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Guess the Name of This Dallas Restaurant

We had so much fun the first time we played this game. Let’s play it again. Can you guess the name of this restaurant?

posted by Nancy Nichols | May 18th, 2012 3:25pm | filed under Best Gay Hangout Restaurant Evah!, Cheap trick for comments, Contests, Cult Cuisine, How About This Weather?, How to Open a Restaurant 101, I Went to College for This?, I'm about to get fired, Making Up Is Hard To Do, Merguez Sausage Hunt, My Happy Pills Are Working, Nutjobs, Overprivileged chimps, Peripatetic chefs, Procrastination is part of the creative process, Restaurant News, SideDish Bump!, game, hold on to your effin hat, questionable judgment | 20 Comments »

TweEAT With Me Tonight

Tonight I am going to do a dining review and I am going to tweet four pictures during the meal. You can follow along @DSideDish. If you guess where I am before I leave, you will win a prize.

posted by Nancy Nichols | March 21st, 2012 4:06pm | filed under Twitter, game | 3 Comments »

Report From Rio: Guess the Mystery Ingredients

Yesterday, I visited a food market near the beach at Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro. I spent long time at the stall in the picture to watch the owner make his own hot sauce by mixing various peppers with vinaigrette and herbs. Besides peppers, dried herbs, and sauces, he displayed several medicinal nuts. I don’t speak Portuguese, and it was difficult to understand the passionate descriptions of the two ingredients in the picture below the jump. Do you recognize them? (more…)

posted by Nancy Nichols | February 22nd, 2012 9:47am | filed under Ethnic Food, Food is art. Art is Food., food art, game | 12 Comments »

The Perfect Procrastination: How To Boil an Egg

My perfectly boiled egg.

As you can tell from the headline, I am deep in the process of procrastinating. While my real job calls for thousands of words about dining, I am convinced it is far more important that I drop what I am supposed to be doing and answer a question sent to me by PR boy toy Jef Tingley. Yes, he spells his name with one “f,” but I will save that analysis for a later procrastination post.

“Jef with one f” asked me how to boil an egg. Don’t laugh. How many times have you had tiny shards of shell pierce the delicate skin beneath your fingernail? I shared my secret with “Jef with one f” by private message on Facebook which made several people curious enough to email and ask (BEG!) for my secret.

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posted by Nancy Nichols | January 10th, 2012 2:21pm | filed under Chick Chefs Rule!, Cooking, Cooking Classes, Cult Cuisine, Good Deeds, I Went to College for This?, I'm about to get fired, Mistakes I made, Not-so-skinny bitches, Nutjobs, PR People, Recipes, Special Report, Steven Doyle, Trending, game | 11 Comments »

It Is Wild Game Week at Mignon in Plano

Mignon's Braised Wild Boar (potato gnocchi, grilled fresh figs, shaved truffle cheese and aged balsamic)

When a restaurant has something worth shouting about it hosts a dinner for the media. Mignon realized that they had something worth screaming to the ceiling about when they announced Chef James Sleeth’s new Game Week Menu. The press dinner took place last week. I was fortunate enough to be invited and I came away impressed. We started with an appetizer of Braised Wild Boar (potato gnocchi, grilled fresh figs, shaved truffle cheese and aged balsamic), $13, which expertly long-cooked those fruit and meat contrasts into a compote that was simply ideal for the upcoming cold weather. It seemed to be a dish that would be difficult to top were it not for the Elk Tenderloin (pommes Anna, caramelized pearl onion, candied pecans, rosemary oil and demi-glace), $49. Elk is one of the treats of Colorado ski country but a rarity around Dallas.

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posted by Andrew Chalk | October 31st, 2011 10:00am | filed under Andrew Chalk, Game 6 Almost Killed Me, Wine & Spirits, game |

Learn How to be a Winemaker, or at Least Play One

Wines of Chile, an organization dedicated to promoting Chilean wine throughout the world and made up of 93 Chilean wineries, just announced the creation of their first virtual game for Facebook – Terroir Hunter.  Through their Facebook page participants can virtually run their own winery, including harvesting grapes, bottling, selling, exporting and eventually have their wine rated.  Along the way winemakers from some of the most prominent wineries in the country will lend advice, give tips and help players wine empires grow.  Participating wineries include Casa Silva, San Esteban, San Pedro, Santa Rita, De Martino, Undurraga, Valdivieso, Veramonte and Viña Altair.  Sign up here.

posted by Hayley Hamilton | July 22nd, 2011 5:02pm | filed under Wine & Spirits, game |

Weekend Trip: JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort


It used to be that the parents could go away to golf, chill, and dine in luxury or they could take the kids to the place where little ones are given the impression that the whole world was designed for them. The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort combines both options. Golf predominates for adults, with not one but two TPC (Tournament Players Club) 18-hole courses designed by Pete Dye and Greg Norman exclusively serving resort guests. The centerpiece of activities for kids is a six-acre water park named the River Bluffs Water Experience where you’ll find a 650-foot rapid river ride, multiple water slides, 1,100 ft. lazy river, children and adult pools, whirlpools, and an expansive activity pool. These, and a host of other amenities (about more of which below), are not only the province of families, who tend to fill the weekends. During the week, the resort switches identities to become one of the leading corporate retreat locations in Texas. It is one of the few places where a Hewlett Packard, or a Yahoo, can bring thousands of employees. (more…)

posted by Andrew Chalk | June 17th, 2011 3:35pm | filed under Andrew Chalk, Breakfast, Brunch, Wine & Spirits, bread, game | 3 Comments »

Somebody Help This Poor Girl Out: Big Game & Booze

This letter just popped up in my inbox:

Hi SideDish-
My husband would never write this letter so I’m jumping in for him. He’s been invited to a new friend’s ranch for a guy’s weekend. The theme of the weekend is Big Game meaning that they’re going to eat some game and shoot some skeet. The friend is hosting the whole thing, he only asks that the guests bring what they consider to be an item of game to cook on Saturday night and the alcohol they think would pair best with it. (Wild turkey & Wild Turkey is already taken, thank you very much.) We are at a loss. Hopefully you can post this on the forum and your readers can send some clever suggestions.

OK, folks. Help a sister out in the comments section.

posted by Sarah Reiss | May 12th, 2011 12:55pm | filed under Wine & Spirits, game, somebody help this poor girl out | 12 Comments »