This Week in Gluttony

These are the 9 best food and drink events in Dallas this week

Tulum is hosting a special dinner that'll spotlight a collaboration between two acclaimed chefs.

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This weekly roundup of dining events around Dallas is an exciting run-up the week before Thanksgiving. There's a cool star chef dinner, plus dinners featuring pairings with whiskey, tequila, and beer. There's also lots of art. Maybe everyone's getting geared up in anticipation of Thanksgiving. (Speaking of, we have a list of restaurants that are hosting Thanksgiving dining-in, as well as a list of restaurants offering Thankgiving to-go.)

Thursday, November 18

Tulum X Shinsei Dinner
"Infused with Tulum: A Chef Collaboration Series" is a new quarterly event series at Tulum, the upscale Mexican restaurant on Oak Lawn Avenue. This first installment features 2021 Tastemaker Awards Chef of the Year nominee Jose Meza with Chef Shuji "Elvis" Sugawara of Shinsei Restaurant, who together will bring a fusion of flavors extending beyond traditional Mexican and pan-Asian cuisine. The evening includes a five-course dinner with special dishes not found on the menu of either restaurant. Limited seating between 6-9 pm. Tickets are $100. Make reservation by emailing Tulum@thetulumexperience.com.

Nelson's Green Brier Whiskey Dinner at Knife Steakhouse Plano
Knife Steakhouse Plano has partnered with Nelson's Green Brier Distillery to host a whiskey and Belle Meade Bourbon pairing dinner. The evening will feature a cocktail reception followed by a four-course tasting menu paired with Nelson’s Green Brier Whiskey and bourbon. The meal begins with a mushroom risotto & duck confit paired with Nelson’s Green Brier Original Sour Mash Tennessee Whiskey. The third course combines braised beef cheek with polenta & mushrooms with Belle Meade Reserve Bourbon. Dessert includes an original cocktail using Louisa's Caramel Coffee Pecan Liqueur with a pecan tart. The reception starts at 6 pm sharp, in Knife Plano's private dining room. Tickets are $99 and reservations can be made online.

El Patio Mex-Tex Tequila Dinner Featuring Cincoro Tequila
Mexican/BBQ restaurant in Lewisville is hosting a three-course dinner created by chef Slvador Hernandez featuring the celebrity-backed tequila co-released by Michael Jordan. First course is citrus butter-poached sea bass on a fall green salad. The entree is braised short rib with roasted huitlacoche with corn tamale and a broccoflower medley. Dessert is a carpirotada, IE Mexican bread pudding with pistachio ice cream and Grand Marnier creme anglais. Tequilas poured will include the blanco, anejo, and reposado. Given what the tequilas cost, it's a pretty reasonable $95. Dinner starts at 7:30 pm. Call 972-410-2096 or email info@elpatiomextex.com.

"Let's Plant and Sip" at the Beeman Hotel
Show off your green spirit in an interactive workshop at the Beeman Hotel, in collaboration with Energy Gardens Terrarium, where you can design and plant your own succulent garden. The important part: The sipping. You do it with a glass of wine or Champagne. The workshop is from 7-9 pm. $40 gets you a glass of wine or champagne, one container and three succulents to take home. Tickets can be purchased online.

Friday, November 19

Community Beer Dinner at Virgin Dallas Hotel
Virgin is partnering with Community Beer Co. for a Community Beer Dinner, an intimate dining experience featuring five of their brews, served alongside chef-driven dishes from the Commons Club culinary team. The menu includes bacon mac & cheese bites, pork belly sope, zesty shrimp with smoked Gouda grits, quail with butter molasses glaze squash puree & puff sorghum, and panna cotta with snickerdoodle crumbs and caramel popcorn, paired with honey-citrus blonde, Mosaic IPA, and Snickerdoodle Ale. The Community Brewery team will guide the experience while sharing stories of their craft. It's $60 per person and runs from 7-9 pm. Make a reservation here.

Texas Ale Project Caucasian 2021 Release Party
Dallas Design District brewery introduces its latest limited release beer called The Caucasian. This White Russian Imperial Stout is brewed with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans, Full City Rooster cold brewed coffee, and American Oak with a 9 percent ABV, perfect for winter. They'll also pour other year-round beers. It'll run from 3-10 pm at 1001 N. Riverfront Blvd. and entry is free, with food, live music, bowling (you're encouraged to wear your favorite bowling sweater). 214-965-0606.

