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Barbecue, Paleo Restaurants and Even More Barbecue: This Week In Dallas Dining

2013-05-17 17:19:23

Enjoying Craft beer week? It's not over yet. Lauren has been detailing all the beer-laden events you've had to choose from all week, and there's still a few more if you're looking for plans. Don't...

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Rice and Wheat Delivers a Great Bowl of Pho in the Heart of Burgerland

2013-05-17 12:30:40

Timing has never been kind to me. So it was just my usual temporal bad luck that Rice and Wheat opened its doors for business last Thursday. After seven years of living next to the building that...

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How to Finance a Lamborghini Delivery Car for Your Brewery Through Kickstarter: A Look at Swag-Based Crowd Funding

2013-05-17 11:39:23

Financing a brewery, either in part or whole, through crowd funding campaigns like Kickstarter is a fascinating phenomenon. Old-fashioned lengthy business plans with amortization charts, projecti...

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High-Brow Banh Mi Sandwiches Are Getting a Footing in Dallas

2013-05-17 11:05:09

When properly executed, the banh mi may be the greatest sandwich of all time. The balance of fatty flavors from mayonnaise, pâté and other meats, with acidic pickles, is the perfect backdrop for ...

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Your Guide to American Craft Beer Week in Dallas (Updated)

2013-05-17 10:32:34

It's American Craft Beer Week. For many of you, this means it's business as usual. For some of you, it's an excuse to imbibe in some craft beers all week long. The Brewers Association, a nationa...

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New Chip's to Join Matt's and The Mecca on La Vista Drive

2013-05-17 07:00:00

The cluster of restaurants around the intersection of La Vista Drive and Skillman Street is about to get a new addition. A second Chip's Old Fashioned Hamburgers is slated to open there by the en...

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Food Film Series Wraps Up with a Documentary Challenging the Power of Organics

2013-05-16 15:53:20

The documentary Cafeteria Man lays out the uphill battle faced by Tony Geraci as he took on Baltimore school system bureaucrats to overhaul the school lunch program. Geraci's plan was a simple one...

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Career Advice from Chefs to Recent Culinary School Grads

2013-05-16 13:50:10

With graduation ceremonies in full bloom, we contacted a few local chefs for some bits of wise advice for culinary school graduates. First, we asked them about their worst jobs after school, th...

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The Battle for Cupcakes Sales Faces a Looming Deadline at the Legislature

2013-05-16 12:37:08

Having déjà vu? Feel like we've been here before? Well, don't pinch yourself. Be calm. You're not crazy. We have been here before. For years the great cupcake bakers of Texas have fought for th...

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Hypnotic Donuts Offers BYOB Bingo

2013-05-16 12:18:28

James St. Peter obviously needs more friends. This has to be the real reason he decided to start having Bingo Night every other Wednesday night starting May 29. The press release quotes St. Pete...

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Trader Joe's on Greenville Avenue Will Open in August

2013-05-16 09:16:27

Yesterday The Dallas Morning News' Biz Beat Blog broke the news that Trader Joe's had finally announced the anticipated opening date for the Greenville Avenue location. Starting Friday, August 9...

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Pecan Lodge and Lockhart Smokehouse Both Appear on Texas Monthly's Barbecue List

2013-05-15 15:47:40

The brisket is out of the butcher paper. Texas Monthly posted their latest top 50 barbecue restaurants list and both Pecan Lodge and Lockhart Smokehouse made this year's cut. A look at previous ye...

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What the Hell Is Compressed Fruit?

2013-05-15 15:27:08

If you're a careful diner, you might have noticed the term "compression" attached to a fruit that's featured in your dish or dessert. John Tesar added compressed heirloom tomato slices to a "burg...

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Grapevine Craft Brewery Taps Friends and Fans (i.e. You?) for Final Funding Push

2013-05-15 13:22:44

Previously we told you about the Grapevine Craft Brewery. Gary Humble fell in love with Grapevine about the same time he fell in love with craft beer, so he decided to open up a (rather swank) c...

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Rocco Milano on the Changes at Private|Social

2013-05-15 12:39:39

Private|Social, or P|S, or whatever it's called now has been a shifty restaurant as of late. After Tiffany Derry left the kitchen at the start of the year, Najat Kaanache was announced as the foll...

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The Best Food and Drink Events for The Week, May 15 - 21

2013-05-15 07:03:42

In addition to the weekly line up of culinary and drink-ary events, it's American Craft Beer Week. There are so many things to do, you're head will spin. Let's get to spinning. Thursday, May 16...

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Burger King is Developing a Sandwich to Challenge the McRib

2013-05-14 15:42:20

USA Today just reported that there's a great rib sandwich smackdown in the making. Burger King, which has been hustling to capture new customers recently with inventive menu items like bacon sun...

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House 34 Coming to Uptown by the End of May ... Maybe

2013-05-14 15:12:42

If you've dined on the front porch at Belly and Trumpet recently, you've likely noticed some construction in progress on the lot just to the south. Nothing complements perfectly seared branzino an...

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Dallas Tequila Chronicles: Urban Taco's Markus Pineyro on the Pride and Passion for a Drink

2013-05-14 14:45:26

Recently we wanted to learn about the best places in Dallas to drink tequila. Not in the sense of slamming shots, but in terms of a robust or select collection. Honestly, at first the idea was to...

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The Story of How Hard Granola Helped One Kid Meet the POTUS

2013-05-14 13:13:50

Justin Anderson, founder of WOATS, is one of those granola kind of guys. Here's a fact about granola: It can be like eating tiny bricks sometimes. And if you have braces, the snack can be a down...

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