Email AuthorScott Reitz
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No One Wants to Be a Food Inspector, So No One's Inspecting Dallas Restaurants
March 28, 2012 in City of Ate
ViaOn Monday, Jimmy Martin, the Director for Code Compliance responsible for inspecting Dallas County bars and restaurants, gave a presentation to Dallas City Council about the program. The meeting was...
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At the Commissary, a New Chef, a New Burger
March 28, 2012 in City of Ate
When the Commissary first opened, John Tesar's burgers were all the rage. Big, luscious hockey puck-shaped patties, cooked a rosy crimson all the way through, helped earn the him a...
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Beef Products Inc. Wants Us to Eat Pink Slime for the Jobs. Sorry, But We'll Pass.
March 27, 2012 in City of Ate
BPIProcessed-meat fever came to a head over the weekend. It started with a full-page ad, which appeared on Friday in the Wall Street Journal (and is on display below), paid...
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Here's the Rangers' $26 Hot Dog
March 26, 2012 in City of Ate
Click to embiggen... for real this time.Remember when Oscar Mayer came out with the "bun-length" hot dog? They ran a series of commercials featuring white-bread Americans at cook outs wondering...
Spring Is Here, and Summer's Coming: This Week In Dallas Grubbing
March 23, 2012 in City of Ate
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Savor Returns With Multiple Events This Week
March 23, 2012 in City of Ate
Savor Dallas will be kicking off next week, and while it's easy to focus on the pinnacle of the event, the grand tasting hosted in Las Colinas at the Irving...
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Where Is All This Pink Slime Anyway?
March 23, 2012 in City of Ate
A number of articles have been published in the last few days as Safeway and Kroger have announced their intentions to stop selling ground beef products that contain lean finely...
The Walking Taco May Have Walked Across the Border
March 23, 2012 in City of Ate
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When Shopping For Or Eating Seafood, Volume Is King
March 22, 2012 in City of Ate
Sara KerensSea Breeze Fish Market and Grill, the subject of this week's review, has had me thinking a lot about seafood and freshness. While the flesh of every animal begins...
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Matt McCallister Announces FT 33
March 22, 2012 in City of Ate
FacebookWhile reviewing Campo, and bitching about truffles, I've been alluding to Matt McCallister's new restaurant but not coughing up the name. A server squeaked while I was reviewing Campo, and...
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Big Texas Beer Fest Tickets Are On Sale RIGHT NOW!
March 22, 2012 in City of Ate
Last year Dallas was going to have its very own beer festival. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. And now, finally, tickets have gone on sale for the April...
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Snack Global Kitchen and Bar, a Nosh Spin-Off, to Open on Henderson This Spring
March 22, 2012 in City of Ate
Back in February, we noted numerous closings in the Knox-Henderson area and referred to the neighborhood as the restaurant Bermuda triangle. Fish City Grill, Horne and Dekker, Alma, Cafe San...
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Brace Your Breakfast-Burrito-Loving Self: La Victoria's is Temporarily Closed
March 21, 2012 in City of Ate
NOOOOOOOOO! A spritely tipster just alerted me to a phone recording she heard while trying to call in a breakfast burrito this morning. I called them myself and tried to transcribe...
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Coconut Water Tastes Like Bed Bath & Beyond
March 21, 2012 in City of Ate
In 2009 the New York Times ran an article describing a trend taking over the city. Various shops were selling young coconuts, with undeveloped shells, liberated of their tops and...
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Texas Girl Scouts Want to Fry Some Cookies at This Year's State Fair. We're Thinking Samoas.
March 20, 2012 in City of Ate
The Girl Scouts have just thrown more hot oil on the grease fire.It was only a matter of time. First corn-batter dipped hot dogs and funnel cakes went into the...
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Tei-An's Ramen Is My Favorite Bowl Of Soup
March 20, 2012 in City of Ate
I have no excuse for taking so long to write about this glorious ramen bowl. The soup had been recommended to me numerous times, but the chatter only got louder...
Truckstock Brings 18 Food Trucks and Mobile Tunes to Oak Cliff This Saturday
March 19, 2012 in City of Ate
The Egg is Taking Over the Food World
March 19, 2012 in City of Ate
Preparing For The Onslaught: This Week In Dallas Food Blogging
March 16, 2012 in City of Ate
Social 121 Has a New Menu, a New Chef and a New Concept. Other Than That, Status Quo.
March 16, 2012 in City of Ate
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How to Make Food Inspections More Useful? Make Restaurants Inspect Themselves.
March 16, 2012 in City of Ate
ViaPete Snyder knows a little bit about food-borne illness. In addition to earning a doctorate in Food Science and Safety, he owns his own company that helps retail food operations...
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St. Patrick's Day, I Should Point Out, Sucks
March 16, 2012 in City of Ate
FlickrI want to love it like Alice does. I've been looking out my office window and noticing how all the tree buds have filled out; Dallas is awash in a...
The Village at Fairview Hosts Franconia Beer Walk Tonight
March 15, 2012 in City of Ate
The Weirdness of Bar 303, and Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurant Neighborhood
March 15, 2012 in City of Ate
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Why Recipe Testing Is Important (and Why Blogs' Untested Recipes Are Destined to Fail)
March 14, 2012 in City of Ate
That wood block could really use some oil.Before I was a food critic I was a recipe tester. I worked with Bonnie Benwick at the Washington Post, who would send...
