Food & Drink

Valentine’s Day means chocolate, Thanksgiving means turkey and Martin Luther King Jr. Day means somebody gets in trouble for serving fried chicken. Last year, the Denver Public Schools issued an apology for putting “Southern-style chicken” and collard greens on its cafeteria menu under the heading “In honor of M. L…

Good news, everybody! We’re expecting warmer weather this weekend, as in it’s going to be just plain cold rather than cheek-blistering cold. Resist the urge to hibernate at home tomorrow night and head to dinner at Scardello (3511 Oak Lawn Ave.). Fondue Night has returned, and this month’s dinner features…

There’s no shortage of good food in Deep Ellum, but does The Green Room’s extended vacation mean fine-dining restaurants can’t make it there? The Green Room hasn’t gone out of business yet, although circumstances surrounding its unannounced closure were sufficiently suspicious to excite the blogosphere yesterday. After Sidedish’s Nancy Nichols…

Real quick, here’s a breakdown of last night’s Top Chef All Stars so I can get to the point (the real point): There was no Quickfire. The chefs woke up at the ass-crack and drove to Montauk for a four-hour fishing trip. They were split into four teams of three…

Rise No. 1’s co-owner Hedda Gioia Dowd says she isn’t worried customers will stop flocking to her restaurant after reading the secrets of soufflé-making in her new cookbook. “We have people who are pregnant, delivering babies the next day, come here for their last meal,” Dowd says. “We have people…

My first meal at Saint Ann, the subject of this week’s print review, was marred by sloppy service, gummy pasta and — most memorably — a hair in my chicken. As human products go, hair is relatively innocuous. There are far worse bodily secretions in food that no eater can…

Smashburger2222 McKinney Ave.Dude Factor: 8, or Orson Welles, on a scale of 1 (Britney Spears) to 10 (David Hasselhoff)We’d been hearing positive buzz about the Addison Smashburger ever since it opened a little over a year ago. Unfortunately, we rarely go to Addison for burgers. We might venture up there…

Because there just aren’t enough sandwich joints in Uptown, the folks at Which Wich have bestowed us with another location at which to build unique sammies. The new branch, which will open tomorrow at Inwood and Lemmon, is celebrating its grand opening by offering $3 sandwich, chips and drink combos…

During a dinner shift a few weeks ago, I returned with a guest’s drink and asked if he’d like to start with a cup of soup or an appetizer. He stared at me. Then he said, “Do those cost? Do you have to pay for those?” I stuttered something like,…

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Julian Barsotti, owner and executive chef at Nonna. Today, we asked Barsotti to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares a recipe for one of his favorite Italian dishes. I was raised in…Dallas and Santa Fe. Mostly Dallas though. My…

Monday, January 17, is when we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in honor of a courageous man who believed in all of us and believed we all deserve an equal share of the American dream. It’s no wonder then that MLK Day is an official Day of Service. We…

Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: El Ranchito, 610 W. Jefferson Blvd., 214-946-4238When: 2-6 p.m. Monday through FridayWhat:…

It’s not often I get to say so, but I wish I’d been in Amarillo last night. That’s where the Big Texan Steak Ranch kicked off its two-month team rib-eating tourney, where one of 32 four-eater teams will try to gorge their way to glory, and a $1,000 grand prize…

I took my martinis with olives until I read The Hour, Bernard DeVoto’s classic homage to his favorite drink. According to DeVoto, misguided drinkers put olives in their martinis because “in some desolate childhood hour, someone refused them a dill pickle and so they go through life lusting for the…

Jason Russo doesn’t want eaters who don’t like a product he sells through Texasfood.com to just tell him about it — he’s looking for them to share their opinions on his website. Russo took to Twitter yesterday to recruit writers for a new review blog, which will be linked to…

At least when Whole Foods Market asks you to trade in cheese-covered gristle for a sporkful of hummus, they know they’re asking a lot. So that’s why they plan to hold your hand through most of it. This month the store launched the Eat Right America 28-day Challenge, a program…

Each week, Happy Eating will highligh a different restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals are out there. This week, we pay a visit to the State Thomas neighborhood and explore the extensive happy hour menu at Si Tapas. Where: Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine, 2207…

To say food is in Julian Barsotti’s blood would be a preposterous understatement. His grandmother co-owned Carbone’s in New Jersey, run by the same family for 92 years. His relatives on his father’s side brought along more relatives when they came to the United States so the latter could open…

It took four years and $1.8 billion to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history — says DART — but a little more than one month since DART’s Green Line opened, it’s been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on…