When I was a kid, I helped my mom make latkes every year. But this was my first year going at it all on my own.Before oil met pan, I decided to investigate the online latke universe. And what a massive universe it is. People make them with everything from…
Bolsa’s bar may have riveted Oak Cliff’s attention last night, but the bar at the Belmont Hotel took its star turn today, showing up in Esquire’s “Eat Like a Man” blog. The blog profiled bar manager Brian McCullough for its “Bartender Wisdom” column. According to McCullough, “the world looks really…
After the bigotry in the rear-view mirror that made Dallas’ involvement with Top Chef Just Desserts not so sweet, last night’s debut of Top Chef All Stars was so very freakin’ awesome. There was drama, there was silliness, there was attitude, there was skill, there was fright…and there was Dallas…
Rex Banner would have had his hands full at Bolsa last night, as they celebrated the repeal of dryness with a Prohibition Era-themed party. Bartenders Eddie “Lucky” Campbell and Jason Cosmas, formerly of Neighborhood Services, whipped up cocktails like the “Manhattan Club” (rye, bitters, Orange Curacao and sweet vermouth) and…
Is restaurant scouting an open source activity? That’s essentially the question underlying local barbecue blogger Daniel Vaughn’s frustration with Dallas Morning News critic Leslie Brenner’s new list of the top barbecue joints, an entry in her “The Best in DFW” series. Vaughn, who posts barbecue reviews every other day at…
Bit of a paradox, blogging about pork sausage the same week I blogged about potato latkes, but what the heck, I don’t keep kosher, and I can’t keep quiet about these pigs that need no blanket — not anymore. My Jewish guilt is somewhat assuaged by the fact that I…
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: Idle Rich Pub, 2614 McKinney Ave., 214-965-9926 When: 3 to 7…
Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Daniele Puleo, executive chef at and owner of Daniele Osteria and Brix Pizza and Wine Bar. Today, we asked Puleo to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his yummy recipes. (Puleo’s words are after the ellipses.) My friends…
I hadn’t had a very good Monday. My computer was threatening to lock me out of my e-mail, nobody was returning my calls and my dinner date canceled on me, sending my carefully crafted review schedule into a tailspin. Staggering under the weight of my 9-to-5 troubles, I wandered into…
I heard Pope’s Fried Chicken was a rundown, super-sketchy chicken place near Carroll Avenue that even some grown men are openly afraid of approaching. You had me at “Pope’s.” The guy is super angry old and he’s pretty busy being the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, but the pope…
Victoria beer, touted as “Mexico’s best-kept secret,” makes it debut in Texas today, months after its first stateside release in Chicago. While publicists call its Illinois launch “successful,” Chicago brewhounds are slightly less enthusiastic. “I hadn’t heard of Victoria beer before your mention of it,” the Chicago Beer Society’s president…
A recent City of Ate post announcing Food Network’s upcoming Dallas casting call has been hanging around in the most-viewed story list this week, so y’all are probably keen to learn about another chance for TV stardom. MasterChef, the latest cooking competition show from the ubiquitous Gordon Ramsay, is seeking…
Now that we’re into December, Christmas beers, winter warmers and other special seasonals are showing up in stores and beer joints. It is truly the most wonderful time of the year if you’re a beer lover, and year after year, Anchor Christmas Ale, also sometimes called “Our Special Ale” (and…
A celebrated experiential food-and-drink festival kicking off tomorrow in London will include a “Texas-style slammer,” where attendees will have their mug shots taken, receive prison jumpsuits, drink tequila sunrises from urine sample cups and feast. But the food served at the “Shoreditch State Penitentiary” is unlikely to seem familiar to…
Chef Daniele Puleo and his fiancée are having dinner when we arrive at Daniele Osteria. When I called to let him know we’re stuck in traffic, he tells me to take my time. “We’ll go ahead and order,” he says. I don’t know who he’s talking about at the time…
Beam Family master distiller Fred Noe, the seventh-generation bourbon maker whose mug graces every bottle of Jim Beam, isn’t bringing any samples of the soon-to-be-released Knob Creek single barrel reserve to a pair of tastings in Addison this week. But Noe will no doubt be happy to chat about the…
Daddy dates. Not to be confused with Sugar Daddy dates. I really mean those dinner outings a girl goes on with just her dad (or for this review those dinners where the name of the restaurant coincidentally has the word “daddy” in it). Before my dad passed away two years…
The capital of our neighbor to the south isn’t all kidnappings and cheap telenovela settings. Mexico City (D.F.) is cosmopolitan city en par with New York, Paris and Tokyo, with a culinary tradition to match. Heck, the entire of culinary tradition of Mexico is so important that the United Nations…
Deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the Jewish people is the potato latke. Born of the shtetl and carried to this country on the taste buds of immigrants, the potato latke, a.k.a. the potato pancake, is a Chanukah celebration side dish, a distant cousin to the hash brown –…
I had occasion to amble through a McDonald’s the other day (the occasion being the closure of the bathroom at the gas station next door), and noticed there was a serving of Chicken McNugget sauce on almost every table. But nobody was eating nuggets. McDonald’s customers, it appears, are co-opting…
T.S. Eliot proclaimed that April was the cruelest month, but we would argue that November has been particularly unkind to some restaurants. Top Chef fan favorite Tiffany Derry found herself without a gig after Go Fish Ocean Club shuttered its doors this month, and Sharon Hage closed York Street, long…
In-N-Out’s local opening may still be months away, but fast food fans willing to drive to Austin can feast on a sandwich being touted by burger bloggers as an Animal Style alternative. 4×4 Animal Style a contributor to the website GrubGrade who presumably knows his In-N-Out patties, is calling the…
