Dallas Arboretum Food and Wine Festival

Dallas 24 Hour Club presents Dallas All Star Chef Classic

Jeffery Hobbs is the new executive chef of American F+B, a Consilient conceptset to open in Fort Worth next year.

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Jeffery Hobbs (left), with Janice Provost and Chad Houser, at Sissy's SouthernKitchen for the June 2012 Cafe Momentum pop-up dinner.

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Blue Mesa Grill is rolling out a set of monthly grazing menus from the minds ofsome of Dallas’ best chefs.

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The idea for the Texas Best Showcase sprung from Blue Mesa’s desire tocollaborate with chef Sharon Hage, who is spearheading the whole run.

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Chef Jeffery Hobbs' menu, highlighting Texas artisanal cheeses and olive oils,runs through February 10.

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The Grape's Brian Luscher will create a special menu at Blue Mesa in October.

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This year marks the first time Neiman Marcus' holiday window crawl is open toadults.

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Houndstooth Coffee, the ultra-cool minimalist coffee shop/bar in Austin, willopen an East Dallas location in 2013.

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Last spring, Jeffery Hobbs (pictured here with Janice Provost and Chad Houser)helped open Sissy's Southern Kitchen. Now he's headed to the Consilient.

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“Many people in jail are great entrepreneurs; they just had an illegal product,”Jeremy Gregg explains. “We need to harness their skills for legal businesses.”

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November 29 marked the opening of Babb Bros BBQ and Blues, a cafeteria-styleeatery at Trinity Groves.

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Caprino Royale feta shows up in the Jonah crab "cocktail" with fried greentomatoes and watermelon salad at Fearing's.
Karen Dierolf and Eric Tippit of Caprino Royale are living their dream withtheir herd of 42 Nubian goats.
One of Caprino Royale's Nubians.
Caprino Royale cheeses appear on menus at Dallas restaurants like Fearing's,Bolsa and The Grape.

Meat Fight founder Alice Laussade. You may know her name from her wildly popularCheap Bastard column in the Dallas Observer.

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Fighter Jeana Johnson, formerly of Acme F&B.

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Fighter Jeff Bekovac of Neighborhood Services.

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Aaron Franklin of Franklin Barbecue in Austin is among the seven judges.

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Longtime Meat Fight supporter and 2012 judge Daniel Vaugh, a.k.a., BBQ Snob.

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The cast of The League in Meat Fight shirts, from the Meat Fight Tumblr site.

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