StarChefs.com awards recognized talent from Austin and San Antonio The Driskill buzzed with culinary talent and enthusiasts for the StarChefs.com Rising Stars Revue on Tuesday night. The San Antonio-Austin area was selected as one of the four U.S. “cities” that StarChefs.com features every calendar year.
Nibbles for Oscar night Having an Oscar party? Trying to decide what should be on the menu? Here's a simple but spectacular appetizer.
Food Matters: Georgetown Symposium is all about Sustenance Since 1978, Southwestern University in Georgetown has been hosting the Brown Symposium, an annual speaker series of academics, artists, authors and activists based around a single topic that is free for the public to attend.
Is Romeo's gone for good? Romeo’s appears to have closed its doors. A signed spotted on the front door Tuesday afternoon reads: “Tenant has been locked out,” and “Business closed down” was scrawled on a letter left at the front door. Furniture has
SXSW eats: Registration, tickets available for Bacon Takedown, Taco Experiment At a cook-off, usually it’s the contestants who are competing. But in the case of two Brooklyn-based touring cook-offs that are coming through Austin on March 11, it’s the cook-offs that are competing. For the second year, the Bacon
Frank Bruni to talk politics, food at the Headliners Club on Feb. 28 Groundbreaking journalist Frank Bruni has had a striking career. With The New York Times, he covered George W. Bush (as chronicled in his best-selling book “Ambling Into History”); he wrote about food with aplomb and a sharp eye
Qui, Speer and Gilmore named James Beard Awards semi-finalists Three Austin chefs have been named semi-finalists for the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards. Barley Swine’s Bryce Gilmore, already named one of Food & Wine’s best new chefs of 2011, has made the short list for Rising Star Chef
Food takes center stage at Southwestern University's Brown Symposium next week Since 1978, Southwestern University in Georgetown has been hosting the Brown Symposium, an annual speaker series of academics, artists, authors and activists that based around a single topic that is free for the public to attend. For the first
La Condesa opening in Los Angeles next year And the news just keeps on coming. Just a day after La Condesa pastry chef Laura Sawicki was lauded in Food & Wine’s inaugural list of best new pastry chefs, the owners of the hip interior Mexican restaurant