Food & Drink

There was a time when anyone drinking hooch ran the risk of blindness. Those days are behind us in Dallas. People can now drink to help the blind, as the U.S. importer of Michel Chapoutier Cotes du Rhone Belleruche is donating 50 cents for every bottle of Belleruche Rouge 2008,…

Wurst runs in my family. You see, I wouldn’t be here without it. In the early hours of a cold, very cold, Icelandic winter day, my grandfather, the great Hvatr Luster, returned home from a year and a half of copious Nazi-butt-kicking and name-taking and found himself hungry outside a…

Chef Tim Love of Fort Worth’s Lonesome Dove Western Bistro is a very busy guy. On top of his flagship fine-dining restaurant, the Denton native owns the White Elephant Saloon and three Love Shack burger joints, the third of which opened in early April in Denton at 113 E. Hickory…

This week, Dallasites get cheesy and try to wash away their troubles with meat soap. No, really. Read on. City of Ate Cedars Social isn’t all that great, concludes Jose Ralat Maldonado. The “comfort” food is ultimately disappointing and over salted, but hopefully you’ll be too drunk on the delicious…

I first spied and became a closet fan of New Yawk’s home cook supreme, Mark Bittman, when I wandered over to his video segments on The New York Times website. OK, technically speaking, I first fell for Bittman’s totally unprepossessing way with words and ingredients in his “minimalist” column that…

God Bless the Texas Legislature. No amount of political discord will prevent them from the serious work for which the people of this great state sent them to Austin. And it has nothing to do with cuts to a cash-strapped educational system. No, ma’am. Our state government has bigger things…

All this month, mixologists from Abacus, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen, Jasper’s, Shinsei. and Zea WoodFire Grill and have been competing via conjuring up delicious drinks using Ambhar Tequila. The final showdown is set to take place this Sunday at The Flats Aqua Lounge at The Heights at Park Lane and…

Not all bartenders are boozy, party after last-call types. Some are family men, like Sean Conner, the Whiskey Cake muddling and shaking engineer who is one six bartenders up for the National Restaurant Association’s “Star of the Bar” mantle, part of the 2011 International Wine, Spirit & Beer Event to…

So, two guys are sitting at a bar — one is a priest, the other is a carpenter. A guy in a starched shirt hands them each a shot of rum, which they drink… This past Wednesday, DonQ Rum hosted a little event at The Cedars Social to find Dallas’…

At a private awards ceremony held at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting and sponsored by the neuroscience journal I edited several years ago, a doctor lifted his glass of malbec. “Better living through chemicals!” he toasted. That’s exactly what Ann Tuennerman has in mind when her Tales of the…

You know the feeling you get when you read a music review, and the critic is all “You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life, I swear!” and then you go buy the CD and it sucks and you feel like a chump? I had that feeling at…

In this week’s three-course meal, we’re liquefying your reading diet with an interview with Sly Cosmopoulos, a cocktail consultant for a large liquor distributor. Read part one, read part two, then go through her trash and steal her identity so you too can get paid to drink. Since summer is…

This is part two of our interview with cocktail guru Sly Cosmopoulos. Read part one, and check back tomorrow for more. What Dallas restaurants do you go to most often? Eddie V’s, Ocean Prime, and Sambuca are my favorites for steak and seafood. Now — if I want the flair…

Federal judge Susan Nelson might have demanded the NFL get onto the field and on with game, but that’s not likely to change much except court dates — except for the NFL draft, whose first round will still be held tonight. But the judge and players aren’t the only ones…

Since we can only handle Meredith, Matt and Al (and especially Willard Scott) after a full night of sleep, we’ll be nestled sound in our beds tomorrow morning while many of you will be waking up at an ungodly hour for a spot of tea and some wedding that’s being…

One of the dishes that blew the judges minds at Iron Fork last night (still full, by the way) was Scott Romano’s Scotch egg. A Scotch egg is traditionally prepared by hard boiling an egg, wrapping it in sausage and breading, then deep frying the whole damn thing. If you’re…

The folksy tunes of The Dallas Family Band moved through the air as the large musical group wound its way through a crowded, vibrant City Hall Plaza, usually a barren, human-repelling concrete landscape interrupted by abstract sculpture and, occasionally, scrawny trees. The mass of people was sitting on folding chairs…

Eat your heart out, Bobby Flay.The pressure cooker was hissing, and sweat was dripping down Scott Romano’s forehead as he cupped fresh California avocado around a soft boiled egg. Then, he dipped the whole thing in egg wash, breaded it and eased it into a deep frying bath…