The list for the 16th annual DFW Restaurant Week has been released. And starting today, restaurants will take reservations for the week of special-priced fine dining, which runs August 12-18. During the week, diners can enjoy special three-course meals at a set price of $35, or new this year, $45,…
Rumors of Private Social’s closing have been fluttering around the Internet all weekend. They started with a short and unsubstantiated post on Crave DFW. “An inside source claims that Private Social will be closing permanently after the last shift this evening,” it said. On Sunday chef Najat Kaanache’s tweet confirmed…
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with our gigantic Best Of issue — you know, that amazingly comprehensive annual guide to the best of what the city has to offer, from “Best Burger” to “Best Place to Get Your First Tattoo” and everything in between. While…
To fully appreciate Waldron Lodge (408 W. Seventh St.) in the Bishop Arts District, you should pull up the one-minute video on their website titled “The Legend.” It’s an eerie symphony of thunder, rain, elk “bugling” and then BAM! No more elk noise. Just the untamed crackling of thunder in…
Last week while I was watching Antoine Cantarel and Clint Cooper blister flatbreads in the parking lot outside Village Baking Co., Brian Luscher pulled into the lot and jumped out of his car. He was there for the same reason I was, to see if these two characters could conjure…
How does Dallas rank as a food city? I ask because the Washington Post published an article this week in which Mark H. Furstenberg bitches for two pages about his city’s food scene, which I typically regard as pretty great. Not New York City or San Fransisco great, but generally…
Ruth Bourdain (@RuthBourdain)7/9/13, 9:33 AMThe birds are louder than fuck this morning. Breakfast of black beans, tortillas, and salsa causing fragrant, ozone-destroying flatulence. That’s one of the latest tweets by Josh Friedland, the Internet personality you’ve more likely gotten to know as @RuthBourdain. The New York Times just outed Friedland,…
Village Baking Co. is on a roll lately. In addition to turning out some of the best baked goods in Dallas, they’ve recently secured a portable, wood-fired oven. They’ve teamed up with Antoine Cantarel, who owns Bread Stone Ovens, LLC, and plan to wheel the bread-baking trailer to various events…
Community Beer Co. is opening their brand spankin’ new taproom every Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. The beer is so fresh it’s still mooing. No! Silly! Hops don’t moo. But, it’s just really fresh. This is all compliments of the five-pack of bills Governor Rick Perry signed in June,…
The Beer Institute (BI) released data on your drinking habits. (Yes, they’re watching you. Always watching you). In an annual state-by-state analysis, the BI found that overall beer consumption in the U.S. rose 1.5 percent in 2012, pointing to “above normal winter and spring temperatures” as the culprit to the…
When wife Richard and I learned we were moving to Dallas, we decided to watch some TV shows to bring us up to speed with the place. A European ideal of Texas is one of deserts, cowboys and mild racism. American TV is, of course, all-pervasive wherever you are in…
Ramadan is here. The Muslim tradition mandates a strict fast from sunup to sundown, but after the sun sets, all bets are off. There are loads of Middle Eastern restaurants to choose from for an evening meal, but after an entire day of no food or drink, gorging at a…
Early bird registration for the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance’s (FARFA) Leadership Conferenceopened this week. If you care about local food issues, then mark calendar your for September 22-23 because you might want to head down to Bastrop for this one. (If you can’t go, they would still be happy…
Last night was the first Fork Fight battle over at Trinity Groves. The contenders in the first round of friendly competition were from incoming restaurants Casa Rubia and Souk…
Yes, yes it’s free Slurpee day at 7-Eleven stores across the country. The promotion has whipped area munchkins into a fervor. I had to battle my way to the machine to secure my own (sugar-free mango because I’m trying to care about myself) and the free, small-sized cups were flying…
We heard that Lockhart Smokehouse will be opening a new location in Plano soon. This made us very excited. So, we had to ask Jill and Jeff Bergus the most important, journalisty questions about their new place. Here are those serious questions, plus their serious answers, plus artist’s renderings of…
It is in no way clever, but the headline was effective: SAUSAGEFEST CELEBRATES MANLY MEATS. They even put it in all caps. The FAN is having a phallus-themed meat party, and I’m taking the bait. I’ll leave the jokes to you guys in the comments, but here are the details…
Just south of UTA on Cooper in Arlington is a new-ish small strip mall that houses about four or five different businesses. Two are restaurants, which might offer the most diverse range of food options of any strip mall in the county. One is a place called Viet-Italia, which, yes,…
Last Friday, 44,232 Rangers fans (along with a few Astros holdouts) gathered in the great Ballpark in Arlington for a little summer -time baseball. The seats were hot as the sun slowly sank behind home plate. Hotdogs were toted around like carry-on luggage and cold drinks flowed. In the second…
When I interviewed Alberto Neri for my review of La Banqueta, I pressed the popular taquero for his meat source, which he eventually divulged. Halfway through my second interview he slipped me a business card. Taqueria Y Carniceria Guanajuato, it said. There was a picture of a cow on the…
So you want to open a taco stand? Then you should talk to Philippe Martinez, whose Taqueria y Carniceria Guanajuato supplies many restaurants in Dallas with their animal parts. His new location on Walnut Hill Lane, just east of Harry Hines Boulevard, opened four months ago, but before that he…
The last time I checked in on the Chesterfield was back in January. I’d heard things were amiss at the popular bar and stopped in to order a drink. I requested a Sazerac and the bartender admitted he had no clue how to make one. That wasn’t a great sign…
