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City of Ate: Best Of Dallas
04/11/2014 By Scott Reitz
I don't want to jinx it, but if this cool spring weather pattern keeps up, we're going to have a lot of time to sip our beverage of choice out on the patio. We're almost halfway through...
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City of Ate: Beer
12/17/2013 By Jesse Hughey
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. is launching what founder John Reardon says may be their best beer yet tonight at Goodfriend Beer Garden. After enjoying a sample bottle, I am inclined to agree. ...
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City of Ate: Events
11/01/2013 By Luke Darby
Hot on the heels of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes Movember, a month-long event dedicated to raising awareness about prostate cancer. Officially, by
presidential order,...
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City of Ate: Best Of Dallas
10/29/2013 By Scott Reitz
Oh, you sad sap. Why are you sitting on your sofa nursing a whiskey bottle in solitude? Has your significant other suggested you take some time to grow as a person? Have all of your friends...
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City of Ate: Best Of Dallas
08/16/2013 By Scott Reitz
Beer: It's why we were created. Our parents made us after having too much beer, and they nurtured us so that we could one day grow to love beer as well.
And it's a great time to be a beer...
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City of Ate: Food News
07/29/2013 By Scott Reitz
I feel like it was just a few weeks ago I was hanging out at Lakewood Brewing Co. out in Garland, trying to figure out what was aging away in those barrels pictured above. But that was way...
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City of Ate: Best Of Dallas
03/28/2013 By Scott Reitz
I love baseball but building a stadium miles outside of a city center is just stupid. Except for a special occasion, I can't be bothered to drive all that way to buy an expensive ticket, eat...
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Calendar: Highlights
Dowdy Studio is run by a screen-printing married couple that’s so freaking cute that you’ll want to puke. And guess what else? Their tees, prints, pillows and other creations are...
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City of Ate: Best Of Dallas
12/11/2012 By Scott Reitz
We love to drink here at the Observer. We take no shame in our excessively inebriated stories, and actually work hard to pack as much beer and liquor into every post possible. But as much as...
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City of Ate: Food News
10/11/2012 By Scott Reitz
While Snack wrestles with a new menu, concept, or whatever they're planning to accomplish during their two week hiatus, Goodfriend in East Dallas is spending that time celebrating their...
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City of Ate: Food News
08/07/2012 By Scott Reitz
Lakewood Brewing tapped its first two beers for the public this past weekend to an enthusiastic crowd at Goodfriend. A bartender told me it was the burger restaurant's busiest day since it...
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City of Ate: 100 Favorite Dishes
06/08/2012 By Scott Reitz
To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the...
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City of Ate: Food News
06/05/2012 By Scott Reitz
News of the Acme F&B opening has been peppered with mentions of a farmer friendly "whole animal allocation" program. The language came from a news release sent out a day before the...
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City of Ate: Eat This
03/08/2012 By Scott Reitz
"I'd like to get the Chili Bomb," I told my bartender moments after I'd taken my stool. "The pepper bomb?" he asked, confirming my order. I was staring right at the menu, clearly the 11.75%...
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Dining: Reviews
The saying goes that friends are the family you get to choose. There's truth in the words, however cliché, but we don't have as much control choosing the fixtures in our lives as we...