Our Web Developer Went to a Benefit for Underprivileged Children and All We Got Was This Stupid Article By Shea Scott Hopefully the tone of this article in no way diminishes the incredible work of the organizers, volunteers, and vendors of The Taste of North Texas. Read more about The Denton Noon Kiwanis Club and please consider making a donation to support their Children's Clinic. Although
Lanky: Champion of the (Denton Food) World Dallas, you can keep your league-topping Stars and Mavericks teams; Arlington, you can choke on all your World Series baseball champion rings; Denton doesn’t need your sportsball baubles, cos we’ve got Lanky, undisputed champion of the gloriously weird Secret Chef reality-television competition on Hulu. Think of Secret Chef
Our Inaugural Class (everyone passed!) By Rob Curran Hottestplate.com’s inaugural cooking class has not dragged the youthful publication into any serious Salmonella lawsuits, as of press time. A GoFundme site set up for a defense fund related to the March 20 Spanish tapas evening at Flour Power cooking school on East Hickory, Denton
Triptych – A Modern (Largely) Coffee Romance By Rob Curran Betz Baker and Lois Robertson knew exactly how long the most momentous meeting of their business lives would last – 20 minutes…the time it took Lois to come up on an edible. Betz was working at Kimzey’s coffee shop in Argyle when they met Lois, who
Ten:One - The Godhead is in the Cheese By Rob Curran There’s a cosmology developed in medieval times by an Italian miller named Menocchio which holds that human life burst forth from the earth itself in the same way that worms can spring from a fermenting cheese. I first met Justin Bonard 14 years ago. We were
Aglio Pizzeria Founders and Lead Pizzaiole: Dave & Stacy Dockins By Lasamee Kettavong It’s impossible to deny the curiosity evoked when you see the Dockins’ van that once served as their tiny home as they traveled along the west coast and worked remotely. It’s sleek and shiny and has surfboards
Don't Confuse the Risotto By Kenny Severson I’m excited. I met someone. Rosalyn. We knew each other from my last job at the university. She’s a poetry teacher. We flirted at the end-of-year potluck and over the summer when she stopped by the office with her dog, Odie. Our run-ins broke up
Viet Bites and the Future of North Texas Cuisine By Rob Curran James Trinh is a salt-of-the-earth type of man, and I can almost hear him laughing at being dubbed a North Texas food hero. Bear with me. Trinh comes from a long line of Vietnamese heroes, and anyone who, like me, has lined out on an indoor soccer
L’Amitie — Ooh La La By Rob Curran L'Amitie, the new cafe next door to Osteria il Muro on West Congress and Bolivar is an intriguing mix of French chic and Denton chill. Amitie and Stan Robbins met in Denton in the 90s while both attended the University of North Texas. They moved
Spiral Becomes Latest Victim of Spiraling Hipster Famine, Citing Lease By Rob Curran Humans cannot live on woolen cardigans, antique leather boots and owl glasses alone, but the evisceration of Denton’s hipster eateries and drinkeries threatens to bring about that very prospect. The latest uber-cool joint to evacuate is Spiral Diner, a vegan restaurant that opened 2017, and rode
Denton’s 20 Years Quest for the Golden Jesus Chili Cook-off 2024 anniversary celebration honors those here and gone By Dr. Shaun Treat Photography by Nite Davis Some things are so great you wonder, did that really happen? And so it is with the Golden Jesus Chili Cook-off. Part myth and fuzzy memories, this legendary underground showdown began as a booze-fueled
Members only Welcome to my Food Publication…Food is an Alien Concept to me (but I do Own an Instant Pot) By Rob Curran Every nation and culture has its own special food flavors. The peerless juiciness of West African beef prepared in its own gravy; the endless subtleties of Asian noodle soups; the umami intrigue of native American corn soup and buffalo cuts. Every nation has its own flavors, that
essential-leaves by Lasamee Kettavong I’ve loved khao poon for as long as I can remember. Khao poon is the shortened title I’ve given to one of my favorite Lao meals: it’s a red curry and coconut milk based soup that is served with rice vermicelli or somen noodles
Workers Walk Out on Tarnished Remains of Golden Boy By Rob Curran Denton foodworkers continue to take the power back, leaving their customers in equal measures proud and sad. Golden Boy Coffee, the hippest joint in Denton's hipster scene for a half-decade, appears to have imploded as managers and staff walked off the job en masse early
Osteria il Muro: Fancy, but Denton Fancy by Rob Curran My younger daughter went to Cotillion the other day. I still don’t really know what Cotillion is, and I was there with her. Google says it was popular in 18th century England, which suggests to me that things must have been kind of slow in 18th
Banana Bread Oatmeal By Shea Scott First off, I took the photo above in April of 2020, divorced and alone in a dilapidated apartment in Austin about a month after the world shut down. If it bears some resemblance to Tom Hanks' volleyball buddy, Mr. Wilson, I was in a similar state
Tiny Italy, or Life After J&J’s Pizza By Rob Curran Welcome to Tiny Italy…also known as Honey, I Shrunk Little Italy and Slapped it Smack Dab in the Middle of Denton, Texas. Stroll onto the square heading north from Elm Street, where you will have parked in one of the spots outside the burnt-out husk of
Paid-members only Sunday Roast By Rob Curran Mention the Sunday Roast to an American and they will prolly envision a claret-quaffing Downton Abbey type with their thumbs in their smoking jacket and a hunting dog trotting along at their side. It’s a bit more complicated than that. The Sunday roast (classically a chicken
Paid-members only The Nonna Diaries: Pasta Simple By Rob Curran Nonna is one of the finest exponents of Venetian cooking you will ever meet, and Venice, of course, one of the finest exponents of Italian cuisine. When you taste a pasta sauce cooked by Nonna, your palate will cast about in vain for some reference point on
Holiday Gift Guide By Shea Scott All killer, no filler kitchen gifts for the cook in your life (or yourself, we won't report you to Santa). All products guaranteed to have a longer shelf-life than the Bass-O-Matic. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. ie. we earn a small
Keiichi…Probably the Best Restaurant in Texas By Rob Curran There’s an old television commercial from the glory days of London’s advertising agencies. A man walks through an abandoned wing of a large corporate office, his lonesome footfalls echoing through the endless corridor. He’s trying to pinpoint a ringing telephone. Eventually, he lets himself
Pumpkin Guajillo Soup By Shea Scott Pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread aren't the only things you can make from a can of pumpkin puree. This soup is kind of a mash up between West African peanut soup and salsa macha. It's easy enough for a weeknight meal, but wouldn&
Paid-members only The Nonna Diaries: Holiday Special By Rob Curran In a New York Times article a few years ago, a longtime Italian correspondent for the newspaper described their quest for the perfect carbonara recipe. Spaghetti carbonara is a sort of Jerusalem for Italian cooking enthusiasts; everyone has a faith-based claim to authentic ownership of this hallowed
Tandoori Chicken By Rob Curran and Shea Scott My friend Anjali Cordeiro introduced me to Indian home cuisine. Anjali, a colleague of mine at Dow Jones in New Jersey, did not do too much cooking herself. She was more apt to buy meals from the “tiffin lady” who delivered the kind of
