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Veritas Wine Room (so much more than wine!)

July 18, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Bradley Anderson, Veritas Wine Room, Dallas, Texas

Veritas Wine Room is so much more than wine. It’s a cozy place to hang out “where everyone knows your name”… Owners Bradley and Brooks Anderson, East Dallas boys, are knowledgeable and passionate and can assist with wine selection all night long. It’s what they do. They also know how to host a Sunday night lobster boil on the third Sunday of each month. Next one = this Sunday, July 20th!

TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market + Veritas Wine Room

Once a month, feast on a huge lobster with all the fixins’. That means corn, potatoes, mussels and clams from TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market. Oh my. All for only $35. It’s a deal.

Subscribe to Veritas’ email newsletter to keep up with weekly happenings such as half-price glasses from open to close every Monday, special dinners, wine tastings and wood-fired pizza night (via Il Cane Rosso). Sometimes they have wine and chocolate tastings…

Yes. Veritas is much more than wine.

Wine, wine, everywhere wine.

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:

Under the Sea – The Little Mermaid

How to eat a lobster…

Garden in Summer

July 9, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Summer has arrived in Dallas. As we flirt with 100 degrees, the air lays blanket thick over my garden. Yet even with hot, hot temperatures, bright colors and fresh smells fill Promise of Peace Community Garden. Cucumbers and okra are taking over my bed. I harvest tomatoes, eggplant, ginormous basil, spinach, and swiss chard. In my neighbors’ plots, pumpkins, cantaloupe and honeydew grow heavy on the vine.

Here are a few pictures I snapped this week.

A beautiful, hot place.

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Frozen, In Summer

Independence Day, Munger Place Style

July 1, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Our neighborhood, Munger Place Historic District in East Dallas, boasts the largest collection of prairie style homes in the United States. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, the homes were designed to blend with the prairie. Wide porches. Overhanging eaves. Flat lines. Open living spaces with a central chimney. Munger Place is Americana. She looks best to me all dressed up for Independence Day.

Here are a few pictures I snapped around the neighborhood.