Spike Vodka’s gay team wants to queerify Dallas’ cocktail culture even more RICH LOPEZ | Contributing Writer getrichindallas@gmail.com Gays and cocktails are a match practically made in heaven: Where would we be without happy hour, martini madness or the ever-popular “U-call-it” nights? Bacardi, Absolut and Jose Cuervo may all top the faves list for spirits, [...]
As every schoolboy knows, “Cinco de Mayo” is Spanish for “Let’s go into a food coma by eating tacos.” Which is exactly how I spent my weekend. Technically, I didn’t undertake this voyage gastronomique on Sunday, the actual 5th of May, but on Saturday, so-called Star Wars Day (“May the 4th be with you”), but [...]
The third annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival returns to Oahu Sept. 1–9, and the lineup is pretty gay. Out chefs and former Top Chef Masters contestants Art Smith (Chicago’s Table 52 and Oprah’s fave cook, pictured) and Anita Lo (New York’s Annisa) are among the new celebrity kitchen maters slated to appear. They’ll join returning [...]
If you live in Dallas, you eat tacos — simple as that. Jose Ralat-Maldonado has chronicled the best of this distinctive street food on his Taco Trail blog for years, but this weekend moves from commentator to impresario with his inaugural North Texas Taco Festival in Deep Ellum on Saturday. You can sample tacos from restos like [...]
One visit. One meal. One shot to get it right Union Bear As an aging hipster myself, I have to confess that one thing I don’t like about hipster culture is this: Hipsters judge. And they manifest those judgments in many not-so-subtle ways. (In that way, they’re a lot like the gay community.) So, when [...]
Last week, I did a Sweet Sixteen bracket, not for NCAA men’s basketball, but for the cocktails at Cook Hall. The gastropub at the W Hotel asked me to judge the creations customers can make with their offered cocktail kits. You can follow them on Facebook and win stuff if you can guess the outcome.) [...]
Cafe des Artistes in One Arts Plaza has the look of a Parisian brasserie. So where is the cuisine to match? ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Ah, Paris during La Belle Epoque: Petticoat-clad ladies dancing le can-can at the Moulin Rouge, Jules Cheret posters dotting streetlamps and alleyways with vibrant colors, music from [...]
