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Crú Wine Bar celebrates the release of this year's Beaujolais Nouveau with ablock party November 14.
The future Alamo Drafthouse is doing a free screening of The 'Burbs November 16as part of Dallas Beer Week.
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The Dallas Museum of Art hosts Mexican cooking authority Diana Kennedy November15.
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There is a definite international theme to this week's line-up: South American wine, French wine, Mexican cuisine, a British spy and Tom Hanks. (Everyone knows Tom Hanks is a cultural delicacy on par with the finest vintages.)

Oh, and if food and drink aren't enough to slake your appetite, check out the rest of this week's events.

Tuesday, November 13

Argentine Wines Lunch at Private Social
Private Social wants to educate you on Argentine wines during lunch. Put together by Full Circle Wine Solutions and PS Master Sommelier Keith Goldston, the luncheon explores a baker’s dozen of wines from all over Argentina. The two-hour event begins at noon and is bound to make you super productive when you get back to work.

Wednesday, November 14

Beaujolais Nouveau Block Party at Crú
If South American wines aren’t mainstream enough for you, Crú hosts a Beaujolais Nouveau block party to celebrate the arrival of the French wine. From 5:30 to 7:30 pm, partygoers can taste more than 15 Beaujolais wines, including Georges Duboeuf, Joseph Drouhin and Michel Picard, and sample seasonal bites. $20 presale tickets; $25 at the door.

Thursday, November 15

“Feasting in Ancient Mexico” with Diana Kennedy
The Dallas Museum of Art hosts author and Mexican cuisine authority Diana Kennedy for a discussion on her 2010 cookbook Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy. Before the event at 7:30 pm, the DMA Cafe serves dishes with recipes from Kennedy’s cookbooks.

Friday, November 16

Alamo Drafthouse presents outdoor screening of The Burbs
We didn’t forget that it’s Dallas Beer Week, and neither should you. Head to the future location of Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson Friday night for a screening of The ‘Burbs. You know, the movie with Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. There will be brews from Deep Ellum Brewing, Peticolas and Lakewood Brewing beginning at 5 pm. Movie rolls at 7. No talking.

Saturday, November 17

Bond Week at Hotel St. Germain
Hotel St. Germain encourages you to put on a tux or slip into something more comfortable at Bond Week, a celebration of 50 years of James Bond movies. Friday night’s mission is a Casino Royal roulette dinner beginning at 7 pm, with door prizes for big winners at roulette and blackjack. Saturday night brings a five-course Skyfall wine dinner, including lobster bisque, seared foie gras, dressed crab and beef tournedos. Grab a picture with Bond and admire his Aston Martin. Sunday calls for a Diamonds Are Forever Brunch and movie screening.

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Ice Cream News

Kwality Ice Cream shop to bring creamy exotic desserts to Frisco

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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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