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Alan “Patric” McClure is a Full-Time Chocolate Maker and Part-Time Model

Alan "Patric" McClure stands in front of his demo table at Central Market's Chocolate Festival (photos by William Neal)

Alan “Patric” McClure, owner of Patric Chocolate, is the kind of guy who blushes when you tell him, “My editor sent me here because you’re famous.”

We’re standing in the middle of Central Market’s busiest intersection – a place where people and grocery carts collide – and it takes him a couple minutes to recover from my forward introduction. When McClure gathers his thoughts, he launches into his insane foodie-ism and then does something completely unexpected: he starts modeling with his chocolate. Tyra would be proud.

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posted by Carol Shih | February 14th, 2012 12:20pm | filed under Chocolate, Holidays, Sexy food, Snacks, Valentines Day | 7 Comments »

Pouting Over Poutine

Poutine from the Greenhouse Tavern, Cleveland OH (photo from Columbus Underground @ www.columbusunderground.com)

A couple of weeks ago I gushed about my love for the burgers at Kenny’s Burger Joint.  One of our Sidedishers, “Kirk,” commented that they offered “the closest facsimile of poutine in the DFW area.”  When I heard this, it was not long until I found my way back to sample the Kenny’s version.  As you likely know, “poutine” is a classic Canadian dish, traditionally composed of crispy French fries, cheese curds, and a brown gravy.  The most successful variations of poutine are able to serve the fries thick and crisp, the cheese curd soft but not so completely melted that they lose all their texture, and the gravy incorporated into each bite, but not so much as to turn the whole thing into a soup or make the fries overly soggy.  However, this dish is incredibly hard to find in Dallas.  I don’t understand why this is so.  Perhaps it’s our distance from our neighbors to the North? Perhaps there are not enough Canadians here in the Lone Star State?  It really is a travesty.

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posted by Daniel Walker | January 30th, 2012 1:20pm | filed under Burgers, Diets are stupid, Eat This Now!, Rants, Sexy food, Snacks, What The Pho?, cheap eats, that's just wrong. | 14 Comments »

Desiree + Camera: Photo Essay of Hypnotic Donuts in East Dallas

Hippie donuts will be served in a groovy setting.Photography by Desiree Espada.

SideDish photographer Desiree Espada roams the roads with her camera looking for good things to eat and shoot. Check out her photo essay of Bolsa Mercado. Then feast your eyes on what to expect when the Jerry Garcia of donut making, James St. Peter, opens Hypnotic Donuts on Sunday, January 29.

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posted by Nancy Nichols | January 27th, 2012 10:34am | filed under Bacon, Baking, Breakfast, Cult Cuisine, Desiree Espada, Diets are stupid, Food Porn, Hippie revolutions, Is Eat Dallas Groovier Than Oak Cliff?, Local/Slow Food, Openings, Restaurant News, Sexy food, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Take-out, Trending, donuts, food art, hostess gifts, youthful spontaneous restaurants | 12 Comments »

Eat This Now: Black and Blue Burger from Kenny’s Burger Joint in Frisco

When do you know that you have started to become a little too familiar with a restaurant? Well, if you pull into Kenny’s Burger Joint and your kid starts cheering, “Yay! Uncle Kenny.”  And no, I’m not related to Kenny Bowers…and my kid hardly even recognizes his grandparents.  Perhaps this familiarity could be seen as a problem in a city that offers so many burger options, but to be honest, its easy to get underwhelmed by the consistent stream of the newly minted burger joints.  Seems like there are about 2 new openings a week, la-dee-frickin-da. These days, I can count on one hand the number of places I will actually patronize to in order to obtain a truly exceptional burger.  Kenny’s has been doing things right since the beginning.

Kenny will tell you that he originally got such excellent feedback from his “Sterling Silver Burger” at Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill, that it was only natural to create a burger-centric restaurant.  And we are all blessed because of it.  Sure, it’s a bit of a pain for many to trek out to Frisco, but when quality and consistency intersect, the results can be something so enticing that nearly anyone can bust out of the north-of-635 bubble.

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posted by Daniel Walker | January 20th, 2012 10:00am | filed under Burgers, Eat This Now!, Sexy food, best of big d, cheap eats, make mine a double | 6 Comments »

Somebody Help This Poor Boy: Most Romantic Steak House in Dallas

Lots of needy guys popping up in my inbox today. (beat, beat) This guy is looking for romance and a big steak.

I’m celebrating my five year anniversary  later this month with my steak-loving wife.  Any suggestion on a steakhouse that also has somewhat of a romantic vibe?

posted by Nancy Nichols | January 4th, 2012 12:42pm | filed under Restaurant News, Sexy food, Steak | 24 Comments »

This Little Piggy Went Downtown

Oh yeah, it's for real.

We’re suckers for any press release that contains the following sentences:

  • Yes, this is really real.
  • Don’t you judge us; we all knew it would end up here someday.
  • And yeah, your right we probably did go too far this time.
  • Sorry, Mom.

