EscapeHatchDallas

25
Apr

State Fare: Vaca y Vino, near Austin, should be on your bucket list next year

Last weekend, Austin chefs Emmett Fox (of Fino and Asti), Lou Lambert (of Lamberts Downtown Barbecue) and Larry McGuire (of Perla’s and Elizabeth Street Café) hogtied an 850 pound Texas steer to a custom made grill, built a bed of hot oak coals in a cedar block pit in the middle of a perfect meadow a half-hour’s drive south of Austin, and Continue reading →

April 25, 2012 8:05 AM
Eat Here, Eating the Road, featured, Food & Wine Events, This Way In (All Posts), This Way Out (Travel)
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Mike Hiller

austin chefs / hog tied / steer roast / vaca y vino

16
Mar

Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair follows SavorDallas on the eat-and-drink calendar

National brands and Texas labels will share the tasting tables at the five-day Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair, April 18-22. If SavorDallas (March 30-31) puts you in the mood to sip and swirl down south, here are the details the SLWAFA provided me: Wednesday, April 18 Buen Provecho! Dinner with the Cordúas in the Continue reading →

March 16, 2012 12:18 PM
Eating the Road, featured, Food & Wine Events, This Way In (All Posts), This Way Out (Travel)
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Mike Hiller

houston / sip and swirl / wine events

24
Nov

Houston Restaurant Critic Alison Cook: “I’ve Been Banned from a Restaurant”

“Well, it’s finally happened,” writes Houston Chronicle’s Alison Cook. Fair? Or publicity stunt?

November 24, 2011 5:04 PM
Eat Here, Eating the Road, featured, This Way In (All Posts)
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Mike Hiller

alison cook / bad news / banned / houston crazies

23
Jun

Brazilian Churrascaria Fogo de Chao Expanding Again

This makes 19 stores for the Dallas-based Brazilian steakhouse concept. Their newest location: Rio de Janeiro. (Wonder if it’ll be as good as Porcao?)