Saturday, November 20

19th Annual Cedars Open Studios at Canvas Hotel
Check out an exclusive exhibition of works from some of Dallas' most loved artists while sipping on specialty cocktails from Canvas Hotel including a Lavender in Motion, and for the spice lovers, a Mango Jalapeno Margarita. The hotel reception is free and is part of Cedars Open Studios, a neighborhood-wide tour from 11 am-6 pm, with free performances and activities, including live music and painting demos.

Boba and Doughnut Tasting at TeaLatte Bar
Sample mochi chewy doughnuts while you sip on a boba flight from TeaLatte Bar at 7001 S. Custer Rd. in McKinney. Tating includes a flight of four 8-oz drinks, mochi doughnut samples, one regular size drink, and a goodie bag with treats from local bakers Classic Macaron, EJ Sweets, Meraki Baked, Cauly's Cakes, and Marshell's Sweets, plus boba-themed gifts. $30. 12 pm. Go to thebobatomytea.eventbrite.com for tickets.

Monday, November 22

Farm to Fork Showcase at The Ranch
Las Colinas restaurant celebrates its 13-year relationship with local vendors at its annual Farm to Fork showcase, with a complimentary farmers market-style tasting event featuring many of the partners that helped put the restaurant on the map. Guests are welcome to meet the farmers, growers, and ranchers while enjoying complimentary food and beverage samples. For some reason, they're also doing a petting zoo, which means transporting a bunch of hapless baby sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and piglets to an event that will also have live music. Come on guys, is it really necessary to trot out the animals to serve as props in a stressful, noisy show-and-tell?

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Brunch News

Dallas diner favorite Buzzbrews to debut a new kind of brunch pop-up

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Buzzbrews signature dishes include beautiful crepes.

A Lakewood Dallas brunch favorite closed in August — but there's good news for brunch fans: Buzzbrews, the casual 24-hour diner chain, is debuting an intriguing new brunch scenario nearby.

Buzzbrews closed its location in Lakewood after nearly a decade in the space. But now the restaurant is partnering up with the Original Seafood Bar, the Sinaloan-inspired Mexican seafood restaurant on Lower Greenville, where it will host a buffet brunch on weekends.

The new Buzzbrews Brunch weekend pop-up will make its debut Texas OU Weekend on October 7-8 and will be holding down the fort every weekend thereafter.

Buzzbrews owner Ernest Belmore has teamed up with Tim Goza, owner of the Original Seafood Bar (which originally opened in 2013 at 1418 Greenville Ave. under the name Palapas, until Goza rebranded in 2022) to take the space adjacent to the seafood bar at 1424 Greenville Ave. and create a brunch destination open on weekends only.

A marketing spokesperson for Buzzbrews says that way back when, the space was an auto repair shop. Goza has since transformed it into an expansive patio area, one that extends out from the seafood bar.

The space was sitting vacant, just awaiting the right concept.

"Tim and Ernest decided to team up and use the space to host buzzy brunches on Lowest Greenville," the spokesperson says.

The brunch will serve Buzzbrews trademarks including signature crepes such as the French Connection with chicken breast, tomato, mushroom, spinach, Anaheim peppers, and feta & cheddar cheese; and the Bluto, made as a crepe or an omelet, with house-made chorizo, bacon, onion, tomato, jalapeño, and cilantro topped with cheddar.

They'll do an old-school coffee bar with self-serve thermoses holding hot coffee in a variety of flavors and brews. They'll also offer mimosas and other brunch drinks, and it being an outdoor space makes it totally dog-friendly.

"Tim saw it as a way to bring fresh energy to the Lowest Greenville area, and for Ernest, it's a fun change of pace to have a new concept but not a full restaurant," the spokesperson says.

Belmore was also thinking about his Lakewood clientele.

"It's close enough to the Lakewood location for regulars in the neighborhood who are missing their weekend brunch routine," the spokesperson says.

Should it perform well, the hours could also extend into a late-night/all-night weekend thing. But first things first: For now, it'll be brunch every Saturday-Sunday 9 am-2 pm.

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