Food & Drink

Slow Food Dallas is planning to use a portion of the proceeds from its upcoming $100 per plate benefit dinner to help launch a community garden in a Vickery Meadows area apartment complex. The local chapter has traditionally raised money to send delegates to the biannual Terra Madre conference in…

Dallas’ first permitted custom-built food truck will serve its inaugural breakfast burrito tomorrow morning. City Street Grille, housed in a truck wrapped with an image of the Dallas skyline, will be parked in the lot of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue from 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m., Monday through…

If you think Texas belongs in a documentary about Southern food, now’s the time to say so. The Southern Foodways Alliance is asking folks to submit, via its Facebook page, “the one dish/ingredient/food event/restaurant/etc. from your home area that you’d like to see in a documentary abt Southern food.” The…

Food trucks, or their paucity, in Dallas are hot. The topic has been covered by local food media outlets, including City of Ate. One food truck has done more to highlight residents’ desire for mobile food vendors. That food truck, Green House Truck, has been nominated as one of America’s…

Having been on a business trip in New York for the last two weeks, I thought, surely I’d be off blogging duties. However, the man had different ideas for me, with a seemingly innocuous send-off of, “Have a safe trip. Send in anything interesting you might find.” Crap. Seeing as…

Paula Lambert’s Mozzarella Company had another strong showing at this year’s American Cheese Society competition, the artisanal cheese industry’s version of the Academy Awards. Nearly 1,500 cheeses were entered in the annual competition, which includes 110 hotly contested categories such as “cheeses flavored with whole or crushed peppercorns” and “cheddar…

Have you been thinking to yourself what’s been going on at Morton’s The Steakhouse in downtown Dallas? Well, we have all kinds of updates for you. First, the popular steakhouse just added a few new items to its menu, including crab cake BLT, smoked salmon pizza, double cut and bone-in…

Texas A&M University-Kingsville has become the latest institution to clamp down on tortilla tossing. “Over the course of the past year, I wrestled with a difficult issue related to the spirit of the institution,” President Steven Tallent explained in a recent statement banning the practice at football games. Tallent called…

There are only four items on the Mextopia brunch menu. The restaurant itself sits on the presently blighted block of Lower Greenville Avenue, the block where after the apocalypse, it’ll just be that 7-Eleven and the Simply Fondue and maybe one guy with a keg in the burned ruins of…

You just invented the Opti-Grab just like The Jerk’s Navin R. Johnson, or possibly hit it big in what many now may consider their only chance at retirement, the lottery. What would you do with all that loot after buying a ration of fine automobiles and country estates? Well, you…

Meritage or Claret? What’s the difference? Typically, both terms refer to Bordeaux-style blends, heavy on the Cabernet Sauvignon and/or Merlot, with one or more of the regions classic blending grapes added for body, spice and completeness. Most fans of Argentinian reds would be surprised to learn that Malbec actually originated…

Writer Andrea Grimes has been chronicling her brunch excursions across Dallas in her column Brunch Drunk Love. The meals have been so decadent and delicious that we were forced by our own foodie-obsessions to take photos. Lots of ’em. The photo essay this week covers the delicious brunch-tasm at Smoke:…

This week’s Dallas food bloggers learned to trust empty parking lots, took Mary into their own Bloody hands, and found peace on Earth at Potager Café and the Dallas Islamic Center. More Dallas restaurants have Gone Texan, and don’t expect to find wines from any other place except the homeland at the State…

Move over, Boston Market. There’s a new bird in town. 7-Eleven, home of the Slurpee, is adding roasted chicken, for the low, low price of $7.99, to its menu, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. This comes on the heels of the Dallas-based convenience store chain’s other new…

Americans have a habit of co-opting and recreating global cuisines, arbitrarily assigning ethnic labels to dishes unknown in their purported homelands. In the process, of course, they’ve created some very good – if inauthentic – food. Is a deep-dish pepperoni pie any less delicious for being a purely American invention?…

Since Jose Ralat Maldonado announced on this blog the finalists for this years Big Tex Choice Awards for Best Fried Foods at this year’s upcoming festival, it brought back memories of fairs past and all the folderol created last year by Abel Gonzales’ award-winning Fried Butter — or the Chicken-Fried…

Earlier this year Toque brought you the throw-down between up-and-coming chain Five Guys Burger and the Oak Cliff standard, Wingfield’s Breakfast and Burger. It was a messy proposition that actually took us to many burger fronts all in one day. We visited Smashburger and Mooyah, as they were new entries…

Kids are back in school, which means their summer diet of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Mountain Dew is giving way to … black bean burgers and hummus? What the what? In our day, school lunches were composed of compressed mystery meat, gubment cheese and sugar. We’d have laughed the lunch…

As the summer winds down from its scorching heat, you can still enjoy this treat featured on The Mansion’s menu, which was offered as one of the salad choices during Restaurant Week. The zesty pink peppercorn vinaigrette can dress up other salads as well. Make this dish at home, or…