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    This week in gluttony

    These are the 7 best food and drink events in Dallas this week

    Celestina Blok
    Feb 14, 2022 | 4:00 pm
    Third Coast Texas chili
    It's chili cook-off time.
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    Chili season is in full swing, as there are not one but two big chili cook-offs this week. One is for the home cook and the other features more than 20 area breweries. There are also two tasty events at interactive outdoor venues — the Dallas Arboretum and the Dallas Heritage Village. End the week in a sweet way with a mini pie and craft beer pairing.

    Tuesday, February 15

    Chef Isabel Cooking Demo at the Dallas Arboretum
    A Tasteful Place is the Arboretum’s 3.5-acre potager garden, where on Tuesdays, Arboretum chef Isabel Snetsinger presents a cooking demo that includes tasty samples for the public. The demo is free with Arboretum admission and begins at 1 pm. (Find the recipes here.) Also, on Mondays, Dallas College’s culinary institute presents complimentary cooking demos at 11 am. This month features baked chicken meatballs with sundried tomatoes and roasted chickpeas with herbed yogurt.

    Thursday, February 17

    Frontier Food Night at Dallas Heritage Village
    The immersive museum, with its preserved historic buildings, transports visitors to Victorian period pioneer days. This month, guests and get a taste of the time period during Frontier Food Night, where cooking demos will take place throughout the park. Admission includes one beverage and samples from each food station. The event is $20 per person and will run from 6-9 pm.

    Saturday, February 19

    Sweet J’s Mini Pie & Beer Pairing at On Rotation
    The Dallas brewery and kitchen has partnered with Sweet J’s Bakes for a sweet combo – mini pies and craft brews. The lineup includes chocolate chess pie with Dark Runway Imperial Brown Sugar Stout, cranberry almond pie with Begian Holiday Fruitcake Belgian Dubbel, blueberry pie with Lemmon Avenue Lemon Sour Ale, and pecan pie with Prancer Cinnamon Brown Ale. Each pairing is $8.50 and comes with an 8-ounce pour of beer. Pre-order in advance to ensure availability and drop by to enjoy any time Saturday or Sunday.

    10th Annual Chili Cook-Off at Stan’s Blue Note
    Anyone can enter this amateur chef competition at the longtime Greenville Avenue bar, where there are two categories to compete in — Texas chili and “anything goes.” The former means straight chili — no beans, pasta, rice, or similar additions. The latter can range from simply adding beans to going full-on vegetarian. Entries are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Or pay $5 to be a “judge” to sample all chili entries and vote for the best. Judging will begin at 4 pm and winners are to be announced by 7 pm.

    North Texas Food Bank presents Harvest
    Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the North Texas Food Bank has re-envisioned Harvest as a seated dinner and celebration at the Omni Dallas Hotel. The black-tie fundraiser, chaired by Kathryn and Craig Hall, will be designed to offer an engaging guest experience while celebrating the rich history and impact of the Food Bank on North Texas. Browse and bid on auction items and reserve tickets for the event, 5:30-10 pm, here.

    Eat your Art Out at Arlington Museum of Art
    Now this is one sweet fundraiser. The evening event will feature samples of more than a dozen confectionery masterpieces provided by local bakeries. It will also include charcuterie from Inspirations Catering & Gourmet Shop, a sushi bar featuring two chefs from Piranha Killer Sushi, wine, coffee, and champagne. Live music will be provided by a harpist. Tickets are $100 and the event runs 7-9 pm.

    Sunday, February 20

    8th Annual North Texas Craft Beer Chili Challenge
    More than 20 area breweries will participate in this chili cook-off, and each must use one of its own beers as an anchoring ingredient. The brewery lineup includes Dallas’ Deep Ellum Brewing Company, Fort Worth’s Martin House Brewing Company, Grapevine’s Hop & Sting Brewing Company, and many more. A $10 donation — which will benefit Metrocrest Services — will get guests 10 tasting cups, a spoon, and chance to vote for the winning chili. The event will take place at the new Cedar Creek Brewhouse & Eatery in Farmers Branch and will run from 12-3 pm.

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    Ice Cream News

    One of Dallas' top gelato shops opens new location in Plano

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 15, 2025 | 3:14 pm
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    There's an authentic new gelato shop now open in Plano: Botolino Gelato, the artisan gelateria founded in Dallas in 2017, has opened a location in the Preston Park Shopping Center, at the northwest corner of Preston Road and Park Boulevard, in a former Starbucks where it opened on May 12.

    This is the fourth location for the chain, following the original on 2116 Greenville Ave., Preston & Royal in North Dallas, and Bishop Arts. The company also has Botolino Gelato Lab, a facility near Fair Park where many of their offerings are made.

    In a release, owner Carlo Gattini says that fans have been asking for a location in Collin County; his wife is also from Plano and has ties to the community.

    Gattini, who trained at Carpigiano Gelato University in Bologna, has roots in both Dallas and Italy. He was born in Milan and raised on a farm in Tuscany. His grandmother had her own gelato shop, and she and her sisters famously resurrected the epicurean magazine La Cucina Italiana. Carlo's family moved to Dallas, and his father opened the beloved MoMo Italian Kitchen, where Carlo helped serve the restaurant's classic Italian cuisine for more than 30 years, until the family sold the business in 2016.

    Each Botolino shop offers 16 flavors of gelato and sorbetto, with eight classics and eight seasonal flavors in rotation. They use high-end authentic ingredients such as Valrhona chocolate and Tonde Gentile della Langhe hazelnuts from Nocciola d’Elite farm in Piedmont, Italy.

    Classic flavors include pistachio (made from Bronte pistachios from Marullo Pistachio in Sicily), white coffee with cold-infused coffee from whole-bean Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters coffee, mascarpone & figs, milk chocolate, coconut straciatella with dark Valrhona chocolate slivers, and vanilla with Sava Bourbon vanilla beans from Madagascar.

    Rotating flavors include tiramisu, Alpine almond bar with Sicilian almonds, Turkish coffee, and sorbets such as blueberry and lemon-rose.

    They also do espresso drinks and indulgent desserts including cakes, sundaes, decadent brownies, and sticky toffee pudding topped with ice cream.

    To mark the opening, customers who visit before May 21 can enter drawings for hands-on classes. The 2,000 square-foot shop, located a few doors north of Whole Foods Market, has a covered patio and ample parking.

    “I look forward to welcoming guests to the new Plano Botolino - a great place for family gatherings, a place for first dates, a place to make meaningful memories with friends,” Gattini says.

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