Author: Ben Starr
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Come Forage with FRANK!
There has been a lot of interest in our foraging habits since the article about us in Edible Magazine came out this spring. It is foraging season in Dallas right now! With the unusual weather patterns we’ve had over the past month, it’s shaping up to be an epic year for morel hunting in North Texas. We…
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A FRANK Tale: Passion
(Most images in this post are courtesy of Stephanie M. Casey at Real Fine Food, a blogger who often attends our dinners to photograph and blast them onto social media. Find her on Facebook and Instagram also. Thanks, Stephanie!) FRANK has been getting an uncomfortable amount of press recently, and while we shouldn’t complain…(all the…
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REAL Red Velvet Cake (with no food coloring or beet juice)
I’m gonna shoot straight with you. Red Velvet Cake grosses me out. I look at it, and I feel compelled to run to the nearest toilet. It’s not because I’ve had a bad experience with it. To be perfectly honest…I’ve never tasted it. (Well, except for the one my friend Chris made with beet juice. …
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Quick Sticky Buns
Over the last few years I’ve migrated away from commercial yeast and toward my sourdough starter. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even keep yeast around anymore. This means my breads have gotten infinitely better…but also take infinitely longer to bake. There’s no such thing as “quick sourdough” anything. So while I have…
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A FRANK Tale: The Godfather
Photos in this blog appear courtesy of our friend Stephanie Casey at Real Fine Food. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram, also! With FRANK pulling in some crazy press recently (a Dallas Morning News article called us “The Best Restaurant in DFW” and Modern Luxury featured us with 3 other restaurants as “Best of the…
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FRANK is making waves!
We’ve been doing FRANK for nearly 3 years now, which sounds like a long time, but seems like practically nothing. All sorts of exciting things have happened in those 3 years, and we’ve churned through dozens of creative, interesting, and fun menus. We were filmed for the awesome TV series The Illegal Eater which has…