Food & Drink

Food Network magazine this week released the no doubt intentionally provocative results of an anonymous chef survey, in which chefs copped to stealing ideas, showing up for work sick, recycling bread and sabotaging orders that were sent back for recooking. As a former restaurant server, I’ve seen chefs do all…

According to the official corporate description, Pop-Tarts are toaster pastries. But after decades of pushing the treat as a ready-made breakfast, Kellogg’s seems to be repositioning the foil-wrapped snack as an ingredient. Since the Pop-Tart debuted in the 1960s, cooking with Pop-Tarts has generally meant sticking them in a toaster…

A unique twilight dinner has been scheduled at Eden’s Garden Organic Garden Center and CSA Farm in Balch Springs that will pair eight chefs from five Dallas restaurants for one evening of dining and music to benefit and celebrate our local farms. The chefs include Abraham Salum and Al Havens…

I was recently seated at Charlie Palmer near a group of seemingly-sophisticated diners (I was listening in on their conversation about the best way to get to Tanzania until Jon Voight showed up and I refocused my eavesdropping). They were working their way through a pile of sweetbreads when a…

(This is the first part of a three-part look at Jeff Harris, executive chef at Craft. Tune in tomorrow for a Q&A with Harris and Friday as he demonstrates how to prepare one of the restaurant’s dishes.) Jeff Harris was raised in a small town in East Texas near Gilmer,…

As The New York Times reported this week, Mexico’s in a dour mood on the eve of its bicentennial: An increasingly brutal drug war has dampened citizens’ enthusiasm for Thursday’s celebration. But nothing’s stopping the party at local Mexican burger chain Burguesa Burger, which plans to roll out two new…

Now that the Korean taco thing’s been done to death — except maybe in Dallas — my friend and I were batting around new can’t-miss concepts for food trailers. He’s currently refurbishing a few of them, and plans to roll out at least one soon. (And if I knew anything…

Kent Rathbun, who cracked the Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog this year with a lobster shooter kit, has advice for other restaurateurs looking to turn their signature recipes into retail sensations. “You got to start small, and you got to think in terms of what people can use at home,” Rathbun says…

Hill Country, the wildly popular New York City barbecue joint that’s been busily indoctrinating Yankees in the ways of traditional Texas ‘cue, is now garnering attention for a dish of less certain provenance. As Grub Street recently reported, the menu at Hill Country Chicken — an homage to buttermilk-fried chicken…

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourMolly’s Mary.​One expects that when one travels cross-counties to spend a Friday evening at North Texas’ finest honky-tonk, where $5 pitchers of Coors Light are on offer all day every day, one will wake up the next morning in need of some…

“That’s what it’s about. That’s what we do. We represent,” said chef Joey Guzman of Northwood Club, when asked about the significance of three Latino finalists in the Chefs Under Fire D/FW semifinal at Milestone Culinary Center, an the event to which City of Ate was invited. The other two…

An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn’t exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year’s Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the fair’s healthy snacks. The festival, billed as the nation’s largest, hasn’t leached all the fat and calories from its standard food line-up: Concessionaires…

The Emmy-winning and highly rated Top Chef franchise on Bravo puts the icing on its cake with this week’s debut of Top Chef: Just Desserts (10 p.m., Wednesday, September 15, then moving to its regular slot at 9 p.m. the following week). Hosting the competition among 12 top-flight pastry chefs…

Two veterans of the restaurant group that includes Houston’s have announced plans to open a Thai-Vietnamese restaurant in West Village. Braden Wages — who most recently served as general manager of R+D Kitchen — and Yasmin Wages, his wife and former assistant general manager at Park, will debut Malai in…

Big-name food stars, like most sane travelers, have pretty much steered clear of Dallas this summer: While Houston hosted Anthony Bourdain, and the University of Texas announced an upcoming lecture by Michael Pollan, Dallas has been making do with its homegrown talent and a one-off appearance by Mexican cooking legend…

If we had to pick a theme for this week’s Hash Over, then it would be cheap, very cheap, celebrations. So, we’re going to need you to cancel whatever you have going on this Wednesday and Thursday, and join in on the fun, cheapskate. The Quarter Bar, part of the…

For a long time, wine-making in North Texas was pretty much limited to the city of Grapevine. In recent years, that has slowly but surely changed, and now more purveyors can be found on the eastern side of the metroplex, with Fuqua, Times Ten Cellars, Calais and Inwood Estates setting…

Yesterday’s Blues, Bandits & BBQ competition in Oak Cliff was a success on every score but flavor. Organizers estimate more than 1,000 people turned out to celebrate tunes and barbecue at the grassroots festival, which may have been the first in the nation to require its pit teams to use…