One of the most anticipated openings in what promises to be a jam-packed restaurant season in Austin is less than a week away. Here’s how things are shaping up in the converted washateria now known as Launderette.
And the list includes chefs from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Nashville, as well as the usual homegrown talent.
High Plains grape grower, Andy Timmons of Lost Draw Vineyards has fast become a leading force in the Texas wine industry, and now he’s opening his own winery. We talk grapes, technology, wine and how to take Texas to a new chapter in American winemaking.
One of the state's oldest and most respected wineries embarks on a new beginning with a second Hill Country location.
Austin chef Paul Qui, Dallas steakhouse Knife, and San Antonio meat palace Cured all land top honors.
Find out which selections were considered liquid gold.
Food and wine fans from across the country will have a chance to share in a virtual community dinner in one of four cities on September 20 as part of a special event by Rodney Strong Vineyards. Benefitting the James Beard Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports culinary heritage
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, here's a donut shaped like the hook 'em horns sign.
Hot Joy, in Houston, and Thai-Khun, a popular trailer in Austin.
Amy Ferguson, who has lived in Hawaii for decades now but was instrumental in the development of the Southwestern cuisine culinary movement, talks about reading "Larousse Gastronomique" as a kid, encountering celebrity at a young age, and that time Julia Child kindly told her "you don't know anything."
A chance to eat locally-sourced ingredients at some of Texas's best restaurants.
A team of notable Dallas chefs will host a locally sourced dinner at the Dallas Farmers Market on Thursday, June 12, at 6:30 p.m., kicking off a fundraising effort for the bipartisan Legislative group known as the Texas House Farm-to-Table Caucus. A menu prepared by Graham Dodds (with Hibiscus), Sharon
A team of notable Dallas chefs will host a locally sourced dinner at the Dallas Farmers Market on Thursday, June 12, at 6:30 p.m., kicking off a fundraising effort for the bipartisan Legislative group known as the Texas House Farm-to-Table Caucus. A menu prepared by Graham Dodds (with Hibiscus), Sharon
And shares his recipe for Barbecued Bacon-Wrapped Quail with Jalapeño Ranch Dressing.
Chris Shepherd, of Underbelly in Houston, takes home the big prize.
This weekend, a group of acclaimed food and beverage personalities will flock to Austin for the third annual Austin Food & Wine Festival, including James Beard Foundation Award finalist Bryce Gilmore of the Odd Duck and Barley Swine in Austin. Below, Gilmore jumps into who should win this year’s James Beard
This weekend, a group of acclaimed food and beverage personalities will flock to Austin for the third annual Austin Food & Wine Festival, including pastry chef Jodi Elliott of the soon-to-open Bribery bakery in Austin. Below, Elliott spills details about her new dessert bar, leaving Foreign & Domestic, and her profound
This weekend, a group of acclaimed food and beverage personalities will flock to Austin for the third annual Austin Food & Wine Festival, including celebrity chef Rick Bayless of Top Chef Masters fame and the famed PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. Below, Bayless delves into Tex-Mex versus Mexican
Ortega discusses his personal culinary evolution and seeing the Houston culinary scene transform before his eyes.
Jenkins discusses what drew her to Austin, gender stereotypes in the kitchen, and her admiration for Rick Bayless.
Yu discusses his recent James Beard Foundation Award nomination, eating Austin ramen, and Paul Qui’s enviable fashion sense.
While many Texans were up late watching the Blood Moons, grape growers in the High Plains and the Hill Country spent their nights tending vines and hoping for the best. Both regions experienced below-freezing temperatures Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights, and late spring freezes like these are the sort of
The much-anticipated Live Fire announced its chef lineup this week, and if fast-selling tickets are any indication, this will be yet another stellar year for the annual culinary benefit. This marks the fourth year since the event was first launched by the Austin Food & Wine Alliance to raise funds
Justin Yu, Paul Qui, and Matt McCallister make the prestigious list.
"I don't know if it was the vintage, the vine age or the winemaking confidence, but that was a particularly motivating flight."
