For most of the crowd gathered there Sunday afternoon, the birthday bash at Spiral Diner was about celebrating three years of vegan eating in the always-friendly Oak Cliff spin-off, but for Mario Sanchez it was about something else entirely: “Retribution.” That was the word on Sanchez’s lips moments after he…
Veal producers who worried their meat was bound to go the way of once-fashionable dishes like turtle soup say the future’s suddenly looking brighter for the embattled protein. The veal industry, which made a point of being omnipresent at the 2011 Meat Conference held in Dallas this week, is in…
If you didn’t get a chance to celebrate National Drink Wine Day last Friday, then you have another chance to have an extra happy happy hour today. Yes, folks, it’s time to for another national day of drinking — National Margarita Day — so raise your salt-rimmed glasses in honor…
It’s been a long day. You’re at home watching Top Chef. After three-to-four minutes of actual show, you get an ad blitz (Yes, this scenario implies you don’t have TiVo).There’s the ad where Burger King’s new meat is getting licked with devil flames, and the throbbing music is trying to…
American shoppers aren’t swearing off meat — 80 percent of home-cooked meals still include a piece of animal flesh — but they’d prefer not to buy their meat in packages sized to feed a baseball team. Reviewing a newly released study of consumers’ meat buying for a national meat industry…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we’re on Lower Greenville for sashimi at The Blue Fish. Where: The Blue Fish Sushi, 3519 Greenville Ave. When: 5-7 p.m. Monday-Friday The Scene: Dining at any Blue Fish will always feel like eating sushi at a…
An expectant hush falls over the table as the waiter finally reappears, platter in hand. He ceremoniously and deftly dips and drops your meal, wishes you bon appetit and silently glides away. You admire the pretty midnight purple package before you and then, like a child at Christmas, joyously rip…
Congratulations to Justin Bitner, who created the masterpiece Maudite menu you see here. Bitner’s entry to our menu-art contest makes him the winner of a pair of tickets to Wednesday night’s Unibroue beer dinner at the Libertine Bar. Astute drinkers of the Canadian company’s products will recognize references to a…
Many of the beloved restaurants that introduced the concept of casual dining in the ’70s and ’80s have not kept pace with the times, relying on nostalgia and brand recognition to keep their bottom lines alive. One chain that has tried to remain current is Houlihan’s, introducing such fashionable items…
Some may argue that a Bloody Mary or a little hair of the dog is the best cure for a nasty hangover, but a cup of black coffee and a dozen or so doughnuts always seem to do the trick for us. Serious hangovers call for serious doughnuts, and the…
If you live for drafting your fantasy football team or completing your March Madness bracket, then you’re going to want to be at Brackets (5300 E. Mockingbird Lane) this week for their first-ever beer bracket showdown. Tonight, order your favorite pint and you may secure it a spot in the…
Interested in trying a cozy pizza place with great date ambiance? Take a drive across the viaduct, or walk down to the Bishop Arts District if you live in Oak Cliff, and eat at Eno’s Pizza Tavern. My date and I went to Eno’s on a Thursday night without a reservation…
So, you like to eat out a lot, eh? Got a signed Rachael Ray poster in your living room, do you? You say your cooking skills involve more than a microwave and HotPockets? You’re the sort who spends your weekend hours sniffing produce at Central Market? Are you — God,…
In-N-Out has poked its head out of the ground again, looking for its shadow. Besides that, muffins may be coming back in a big way. In case you missed either post or are hesitant to believe BEE’s boastful name, Dallas blogs and writers are here to enlighten you. Dallas Observer…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Salvatore Gisellu, executive chef at Urban Crust. In part two, we asked Gusellu to complete our thoughts for us. In today’s final installment he shares a recipe for Black and Blue Pizza. Now, it won’t…
The breastaurant scene in Dallas is about to get bigger. Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill, which got its start in Austin, is opening its first Dallas area location in April. According to founder Doug Guller, the Arlington location is one of three DFW grills scheduled to open this year. “We’ve…
There is one holiday that make us so giddy that it’s hard for us to get any sleep the night before, and it doesn’t involve a fat man in a red suit getting stuck in the chimney. Today is National Drink Wine Day, the one day we can actually claim…
Patrick Michels went to yesterday’s City Plan Commission meeting, where food trucks in the Arts District were among the items on the menu. Next stop, city council — next month, all goes according to plan. A big reason this got rolling was Arts District exec director Veletta Forsythe Lill, also…
Trounced in his first two campaigns for a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses, George Washington adopted a winning strategy in 1758: He bought booze for voters. Treating is no longer tolerated in political elections, but there’s nothing stopping contenders for Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef crown…
Sigel’s is giving customers 68 opportunities to challenge their assumptions that they don’t like scotch. There’s almost always a tasting happening at Sigel’s, but a release touting next Wednesday evening’s event at the 5757 Greenville Ave. store caught my attention because of the sheer number of whiskeys on offer. Distillery…
Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Salvatore Gisellu, executive chef at Urban Crust. Today, we asked Gisellu to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. (Gisellu’s words are after the ellipses.) I was raised in…Sardinia. My friends say I’m…too Italian. [He laughs.] I…
Abraham Lincoln had plenty of notable characteristics, but a healthy appetite wasn’t among them. Even his stepmother wasn’t impressed by his eating habits: “Abe was a moderate eater,” she recalled. Lincoln typically ate an egg for breakfast and an apple for lunch — if he remembered to eat at all…
