As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
The still-current trend in menu-writing is to append a place name to every dish, proclaiming its local origins. But back when Texas was largely unsettled, folks did it the other way around: They named their towns after food. Dozens of Texan towns have shared their names with fruits and nuts…
Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neighborhood and includes…
The lemon bar, that tasty pastry made up of a shortbread crust and lemon-curd filling, is easily found on tables across the Midwest, especially on Sundays at potlucks among Jell-O salads, meat loafs and the requisite dozen or so slow-cookers filled with assorted cuts of beast. But the lemon bar…
Could you eat a 5-pound grilled cheese sandwich? Should you? If there’s anyone who can and will, it’s Adam Richman, star of Travel Channel’s cross-country chow challenge series Man v. Food. On Monday’s episode (7 p.m., September 13, on the cable station), Richman attempts to conquer the Monster Grilled Cheese…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
W Dallas’ Living Room Terrace bar in Victory Park is hosting “Vinyasa and Vino” nights for the next four Sundays. The hotel and the Lululemon Athletica yoga-wear store at NorthPark are teaming up to offer a free yoga class, 6 to 7 p.m., September 12, 19 and 26, and October…
In the third part of our series with Tillman’s Roadhouse chef Dan Landsberg, he shares the restaurant’s recipe for green beans flavored with a touch of bacon. For parts one and two of our interview with Landsberg, click here and here. The recipe follows on the next page. Tillman’s Braised…
It’s salty. It’s alcoholic. That’s right, it’s, now famous, FRIED BEER! You knew you were ready for it. Though it didn’t win “Best Taste” at the Big Tex Choice Awards (Fried Frito Pie did…mmm…fried chili), it took home the “Most Creative” fried fair. The good thing: the fried delicacies of…
At an independent fashion-and-crafts art show/flea market in the Essex Street Market in Lower Manhattan, my wife chastised me for taking photos of some of the finer products available for sale — noveau velvet paintings of the latest Brooklyn It band, shirts with images of unicorns sectioned into cuts of…
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: Uptown Pub, 3605 McKinney Ave., 214-522-5100When: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday…
The P’Zone is reason enough to be seriously suspicious of Pizza Hut’s motives, but the results from survey in The Economic Times of India carried a reminder that the brand we Americans all know as The Hut is the most trusted name in the Indian dining world — and has…
Manga and anime, Japanese comics and cartoons, respectively, have a long history of sexually objectifying female characters. This extends to food, specifically in the food-themed manga subgenre, which is unofficially called mangia manga. Among the popular series in that subgenre are Food Girls, Kitchen Princess and Oishinbo, of which the…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
As we told you yesterday, Chef Dan Landsberg puts an inventive twist on American-style fare at Tillman’s Roadhouse in Oak Cliff. For a further peek at the mind behind Tillman’s down-home/upscale menu, today we pose a few questions about the chef’s likes and dislikes, his methods and his taste in…
I was thinking about hitting up Offshore’s Nextdoor for a late lunch, so I perused its menu online. As soon as I came across “nap 30” on their menu, I knew I had to check the place out. Unfamiliar with the term? I’ll school you: “What time is it after…
With an abbreviated schedule tailored to the weekend sailing crowd, Dinghy Bar & Grill doesn’t have much trouble maintaining the lively Parrothead vibe that’s critical to the success of a restaurant most patrons reach by boat. The deck bar’s crowded with fanny-packed sailors fleeing midlife crises and old salt-ettes, droopy…
As teased last week, after months and months of waiting (and false starts), Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company is finally ready to reopen to the public with regular brewery tours, beginning today from 5 to 7 p.m.Tonight’s featured specialty beer is a cask-conditioned take on Rahr’s Blind Salamander,…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Despite living down the street from the restaurant, I’d never ventured into Naga Thai. There are only a handful of Thai restaurants at which I will eat, and something about a Thai restaurant in Victory Park created images of high-priced, bastardized ethnic food in my mind. My stance softened when…
In the beginning, there was Tillman’s Corner. This was in the era B.C. — before cool — when roosters still roamed the ungentrified land of Oak Cliff without fear of city code inspectors or the heedless, speeding wheels of a yuppie’s Trek. It was 1992, and Ricky and Sara Tillman…
Most important meal of the day, right? The Associated Press announced Burger King’s new business plan recently to add nine more breakfast items to their masterpiece of all-things-obese menu. The Sun-Times reported that Burger King’s breakfast menu provides 12 percent of the chain’s revenue, while McDonalds gets a whopping 25…