A Q&A with the guys at Houston’s Coltivare and Revival Market.
Food & Wine magazine released their annual The People’s Best New Chef ballots this morning, and an impressive number of Texas chefs are featured in the virtual competition.Justin Yu of Oxheart (Houston), Terrence Gallivan & Seth Siegel-Gardner of The Pass & Provisions (Houston), Matt Clouser of Swift’s Attic (Austin),
Four of the five chefs nominated for Best Chef Southwest hail from Texas.
A sneak peek inside.
The James Beard Foundation named the restaurant in the tiny town Buffalo Gap one of "America's Classics," a designation awarded to places that have "timeless appeal."
And La Barbecue, another Austin establishment, also made food critic Alan Richman's list of the best new restaurants of the year.
One day after Texas Monthly unveiled its list of the Best New Restaurants of 2014, the James Beard Foundation announced their 2014 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists early this morning, and there were quite a few overlapping restaurants and chefs. Here’s are the fourteen Texas chefs, bars and restaurants
Grab a table and get ready for a treat. The eating (and drinking) has never been better.
Glenn Felts, the owner of the well-known subterranean watering hole in the ghost town, was reportedly killed earlier this week.
The food festival will feature acclaimed chefs from all over the state, and tickets (a bit pricey, admittedly) are now on sale.
Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible recently named Garrison Brothers’s Cowboy Bourbon as its American Micro Whisky of the Year.
Texas fans of ABC’s The Taste, a cooking competition show, may have recognized a certain well-known Texas winemaker in the season’s first episode. Don Pullum of Mason, a small town west of Fredericksburg, wowed celebrity judges Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Marcus Samuelsson, and Ludo Lefebvre with his savvy culinary skills
Former La Condesa and Sway chef Rene Ortiz discusses his latest project, including Laundrette (an upscale café-grocery) and the Angry Bear (classic Chinese takeout).
Learn to make a Tex-Mex turkey, standing rib roast, and, the quintessential holiday dish, pumpkin pie.
The Falliday Leftover Throwdown, held in Houston, will challenge local chefs to take Turkey Day leftovers and create new dishes from them.
Because of a new tax in Mexico, cane sugar-sweetened Coca Cola could become more scarce. But "Mexican Coke" will still be bottled for the U.S. market.
Going once! Going twice! One of Texas' oldest wineries is up for auction on Wednesday, November 6. Let the bidding begin!
Arro, a French restaurant in downtown Austin, opened in July with executive chef/partner Drew Curren and pastry chef Mary Catherine Curren, his wife, at the helm. Texas Monthly food editor Patricia Sharpe recently spoke with Drew Curren about why he chose to try this cuisine in
Rene Ortiz and Laura Sawicki, the acclaimed chefs from La Condesa and Sway, exited the acclaimed restaurants to pursue other unnamed interests. We spoke to the new executive chef at La Condesa and heard his plans for the restaurant's future.
To Meatopia, pasta classes, a Middle Eastern feast, a guided wine tasting, and more.
“This isn’t a fad. This isn’t a cronut.” So says one of the people interviewed for this New York Times story on the kolache, the traditional Czech pastry filled with fruit, sausage, or cheese. Headlined “The Kolache: Czech-Tex Road Food,” the Dining section feature looks at the growing statewide
Two Dallas restaurants have made Esquire’s list of the twenty best new restaurants of the year, chosen by its longtime critic John Mariani. The pair are Spoon Bar & Kitchen, by chef John Tesar, and Stampede 66, by chef Stephan Pyles. No other Texas restaurants made the cut, although Mariani
Part of the attraction is the chance to win a replica of the infamous "Armadillo Cake," from Steel Magnolias.
This Thursday, September 12, I’ll be interviewing one of the Food Channel’s biggest stars, New York Times–bestselling cookbook author Ina Garten, a.k.a. the Barefoot Contessa. This will mark the opening performance of the 2013–2014 season of the Texas Performing Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Tickets are still
Get a sneak preview of the dinner.
