Food & Drink
November 21, 2019
Chef Bryce Gilmore Finally Shares His Recipes in ‘The Odd Duck Almanac’
The James Beard Award finalist behind Austin’s Odd Duck, Barley Swine, and Sour Duck Market publishes a cookbook as restaurant yearbook.
Bryce Gilmore
Food & Drink
May 9, 2019
Despite the Texas Shutout, There Was Much to Celebrate at the James Beard Awards
Our four chefs walked away empty-handed, yes, but this week's glamorous ceremony continued the trend of honoring more diverse and female finalists.
Food & Drink
March 27, 2019
Four of the Five James Beard Finalists for the Best Southwest Chef Are Texans
And yet, after the state’s even more stellar showing in the semifinals, the announcement feels disappointing.
Food & Drink
March 14, 2018
James Beard Foundation Showers Some Love on Texas
Austin and San Antonio chefs makes the final round, as does Anvil in Houston. Winners will be announced May 7.
Eat My Words
April 25, 2014
Bryce Gilmore to Man the Fire Pits at the Austin Food and Wine Festival
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
Eat My Words
March 18, 2014
Texas Represents Among the James Beard Award Finalists
Four of the five chefs nominated for Best Chef Southwest hail from Texas.
Food & Drink
January 15, 2014
Quack in the Box
Bryce Gilmore’s much-loved Austin food truck returns as a brick-and-mortar.
Eat My Words
March 20, 2013
How Bryce Gilmore and Chris Shepherd Celebrated Their James Beard Noms
Bryce Gilmore, of Barley Swine, in Austin, and Chris Shepherd, of Underbelly in Houston, were among the eight Texas chefs, writers, and restaurants nominated for a James Beard Award, the highest honor given in the food world. Garden and Gun magazine recently caught up with the two chefs to
Food & Drink
March 5, 2013
Janina O’Leary and Bryce Gilmore on Being James Beard Semifinalists
On March 18, the finalists for the James Beard Foundation Awards will be announced. Up until that date, Texas Monthly will speak with a number of the Texas semifinalists about their James Beard experience.Today, we’re featuring two of the three Texas semifinalists for Rising Star Chef of the Year: Janina
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Where to Eat Now 2012
White tablecloths. Street food. Small portions. Lots and lots of innards. The only thing the ten best new Texas restaurants have in common is a willingness to prove that there is no such thing as a “Texas restaurant.” But when the escargots with fennel purée are this good, who cares?
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Get Cooking
Recipes from the ten top restaurants in Texas.
Eat My Words
December 7, 2012
Deana Saukam on Paul Qui, Engagement, Traveling, Eating, and What’s to Come in 2013
Every king needs his queen, and for Paul Qui – chef/owner of East Side King and winner of Top Chef Texas – that queen is Deana Saukam. Deana, better known for her alter ego the East Side Queen, has been by Paul’s side ever since his whirlwind rise to fame. After Paul’s win on Top Chef
Eat My Words
October 16, 2012
Bryce Gilmore Announces Plans for Odd Duck Restaurant
Bryce Gilmore has announced plans to open a brick-and-mortar location of the food trailer that propelled him into local fame: The Odd Duck. The 120-seat Odd Duck restaurant will re-open in Spring 2013 in its original location at 1219 South Lamar Boulevard with “a rustic and casual atmosphere [featuring] simple and
Eat My Words
September 25, 2012
Tickets for Austin Food & Wine Alliance’s Wine & Swine On Sale
Tickets are now on sale for the Austin Food & Wine Alliance’s 2nd Annual Wine & Swine. The hog-centric event will take place on Sunday, November 4 at Pioneer Farms in Austin. A dozen chefs including The Noble Pig’s
Eat My Words
September 3, 2012
Anthony Bourdain’s ‘No Reservations’ features the city of Austin tonight
Ready your remotes, my friends. Tonight is the premiere of the final season of Anthony Bourdain’s hit series “No Reservations” on the Travel Channel. The first episode of the season features none other than Austin, which Bourdain stopped by during the SXSW music festival in March. As I mentioned before,
Eat My Words
April 24, 2012
Gail Simmons on Austin vs. New York, Paul Qui, and Texas summers
There aren’t many Anna Wintours out there in the world. In fact, most magazine editors generally prefer to stay hidden from the glare of media exposure. Glued to recorders and notepads, they are the ones who conduct interviews, the ones who bury themselves
Eat My Words
March 28, 2012
Bryce and Jack Gilmore talk James Beard, local farmers, and a potential father-son restaurant
In case you haven’t heard the exciting news, Austin’s Jack and Bryce Gilmore are headed to the streets and avenues of New York to knock on the prestigious doors of the James Beard House. The father-and-son duo from Barley Swine and Jack Allen’s Kitchen are vigorously planning
Eat My Words
February 15, 2012
The Ten Best New Restaurants in Texas!!!
Starting in 2002, I have eaten my weight in lamb chops, roasted beets, pork belly, and micro-cilantro every year to come up with Texas Monthly’s annual list of the most innovative, exciting, and delicious new Texas restaurants. For 2012, our feature “Where to Eat Now” runs the gamut from a
Food & Drink
February 1, 2012
Texas Food Lovers
Twenty chefs and restaurants make the James Beard semifinals.
Eat My Words
January 27, 2012
More Proof That Austin Is Smoking Hot!
There’s nothing like a bandwagon. No sooner did Food & Wine and Bon Appétit fall all over themselves to give Austin a whole lotta love than StarChefs.com (an online magazine for chefs and culinary insiders) decided to hold one of its four national awards ceremonies in Austin
Eat My Words
November 22, 2011
Thanksgiving with the Gilmores: Recipes From Jack Allen’s Kitchen and Barley Swine chefs
In the years since the first Thanksgiving, families throughout the U.S. have created their own culinary traditions, separate from the archetypal choices. Some opt to forego turkey for Cornish game hens, beef tenderloin, or honey spiraled ham. Some would rather buy cheap, canned jellied cranberries than create their
Food & Drink
May 31, 2011
Barley Swine
It helps if you understand just how small Barley Swine is: thirty-odd chairs along a short bar and around tall tables in a limestone building on a South Austin thoroughfare. It’s so compact that the minute you sit down you become best friends with the strangers on either side of
Eat My Words
May 26, 2011
Trailer Thursday: Grilled Quail With Green Beans and Shishito Pepper at Odd Duck Farm to Trailer
For years, trailers were the ugly ducking of the culinary scene, with spotty service, slim variety, and the constant specter of food poisoning. Enter a new era, the age of the concept truck, when innovative chefs, cooks, and just plain ordinary folks started opening up quirky, fun food trailers to serve
Food & Drink
February 1, 2011
Street Food
At a time when trailer food is all the rage, a few Austin restaurateurs are making the shift from mobile to brick and mortar—and lovin’ it.