* Kidding around. Chefs are reinterpreting childhood faves to appeal to your inner child. [HuffPost] * Burning up. Wood-burning ovens are all the rage — and also unpredictable. [Cincinnati.com] * Talk the talk. There’s a new dictionary just for diners. [NY Times] * It’s a miracle. No, really. Homaru Cantu of moto and iNG in Chicago talks about the miracle [...]
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Spotlights Are Bright: Save in Boston, Dallas, New York + San Francisco Today!
Just in time for the holidays, more ways to save… * Boston: $20 for $40 of heartwarming Italian cuisine at Villa Francesca in the North End. Buy now! * Dallas: $75 for $130 special three-course prix fixe for two people at Arcodoro + Pomodoro uptown. Buy now! * New York: $45 for $65 three-course meal [...]
Top Chef Texas Episode 5: Money Can’t Buy Chef Ed Hardy (and a Few Others) Class
We return with Top Chef: Texas and Ed Hardy of Red Rooster Harlem as we talk turkey (ha!) about this week’s highly quotable episode. My best friend Michele has a theory about why this season stinks. It’s because it followed ‘All Stars’ and we just really all knew and kinda loved — or kinda hated — the folks [...]
Tune In to Dallas-Fort Worth KRLD Restaurant Week This Weekend!
Dine out at a discount this weekend while you do good for your community! KRLD Restaurant Week features fabulous three-course dinners for only $35 per person. Even better than that, participating restaurants will make a $7 donation to North Texas Food Bank in Dallas or Lena Pope Home in Fort Worth to benefit families in need. [...]
Meet The Mother of All Foodies: Congratulations, Sherry O’Neil!
As we prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, we’d like to introduce you to Sherry O’Neil, an IT audit manager from Dallas, Texas, who won OpenTable’s The Mother of All Foodies Giveaway — and a whopping 100,000 OpenTable Dining Rewards Points! An IT audit manager by day and a foodie photographer by night (and, probably day, [...]
Trendspotting: Awful Offal; Fish Goes Green; Forkage Fees Make Author See Red; Restaurant Diners to See Fewer Tomatoes, and More
* It’s the awful side of offal as Rocky Mountain oysters show up on more menus. Blech. [The Atlantic] * Move over green eggs and ham: Fish is getting in on the action as well. [Chicago Tribune] * A restaurant asked Cake Bible author Rose Levy Beranbaum to fork over cash for a “forkage” fee [...]
Well-Reviewed: Barbacco in San Francisco; Bistrot Bruno Loubet in the UK; Madhatter in DC; The Wright at the Guggenheim, and More
The latest of the greatest restaurant reviews… * Michael Bauer reviews Barbacco, sibling restaurant to successful Perbacco, happily awarding it three stars. [San Francisco Chronicle] * Miami’s Barolo Ristorante has reinvented itself, earning a couple of stars from Victoria Pesce Elliot. [Miami Herald] * Bistrot Bruno Loubet in London is serving up deep-fried pig, and [...]
Dallas-Fort Worth KRLD Restaurant Week
Diners in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas, rejoice! This week is the start of the Dallas-Fort Worth KRLD Restaurant Week. With delicious, three-course dinners for just $35, you can’t beat this cool price during some of the hottest days of summer. Participating restaurants include Abacus, Craft Dallas, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Local, Stephan Pyles, and [...]