Food & Drink

If you ask a random Dallasite to name the best local restaurant, the answer might well be The Mansion on Turtle Creek at the Rosewood Hotel. Ask that same person when they last ate at the 30-year-old Dallas icon, however, and you just might elicit a long pause. This trend…

You may have noticed a shortage of posts and the inability to comment on City of Ate today. Well, our servers crashed, our technical people tell us. (We think that’s just their way of saying “stop downloading those high-def food-porn movies from Tajikistan.”) Whatevs. We were lost, but now we’re…

I recently went to dinner with a friend whose least favorite server expression is “Are you still working on that?” He’d just wrapped up his screed about the essential wrongness of equating work with eating when a server stopped by the table and uttered the offending phrase. I thought my…

Two San Antonio companies have partnered to create a distinctly Texan breakfast taco, now available at dozens of area drive-through windows. Taco Cabana last week started serving tacos made with Kiolbassa country-style sausage; the item will remain on the menu through mid-October. While DFW’s not suffering a sausage taco shortage,…

One of the reasons I was attracted to this Cockrell Hill taquería, located catercorner to the Westmoreland DART station, was the paucity of information about it online. There’s much on its sister location in Lakewood. But again, zip about Los Altos de Jalisco No. 2. I had 20 minutes before…

Mad Men didn’t exactly blow its reputation for verisimilitude when Don Draper and his lady friend wandered into Benihana on last night’s episode, but it sure seems like one of the restaurant-goers would have mentioned the shrimp sauce. Hibachi fans have been infatuated with the uniquely American combination of mayonnaise…

Kroger has pulled out as a wine garden sponsor at the State Fair of Texas, taking its West Coast wines with it. With the Texas Department of Agriculture left as sole sponsor of the wine tasting and teaching space, all of this year’s featured wines will come from Texas. Jeff…

Second only to Christmas holidays for bringing in customers, the 15th annual Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market stores, going on now through August 31, creates shopping cart gridlock. What is it about the smoky vegetable from the nightshade family that earns such devotion from foodies? “It’s the flavor,” says…

For the past several weeks, Brunch Drunk Love has sampled many and various brunch menus, from Lakewood to Uptown to Deep Ellum to Oak Cliff and even south to Austin. And in each, Brunch Drunk Love has turned its critical eye to that most difficult to perfect of brunch drinks,…

While plenty of masochistic local eateries are gearing up for a second consecutive Restaurant Week, the charitable promotion officially ended last night. And according to the comments posted here and on other local food blogs, the event was again exasperating for diners, servers and chefs. With rare exception — I…

We know you’ve been waiting for it. We’ve seen your tweets and Facebook posts stating that you’ve been dying to get your hands on them. And now it’s here–it’s the peak of the Hatch green chile season! We thought we would be helpful and recommend a few places at which…

In 2008, Fall Creek Vineyards in tiny Tow, Texas, released a couple of wines with a mission. They dedicated their 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon harvests to help raise money and awareness for much-needed restoration of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (aka The Alamo). Specifically, a portion…

While supermarkets do a remarkably good job of stocking various noodle shapes, most restaurants serve a pretty narrow range of pastas. Beyond Italian restaurants that have made a specialty of pasta, noodle geometry is largely limited to macaroni, linguine and penne. That’s a shame, because there are so many great…

This week’s Dallas food blog coverage is a medley of Czech chili, lamb burgers at Square Burger, good eats from Ethiopia, seafood stew from San Francisco, and gun-eating Texans. We’ll help you to prepare your sweet tooth for the weekend with a sugar rush of cupcakes, chocolate and frozen yogurt. Check out this week’s…

When my husband and I chose a wedding date, we thought about the weather. We thought about football schedules. We didn’t think about Restaurant Week, which didn’t exist back in 2006. Unfortunately, our anniversary this year fell smack in the middle of the festivities. And being new to Dallas, I…

My mom saves everything. When I helped her move last month, I begged her to jettison the trunks and boxes and tubs of old papers and letters she’d held onto for decades. She’s not a hoarder, more of an archivist. She reached into one box and fanned out 11 little…

Just over a mile from the airport outside San Salvador you will find a tiny village ripe with what many would call the national snack of the Central American country, El Salvador–the pupusa. In the village of Olocuilta little shops sell these masa harina cakes, which are filled with any…

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop6465 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 380214-370-8226Dude Factor: 9, or Peach Fuzz, on a scale of 1 (Fuzzy Wuzzy) to 10 (Fuzzbox)A lot of people around here seem to think this whole taco thing is getting out of hand–just in the past few months, we’ve seen the opening of…

The reopen date continues to get pushed back for Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company as the company continues to recover from its February snow-inflicted roof collapse. But the pugnacious brewery isn’t just sitting around waiting until they get the go-ahead to open their doors to the public. The…

Abraham Salum of Salum and the upcoming Komali shows City of Aters how to prepare his Dijon- and truffle-crusted rack of lamb this week. A note on this one: Cooks who require precise amounts of ingredients are going to have to rely on their own taste buds in deciding when…