Lakewood Smokehouse

Lakewood Smokehouse's recently opened restaurant on Abrams Road seems to make tons of people happy or else it wouldn't have been so busy on a Wednesday. We were invited to check out the menu this past week, which meant conquering the quest to find food for Almost Veggie people at none other than a BBQ place. The first area of a menu that almost always wins has a list of sides. This section is...

The Skellig is a Pub

After being told we were meeting loads of people at The Skellig for brunch, I quickly asked Google what to expect. Google promised skellig is some kind of rock from the sea. Three extra minutes of deeper detective work uncovered that skelligs are actually a group of rocks near Ireland. Pubs and Ireland go together, so The Skellig is a sensible pub name. This is how I feel, so it must be true....

Sundown at Granada Media Tasting

Sundown at Granada introduced their new winter menu to writers this past week. Sitting across the street at Wayward Sons an hour before the tasting began seemed like a great idea.  I quickly violated executive chef Graham Dodds' privacy by taking a super secret chef picture while he was concentrating on paperwork at the bar. The time to head over to Sundown at Granada meant being greeted by a...

Media Preview at Bite by Eddy T

Maybe important writers automatically know an invitation to a media tasting is +1. This +1 can make or break coolness when already struggling in the cool category. An invitation might read +1 or not. For some unknown reason, I usually guess by over-analyzing invitations. This time--- not so much. Cutting to the chase means letting the internet know a recent media tasting at Bite by Eddy T was...

Clark Food & Wine Co.

Clark Food & Wine Co. recently received some kind of important Tastemaker award from Culturemap. This news became breaking after snooping Clark's website four minutes ago. The restaurant's owner is hotshot Randall Warder from the Mansion on Turtle Creek, who also owns C'Viche next door.  Having had several consistently consistent experiences that were well above average across the board,...