Have dinner plans tonight? Cancel them. As mentioned Monday, tonight’s beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features beers from St. Paul’s Summit Brewing Company. Cost is $50 per person, plus tax, which lets you taste five beers and five courses specially created to pair with each brew. The dinner starts…
Despite City of Ate’s obvious culinary prowess, there are some events that are better off catered by the freezer section — the Super Bowl, for example. On February 6, you’ll have a lot of football to watch and commercials to critique. Go ahead and buy these Super Bowl staples and…
If your team’s one of the 30 NFL teams down-and-out come February, you probably won’t care who wins in the Super Bowl, so maybe you should start cheering for pizza instead. If Super Bowl XLV reaches overtime, you’ll be a winner. Of course, the odds are stacked against you, but…
Dallas’ thriving craft cocktail scene will soon have a downtown outpost, courtesy of local celebrity barkeeps Michael Martensen and Eddie “Lucky” Campbell. The pair has begun renovations on the Main Street space previously occupied by Dr. Bell’s BBQ in the 1400 block of Main Street. While the cocktail bar is…
Jeff Harris, who until recently served as executive chef at a restaurant known primarily for its proteins, is quoted as a squash expert in this month’s issue of Garden & Gun. The Southern lifestyle magazine turned to Harris, late of Craft, to help readers decipher the mysteries of wringing rich…
A medical emergency this morning at a judging session for the Fiery Food Challenge, the spicy food contest held in conjunction with ZestFest, served as a visceral reminder of how much heat capsaicin extract packs — and raised questions about whether the chemical should be allowed in competition. The owner…
Super Bowl parties are awesome — unless you’re a fan of the team the host hates. You’re a Packers fan but you’re headed to a party that’ll mostly be Steelers fans. Or you’re a Steelers fan headed to a party that’s going to be Packers-heavy. And on top of that…
The Ritz-Carlton and Fearing’s restaurant are going all out for the Super Bowl. They’re gonna have “football concierges” who are currently “undergoing extensive football information and statistics training.” They’re gonna have “special gridiron-themed cocktails.” There will even be a “super-sized chocolate extravaganza created to honor the game of football” in…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a different restaurant happy hour food menu. This week we are in the Knox-Henderson neighborhood to check out a Dallas sushi hot spot. Where: Sushi Axiom, 2323 North Henderson Ave. When: 4:30-7 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Scene: Happy hour time is quiet and is almost unrecognizable…
Before you grab taquitos at Whataburger, take note that you can get a breakfast taco made with fresh ingredients and real eggs for free. Oddfellows (316 W. 17th St.), the latest addition to Bishop Arts, is currently serving breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch. Stop by for a cup of coffee…
If attendees at Foodways’ Texas first-ever Dallas event at Smoke tonight are able to rouse themselves from their chairs after feasting on Tim Byres’ lengthy menu of gumbo, roasted oysters, raw oysters, grilled shrimp and fried fish, they can compete to shuck the most oysters in one minute – and…
Just one month after opening, a new sports bar has terminated its partnership with pizzaoulo Jay Jerrier. As first reported by The Feast, Brackets has replaced Jerrier’s Napoletana-style pies with the thicker-crust pizzas its comment card-completing customers prefer. The restaurant’s also expanded its toppings menu, so ping pong players can…
According to DiGiorno’s Official Facebook page, the frozen pizza chain is about to launch new, yep-these-are-real products: Pizza & Cookies and Pizza & Boneless “Wyngz*.” Fascinating! It’s a good thing they went with the mind-blowing, alternate spelling of wings, as they want to avoid customer confusion due to the wyngz…
As impressive as I found Commercial Suicide, from Austin’s Jester King Brewery, I didn’t have a chance to sample any of Jester King’s other offerings until last week, when The Common Table featured Black Metal Imperial Stout on BrewsDay Tuesday. And while I wasn’t completely blown away, it really was…
Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, and if the Academy gets the least bit cutesy, I’ll have hours and hours of movie-watching ahead of me. For more than a decade, I’ve made a ritual of seeing every nominated film in every category: I was probably the only person as…
It’s disappointing, though not surprising, that Uptown is one of the few reliable neighborhoods for Saturday brunch in Dallas. Uptown is young, Uptown is packed, and Uptown loves drinking on all available weekend nights and most weekdays, too. They brunch accordingly. With heads ablaze and stomachs afire for something greasy…
If you haven’t made plans for this week, consider your schedule completely booked now. The week-long celebration of barley wine at Flying Saucer (4821 Bass Pro Dr., Garland) kicks off tonight. Known for its high alcohol content, barley wine is a bold beer, often with either strong hops or fruit…
Good things come in threes. This week, two benefits are going strong in their third year, benefiting humans on down to their companions. For some great food and feel-good, check out what’s going on this week. The Cause: The Stewpot Alliance The Place: Union Station Tuesday’s Third Annual Soups’ On!…
Know what beats going on a lunch date to a restaurant that has a dance floor? Two lunch dates. In all honesty, if you went at night during dancing hours, you might have more fun, well, dancing. Lunch will only tempt you. Last week I met two of my former…
T.G.I. Friday’s, a place known for its red-and-white stripes and flair for shrugging off the work-week, may be feeling the crunch just like everyone else — or it may just be changing its game. Within the last week, the location at NorthPark Center shuttered its doors amidst numerous T.G.I. Friday’s…
Dallas is about to get scrutinized by one of the nation’s leading dining critics. In a call put out via Twitter this morning, the New York Times’ chief restaurant critic Sam Sifton announced he was “Heading to Dallas” to “figure it out for those heading to Texas for Super Bowl.”…
Dallas-based specialty salad restaurant Greenz and Beautiful Brands International on Wednesday announced an agreement to open the first Greenz franchise in Uptown. An existing McKinney Avenue store will be converted into the first franchise location. The franchise restaurant has two counterparts that will remain under corporate ownership; a smaller venue…
