Dotty Griffith, queen of the Dallas food scene, is officially off the clock. D Magazine reports that after nearly 30 years with the Dallas Morning News, Griffith is taking the money and running.

One Italian mayor starts a citywide weight-loss program.

1) An article in Friday’s Dallas Morning News states that Ritz-Carlton is a few weeks away from announcing construction of a hotel at an uptown site. There aren’t any restaurant details in the article; but odds are,...

Texan high school kids go gourmet.

It’s Iowa State Fair time and a few months before the Iowa caucus, which means the national media can only talk about one thing: fried Twinkies.

Venerable Jimmy’s fell victim to a fire last night. Here is a link to the story: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/3790327/detail.html

David Holben, a well known Dallas cook, must be the new chef du cuisine. My, my how clever...

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This week’s mission: a spirit that’s supposed to prevent hangovers, and middlebrow holiday cheese.

This just in: Fruits and vegetables are more healthy when grown with pesticides.

Planning on visiting my brother in a couple weeks and wanted to see what’s in Dallas these days. My bro is fairly adventerous but needs a little guidence on the ways of the world. He lives by Greenville and Mockingbird....

Here’a link to favorite seafood restaurants from the Dallas Morning News: http://eatsblog.guidelive.com/

I want to second the recommendation for Bene Bene. My husband and I ate there last Saturday after we read the review in the Dallas Morning News. It was fabulous! We started with the sauteed calamari and the artichoke salad....

and said she could make bagels like that at home and does. Anybody can make Texas bagels from bread dough, They like them soft. The Dallas Morning News food writer (before the current one) once dinged Bagelsteins and Deli News...

...all have been tried an tested! http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/555313 As you can tell I go mostly for the ethnic places. Another place that got a mention in the Dallas Morning News is Temptations Himalayan and Indian. Both the...

Thanks. I’ll add that one to my list of places to try. Here’s the GuideLive review(Dallas Morning News) of it. Mesquite BBQ apparently is hickory bbq. Does sound like the place has some good history to it. Link: http