At a baby shower this weekend in Dallas, I had the good fortune to sample the famous petits fours made by Stein’s Bakery. Info on Stein’s is hard to come by, but Dallas writer Kim Pierce confirms that it is, indeed, a local business, one she calls “an old-style Dallas favorite.” All other details aside, [...]
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Say you’re cruising 71 from Austin to Bastrop and you see these signs. You’re hungry, yes, and you’re in a hurry. You know what you’ll get if you choose McDonald’s, and you know you’ll be back on the road in minutes. If you’re a locavore, though, you opt for Oaxacan Tamaleo. And you are not [...]
The stars were many and bright today at San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, where a day-long event called Sunday Fair wrapped up the 23rd annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival. Inside three vast tents, signs heralded our familiar Texas foods and wines… Becker… Téo… Tito’s… Freixenet… Ecco Domani… Wait! Many of [...]
After last night’s tastebud-pleasing “Set a Course” wine and food event at the Dallas Contemporary, I headed to Grapevine for the night. I plan to explore the downtown a bit today, perhaps visiting a winery, too. First things first, though: un café et un croissant aux amandes at the torn-from-the-guidebook French cafe, the [...]
Where will you be Monday night? I’ll be at the all-Texas wine tasting the Wine & Food Foundation of Texas is sponsoring at the Dallas Contemporary art space. Sure, it’s a haul. But if you’ve been looking for a chance to see what all the recent Texas wine buzz has been about, [...]
When visiting family in the Houston suburbs, Husband and I tend to undergo foodies’ withdrawal from the farmers’ markets and gourmet groceries we’re hooked on at home. Thank goodness Grandma phoned in a request for doughnuts as we turned off I-10 yesterday. Scouring the Sugar Land strip malls to fulfill her request, we [...]