Food & Drink

Each year Taste of Dallas gives everyday working Joes a chance to rub elbows with some of the best chefs in town and sample the fanciest food in the city out of paper trays from a carnival booth. Friday night in the Automobile Building, Bolla chef David Bull treated a…

Today’s the official start day of KRLD Restaurant Week’s reservation season, a surprisingly meaningless date to some of DFW’s most serious gourmands. Although the list of 132 participating restaurants was officially unveiled today, prospective diners who accessed the list through the Open Table online reservation system this weekend discovered all…

Dropped by the Green Spot neighborhood farmers market Saturday morning on the parking lot at the Green Spot gas station and store on North Buckner Boulevard at Northcliff Drive on the east side of White Rock Lake. It was sort of Bedouin — a gathering of tents, stalls and tables…

We’ve oohed and ahhed over Green House Truck before. Now, Michael Siegel and Ben Hutchinson, the owner-chef team behind Dallas’ high-end food truck, will be offering a new menu for at least the next few weeks. “In developing the menu, the same founding principles still apply — a focus on…

Taste of Dallas, the ultimate sample-athon, took place July 9-11 in Fair Park’s beautiful (rainy) Esplanade. Local chefs, joined by a slew of vendors, provided some of their favorite dishes. The Mavs ManiAACs (and later Saturday, The Old 97’s) were also on hand to cook in an Iron Chef Competition,…

When your Saturday morning dawns late, accompanied by a face-assaulting headache, puffy eyes and a stomach that writes checks its proverbial ass is pretty intent on cashing, brunch offers a ray of shimmering hope through the hangover cloud. If you want — actually, if you need — to eat the…

A leader of the North American Elk Breeders Association says the newest addition to Fuddruckers’ menu could help push elk meat into the mainstream. The burger chain this summer introduced Fudds Exotics, a line of sandwiches made from meat that didn’t come from cows. The first entry in the series,…

“I feel it right inside my head somewhere.””I feel like I’ve been shot.”Maybe you already forgot. It’s cool — it’s been almost a year. But yeah, this Sunday’s another July 11 — 7/11, right — so just like last year and the year before that, 7-Eleven is celebrating with free…

Over here on that other Dallas Observer blog, Unfair Park, sometime City of Ater Andrea Grimes has the latest word on Taste of Dallas, which begins tonight on continues through Sunday at Fair Park. Don’t feel like clicking over to read the news about Andrea’s appearance as a judge for…

Starbucks has joined the growing list of chains intent on bowdlerizing adult beverage traditions, suggesting today that flavored coffee’s a good substitute for alcohol. Earlier this week, City of Ate chronicled the new low-cal cocktail trend, a backlash to drinks made with super sugary mixes. Rather than return to classic…

Toque has been craving a chicken-fried steak for some months now, but the dish has been on our no-fly list because it’s a grease bomb. A delicious, wonderful, traditional, heart-stopping, butt-expanding grease bomb. Deep-fried or pan-fried beef is slathered in cream gravy and served with mashed potatoes, also laden with…

Cooperative weather has put plenty of grapes on Texas vines, and wineries are now recruiting volunteers to help pick them. In a stratagem with shades of Tom Sawyer, small wineries annually appeal to connoisseurs to join them for harvesting. As Jeanette Raines of Bernhardt Winery in Plantersville concedes, if agritourists…

Carhops and cows shared real estate when this former drive-in was opened in 1957 by “Big” Al Mathews. The hops and bovines might be gone, but Al’s Hamburgers still serves juicy burgers (try the cheeseburger or mushroom burger). What’s more, Al can be seen at a cocktail table near the…

Bros icing bros? Oh mah gah, we are so over it. Running up to a dude and flashing a bottle of Smirnoff Ice so that he has to chug it? Whatever. Not only is just an easy cop-out for when you wake up naked on the pool table spooning your…

The Londoner2909 Thomas Ave. 214-979-2333 Dude Factor: 9, or Clive Owen, on a scale of 1 (Daniel Radcliffe) to 10 (Keith Richards). I’m pretty much the exact opposite of an Anglophile. Sure, I love the Rolling Stones and Sacha Baron Cohen, but when it comes to those pop culture touchstones…

Tuna Tartare Demonstrated by Mike Pacheco of The Landmark Restaurant in the Warwick Melrose Hotel For today’s Appetite for Instruction, chef Mike Pacheco chose to demonstrate one of his favorite and most colorful dishes, satisfying both the palate and the eyes. Tuna tartare, which is finely chopped raw tuna with…

When I waitressed at a country club where the manager didn’t approve of us servers disparaging any dish, my stock response to customers who asked about a notoriously bad entree was a cheery “People order it!” I always figured guests understood what my honest non-endorsement meant. But in this age…

Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Jack’s Backyard 2303 Pittman St. 214-741-3131 When: 4 to 7 p.m…