This Week in Gluttony

These are the 6 best food and drink events in Dallas this week

Local Yocal is presenting its last "spirited" dinner of 2019.

Photo courtesy of Local Yocal BBQ & Grill

It's a big week for food festivals, and that includes the largest and longest-running vegan fest in Texas. There's also a cool wine dinner and celebrity wine tasting at Good Records, mixing free wine and music together — how can you go wrong.

These are the 6 best food and wine events in Dallas this week:

Tuesday, October 29

Local Yocal BBQ & Grill Whiskey Dinner
Local Yocal BBQ & Grill will present their last spirited dinner of the year, in partnership with award-winning Ironroot Republic Distillery, a grain to glass distillery located in Denison. This special event will showcase an Ironroot Republic Barrel, handpicked by the team at Local Yocal, and paired with a five-course dinner created by chef Adam West to highlight the one and only whiskey. The dinner is at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $110. Reservations are required: Call 469-225-0800.

Wednesday, October 30

Red Vinyl Rock & Roll Wine Dinner at The Lounge Here
Five-course dinner features five wines from Nicolas-Jay, paired with dishes from Lounge Here. Nicolas-Jay is a collaboration between Burgundian winemaker Jean-Nicolas Méo and music visionary Jay Boberg, founder of IRS Records. They're applying methods of the grands crus of Burgundy to make impeccable Oregon pinot noir. The dinner begins at 7 pm, and will be preceded by a happy hour tasting from 5-6:30 pm at Good Records, where Boberg will pour tastes of his Red Vinyl Pinot Noir and spin selections from the IRS Records catalog. Tickets are $125 and can be purchased here.

Friday, November 1

NTX Beer Week
November 1 is the kickoff of this annual 10-day celebration of DFW's craft beer scene, now in its 7th year, and marked at restaurants, bars, and breweries across North Texas. It weaves in already-existing trivia nights and other weekly beer events but also spotlights special events such as the Manhattan Project party on November 1 at The Common Table in Uptown Dallas. The list of events runs through November 10 and include dinners and rare beer tappings, with tickets and entry specific to each individual event.

Saturday, November 2

Festicle 2019
This is the premier annual event for beer nerds, hosted by Braindead Brewing in Deep Ellum. Now on its fifth year, it spotlights some of the most advanced beers out there including barrel-aged and wild beers, brewed in an artisanal manner with wild strains of yeast. You get a glass and can sample a variety of different beers, with proceeds going to the Brain Injury Network of Dallas. The event runs from 2-6 pm. General admission tickets are $38.75 — can we just call it $40? — while VIP tickets are $120. Both can be purchased here.

10th Annual Texas Veggie Fair
The largest and longest-running vegan festival in the state is celebrating its 10th anniversary, this time at a new location: Dallas Farmers Market. There'll be an appearance by Kendrick Farris, a three-time U.S. Olympian and one of the plant-based athletes featured in the film The Game Changers, plus cooking demos, vendors, and a cornucopia of vegan goods, clothing, accessories, and nosh including Beyond Meat, which is coming to the fair for the very first time. It runs from 11 am-6 pm, and is free to enter. Get your tickets here.

Sunday, November 3

Chefs for Farmers Main Tasting
Annual foodie event features chefs, restaurants, wineries, distilleries, and breweries. Participating chefs include John Tesar of Knife Steakhouse, Joel Orsini of Izkina, Alex Astranti of Uchi and Uchiba, Dean Fearing of Fearing's, Donny Sirisavath of Khao Noodle Shop, Robert Lyford of Patina Green, Matt Pitman of Meat Church, and Alex Seidel of Fruition Restaurant and Mercantile Dining & Provision. It's at 2 pm at Dallas Heritage Village, 1515 S. Harwood St., and tickets are $99-$165.

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Where to Drink

Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 best happy hours for October

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Bar snacks from Barrel & Bones.

October has arrived, which brings us to another installment of Where to Drink, CultureMap Dallas’ monthly column on best bars and happy hours to check out. This edition has four of the best new happy hours in town, plus a crazy wine special with a spooky theme — because that's what October is about.

Here’s where to drink in Dallas right now:

Barrel & Bones
This BBQ smokehouse has a new happy hour menu featuring $3.50 domestics, $5 craft beers and house wines, and select $6 cocktails, including a house old-fashioned, Cazadores Tequila ranch water, or a Manhattan. Bites are $6 each, including pretzel bites, fried pickles, cheese curds, fried green beans, and fried mac & cheese. It runs on weekdays from 3-7 pm at all four locations: Dallas, Carrollton, The Colony, and Farmers Branch.

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop
Taco chain with 52 locations across Dallas-Fort Worth has a new weekday happy hour from 2- 6 pm. Start early! Everything's $5: from chips & queso to an order of two tacos in varieties such as shrimp, cod, shredded chicken, brisket, carnitas, and grilled veggies. The $5 rollout includes four new cocktails: Fuzzy’s Red Sangria, Sangria 'Rita Swirl, Baja-Ma Mama, and Margarita Swirls.

Goldie’s
Sophisticated Lake Highlands restaurant-bar has introduced a Tuesday-Friday happy hour from 4-6 pm. Drinks include $10 house martinis, house cocktails, select wines by the glass, and select neat bourbons by the glass, including Eagle Rare and Jack Daniels Single Barrel. There are also a few food specials, including $10 À La Carte Burger, $5 Goldie’s “20 Feet” Fries, and $10 rotating crudité.

S&D Oyster Company
Uptown oyster bar is celebrating its 48 years in existence with an upgraded bar. The front room had its nice long wooden bar, but it served as a "lean-to" with no seating and more importantly, no liquor. They've added stools for seating and a cocktail menu that pairs well with happy hour, which is weekdays from 3-6 pm. Guests can enjoy $2 off cocktails, wine, and beer. Mondays are extra happy, since wine is half-price all day.

Sixty Vines
Wine bar with Plano and Uptown locations has a haunting program during October that's so out there, it's scary: They're pairing wine with Halloween-style candy. The first week is sauvignon blanc paired with Sour Patch Kids or Lemonheads. Week two features pinot noir with Twizzlers or Twix. Week three is rosé matched with Starburst or gummy bears. Lastly, the stars for the final week are cabernet sauvignon with Reese’s or Almond Joy. It's $17 for a 2-1/2-ounce pour.

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