We here at City of Ate love a good challenge, more so if it benefits a great cause that helps save children’s lives. That’s why the Observer has partnered with Jersey Mike’s Subs (5521 Greenville Ave.) to host a competitive eating event with a purpose. Join us tomorrow at 7…
Woodford Reserve is continuing to capitalize on the popular “anyone can be a distiller” ethic that’s helped fuel the current craft liquor fad, actively promoting a program in which buyers choose their own barrels for blending. Woodford Reserve unveiled the “Personal Selection Program” eight years ago, but master distiller Chris…
The executive chef at Brackets has left, and the restaurant’s management team has decided against filling the position. Pedro Castrejon, late of Aventino and Ferre Ristorante e Bar, was at the helm when the table tennis-themed sports bar opened late last year in the former Trader Vic’s location. The restaurant…
With a drinks menu divided by historical era, The Cedars Social has provided local cocktailians with possibly the city’s most sophisticated beverage selection. But the most inspired page of the well-crafted menu features cocktails created by mixologists elsewhere. “I like to call it a liquid vacation,” bartender Mike Martensen says…
It’s 1 p.m. when I receive a phone call from an anxious voice on the other end of the line, asking me where I am. It’s Sky Kuo, owner of Plano’s Noodle House, and he’s wondering if I am still coming by to snap pictures in the restaurant’s kitchen. I…
The North Texas Food Bank is borrowing a strategy from arts agencies, launching an organization for young professionals. While a spokesperson says the group’s target demographic isn’t underrepresented in NTFB’s volunteer ranks, the program is designed to help turn sometime supporters into longstanding advocates. “We are actively engaging the young…
This week, forgo the tie and stop in for a cupcake. Don’t feel bad about being too trendy — or maybe too late on a trend — it’s all for charity. Read on. The Event: No Tie Dinner and Dessert Party The Cause: AIDS Services of Dallas When you get…
Participants in the American Physical Society annual meeting at the Dallas Convention Center this morning had their pick among sessions devoted to magnetization dynamics in metals, piezoelectric oxides, heavy fermions and Texas barbecue. Hundreds of physicists chose the latter, crowding a ballroom to learn from Texas A&M meat scientist Davey…
Starbucks has been roasting and serving coffee for 40 years now, and has picked up a few extra menu items along the way. One such creation, which has become a staple item for the company, is the blended, frozen, dessert-in-a-cup, known as the Frappuccino. The blended treat has been all…
OK, so the headline’s a slight exaggeration — it would take an album of photos to fully capture all the outdated laws and unfair advantages the giant (and foreign-owned, by the way) corporations of the beer world have over the small businesses trying to brew in Texas or distribute from…
Moving from Dallas to Seattle means I get to do a few things I’ve never before done, including piloting a U-Haul truck across the Rocky Mountains and visiting restaurants before they’re ready for review. I’ve held out on eating at Cane Rosso, Jay Jerrier’s immobile pizza kitchen in Deep Ellum,…
The organizer of Savor Dallas says the long lines that plagued Friday night’s wine stroll were a sign the city’s dining culture is on the mend from a recession that emptied reservation books. “I think it means people are feeling better about the economy,” Savor Dallas’ founder Jim White says…
Dallas chefs and restaurants, which collected an impressive five semi-finalist spots in this year’s James Beard Foundation awards competition, today were shut out of the contest’s final round. Stephan Pyles, The Mansion Restaurant at Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, The French Room, Café on the Green at Las Colinas’ Four…
The Cheap Bastard may soon be one fancy, bling-toting bastard. Our beloved Alice Laussade, a regular contributor to City of Ate, today picked up a James Beard Foundation nomination in the contest’s inaugural humor category for her story, “OK, Who Put Food in My Beer?” Laussade’s up against Slate.com’s Rosecrans…
Another overseas McDonald’s is affixing the “Texas” adjective to one of its newest menu items in hopes of making it more popular with the eating public. Two months after the release of McDonald’s Japan’s Texas 2 Burger, McDonald’s/Australia has begun testing its Texas Chicken Skewers at 44 restaurants in South…
A couple of Tuesday nights ago, my date and I went for dinner at Sangria Mediterranean Tapas and Bar on Cole Avenue. On Tuesdays the restaurant offers half price bottles of wine, which you can take home if you don’t finish by the time the check comes. We considered the…
If we had gotten there 10 minutes later, we wouldn’t have been able to get a parking space, which is shocking since the Savor Dallas International Grand Tasting on Saturday night at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel started at 7 p.m. and we arrived at 7:10 p.m. Once we got in…
Red Dog Right Sports Bar & Grill is offering a free $10 gas card for the first 100 customers through the door on Tuesday, March 22. Jimmy Fell, “head coach” (i.e. general manager) of Red Dog Right explains why they chose to run this unusual promotion: “This past week being…
If you’re not too debilitated by the Irish Flu, lift a pint to (and from, preferably) Rahr and Sons, as the brewery took home two awards at the United States Beer Tasting Championship. Results were announced yesterday.Ugly Pug took First Prize in the Dunkels Lager category in the Rockies/Southwest division,…
Hamantaschen may be the most popular Purim pastry in the United States, but the triangular cookie’s not the only traditional dessert associated with the celebratory holiday. Purim, which begins tomorrow night, commemorates the Jews escaping a genocidal plot by the dastardly Haman, an adviser to the king of the ancient…
Texas bourbon, which is launching an assault on Kentucky’s whiskey supremacy, isn’t readily available just yet. Lucky connoisseurs around Austin and San Antonio this week were able to snag newly released bottles from Garrison Brothers in Hye, but most of the state’s bourbon is still sloshing around in barrels. But…
I’ve watched enough of the regular episodes of Food Network’s Chopped to see through its paint-by-numbers plotting. Within the first couple of minutes of an average episode, I can all but predict which aspiring chef, caterer or cooking instructor, wrestling with that mystery basket of ingredients to fashion an appetizer,…
