My Week of Food Apr 3-10 Part 1: Savor Dallas 2016

I mentioned in my previous post how April is laden with festivals in Dallas. To welcome spring, every week there is something exciting happening- festivals, bazaars, pop ups and I am loving every bit of it. Weekends are no longer Netflix binge sessions in pyjamas and take outs.

In my last post, I talked about our pigging out session at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival . Today I will be sharing about my foodie adventures last week. Last week I attended three different festivals and a pop up, and since I don’t want a picture overload in a single post, I am dividing my-week-in-food into two posts. Today’s post is all about Savor Dallas’ two events that happened last Thursday, April 7th.

Last Thursday I attended the Arts District Garden party hosted by Savor Dallas, followed by Savor Dallas’ Sweet Heat event at the Nasher Sculpture Centre. *Note for self*– never ever attend two different tasting events one after the other. In Joey’s words- what was I thinking wearing jeans to a tasting event- to be precise to TWO back-to-back tasting events. I was so stuffed after the Garden Party that I could not do justice to the Sweet heat dessert event. And my skinny jeans did not help one bit. Don’t get me wrong, I still ate everything I could get my hands on (there is ALWAYS room for dessert), but yes back to back tasting events are a no-no for me here on.

Savor Dallas is DFW’s four day food paradise that celebrates food, wine and spirits with Dallas’ finest chefs and eateries offering specially curated bites to the attendees. There were many events organized, but I chose to attend the Art Districts Garden Party and the Sweet Heat event.

While the Garden party served small savory bites with a few desserts thrown in, and lots of wine, the Sweet Heat event focused only on desserts, dessert wines and cocktails. My favorite dish from the Garden Party had to be the bacon wrapped chicken from Hard Eight Bbq and that is why there is no picture of it, since I gobbled it before snapping it. And my favorite dessert from Sweet Heat event was PopStar’s Mango Chile Popsicle. They are all natural frozen treats and so refreshing. They did attend last week’s Dallas Farmers market and were present at the Urban Bazaar. You can follow them on facebook to know where you can find their products.

I also highly recommend Savor patisserie’s salted caramel macaron. You can buy their macarons from their pop-up shop at the Shops at Park lane in Dallas.

The Banana Fosters pudding from V-Eats Vegan , a new vegan restaurant at Trinity Groves. This was surprisingly really good. Another of my favorites.

The chef from Five Sixty Degree by Wolfgang Puck restaurant prepping the roasted carrot salad with cumin creme fraiche.

Chilled pea soup topped with scallops

 Savor Patisserie’s macaron tower

Pork Belly burgers

Hypnotic Donuts

Basil Panna Cotta with marinated tomatoes

Molasses and ancho chile braised pork on a fried tamale with cabbage slaw and habanero salsa

 

The beautiful set up at Nasher Sculpture Centre for Sweet Heat

Tapioca pudding by Lark on The Park

Gluten free chocolate cake with caramel drizzle and popcorn by the chefs at Hilton Anatole

PopStar’s All Natural Mango Chile Popsicle

Buttery, flaky italian pastries by Palmieri Cafe

And that’s a wrap. You can check all these and a few more photographs on my Photography Facebook page as well. I did a quick slideshow on instagram too– feel free to check it out.

Tune in tomorrow for Part 2 of my week in food, which includes Little D market’s Urban Bazaar, Sandwich Hags pop up and my take from last week’s Dallas Farmers’ Market.

P.S : For those of you wondering if I have stopped GMT- I have not and am sorry for not posting the last two weeks on it. I promise to be back with it next week. I already have a recipe in tow, rest assure GMT is still on.