This Week in Gluttony

A bevy of wine dinners top booziest food and drink events in Dallas

We sure hope you enjoy wine. After weeks of beer dinners, wine has decided that it’s tired of playing second fiddle and has returned with a strong lineup, including a four-course dinner at Pappas Bros. featuring Château Angélus from Saint-Émilion as well as a wine dinner at Nosh featuring selections from Oak Cliff Wine Cellars.

If those are a bit too extravagant for your tastes, Max’s Wine Dive is doing a cork board craft night complete with wine tastings, and Wine Poste is offering samples to go with Chef TJ’s wood-fired pizzas. Just drink some wine, already.

Wednesday, January 22

Oak Cliff Wine Cellars Wine Dinner at Nosh
Oak Cliff Wine Cellars teams up with Nosh Euro Bistro for a four-course wine dinner beginning with a reception at 6:30 pm. Pairings include seared diver scallop on Israeli couscous and pesto with 2011 Sonoma Chardonnay (Unoaked) as well as braised lamb shank and grilled Texas quail on fingerling potatoes and winter vegetables with 2009 “Lovers Lane” Petite Sirah and 2010 “Wild Diamond” Syrah. Reservations are $99 per person and can be made at 214-528-9400.

Max’s Wine Dive Wine and Cork Night
Max’s Wine Dive hosts a cork crafting event complete with wine tastings and appetizers beginning at 7 pm. Guests can sample three wines and snack on small bites while they make either a heart-shaped cork board for Valentine’s Day or cork coasters perfect for the Super Bowl. Reservations are $35 and can be made at 214-559-3483.

Friday, January 24

Pappas Bros. Château Angélus Wine Dinner
Pappas Bros. hosts a four-course wine dinner featuring five different vintages of Château Angélus wine beginning at 7 pm. Pairings include medallions of veal and sweetbread with Oregon black truffle risotto and wild mushrooms with the 2007 vintage, as well as a slow-roasted strip loin with cauliflower puree, crispy duck prosciutto, Hudson Valley foie gras, Ohio baby arugula and natural jus with the 2005 and 2009 vintages.

Wine and Pizza with Chef TJ’s Wood Fired Pizza at Wine Poste
Wine Poste teams up with Chef TJ for a night of personal pies and wine tasting beginning at 6:30 pm. Chef TJ prepares personal pizzas for everyone in attendance, and guests can sample four different wines, including 2010 Zaccagnini Montepulciano d'Abruzzo from Italy and 2009 Cune Vina Real Crianza Rioja from Spain. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at 214-272-3221 or by emailing james@wineposte.com.

Sunday, January 26

Seafood Cooking Class at Sea Breeze Fish Market & Grill
Sea Breeze Fish Market & Grill hosts a seafood cooking class beginning at 3 pm. Guests learn how to create three or four seafood recipes, and they get to taste their creations with wine pairings. Reservations are $40 and can be made at 972-473-2722.

Pappas Bros. hosts a four-course wine dinner featuring Château Angélus on January 24.

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Pappas Bros. hosts a four-course wine dinner featuring Château Angélus on January 24.

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Ice Cream News

Kwality Ice Cream shop to bring creamy exotic desserts to Frisco

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Kwality Ice Cream

An ice cream chain with an Indian flair is dipping into Dallas-Fort Worth: Called Kwality Ice Cream, it's a concept founded in New Jersey that specializes in traditional Indian ice cream and cold drinks, and it's opening a location in Frisco, at 13089 Main St. #500, in a new shopping center.

According to franchisee Raju Vikey, the shop will open sometime in 2025. It joins two DFW locations already open: Irving at 8600 N. Macarthur Blvd., and Euless, at 1060 N. Main St. at Harwood Crossing shopping center, which opened in April.

Kwality Ice Cream was founded by food scientist Dr. Kanti Parekh and his son Anand, in New Jersey in 2003. It has expanded with 38 locations in 14 states including Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas, where there are three locations in Houston and one in Austin.

“The idea was to create a South Asian-specific ice cream, which is more known for fruits and nuts,” Anand says. “As a Ph.D. in food and nutrition, my father’s background and expertise were in flavor. He used that to create very unique flavors and top notes to give a really good mouth feel and experience.”

They have close to 50 ice cream flavors with classics like cookies & cream, chocolate supreme, and butter pecan; but South Asian and Indian flavors dominate the menu with exotic options like green guava, lychee, and Nuttie Tuttie Fruitee, a berry-flavored ice cream with nuts and candied fruit.

There is also kulfi, a frozen dessert that's like ice cream but with less added air so it has a stiffer, creamier texture. It's served in slices and comes in popular Indian flavors like pistachio, mango, and rose.

Other novel frozen treats include cassata, an ice cream cake with three flavors of ice cream layered over sponge cake.

As with many Asian desserts, they're often less sweet than American-style confections. Wild inventions include the mawa rabdi cup, with ice cream, rice noodles, basil seeds, and rose syrup, topped with nuts and candied fruit; and Thandai ice cream, a staple at Indian festivals, consisting of almonds, fennel seeds, poppy seeds, watermelon seeds, rose petals, pepper, cardamom, saffron, milk, and sugar.

Rabdi is like a pudding, believed to have originated during the 1600s. Kwality makes it following the traditional method of slow-cooking milk until it thickens and reduces, enhancing its sweetness and creaminess, then adding ingredients like cardamom, saffron, and pistachios.

Pints of ice cream and frozen desserts range from $8-$11, and cassata ice cream cake slices are $7.

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