It seems a couple well-intentioned entrepreneurs have teamed up with J&D’s Foods to create a little something they’re calling baconlube—the world’s first bacon-flavored, water-based, American-made, personal lubricant.

Billing itself as the “gold standard of meat-flavored massage oils” (natch) baconlube, they say, is like the McRib of sex: it’s delicious, makes men crazy, is here for a limited time, and is in short supply.

If you’re thinking “stocking stuffer!” (let’s stay on track here), we’re right behind you. But the boys only made 3,000 bottles of this pork-flavored nectar. It hit the interwebs yesterday at www.baconlube.com. How much, you ask, for a product that promises such a satisfying holiday season? Only $11.99.

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posted by Sarah Reiss | November 15th, 2011 12:34pm | filed under BBQ, Bacon, Bring it!, Cheap trick for comments, Chef's tasting, Cult Cuisine, Daniel Walker, Diets are stupid, Eat This Now!, Food Porn, Good Morning, Good Service, I Hate it When That Happens, I Went to College for This?, I'm a sucker for a man in flannel, I'm about to get fired, It's just lunch, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Meat, Merguez Sausage Hunt, Musical Press Releases, Newfangled condiments, Nostalgia, Procrastination is part of the creative process, Really stupid joke, Really?, Rewritten Press Releases, Scoops, Second coming, Sexy food, Sing Along Press Releases, Slow News Day, Snacks, Things To Do, cheap eats, classes, hold on to your effin hat, make mine a double, party, pop-up restaurant, questionable behavior, questionable judgment, sassy pants, somebody help this poor girl out, who'd a thought? | 13 Comments »

Sake Season Opens in Japan. Celebrate at Tei-An.

Chef Hung Nguyen is one of only a handful of Level II sake sommeliers in the world. He is also one of the nicest guys in the world. Today, Chef Hung announces he is teaming up with another one of the nicest guys in the world, Teiichi Sakurai of Tei-An, to celebrate the annual opening of the saké brewing season in Japan, “Nihonshu no hi.” Here is Chef Hung:

On Sunday, Oct 2 at 7pm, I’m teaming up with Teiichi Sakurai and the Tei An staff to present a special dinner of authentic and progressive Japanese cuisine, paired with saké. Our emphasis this year will be on saké from the Tohoku region, which was devastated by disasters earlier this year. The overall effect of those events on the quality and availability of Tohoku saké won’t be known until at least next year, so we’ll savor these 2011 brews while we still can. As a side note, we’re drinking brews produced prior to the disasters–there should be no contamination concerns.

Menu and details below.

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posted by Nancy Nichols | September 20th, 2011 9:55am | filed under Celebrity Chefs, Restaurant News, Sexy food, food pairings | 1 Comment »

My Sugar Box Can Beat Up Your Velvet Taco

In what feels like a dessert response to all of the overtly suggestive taco joint names we’ve seen in the last year, Sugar Box officially opens tomorrow night in Uptown at the Mondrian. The grand opening fete runs from 5 to 9 pm and features freebie selections from the new dessert bar’s palate of cupcakes, French macarons, and cake balls with espresso, latte, and cappuccino chasers (for those of you who, unlike me, can drink coffee after 4 pm and still sleep at night). Free tasters, live music, door prizes. Why not?

posted by Sarah Reiss | September 15th, 2011 9:00am | filed under Baking, Chocolate, Coffee, Cult Cuisine, Diets are stupid, Events, Free Stuff!, Goats!, Good Morning, How to Open a Restaurant 101, I Went to College for This?, It's just lunch, Nightlife, Openings, Restaurant News, Sexy food, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Snacks, Stupid terms for food, Tacos, Unsolicited Treats, cake, cheap eats, cupcakes, dessert, flying solo, food art, freebies, grand opening, make mine a double, youthful spontaneous restaurants | 1 Comment »

Lightcatcher Winery in Fort Worth Hosts I Love Lucy Grape Stomping Party

Wine-lovers lined up to get up to their knees in grapes. (Photo by Julissa Treviño)

Our gal on the street, Julissa Treviño, attended Lightcatcher Winery’s Lucy Dance grape crushing party over the weekends. Behold her report:

Crowds of people—most of them in peasant skirts, peasant tops, and bandanas—lined up outside LightCatcher Winery in Fort Worth on Saturday at noon, waiting for their turn to participate in what the winery calls “the Lucy Dance.”

About 300 people showed up for the winery’s annual public grape crushing event, Crush Day, this weekend. Anyone dressed as Lucy (based on the I Love Lucy episode where she crushed grapes) got to take home a free bottle of the 2010 Texas Kiss Merlot Rosé.

