Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 2006 Page: 59 of 84
eighty four pages : ill.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Tasting notes
Dallas the Source of beverage trial;
eateries prepare for the holidays
By Arnold Wayne Jones Staff Writer
This is the season for friends, family and food.
No one can give you the first twOj but area
restaurants can help on the third.
The already-essential new fine dining estab-
lishment Bijoux hosts an elegant truffle wine
dinner on Dec. 8 and 9. Wines from France,
Australia and Napa will be paired with courses
accented with truffles. The cost is $200. For
reservations, call 214-350-6100.
Oceanaire readies for 2007 with a special
New Year's Eve three-course menu, plus sides
and dessert. The cost is $75 per person. Call 972-
759-2277 for reservations. La Duni celebrates
with a four-course dinner at both Uptown loca-
tions. The cost is $49.50.
Ron Guest's popular Henderson Street
Mexican kitchen Cafe San Miguel is selling gift
cards for the holidays. They are available in $20
increments and discounts are offered for multiple
purchases of at least 10.
Veuve, chef Tony Gardizi's new restaurant
and club in Addison, holds its official grand
opening tonight at 7:30 p.m. Can't make it
today? Consider the four-course absinthe dinner
on Dec. 22, where the notorious potable will
make an appearance in all five courses. The cost
is $100. Call 972-788-1928 for reservations.
Little Katana near Travis Walk offers two-
for-one sushi during lunch during the week.
Through the end of the year, it's also featuring
the lychee saketini, which combines lychee
liqueur with sake.
Dallasite may get to set the tastes for the nation
in the coming weeks. Smirnoff is test-marketing
a new malt beverage, Smirnoff Source, in the
DFW area. A clear version of its Smirnoff Ice,
Source comes lightly flavored with citrus and
contains about as much alcohol as a beer. It's
available at retailers and at clubs.
As if it weren't already hip enough, South Side
on Lamar has another purveyor of alternative
foodstuffs. Texas Caribbean Foods offers a
variety of Jamaican-style cuisine, like smoked
jerk turkey and chicken, coco bread and bread
pudding with butter rum-raisin sauce.
Restaurants are doing their part to get into the
holiday spirit. Metro Grill continues a canned
food drive for the North Texas Food Bank
through Dec. 18. Dropped off some canned
goods to help the needy during the holidays and
Desserts like this raspberry mousse cake are available for
holiday shipment from Doughmonkey.
be entered in a drawing for a free catered lunch.
And through Dec. 18, area middle and high
school choirs will perform at branches of La
Madeleine across the Metroplex.
Flotel Crescent Court hosts its annual
"Breakfast with Santa" for the next three
Saturdays at 9 a.m. Kids can bring their wish lists
and dine with St. Nick.
Rhonda Ruckman, chef at Doughmonkey in
Snider Plaza, has packaged her cookies, cakes
and scones in ready-to-bake containers. You can
ship your favorite melted-chocolate center cakes
and snickerdoodles cookies to your favorite rela-
tive or just keep some in your freezer for last-
minute holiday treats. Prices range from $13 to
$55. Visit Doughmonkey.com for details.
Tutto is no more, but in its place is
Temptations, which serves Indian cuisine.
Another Indian favorite, Clay Pit, celebrates
four years on Belt Line Road by launching a new
menu with items like crab cakes in mango cream
sauce and a masala ribeye steak.
Gay chef Chris Svalesen's Cedar Springs
restaurant is no more. Sage, which opened on
Mother's Day, never gained traction, in part
because of its location and partly due to the fail-
ure to secure a liquor license until three months
after opening.
GermanDeli.com has a collection of
Bavarian "rumtopfs," decorative porcelain pots
with rum used for fermenting fruit in liquor for a
delicious holiday treat. They are available on the
Web site or at 2890 Market Loop in Southlake.
Also in Southlake: Central Market opened its
newest store this week.
NEXT UP: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
During to holidays, people joke that they shop 'til
they drop, but that's only because they're not eating
well. Here are some ideas for maintaining blood
sugar and energy during those marathons at the
mall.
Mermaid Bar at Neiman Marcus North Park, pic-
tured. Nothing seems like Dallas quite so definitive-
ly as lunch at the granddaddy of all department
stores. The first-floor cafe (not to be confused with
the terrific but higher-end Zodiac Room on the top
floor) serves the signature tortilla soup, great pies
and those notoriously good cookies (and no, they wiii
not charge your credit card $250 for the recipe, so
relax).
Bistro N at Nordstrom. Everyone cooed about the
retail side of Norstrom when it opened late last year,
but its in-house restaurant may be the nicest sur-
prise. Reasonably-priced lunches, including a delec-
table four-cheese pizza, provides an oasis from the
hubbub of the sales floor.
Taco Diner
in the West
Village, Still
one of the
best places
in town to get
fish tacos,
this reliable
taqueria pro-
vides deli-
cious but not
heavy lunch
options and
great salsas,
Crossroads
Market and
Cafe on Cedar Springs. Sometimes, all it takes is a
muffin and cuppa joe to tide you over, and
Crossroads offers some yummy options every day,
plus some sandwiches for bigger shopping days.
—AW. J.
purity+
c "Ar
■
5«.
r: .4
/ V V t
//
(ftll&WQ
SOURCE
«106
contains
pure spring water
+
alcohol
lightly carbonated
malt beverage with spring water
and natural flavors
KKD 4 BOTTLED BY THE SMIRNOFF CO PIMFB1 I
1 PINT-3.51-. ALC/VOl
pure spring water+alcohol.
clearly different, clearly smirnoff.
pure spring water plus alcohol 3.5% abv lightly carbonated malt beverage
Enjoy SMIRNOFF SOURCE Responsibly.
12.08.06 I dallas voice I 59
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Nash, Tammye. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 2006, newspaper, December 8, 2006; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth238938/m1/59/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.