Food & Drink

Easter is one of the most gluttonous holidays of the year, a time for families to come together and feast on candy, casseroles and cute baby animals. Consequently, Easter brunch is one of the most popular brunches. Who has time to cook for everyone in their extended family? It seems…

In the fight for yogurt supremacy, Red Mango is quickly becoming the dominant player. Not only has the fast-casual frozen yogurt and smoothie operation recently introduced a new 80-calories per serving raspberry cheesecake, as of this weekend the Dallas-based company will have 120 stores nationwide — since opening the first…

Today’s a celebration of energy conservation and eco-friendly living, but you don’t need to put a compost bin in your backyard to observe Earth Day. There are plenty of energy-saving events going on at restaurants and bars today, so grab a date for a little candlelit action at one of…

Easter is a comfortable shoe-in as the third most gluttonously celebrated holiday here in the states and a cash cow for dentists everywhere. As the Easter season blows through this weekend, thousands upon thousands of pounds of chocolate, marshmallow and hard boiled heresy will be shoveled down the hatch by…

If the dreary weather’s got you down, we have a remedy for you that’s cheap and involves alcohol. Come party with us tonight at our monthly Tweet Up Party at The Crown & Harp (1914 Greenville Ave.), but leave those wads of hundreds at home. We know the way to…

We’re putting it out there: Fuzzy’s is the New Starbucks. The Fort Worth-based juggernaut is set to open its 32nd store in four states in late summer — in The Shops at Mockingbird at Mockingbird Lane and Lemmon Avenue. That would make it the second location on Mockingbird. An outpost…

Earth Day is this week’s cause celebre. Everyone from food trucks and arts institutions to television networks and giants of industry has jumped on the green bandwagon. Come Monday, many will have forgotten the simple message of how each of us can do our part to protect our planet. One…

Up and down we drove, hungry for tacos after La Carretera Argentina’s satisfactory empanadas consumed at Oak Cliff Earth Day. Surely Jefferson Boulevard would produce happy sustenance. It did — kind of. Jefferson is cluttered with taquerías, some advertised with gaudy neon, others off-putting with their crumbling facades and adhesive…

Well, everyone played nice. There were no incidents of belligerence to report. No picket lines were formed. No stones were thrown. Instead Dallas Cowboys players and coaches joined local chefs on Sunday night at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine for the Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party…

Whether it’s intended or not really doesn’t matter: The minute a cooking program dubs itself French Food at Home and offers up a chef trying to be as understated, quirkily charming, yet educational as, yes, la grande dame d’American French cooking — Julia Child — it’s setting itself up for…

Recently I took the chickens out to Denny’s to try their new Maple Bacon Sundae. When I was a kid I went to Denny’s on occasion, but in the past 15 years I think I’ve been twice, and I had no idea what I’d been missing. From customers to the…

My email inbox has received a steady stream of special offers from the Social 121 public relations team. I’m beginning to think the correspondences might be pleas of desperation and that the newly opened restaurant-club in the old Loft 610 space is floundering after being opened for one month. The…

If you attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, subscribe to High Times or frequent The Gas Pipe, you’re well aware that today is the official holiday for devoted fans of Phish and the Grateful Dead, better known as 420. Spend the day hugging your bong and eating “special” brownies,…

Despite all my big, jaded talk Monday, I really do try to be a good server. I want to give good service. I want to justify my guests’ decision to spend money at my restaurant. I hope my guests feel relaxed, satisfied and nurtured, as though I am the momma…

I had the luck to attend one of chef David Anthony Temple’s Underground Dinners. Temple began his career in Louisiana and traveled around the world before settling here in Dallas, where he started working with Tom Spicer. His passion is using the best local and regional ingredients to make dishes…

Happy National Rice Ball Day! Wait. You didn’t know it was National Rice Ball Day? Did you know it’s National Grilled Cheese Month, and National Grilled Cheese Day was celebrated last week? Well, if you didn’t — surprise! And whoopdi-do. It’s also National Honey Day. Tomorrow is National Pineapple Upside-down…

You don’t need Pete Delkus to tell you that it’s hot outside, but if we’re already seeing highs in the 90s in April, just wait for the griping and sweating we’ll all be doing in June. Luckily, 7-Eleven, our chosen retailer for issues of Mugly! and beer pong paraphernalia, recognizes…