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12/24/10
Losing Control
Introducing Your Anti-Resolutions
Soon, very soon, you’ll make a personal promise to be better in 2011—to work out, eat healthy and finally file the paperwork to patent your clothes-folding robot. But you still have seven days before those resolutions kick in. So we present, with no remorse, your anti-resolutions...
SWEET TOOTH
The Cupcake Martini at Four Lounge
Soon, you’ll be meticulously avoiding sweets and cutting back on drinks. But even sooner, you’ll be
indulging in Four Lounge’s boozy take on Society Bakery’s cupcakes, mixed with vodka and caramel cream,
then poured into a martini glass. And if you sneak a few after January 1, we won’t tell.
- 411:
- Four Lounge, 2418 Allen St, 214-871-2626
ALL HANDS
The Texas Eight-Hand Massage
2010: a stressful time. (You’re still in shock from Don Draper’s proposal.) So take your tense shoulders
to the Ritz-Carlton and get the Texas Eight-Hand Massage, where four sets of therapist hands will massage
your body for 50 synchronized minutes. They’re like the Beatles of massaging.
- 411:
- The Ritz-Carlton Spa, 2121 McKinney Ave, 214-922-4820
DEEP FRIED
The Jalapeño Elk Corn Dog
The fair has come and gone. Big Tex is deflated. And come 1/1/11, fried foods are on the restricted list.
Your last fix: the elk-meat corn dogs at Fearing’s, fried in a jalapeño batter and served with brown ale
mustard for dunking. Oh, how you’ll miss the dunking.
- 411:
- Fearing’s, 2121 McKinney Ave, 214-922-4848
STACKED
The Unlimited Stacks Burger
Where others see a simple meal with friends, you see a Man v. Food challenge. And with this insane
concoction at the Nodding Donkey, you’ll pile on all the four-ounce patties your burger spotter can
handle. Then you’ll add brisket chili or pulled pork before it’s smashed between two buns. Sometimes
food needs to be put in its place.
- 411:
- The Nodding Donkey, 2900 Thomas Ave, 214-922-8898
UP IN SMOKE
Cigars and Chocolates
Smoking indoors: a timeless, borderline-outlaw pleasure, best enjoyed when it involves newborns, NBA
championships and/or... tobacco-infused chocolates. About those: the Havana Social Club is pairing their
house-rolled cigars with wine- and tobacco-infused chocolates from Chocolate Secrets. Which gives us an idea
for chocolate-infused cigars...
- 411:
- Havana Social Club, 3030 Olive St, 214-303-0544
Only what you need to know.