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posted by Sarah Reiss | August 29th, 2011 10:33am | filed under D-I-Wine, Sexy food, Special Report, Wine & Spirits, sexy things to do with your feet | 2 Comments »

First-Take Review: Meso Maya Rocks Preston Forest With Regional Mexican Moxie

Meso Maya's foyer (left) and strawberry & serrano margarita (right) (All photos courtesy of Meso Maya)

What to expect: Meso Maya, the self-labeled “simple modern Mexican food” restaurant that opened in Preston Forest Shopping Center last week has success writ large from the kitchen to the curb. First, chef Nico Sanchez (The Porch, Hibiscus), whom owner Mike Karns (president of El Fenix) lured away from the Consilient Restaurant Group, is heading up the kitchen. Second, the management team is being wrangled, in part, by the lovely MCrowd veteran, Elizabeth Ruiz. Third, the menu is packed with abundant deliciousness from the fresh margaritas, to the guacamole, to the house-specialty budin Azteca.

We visited (undercover) last week and are still talking about it today. Here’s the scoop:

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posted by Sarah Reiss | August 25th, 2011 1:47pm | filed under Openings, Regional Mexican Cuisine, Restaurant 101, Restaurant News, Second coming, Sexy food, Spicy foods, seafood | 6 Comments »

Pecos Cantaloupes in Dallas?

Anybody spotted Pecos cantaloupes in Dallas? I’ve been looking and I can’t find them. Need them. Today.

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 4th, 2011 1:28pm | filed under Bring it!, Cult Cuisine, Groceries, I Went to College for This?, Sexy food | 7 Comments »

John Tesar on Extreme Chef Tonight

John Tesar rides again!

The Tesar is on The TV tonight. He will appear on The Food Network’s EXtreme Chef at 9PM. I believe The Tesar is hosting The Watching Party with specials on wine. Tonight’s episode “Survive The Farm” sounds exciting. Listen:

Three chefs travel to a farm to dig for their own ingredients, but a powerful dust storm stops them in their tracks. And one chef almost quits after a cow he’s milking goes mad.

Tune in to see which chef goes mad with the cow. Spoiler alert: It couldn’t be The Tesar. He’s already mad.

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 4th, 2011 12:20pm | filed under Breaking News, Broken bats, Burgers, Celebrity Chefs, Celebrity Diners, Cult Cuisine, Food On TV, I Went to College for This?, Nutjobs, Patio Dining, Restaurant News, Sake, Sexy food, Slow News Day |

Somebody Help This Poor Daughter Out

This just in from a perplexed reader:

Help! My 76 year-old mother is coming to visit next week and she doesn’t like spicy food. I mean REALLY doesn’t like it. At all. She won’t eat salsa—she even thinks sausage on pizza is too spicy—but she loves to go out to eat. We’ve tried taking her to our favorite Indian or Mexican restaurants and asking them to prepare the food mild, but it never comes out truly mild. It’s harder than I thought to come up with non-spicy food that’s not bland or generic. I need suggestions of where to take her. Please don’t say burgers or Applebee’s; there’s got to be something better out there. Something not spicy, but not lowbrow either.

Dishers? Dish!

posted by Sarah Reiss | July 19th, 2011 12:39pm | filed under Sexy food, Slow News Day, Somebody Help, somebody help this poor girl out | 26 Comments »

Tei-An Celebrates 3rd Anniversary at One Arts Plaza in Dallas

Teiichi “Teach” Sakurai, the hardest working man in the noodle business.

On August 8, Tei-An is throwing a bash to celebrate their 3rd year at One Arts Plaza. According to tradition, that means you must bring a gift made of leather. (Oh boy, this guy will have a field day!)

But seriously, the party will feature food, drinks, and Hunter Sullivan’s three- piece band.

Jump for the five Ws.

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posted by Nancy Nichols | July 14th, 2011 12:33pm | filed under Celebrity Diners, Cult Cuisine, Restaurant News, Sexy food, celebrity sightings, hostess gifts, party | 6 Comments »

Eat This Now: Mushroom Soup from The Grape in Dallas

Warning: Sexual arousal may last up to four hours after consuming mushroom soup at The Grape.

Today Daniel Walker takes us to The Grape. He writes about the restaurant’s iconic mushroom soup. I know at least three people who got pregnant after eating this soup. Who knows how many of you reading this post were born after your parents shared a bowl. Ask them. Meanwhile, consider yourself warned. Go Daniel.

Rumor has it that within the dark, dank cellars of chef/owner Brian Luscher’s The Grape lies a secret chamber known only to faithful devotees and close loved ones, a room known only as “the sanctuary.”  In the corner of this room sits a single ornately carved stone pedestal, standing a few feet tall, bathed in the dim glow of a few flickering candles. While the revered relic that rests upon this pedestal is still in question, most experts agree that it represents only one of the great culinary achievements Luscher has presented to mankind.

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posted by Nancy Nichols | July 6th, 2011 10:00am | filed under Cult Cuisine, Daniel Walker, Restaurant News, Reviews, Sexy food, Ssexy food | 9 Comments »