I love me some Beyoncé. Her video for “Single Ladies” is mesmerizing. Kanye was right — it should have won Female Video of the Year (even though it went on to win Video of the Year). Beyoncé has this ease in her style — she’s like Sporty Spice the Exotic…
The unofficial Food Truck and Trailer Week continues, this time with Brenda and Pat Barnhart’s The Bomb Fried Pies & Fried Guacamole. The husband and wife team own and operate a trailer from which they offer fried hand pies in several flavors, among them cherry and apricot, and, of course,…
In Three-Course Meal, we usually interview local chefs over the course of three days. This week, we branch out a little. Check in tomorrow for more from our local cocktail ninja. Sly Cosmopoulos, 39, is the corporate mixologist for Republic National Distributing Company, a large liquor distributor. She’s in charge…
Dating advice. Everyone: books, shows, friends, animals, parents, tries to give it to you, but it never works. “Just be yourself,” “Play hard to get,” “Wait three days” are all about as useful as anger management tips from Meat Loaf. Since most first dates involve eating something, and City of…
Sadly, these are not available in Dallas yet, but they were too cool not to share. No Fish! Go Fish! is a groovy restaurant that my little sister introduced me to in Portland, Oregon. It serves homemade soup (a constantly rotating menu of flavors) and “fish.” The joint is owned…
Hello from Bangkok. I’m on a four-country work jaunt for the next three weeks, so no Dallas Walk the Wok, but you’ll be hearing all about what’s giving me gastrointestinal problems in Asia! After a 24-hour stop in Ho Chi Minh City to meet up with my mom, the first…
All right, all right, all right…So, we got this event tonight. An Iron Fork event, if you will. A kick ass night featuring bites from local restaurants like Kenichi, Lockhart Smokehouse, Torchy’s Tacos and much, much more. This kick ass Iron Fork event will pit local chefs Scott Romano of…
A new food truck is en route to Dallas. The mobile food vendor in question, Gandolfo’s New York Delicatessen, is part of an ambitious plan by owner Pool’s Restaurant Group for large-scale franchising of food trucks, and in the case of Randy Wolken, master franchiser for DFW, a way to…
Three bills bouncing around the Texas Legislature are being trumpeted as game-changers for the state’s beer industry. In quick review: HB 660 would permit brewpubs to sell directly to wholesalers and distributors; HB 2436 would allow small breweries to sell their product for on- or off-site consumption; and HB 602…
After you get a taste of competition at the Observer’s Iron Fork tomorrow night, make your way to The Grape(2808 Greenville Ave.) for this month’s installment of the Come-As-You-Are dinner series. Tomorrow’s dinner features boutique wines from Spain, selected by Sommelier and co-owner Courtney Luscher. Her husband, chef Brian Luscher,…
After reading last week’s review of Alma, we decided to meander over and give it a whirl. Munching on generous portions of L.A.-inspired Mexican food at a trendy new Henderson Avenue restaurant seemed like an appropriate way to kick off the weekend. And much to our delight, Elaine Liner’s article…
Google maps had failed us again. The missus and I were en route to see the season-opening bouts of the Dallas Derby Devils roller derby league in North Richland Hills when we realized we were lost, but not before coming across 5-week-old Oscar’s Taco Shop (no relation to Cowtown’s expansion-giddy…
Where would you go for dinner after watching an Assassination City Roller Derby bout? A burger place or a pizza joint? It was a pretty tough choice for my date and me. We ended up picking pizza and ate at Il Cane Rosso in Deep Ellum. We strolled into Cane…
The term “Farmer’s Market” covers a lot of things. Gone are the days in the late ’50s of this country when it described a place and time farmers assembled to sell their wares. Today a hodgepodge of incense, hand-made tie-dye T-shirts, cheap hats, and as-seen-on-late-night-TV specials fill the stalls on…
Well played, blogosphere. On last week’s episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Rob Lowe’s muscular chest asked character Ron Swanson: “you ever tried a turkey burger?” Swanson responded: “Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious.” Being “Burger Week 2011” over there at Eater,…
Remember the last time you were in central Arlington and you wanted a good burger? No, really, serious starts now: Suppose you are in central Arlington and you find yourself in need of a great burger. Well, you’re in luck. You actually now have a reason to drive to there…
This past weekend’s food truck fete at Earth Day Dallas had a clear winner in creativity and popularity, the chicken and waffle dish offered by City Street Grille. The new menu item, Rolled Gold, exclusively revealed to City of Ate last week was presented as a waffle pita — or…
Happy Eating highlights restaurant happy hour food menus, keeping you informed of what deals there are out there. This week, we’re in the gayborhood checking out Fin Sushi Lounge’s impressive happy hour menu. Where: Fin Sushi Lounge, 4123 Cedar Springs Road, No. 102 When: 4:30-7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. Saturday…
If you like lists or food trucks (and who doesn’t?) it was a good week to be a Dallas blog reader. Nancy Nichols ate a bunch of steak, a blog post inspires readers to plug their iPods into onions, and Fuzzy’s Tacos shops are popping up like…. Something that pops…
Everywhere you look in the area east and north of Park Lane and Greenville Avenue, there is an Ethiopian restaurant or business. Within one of those shops, a pupusa maker offers a golden alternative to sour, spongy, wonderful injera. The handmade quesadilla-corn cake hybrid treats, a source of Salvadoran pride,…
One of my pet peeves about most cooking shows is how often a program’s uber-foodies — from the four-star guys in the starchy aprons to the home cooks who’ve lucked into a spot on television — are reluctant to express any real emotion about how much they love the actual…
Passover is upon us, which can only mean one thing: It’s officially time to make matzo ball soup. Making matzo ball soup can be a very straightforward proposition. You can even buy matzo balls premade or buy a mix for it, although there’s little more than matzo meal in it…
