Eats Beat

Bud and the gang weigh in on the Fresh Meat Smackdown, which pits some of the new burger joints in DFW against each other to determine who gets a shot in next year's DFW.com Burger Battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Euless food festival approaches, Bud and the gang settle, once and for all, how to pronounce the word "gyro." Plus more Greek food secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy Woodrich, chef and owner of one of the best BBQ joints in Fort Worth, shares his secrets for great ribs, brisket and bounty hunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud and the gang talk about the trendiest ethnic dish of the moment, and try their hardest to pronounce it correctly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew gets an early start with a chat about the best breakfasts in town, thanks to a new list released by our friends at Food Fort Worth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud and the gang taste some new 'cue from Grapevine, which has its own restaurant ring of fire forming out in the suburbs. Plus a whole lotta enchilada chatter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew celebrates the arrival of Bahama Buck's in Fort Worth, snazzy new Dairy Queens in Tarrant County and a Zagat nod for Melt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News of Dee Lincoln's decision to open a casual steakhouse and burger bar in the West 7th area gets the crew talking about their favorite steaks in town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew looks ahead to the annual feeding frenzy to see which Fort Worth restaurants should be on your reservation list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In another busy week on the Eats Beat, Lanny's bids farewell and Fort Worth says hello to its first full-fledged Ramen shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew offers some meaty suggestions for Father's Day dining, and a few ideas on where to toast him with a powerful margarita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The popular chain is coming to downtown Fort Worth, which inspires cheers and jeers. And the crew talks about Tim Love's much-criticized Colonial food debut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chef Molly McCook joins the Eats Beat crew to talk about her upcoming journey to the James Beard House, plus the restaurant's fifth anniversary, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew chews on the departures of two popular local chefs, and offers some suggestions for Mother's Day dining. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew engages in a basil-infused debate over the growing gourmet trend among new restaurants, craft beers and now ice cream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eats Beat crew talks about the newly reopened Candlelite Inn, Easter brunch ideas and pizza! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eat Beat crew offers a menu of dining options for sports fans coming to North Texas for the NCAA basketball tournament and the NASCAR race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dena Peterson, executive chef at Cafe Modern, joins the Eats Beat crew to talk about the restaurant's new spring menu, the Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival, and the joy of Jack in the Box tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special birthday podcast features suggestions for special occasion restaurants and great patios for spring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus Garcia, the chef of Little Lily Sushi, and Gino Rojas, the owner of Revolver Taco Lounge, sit down with Bud and Rick to dish on everything from their runaway success to social media to Fort Worth's foodie revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud and Rick chat about late-night dining options in DFW, and the rise of Thai food in Fort Worth. They're also joined by The Weekend Chef, Steve Wilson, who explored a gem of a winery in Burleson for Valentine's Day dinner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud and Rick offer a peek at new Fort Worth restaurants Kona Grill and Cane Rosso, plus they offer a few non-traditional ideas for romantic Valentine's Day options. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since Nick is hitting the road and moving east, he talks with Bud and Rick about last meals in DFW. The topic was also this week's DFW.com cover story. So, if you only had one day left in the Metroplex, where and what would you eat? Listen up for delicious last meal suggestions. Producer: Nick Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is back again and the guys know all the activity there can cause quite the appetite. Plus, it brings in numerous visitors who only have a limited time to survey the food Cowtown has to offer. Bud, Rick and Nick talk about the best eats near the Stock Show and a few must haves for those who aren't in Fort Worth very often. Producer: Nick Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trio of Bud Kennedy, Rick Press and Nick Dean start the new year looking at all of the new restaurants opening in Cowtown. Plus, the guys talk food prices and wonder if our wallets will ever get a break. Producer: Nick Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud, Rick and Nick sit down and survey 2013: the good, the tasty and the unsavory. Listen up for the trends that heated up DFW dining and the ones to which we say 'good riddance.' Plus, some up-and-coming restaurants we're looking forward to in 2014. Producer: Nick Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Thanksgiving feast behind them and only weeks before families crowd the table for for Christmas, dining guru Bud Kennedy and social media editor Nick Dean sit down for a talk on Tex-Mex — the best option for appetites tired of turkey. Bud offers insights into the unknow gems hidden in Cowtown's Tex-Mex realm while Nick breaks down some of the best chains the DFW area offers up. Tired of turkey? Talk Tex-Mex with us instead. Producer: Nick Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud and Rick talk about some of the best restaurants that are keeping their doors open this Thanksgiving. Plus, Rick gives a run down of how the DFW.com Craft Beer Battle is turning out. Listen up! Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While your grocery list expands as you prepare for making a feast this holiday season, you're going to want to make sure you decide where family from out of town dines while in Cowtown. Bud, Rick and Nick tells us their best suggestions for wining and dining family around town. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DFW.com editor Rick Press and social media editor Nick Dean ask dining guru Bud Kennedy about all things Asian dining. Sushi, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese and more are all the center of this week's podcast. Listen up and find our where to dig in. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick and Bud have scoured the local area and come up with the best pumpking dishes, beer, desserts, recipes and products that are at the disposal of north Texans this fall. Listen up as Bud and Nick tell you the best ways to enjoy this fall favorite. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining guru Bud Kennedy helps DFW.com editor Rick Press and social media editor Nick Dean when the two come down with a cold. Where's the best comfort food? What about the best salsa and spicy food to clear the nostrils? The guys survey the best options in this week's podcast. Next week: all things pumpkin. Stay tuned. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining guru Bud Kennedy talks with DFW.com editor Rick Press and social media editor Nick Dean about the upcoming opening of the plaza in Sundance Square and what the re-opened West Seventh Street bridge means for Cowtown diners. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from Dallas, Bud Kennedy sits down with Il Cane Rosso owner Jay Jerrier in his new New York-style pizzeria Zoli's to talk about pies, a new Cane Rosso in Fort Worth and more. Listen in for Jerrier's first ever podcast appearance. Pizza fans won't want to miss this! Producers: Rick Press, Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining expert Bud Kennedy, DFW.com Rick Press and Star-Telegram social media editor Nick Dean begin this week's talk with a examination of DFW craft brews and their prevalence in restaurants. The conversation then segues to sushi and the best DFW places for the Asian cuisine. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining expert Bud Kennedy and DFW.com editor Rick Press see that the coming of fall means filled football stadiums and a filling restaurant scene for the Metroplex. Listen to the two talk about the newest restaurants on the dining landscape, plus where to find tailgating tips and recipes from our DFW.com crew. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining expert Bud Kennedy and DFW.com editor Rick Press talk about the buzzworthy restaurants that made the top ten 'hot list' in this year's DFW.com Hot Issue. Listen in to find out what restaurant should be next on your must-try list. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dining expert Bud Kennedy and podcast producer Nick Dean sit down to talk about the latest food news in the Metroplex, including the addition of a true Naples-inspired pizzeria and updates on a fire at Chef Tim Love's Lonesome Dove in the Fort Worth Stockyards. DFW.com editor Rick Press is on vacation. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick, Bud and Nick talk burger battle one last time, revealing the winner and the inside scoop on how the final battle worked out. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Results are in and the two burgers headed to the championship round are named. But Bud and Rick take the time to recap what happened in the final four when two titan burger joints collided in an historic match up. Bud also recaps new Cowtown eateries Bravo and Pacific Table. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Burger Battle is down to the Final Four so Rick and Bud analyze the possible outcomes of both the judges' and readers' brackets. Plus, producer Nick Dean talks with Bud about a new Magonlia Ave. pub, The Bearded Lady, and his experience at Salsa Limon's new shop on Univeristy. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A strong showing for all the burger joints in the readers' bracket, plus flavorful burgers served up for the judges are part of Bud and Rick's burger talk this week. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first round in this year's battle saw the fall of a beloved burger joint from Fort Worth. Rick and Bud digest what's happened this round and look onward to the match-ups to come. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With 32 viable contenders for this year's Burger Battle crown, Rick and Bud explain this year's bracket and size up the competition. Producer: Nick Dean Listen to this episode Subscribe on iTunes Submit questions to "Hey, Bud!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bud Kennedy, who heralds in this episode with an accent from the Emerald Isle, talks St. Patrick's Day food and entertainment hotspots with DFW.com editor Rick Press. Also on the docket, the three-day food and wine festival "Savor Dallas" and a new "Twisted Root" in Bedford. Producer: Taylor Cammack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices