Author Archives: Steven Doyle

by | February 3, 2012 · 12:48 pm

Urban Epicurious Top 10 Food Porn Moments: Lockhart Smoke House

by Bev Garvin

Bev Garvin is a friend of craveDFW, a local social media buff and photographer who maintains a pretty cool local site called Urban Epicurious. Bev joins us to celebrate her top 10 favorite food porn moments of the recent past. We will run these over successive days so you may savor each bite

Sometimes you just crave something that’s nice, big, thick, juicy, smoky, and satisfying. And when you do, the nice folks at Lockhart Smoke House in Bishop Arts have just the thing – meat, and lots of it. This quaint neighborhood shop isn’t pretentious or fancy. When you walk in you’ll order at the butcher counter in the back, pay for your food and take it to your table. There are no forks, there is no sauce, their ribs are dry rubbed, smoked, served on butcher paper and sold by the 1/2 pound.   Continue reading →

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by | February 3, 2012 · 12:41 pm

McCallister Calls Out The Groundhog

by Steven Doyle

Matt McCallister is not one to mince words. If you follow the CampO  chef at all you will find that he speaks his mind fluently. Today he voices an opinion on the findings of Punxsutawney Phil yesterday as he runs through an undisclosed area foraging for Spring onions.

Says the chef, “Found a baby snake while foraging for Spring onions after my run today… Spring onions are everywhere… that groundhog doesn’t know shit.”

Fair dinkum, Matt.   

 

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by | February 3, 2012 · 10:26 am

Drink of the Week: People’s Last Stand

by Katie Minshew

While flashy sports bars are in plenty and the typical upscale clubs are popping up all over the Metroplex, it is nice to step into a bar that allows you to take a breath, laugh, and not have to wear a skin-tight sequined dress to fit in. Tucked above view in the Shops at Mockingbird Station rests a cozy bar called The People’s Last Stand. It is small and handsome, with a sincerely personal feel. The owners/managers/bartenders are real people. Kartik Rathore, Omar Yeefoon, Daniel Bristol are great fun to get to know!

They are young, artistic, witty, and charming, making conversation with their patrons about the old-timey movies playing silently on the two flat-screens propped behind the shelves of colorful liquids– Breakfast at Tiffany’s on one and an old Charlie Chapman film on the other.  Brilliant.

Faint familiar music plays in the background. And get this: you can actually hear your conversation with the person sitting across from you. This bar is lively, it is classy, and it created this week’s Drink of the Week! Continue reading →

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by | February 2, 2012 · 5:21 pm

Hid In 2612 The New Bar 828

by Steven Doyle

Jay Jerrier slipped a little information to Scott Reitz over at the Observer and explained his new “dough room”. You can read all about that at this link.

While I was in the ER I didn’t notice that I had a little email slipped to me as well. It explained the Hid In 2612 that Jerrier is hosting in the same dough room. Scott has most of the facts about the second run of what was formerly called Bar 828  in Oak Cliff. We have a little bit more information. Continue reading →

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by | February 2, 2012 · 2:24 pm

Super Bowl Grid Iron Nosh

by David Donalson

Many of you are in the process of planning your Super Bowl parties this weekend and I thought I would share some of my plans for this weekend’s festivities.

First thing I look for is the food because that will dictate what kind of alcohol I will be consuming. Some people will look to have foods from each city represented at the party, which would mean New York style pizza, pastrami you wish was from Katz’s, bagels if you are starting early to represent the Giants and clam chowder, maybe some oysters and cod and Boston cream pie.     Continue reading →

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by | February 2, 2012 · 8:45 am

Celebrate Groundhog Day With Authentic Ground Hog

by Steven Doyle

For those adventuresome food enthusiasts who may wish to celebrate Groundhog’s Day by doing a bit more than avoiding your shadow, we have a few ideas that you may wish to enjoy today in celebration and hopes of a quick Spring (as if it isn’t Spring enough for you this Winter).

Here is where we suggest you dine on authentic Ground Hog.    Continue reading →

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Filed under Bacon, beer, Dallas, fun with food, Steven Doyle

by | February 2, 2012 · 8:03 am

First Look: Union Bear Opens Today

by Steven Doyle

Yesterday we checked out the Union Bear which swings open its doors today in the West Village on McKinney Avenue in Uptown Dallas. We spoke with both owner Matt Spiller and chef John Kleifgen on our visit and sat down to try some of the food being offered up to their eager patrons.

When walking into Union Bear you will notice that like all of the Spiller operations it fits beautifully with the existing neighborhood architecture. They were not trying to recreate a previous motif like you might find at Eno’s or Oddfellows.   Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts, Bacon, beer, Burgers, chefs, Cocktails, Crave, Dallas, First Look, Local Produce, restaurant news, Restaurant Opening, Steven Doyle

by | February 1, 2012 · 11:37 am

Pink Martini Tix Now On Sale

by Crave Staff

The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that individual tickets for Pink Martini coming to Annette Strauss Square on Sunday, March 25 at 8 p.m. will go on sale Friday, February 3 at 10 a.m.

“Pink Martini is a rollicking around-the-world musical adventure… if the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band.” – Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader/pianist.          Continue reading →

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