Editor’s Note: Eat Drink D-FW is hosted by Dallas Morning News Food Editor Erin Booke with food reporters Sarah Blaskovich and Claire Ballor. Each week, our food journalists dish, debate and analyze local restaurant news, food and drink trends, tips for cooking and shopping, and other obsessions. You’ll also hear from chefs, farmers and foodies like yourself as we explore the people who make D-FW one of the most vibrant, diverse and ambitious food scenes in the country.
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Why are Dallas restaurants so expensive right now? Plus, menu angst
In our debut Eat Drink D-FW episode, food editor Erin Booke and food reporters Sarah Blaskovich and Claire Ballor talk about the biggest restaurant news of the week — from crazy menu prices to big Fort Worth moves — before diving into what’s trending on the food scene this year. What’s in? Excess and flashy restaurants (so very Dallas, but also, kind of a conundrum), and why we love simpler menus. What’s out? You take a guess. (It rhymes with Bot Thicken.) Then Sarah meets up with Texas Rangers insider Evan Grant at Loro in East Dallas to talk about why they always order way too much food.
The best sandwiches in North Texas. Plus, Alligator corn dogs at the ballpark?
Food editor Erin Booke talks with contributing food writer Nick Rallo about one of our favorite foods: sandwiches. And no, that doesn’t mean hot dogs. That’ll be another episode. Nick discusses the elements of a great sandwich and where to get the best ones in North Texas. Then we go on a field trip to Globe Life Field in Arlington with food writer Sarah Blaskovich and Rangers reporter Evan Grant as they sample new food at the Texas Rangers games, from alligator corn dogs (tastes like chicken) to vegan chicken salad sandwich (amazingly, also tastes like chicken.)
Meet our foodies
In this special episode, food editor Erin Booke and food reporters Sarah Blaskovich and Claire Ballor discuss their beats, why they got into food journalism and their “foodie origin stories” (including at least one latchkey kid who knew her way around a can of Vienna sausages). Sarah also reveals how getting stood up on Valentine’s Day led to her finding the love of her life at a pub on McKinney Avenue.
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