Texas

Get Ready For The "Breastaurant"

Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill, a chain eatery in Texas, has just registered the term "breastaurant." No, that doesn't mean it's a place where you can openly breast feed at your table. (Though I'd have to check Texas law to see if maybe it does mean that.) It refers to the fact that the waitresses are ... More >>

Absu

An Open Letter to Santa Claus

Dear Santa, We've been pretty good this year. We supported the New York establishments that we love and worked tirelessly to perfect our homemade baked goods. We buried our heads in hundreds of tasty books and still found a few ways to keep the spice in our lives. We ate a lot of meat (but we're ... More >>

Update: Multiple Shooting Victims at Texas A&M University; Gunman, Two Others Dead

Update 4:10 p.m.: KBTX is reporting the College Station Police Department has confirmed three people dead. Officials now say that Constable Brian Bachmann has been shot dead, as well as the gunman and a male civilian. CSPD is now reporting that one officer was shot in the leg, one female civilian is ... More >>

How To Make A Brisket Sandwich at Hill Country, Dish #92

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes to Eat Now: Benoit's Cheeseburger with Fries, Dish #93 | Ezme With Homemade Pitas at Hazar, Dish #94 | C ... More >>

Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole

Honor Killing Suspect May Be Hiding In New York; Yaser Said Accused Of Murdering Daughters For Becoming "Westernized"

The Egyptian-born suspect in the "honor killings" of his two daughters may be hiding out in the New York City area and posing as a cab driver, according to a private detective investigating the murders.Yaser Said, who is Muslim, is accused of murdering his two daughters in Texas in 2008 because they ... More >>

Maybe This Is the Pie You've Been Waiting For All Your Life: Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza

Maybe we're living in the wrong country: the British rendition of Pizza Hut seems much more adventuresome in their pizza tinkerings. In this case, they've invented a pie with a hot dog, or maybe hot dogs, baked into the circumferential edge of the crust, known to cognoscenti as "The Bone."

How Much Is Enough? Our Values in Question—Is There Importance in Being Earnest?

The Foundry founders a bit this go-round

ANALYZE THIS

The Socratic method . . . like therapy only better

It's Not Too Late to Buy This 6-Foot Rick Perry Chia Head

​Necessity is the mother of invention, and we need a 6-foot terra cotta flower planter that looks extraordinarily like Texas Governor/wannabe presidential nominee Rick Perry. It is for sale on eBay for $4,500 (local pick-up offered in Blanco, Texas). "The outline of his hair is surprisingly ac ... More >>

The Strange Boys

Joe Ely Band

Surfer Blood+And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

How Do I Properly Say 'Hola' to Mexicans?

And what's one thing Mexicans are good for?

Forget About the Poultry: Hill Country Chicken's Pies Sound Amazing

Hill Country Pies​Hill Country Chicken opens today, and Grub Street has helpfully supplied a PDF of its menu. Having pored over it for the past few minutes, we find ourselves less excited by the chicken than the restaurant's massive pie menu. Why? Two words: "whiskey buttermilk."

Saddam Hussein, Day Laborer, in Baghdad, Texas

HNH BBQ Pop-Up at Trophy Bar in Williamsburg

​The gorgeous brisket sandwich at HNH BBQ pop-up. When I read in Eater that some ex-Houstonians with connections to Vietnamese restaurant An Choi were superintending a pop-up barbecue joint in the back yard of Trophy Bar on Broadway in Williamsburg last Thursday evening from 6:30 till 11, I w ... More >>

Bel Air+Mama Bear+Holy Moly

Studies in Crap: '30s Texas History Textbook on Lazy Indians, Idle Negroes, and Awesome White Folks!

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ The Lone Star State: A School History Author: C.R. Wharton Date: 1932 ... More >>

Tourists, Please, Don't Jump!

​Some poor fellow (a 21-year-old Texan, in fact) committed suicide by jumping from the Empire State building last night. And, apparently, we can blame it on the rain.

NOT TURNING OFF

Spoon rock Radio City Music Hall

Great Barbecues of Texas: The Salt Lick in Driftwood

​What's that curious yellow fluid? Read on to find out. In many ways, the Salt Lick Bar-B-Que in Driftwood, Texas is the odd man out among Central Texas barbecues.

Revisit: Bacon Naan and Other Delights at Tabla in Madison Square

​The richness and smokiness of the newfangled bacon naan is not to be underestimated. Seven years ago, when Tabla first opened, I respected the restaurant, but didn't love it. It was too fusion-ey for me. Nevertheless, I noted, "Despite his profound culinary departures from an authentic India ... More >>

Robert Earl Keen+Todd Snider+Bruce Robison

Texas Coasters Dissuade Wannabe Rapists

​A company in Texas is manufacturing coasters that can detect whether or not drinks have been spiked with GHB and ketamine, which are more commonly known as date rape drugs. The coasters, which are made by Drink Safe Texas, cost about 40 cents apiece and feature pink and green dots that, like ... More >>

Tequila With a Side of Texas

When Mayahuel opened back in April, it elevated tequila from the vomitatious realms of frat boy revelry to decidedly more rarefied, even artisanal climes. Now, Hill Country's showing the agave plant even more love with a tequila and barbecue pairing next Wednesday, July 22. The three-course dinner w ... More >>

Weekend Special--From The Fork In The Road T-Shirt Collections

Four months after we bought this t-shirt at legendary Peak Bro's. Bar-B-Que in Waverly, Kentucky (mmmm--smoked mutton!), the joint burnt down! click through to see more t-shirt food art

Stranger in a Strange Land

Things get so strange when you travel to unfamiliar parts of the country. Especially in the most rural areas. While American cities have to a certain extent become homogenized -- with the same franchised restaurants and the same nationally distributed brands -- rural parts of the country ... More >>

When You'd Rather Not Eat Well

Whistlin' Dixie's Texas Tavern on Eleventh Avenue

How to be a Lone Star lush in NYC

Can I Sue Somebody for Fisting-Induced Fibromyalgia?

The Whole Shootin' Match

Etsy Trunk Show Tonight

Our Man Sietsema: ''Lean' is Too Lean'

Poking the Fat Pig

Brilliant no-nonsense 'cue at Brooklyn's newest barbecue

Noise from the Front

Curious Courting Rituals Explained

Smith at Work

Scruffy But Smart

Brooklynites Dish Up Fast Food That Sticks to the Ribs

Beware of Pickpockets and Loose Women In Williamsburg

Take Five

Hatchet Job

Searching in vain for signs of hardwood in Manhattanville

Lone Star Fate: From Losing Side of Civil War to D.C. Shaker

Dancers From New Zealand, Dallas, and Brooklyn Share the Spirit

Two Rivers

Rump-cut meat rocks hardest at Brazilian barbecue joint