Sundey McClendon occasionally goes searching for some of DFW’s farthest-flung gems. Have a suggestion? Leave a comment and she may check it out. A while back I heard a tale of a restaurant run by a landscaper and a local celebrity in Mansfield. Unable to turn down a local celebrity…
Editor’s note: Whitney Filloon, a trained pastry chef, is also a trained drinker. She’ll occasionally write for City of Ate about cocktails and general booziness. “Tastes like pickles.” My shaven-head drinking companion wrinkles his nose slightly and slides my tall glass back across the copper-veneered bar at the People’s Last…
This weekend we loaded up the wagon for a trip to Rhineland Farm, just a few miles south of Glen Rose, to pick up a heritage turkey for Thanksgiving. The Rebstocks raise chickens, quail, goats, sheep and guinea fowl; there’s also a hen raising a duckling (their granddaughter found a…
This is bad. Between decadent meals (for work, of course), I try to temper my eating with dishes I think are at least a little healthy. I could argue that chicken wings are low in carbohydrates and high in protein. And that pizza I love to indulge isn’t too bad…
Sitting at Bolsa in Oak Cliff, snacking on a Boar’s Head Reuben, I asked my bartender about the small, run down-looking taqueria across the street. “You eat at that place?” I asked him. “Too much,” he replied, lamenting that they sometimes closed just before his shift ended at Bolsa, often…
Ugh. On the heels of a massive bowl of Pho with a Dallas Super Yelper (more on that next week), I’m ready for a quiet night at home. I wonder how many minutes I’ll last alone on my couch before I get the bug to get out and look for…
We recently noticed a TABC notice for an application to sell liquor in the window of an empty spot in Cityville off Lemon, and it carried a familiar restaurant name: Kathleen’s Sky Diner, a staple on Lovers Lane near the Tollway. We figured they were looking to expand their pie-and-diner-food…
It’s getting cold outside and that means one horrible, awful, nasty thing: It’s meatloaf season again. Not sure if you know the origin of meatloaf, but it was invented hundreds of hundreds of years ago by other horrible cooks. The following is the two-step process for making your own meatloaf:…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she cuts the cheese at Scardello Artisan Cheese, 3511 Oak Lawn Ave., and we hope we mean that literally. Level of fancy I felt eating prosciutto and…
The Dallas Farmers Market Stakeholders Association is expanding the farmers market this Saturday in an effort to “Revive, Reinvent and Re-energize.” The Inaugural Harwood Street Market will be directly across from shed number 3 at 1015 Harwood and will host local artists, musicians and food vendors. Teresa Gubbins has an…
Early this morning, volunteers started streaming into Fair Park to prep for Central Market’s Feast of Sharing, an annual event to help people in need. The grocery store has sponsored the Dallas version of this event for the the last five years. By 1 p.m., a line had formed both…
Campo Modern Bistro opened this week at 1115 N. Beckley Ave. in Oak Cliff. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde of Coevál Studios recruited Matt McCallister, formerly of Stephan Pyles, to run the kitchen. McCallister has been dabbling in many different things lately, including homemade charcuterie, preserves and pickling,…
Yesterday I told you about the impending Texas debut of Maid-Rite, a corporate franchise type thing selling loose meat sandwiches, shakes and chili cheese fries. While a few commenters seemed to echo my lack of enthusiasm, others expressed disdain for my statement: “watch out Texas BBQ chopped beef — loose…
The Fan Sports Lounge officially opened last night at the corner of Olive and catching-a-game-at-the-AAC. Between TV-plastered walls, a live broadcast booth for KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan and the Uptown sports scene, there’s plenty to watch. While this spot isn’t actually owned by CBS Radio, it houses a fish-bowl-like broadcast…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef: Texas should have come with a five-minute bonus Colicchio-lead meditation at the end — it was INTENSE. I get it, the show’s in Texas where everything’s bigger, and hence this season includes about a million (or 29) contestants, but these first couple episodes (see…
A new website, Healthy Dining Finder, apparently aims to facilitate healthy choices for people who eat out. From the home page, a visitor can enter a ZIP code and get dining recommendations within a 20-mile radius. A test search using 75219 turns up 22 restaurants. Among them? McDonald’s, Hooters, Jack…
Considering that I don’t get paid by the word here on City of Ate, there is simply too much going on during Dallas Beer Week to list every event taking place this Saturday through the November 19 Dallas Beer Festival in Fair Park (which warrants its own post, coming soon)…
Chewing on a tender veal cutlet coated in a thick and soggy layer of flour and blanketed in a lemony but bland sauce studded with artichokes and olives, I almost had to ask: Am I in the right place? Earlier in the week, I’d lunched at Princi Italia, Preston Hollow’s…
Former Top Chef contestant and Marquee Grill chef Tre Wilcox recently revealed his “Guide to the Best Restaurants in Dallas” on Gogobot, a social networking travel site. November is Food Travel Month on the site, where 16 different celebrity chefs share their favorite restaurants in cities across the globe. Here…
Des Moines, Iowa-based Maid-Rite corporation promises to descend en masse upon the DFW metroplex, blanketing the area in its popular “loose meat” sandwich, tucked inside a mass produced white-bread bun. The 85-year-old corporation has targeted a Arlington’s Green Oaks Shopping Center at the corner of West Green Oaks Boulevard and…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Gennarino’s Neapolitan Food Truck The Sandwich: Granny’s Sunday Gravy ($5) Bread: Warm hoagie Toppings: Turkey meatballs, bracioli, pork loin, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato sauce The…
With Thanksgiving just 15 days away, there are choices to make. How many pies? How much PBR? Fresh or frozen turkey? An option that is becoming increasingly popular is the locally-raised “Heritage turkey,” which must meet several criteria laid out by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC). First, they have…
