The ‘Boys venture into this dying shipyard town on Sunday night. To help us all to know Lecherous Ben Franklin’s city a little better…Eagles reserve quarterback Michael Vick once owned an authentic Chinese restaurant in Atlanta. It closed when he decided to take a break from football.**Source: A friend of…
The ‘Boys venture into this rust belt wasteland on Sunday night. To help us all to know the City of Brotherly Love a little better…The Philadelphia cheesesteak was actually invented in Trenton, New Jersey. Restaurants in Philadelphia adopted the sandwich because it was a handy way to rid their kitchens…
Seems there’s always much ado about little in the restaurant news. So it was in October: Lazare became Lemon Bar and will, most likely, become something else before long. Ten 15 Elm (or 1015 Elm, I was never sure) decided to call itself Thrive instead. The ballyhooed Jean-Michel’s, coming to…
It is truly weird when City of Ate stories pop up in other venues, often without context. For instance, our Top 10 on foods to fry for next year’s state fair somehow ended up in a Baltimore paper’s blog, where some people show surprising scorn for things Texan.These cross-posts, or…
As if the Idi-tini and My Lai Tai weren’t enough…We thought we’d stretched the boundaries of taste and “mixology” as far as we could with this week’s Top 10 list. That is until several of you added some even more disturbing cocktails–all of which would be perfect for Halloween.There are…
In the spirit of Halloween, I’m going to share a horrifying confession with you guys. A little over a decade ago, I was a regular at the Whataburger on Main St. in Lewisville. I’d hit that drive-thru five days a week for a double-meat, double-cheese Whataburger with ketchup, mustard, and…
Even over the phone, you can feel Corey Toney’s smile when he talks about his South Dallas barbecue joint, C.T.’s Real Deal BBQ. “There’s a brick pit back there,” he says. “When that hickory gets in the pit, it just seasons the brick—you can really taste it.” He’s right, but…
While most of my friends were busy working on their costumes for this weekend’s Disturbathon, I spent my Saturday night with members of Vegan 101 at their annual Halloween Potluck. My costume: a gay vegan Mormon (black flat-front chinos, pink button-down, black poly tie, sneakers, and yes…a bicycle helmet and…
Who knew our two demented artist types–Patrick Michels (of Pairing Off art fame) and Alexander Flores–also had a talent for shameless money-grubbing…by which I mean marketing.This week they designed a line of blog-related apparel. My favorite item? The Dude Food trucker’s hat.Great prize idea–except that Michels and Flores aren’t really…
Maybe you flipped through this week’s Top 10, a countdown of foods to fry next time the state fair rolls around.We put together what we thought was a pretty unassailable list–Pop Rocks, Jello shots, vegan cupcakes and the like. Hard to beat, right?Ah, but then you lot chimed in.There were…
Believe it or not, even vegans can get squeamish about tofu. Now, I’m not talking about just any kind of tofu–I mean that stuff that’s slimy and jellylike, but partly charred around the edges. Combine that with the faint smell of fish, here’s what you might hear: “EEK!!!” That was…
When I heard about Sweet Georgia Brown’s bevy of pork offerings, I also heard that they were a little outside my price range. So, I bet my friend that strippers will beat you up if you snap quarters at them instead of giving them dollar bills, made my couple extra…
Sharon Hage went about everything the wrong way when she opened York Street way back in May 2001. Not only was she among the first to tie her menu to the vagaries of seasonal, often local, organically grown ingredients, the chef also violated all the rules of small business success…
Omnivores tend to think of veganism as a highly restrictive, complicated way to live. Considering vegans have cut out meat, dairy, eggs, and all other animal products from their diets, they’re sorta right–especially here in the land of beef. So imagine what it’s like for vegans with an intolerance to…
Well, the big weekend is here. That’s right, Mizzou vs Oklahoma State.My brother earned his Ph.D from OSU (although I hear they practically give those things away in Stillwater) while I, um, attended doctoral classes at the Sorbonne of the Midwest (where, I believe, Stephen Hawking flunked out before moving…
Truth be told, not all soy milks are created equal. I still remember my first experience drinking a brand purchased from a bio-shop in Spain that almost resulted in me losing my lunch…or breakfast, as it were. Granted, I was very much a fan of dairy at the time. But…
Batman is suspended over the ocean waves with a shark clinging to his leg. Beating the beast on its nose fails to knock the 6-foot monster loose, so the Caped Crusader takes a desperate, last-gasp course of action. “Quick, Robin,” he yells up to the Boy Wonder, strapping himself safely…
When it’s raining balls all week, the “Let’s stay dry” part of me starts saying drive-through is the only way to go. And driving down Buckner Boulevard, I came across a drive-through with barred windows, chipping paint and zero cars in line. Count me in. The menu at John’s Seafood…
Ok–I’ll admit it. The Shops at Legacy are pretty cool. Now if only they weren’t all the way up in freakin’ Oklahoma…erm…I mean Plano. I met up with my vegan buddy Drew at Legacy NAAN last week, where he’d set up a multiple-course vegan food tasting. It’s located in the…
It’s State Fair time. Time to make out with Big Tex, take a ride on the Texas Star and maybe even do a little balloon-darting on the Midway. But more important, it’s time to get your fried-food game face on. This year there are some brand-new contenders vying for some…
When David Pedack fires up his rickety ZAP car—a three-wheeled all-electric bug assembled in Hong Kong—and clatters down the street on a pizza delivery run, it may be the only time he feels real solitude. The pressure of opening Urbino Pizza e Pasta, his second restaurant, eases just a bit…
It was certainly a vocal week on City of Ate. People like bc, jamey, curmudgeon and DallasDude churned out more words that I did–at least it seems that way.Of course, we’re still on our ‘no prizes’ kick so their efforts earn them little more than our appreciation. We did have…
