Food & Drink

If you happen to order a Sazerac while you’re out and about, and you don’t specify Templeton, Bulleit or some other top-shelf rye whiskey, I’m willing to belt you’ll end up with Old Overholt in your drink. The inexpensive whiskey has become a secret weapon of bartenders all over the…

If your interest was piqued a couple of weeks ago when Scott Reitz told us about his bottle of Balcones single malt whiskey, or perhaps even before that you read about it in The New York Times, well, you’re in luck. See also: – Tasting Balcones Single Malt Whiskey -…

On last night’s Top Chef, the contestants were on a cruise ship headed to Alaska. The QuickFire was two hours long, and they had to feed 200 people innovative dishes using iceberg lettuce. Valentine made a tiny wedge salad. Pretty much everyone incorporated bacon into their dishes. And Padmaboobz was…

Maybe it’s a little bit of a stretch, but it’s hard for me not to make some comparisons. The Park Towers Condominium has been up in The Katy Trail Ice House’s grill since the bar opened, complaining about noise. They’ve requested truncated hours and soundproofing inside the popular Uptown beer…

News in Twinkie-world this morning is that Hostess Brands has “selected affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Metropoulos & Co. as the stalking horse bidder for the majority of the assets of the Company’s snack cake business, which includes both Hostess® and Dolly Madison® branded products, including the iconic…

When I first visited Lucia, David Uygur was present but he wasn’t working in the kitchen. The chef at Dallas’ beloved Italian restaurant was sitting in his dining room at a table with his wife, having a quiet meal before heading home for the evening. See also: – Lucia’s Best…

Sharon Hage is a celebrated chef in Dallas’ dining culture. She opened and ran the much-mourned York Street, the fine-dining restaurant that brought the farm-to-table movement to Dallas by showcasing simple, honest cooking based on high quality ingredients. So she’s recently turned her efforts to consulting gigs, helping new restaurants…

Sue and Marc Cassel opened their quaint new spot, 20 Feet Seafood Joint (1160 Peavy Road), just last week. Neighbors of Good 2 Go Tacos and Goodfriend, it’s a well-played parlay in East Dallas dining. Sue and Marc have spent time at many notable area restaurants, like Star Canyon, Hotel…

If you need evidence that food nerds don’t know sports, take a look at the intro to this video for short rib nachos. Painful, right? But ask yourself: What would a Sunday game be without a good tailgate? Who turns on a big game at home and doesn’t at least…

Wednesday, January 30 Libertine and Saint Arnold’s Beer Dinner Tonight the Libertine is serving up plates alongside five pints of “rare Saint Arnold beers.” The five-course menu, created by chef Roe Dileo, includes lamb spanakopita, smoked skirt involtini and a truffled cheesecake with bourbon cherries (which is paired with Bishops…

In a move straight out of the Reese’s play book, the online restaurant reservation provider OpenTable announced yesterday that it has acquired FoodSpotting, which is a photo app that allows diners to post their fancy food porn. Seems like a marriage made in heaven. OpenTable did lack in visual appeal…

Way back in June LDD told you that Margarita Ranch in Mockingbird Station had pulled the plug. Herrera’s Cafe was to move in that fall and slather the shopping center with sour cream enchiladas. You know how those things go. The opening was delayed like every other opening. If you’ve…

When I put together a list of the nine best Tex-Mex restaurants back in December, commenters jumped right in with passionate opinions. Ambelleina Warwillow was so incensed, she used my post as fodder for an official break-up. “NO MIA’S?!” she wrote. “Dallas Observer, we’re OVER.” See Also: – The Nine…

Whatever you’re doing right now isn’t important. Put it down. Earlier this year, Taco Bell teased their nacho cheese-dusted fans on Facebook by announcing a likely 2013 release of the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos. Which is their trademarked way of saying, “later there’ll be a taco inside a big…

A news release from the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association announced the recent lifting of restrictions on U.S. beef exports to Japan should be good for Texas cattlemen. According to the USDA, Japan will now allow imports of beef from cattle less than 30 months of age, as opposed…

No, that’s not a picture from inside a kaleidoscope. That’s actually from inside a restaurant, one that is bejeweled within an inch of its life in hundreds (perhaps thousands) of strands of lights and tinsel. How festive, you say? Yeah, I took that picture last week. In what might be…

Hipsters everywhere rejoice! La Grange, the Deep Ellum music venue that closed last fall, will soon open again as a new club called Three Links. Through multiple iterations that included casual bar food, various brunch buffets, a kitchen expansion and a recent stint with Rock and Roll Tacos, La Grange’s…

Here’s a picture of Michael Phelps at Concrete Cowboy in Uptown last night. Based on some serious investigative journalism, we learned the highly aquatic 18-time Olympic gold medal winner-winner-chicken-dinner spent yesterday at the Hank Haney golf facility in Dallas, where he took part in The Hank Haney Project. It’s essentially…