Guide to the good life Tammany Stern’s BestofGuide.com offers us a great wining, dining and shopping resource.  She’s also the biggest cheerleader anywhere for the Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant industry.  She shares her love of dining, business and people on this week’s “Wining and Dining with Jim White”.  Watch our show on VOKALnow.com, YouTube and Vimeo. […]

Hedonic adventurer Jean-Charles Boisset,  vintner and proprietor of the worldwide Boisset Collection joins us on this week’s “Wining and Dining with Jim White”.  It is no hyperbole to say that Jean-Charles is the epitome of joie de vivre.  Find out about his new collectors’ book The Alchemy of the Senses, his new collection of JCB […]

Southern fried comfort Chef Tiffany Derry is boundless energy.  Along with her Roots Chicken Shak in Legacy Food Hall, TV projects and consulting gigs, she is preparing to open a new restaurant dedicated to her South Texas roots and home cooking.  Sounds like Roots Southern Table is the perfect name, and maybe the all-time best […]

C’est si bon! Patrick Esquerre displays a youthful exuberance and zest for life that is remarkable at any age.  That the founder of La Madeleine French Bakery & Cafe is a successful businessman, entrepreneur, consultant, and philanthropist with a successful track record spanning multiple decades makes his joie de vivre even more enviable.  He believes […]

Meaningful momentum Chad Houser found his passion project when he was the chef at Parigi in Dallas.  With support from his then partner, Janice Provost, and tons of hard work and a heaping helping of community support, Chad developed a restaurant that has become a model for assisting juvenile offenders.  Cafe Momentum trains and mentors […]

Burger nailed.  Steak slammed. John Tesar is tops with beef (and a lot of other foods, too).  It’s just that he has absolutely hit a homerun in the steak and hamburger departments with his Knife and Knife Burger concepts.  You like them, too, because they are expanding into different locations–with more planned.  And, the Top […]

Mom and pop shop In the very best sense of the phrase, Allison Yoder and Stephen Rogers run a mom and pop operation for the ages.  The owners of Gemma and Sachet have carved out a very loyal and enthusiastic following for their two restaurants in a crowded and competitive DFW restaurant scene while maintaining […]

True Tequila Taste Test The old college ritual of throwing back as many Tequila shots as possible, with copious amounts of salt and lime, are gone, thankfully.  Premium producers like Partida Tequila prefer that you savor their delicious creations one sip at a time.  Sofia Partida joins us to take us through the process with […]

Dean of top chefs is “better than A1” I chuckle everytime I think about Chef Dean Fearing’s tongue in cheek description of one of his spot-on delicious, new finishing sauces: Called “D1“.  “It’s better than A1!” quips the legendary father of Southwestern Cuisine as he glazes a pan roasted chicken breast with the sauce (it […]

Savoring EnjoyMint Nikky Phinyawatana and her team at Asian Mint-and offspring EnjoyMint-have enjoyed rousing success with their fresh and fun approach to Asian fusion cuisine.  They have popularized sophisticated Thai food and made it accessbile to a broader audience than ever before in Dallas-Fort Worth.  At the heart of everything is, well, her heart.  And, […]