Local Chefs’ Holiday Traditions
Mine is duck. We all have our holiday/New Year’s culinary traditions — the food that smells and tastes like a certain time of year.
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Not the Jellicle Cat
One would be forgiven for mishearing the name of Jenna Kinard’s new Southlake hotel resto and thinking instead of the aberrant felines from the...
From the Vine to Holly Wine
I don’t much care whether my fruit is organic or not, as long as it tastes good, but if I were forced to choose...
Brewed Up
Brewery openings are tamer affairs these days. When Rahr & Sons opened in 2004, the selling point was clear: beer, beer, beer. The most...
A New Twist on an Old Hanukkah
Hanukkah (“Chanukah,” if you prefer) is one of the dozen-ish multicultural Festivals of Lights that occur yearly around the bleak Winter Solstice. In 2021,...
Spooktacular Pizza
“Ghost kitchen” sounds like a horrible Marvel franchise about a renegade chef-turned-vigilante. Turns out, the term is way sexier than reality: It just refers...
Way Down Los Tacos Way
You can hear the conjunto music from the parking lot. Los Tacos Way is the new kid on Cooper Street, and the management is announcing...
Refinery 714 Soars
When XTO abandoned their downtown digs for Houston between 2017 and 2020, the energy giant vacated six of its seven buildings. Along with relocating...
Pour Some Sugarman’s on Me
Beads of sweat dotted my upper lip as I basked on the patio of the newly opened Sugarman’s Lounge at Hotel Revel and nursed...
Giddyup to Second Rodeo
By now we are familiar with voice actors from mattress store commercials who boisterously inform us viewers that the huge sale is Monday, MONday,...
