Amy Curry joined East Dallas at a sneak peek of the coming-soon neighborhood spot, Goodfriends. Here’s her dispatch. It won’t open for at least a few weeks, but Goodfriends (near Peavy and Garland roads in East Dallas) finally opened its patio yesterday to invite its already devoted following, who have…
For once, it doesn’t completely suck to be a ginger. To celebrate the launch of their brand-spankin-new ice cream flavor, Red Velvet, the good folks at Marble Slab Creamery will be offering up a free scoop of their tasty new creation today for a very limited time – 3 p.m…
It’s in honor of the date, of course. But yes, there’s a catch. With free frozen drinks, there’s always a catch. 7-Eleven actually sold more Slurpees last July 11 then on any other day last year. Sales jumped an 38 percent, in fact. Apparently the free tiny ones are just…
Here’s a day to throw on the calendar: October 27, when chef-turned-author-turned-TV-star Anthony Bourdain will sharpen that other knife in his block, speechifying, at the Majestic. Tickets go on sale Friday, so if you’re keen on hearing Bourdain filet half the talent on the Food Network and try to explain…
Pho Bang and I have a sliding doors sort of relationship. My mom tells me I ate there with her as a permed tot, but of course I don’t remember that. (The perm part is more of an intentional denial.) When I moved back to Dallas a few years ago,…
Unless you literally just unstuck your arm from under a rock in a canyon somewhere, you’d know we City of Ate-rs love us some tacos. We’ve shot them, mapped them, and shoveled them into our tortilla-holes.You’d also know, unless you’ve been in the canyon again, that Taste of Dallas took…
This week in food blogs, peach desserts were a big hit, ketchup haters learned to love Ketchup and Taco Cabana introduced different-tasting tacos. Read on. City of Ate Even Jenny Block, who doesn’t like ketchup, enjoyed Ketchup the restaurant. In her review, she said that Uptown’s new burger bar offers…
Dallas’ Jennie Kelley, who lends her talented vocal chords to the mammoth ensemble Polyphonic Spree, this week saw her run of self-generated culinary good fortune run out on Fox’s MasterChef program. And she was done in by a catfish. Well, a catfish platter to be exact. A fried catfish platter…
(Here’s part two of travelin’ woman Kristy Yang’s Walk the Really Long Wok from the Bay Area. Coming up shortly, something about Asian food closer to home. Check out last week’s California Wok here.) San Francisco’s Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia; established in the mid-1800s, it’s also…
If there is anything better in this world than candy, it’s booze. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Regardless, when the two come together, it’s something special. Greatness begets greatness. It’s like when Queen and David Bowie joined forces and created “Under Pressure,” or when The Undertaker and Kane…
Servers (and chefs, bar backs, kitchen staff and anyone who works in a restaurant or bar, really) get no respect. But that’s not really anything new. Unfortunately, the same generous folk who serve day in and day out, often get no medical insurance or benefits either. That’s why sisters Julia…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Scott Gottlich, chef/owner of Bijoux and chef/partner at The Second Floor, and his thoughts on the national food scene. In today’s installment, we ask Gottlich for his thoughts on dining in Dallas. Since Gottlich kept…
Dirk Nowitzki may have grown up just a few minutes away from Franconia brewmaster Dennis Wehrmann’s hometown in the Franconia region of Germany, but it will be a different Dallas Mavericks personality who chats with tour visitors at the McKinney brewery on Saturday: President and GM Donnie Nelson. Nelson will…
In the mood to be by yourself and go on a “me date”? Or do you and your sweetie want to try a new place for date night? Heck, do you want a new idea for a family event at a place with food and entertainment? Follow the giraffes and…
Like Clark Griswold, McDonald’s is making a bold trip to Europe by testing a new burger: the English Pub Burger. Burger Business reports that Her Majesty’s burger will have hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar and American cheeses (?), grilled onions and steak sauce on an “artisan roll.” Besides the irritating marketing,…
Yes, we’re already there again. Even now, in these Venus temperatures, we’re gearing up for our big ol’ issue: Best Of Dallas. If the Rapture goes on as predicted, we’re looking at one of the last, great Best Of’s ever. So, naturally, we want your feedback. After the jump, you’ll…
Nammi is “cruisin’ Vietnamese fusion.” It’s a food truck! Yay! We begged heaven and its opposite, City Hall, to let us have food trucks in Dallas, and we’re so excited that they’re here, and now that we have them…apparently none of you effers go to them unless it’s opening day…
Ketchup, the neighborhood burger bar in cuisine-crowded Uptown, welcomes diners with a patio stocked with wicker chairs and tables tucked under wide umbrellas—an opening salvo that will no doubt be in high demand come fall. The inside offers a mishmash of seating, too: black-topped, metal-trimmed diner tables, classic booths with…
Back in March, I shared my thoughts on the two versions of Stone Brewing Co. Old Guardian barleywine, as you’ll recall. Part of the brewery’s Odd Beers For Odd Years campaign, this year’s “Odd Beers” are dubbed “BELGO” versions, tweaks on two Stone standbys using Belgian yeast. Finally, Stone BELGO Anise…
Well, actually, we do need to say more. There’s a catch to this free chicken — there’s always a catch. Come this Friday, everyone’s favorite Christian-valued fast food chain will be celebrating Cow Appreciation Day, a quasi-holiday that no one, save for a handful of bovine-obsessed farmers, knew of before…
Trader Joe’s, the trendy California-based, German-owned grocery store, has fans nearly as devoted as that other California-based chain. So when rumors swirled that the store has plans to set up shop in Texas, hungry locals were bound to start clamoring for it to set up shop in their backyards.Those rumors…
After the hurricane of 1900 annihilated what was then the bustling market center of Galveston, residents vowed to rebuild and never allow another such catastrophe. To prevent another flood like the hurricane surge that covered the entire island during the storm, engineers were hired and plans were drawn up to…
