Category Archives: Dallas

by | June 20, 2012 · 12:15 pm

Kuczwaj On Path For Success At Bailey’s

by Steven Doyle

We have been following the changes at Bailey’s Prime Plus for many months now.  The interesting local restaurant that up until just weeks ago had locations in Dallas, Cedar Hill, Fairview and Fort Worth. I say recently because the Fort Worth has closed with the explanation that although it was actually successful, there was an offer for the space that was far too good to pass up.

With the advent of hiring Ken Kuczwaj as overseer and general manager for the Bailey’s family of restaurants, there have actually been some very positive changes. Let’s look at those and see some current results.   Continue reading →

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by | June 20, 2012 · 10:35 am

Momentum Reaches Important Landmark

by Steven Doyle    photos by Robert Bostick

It has been a full year for Café Momentum. This week we shared with the joys of the young organization as it lifted up its accomplishments with the same beaming happiness that any proud mother or father might. This past Sunday there were big announcements, bigger surprises and shared joy for each who attended the full-circle dinner with Café Momentum’s first guest chef, Jeffrey Hobbs at his new restaurant, Sissy’s Southern Kitchen and Bar.

Some of the surprises included a fat check from Whole Foods after they earmarked a percentage of a single day’s profit from their Lakewood store. The check would total $4413.00, but was raised to an even $5000 by an exuberant guest. Café Momentum has many of generous guests like this couple as they get ever closer to their goal in raising enough funds to open a brick and mortar restaurant to support these boys in their hour of need.            Continue reading →

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by | June 20, 2012 · 10:17 am

Best Buddies “Life Is Sweet” Fundraiser Tonight

by Crave Staff

Best Buddies Texas  presents Dallas’ “Life is Sweet”, one of the city’s sweetest fundraising events you will ever encounter.

Dallas area top local bakers and chefs will be paired with buddies, young adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, to create custom desserts and dishes. Guests will be treated to samples of the dessert and dishes, and have an opportunity to vote for their favorites. To accompany the sweets and dishes, guests will also enjoy wine along with a selection of savory hors d’oeuvres.               Continue reading →

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by | June 18, 2012 · 1:52 pm

Summer Fresh Desserts At Fearing’s

by Steven Doyle

A full year ago we spoke with Fearing’s Jill Bates. Jill is the spunky pastry chef that is continually coming up with unique and artistic desserts that keeps her sweet-toothed guests satisfied. We stopped in Fearing’s at the Dallas Ritz Carlton recently to find out what she had planned for the summer’s menu.

One ingredient Bates is finding especially wonderful this time of year are the new crop of peaches she is picking from Cooper Farms in Parker County. Tim Cooper’s farm grows some of the state’s best peaches and the 2012 crop is particularly excellent since we had just the right weather and rain.      Continue reading →

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by | June 18, 2012 · 10:46 am

Postcards From Texas Craft Cocktail

by Steven Doyle

This past weekend was fast and furious and nothing was more spirited than the Texas Craft Cocktail events held primarily at the Stoneleigh Hotel. Brand representatives were out in force over the course of the four day event serving up some of the best cocktails seen in Dallas.

Highlights included the Thursday evening VIP party, the Friday cocktailing classes, the Saturday outdoor festival in the new downtown park, and the final party held at People’s Last Stand last evening.           Continue reading →

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by | June 14, 2012 · 10:03 am

New Chef, New Menu at Ristorante Nicola

by Steven Doyle

Ristorante Nicola has undergone a few changes as of late with the addition of a new chef, Justin Melnick, and new menus. You will note the new dinner menu beginning Saturday, June 16, and the luncheon menu on Monday, June 18.

Chef Melnick is a Northeastern transplant that has traveled extensively throughout Italy and began his love for cooking at a young age in his family’s own restaurant, Tutto del Cose Buono. The chef is degreed from the renowned Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and immediately made off to Boston where he worked for both Barbara Lynch and Todd English.      Continue reading →

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by | June 13, 2012 · 12:48 pm

A Visit To Spiceman’s Urban Oasis

by Steven Doyle

Each day you will find Tom “Spiceman” Spicer trudging through his 11,000 square foot garden or making deliveries to his wholesale restaurant clientele. Spicer maintains an urban garden in the same complex as Jimmy’s Food Store and next to Urbano Café at Bryan and Fitzhugh in Dallas.

On his tiny plot of land Spicer grows cash crops that are highly desirable to the restaurant and bar trade, but he does a bit of retail business out of his store front where he usually offers a unique selection of mushrooms, sometimes foraged by the Spiceman himself, and a selection of greens.    Continue reading →

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by | June 13, 2012 · 10:33 am

Ugly Garden Contest 2012

by Jerry Stewart

Have you been neglecting your lawn lately? Do your neighbors walk quickly to their front door when they see you? It could be you have an ugly garden. Enter and win North Haven Garden’s Ugly Garden Contest for 2012.

The booty for being so neglectful could pay off big time for one lucky yard and the prizes include $1,000 Gift Certificate to North Haven Gardens from Soil Menders, Blue Label Herbs & North Haven Gardens. Vital Earth will pitch in one pallet of organic compost and one  pallet of hardwood mulch ($500 value). From Nature’s Guide you will receive more than $150 worth of organic garden products including mosquito repellant, liquid seaweed, root stimulator and more.

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