. The bar stools across the pizza pit directly in front of the mouth of the big red alien-like oven are the…