out&about

In October

10.22.11

BLUES, BANDITS AND BBQ

Go Oak Cliff is moving its Blues, Bandits and BBQ festival to Lake Cliff Park, at Colorado and Zang, this year. Organizers will fence off a huge area of the park for stages for bands, beer and food from Lockhart Smokehouse and Spiral Diner. The event features a barbecue contest, live music and games for the whole family. The barbecue competition entry fee is $100 and includes categories for brisket, ribs, chicken, sausage and pulled pork. Wristbands to taste the barbecue cost $15, and tickets to the festival cost $10. gooakcliff.org —RACHELSTONE

10.7-10.29

CYCLESOMATIC

FREE Bike Friendly

Oak Cliff presents bike-centric activities and events throughout the month. Events include tours of White Rock Lake, a ride to City Hall, a cyclecross race, a scavenger hunt, a Ray Charles tour of Dallas and more. bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com

10.22 COOP SNOOP FREE Eight Oak Cliff residents are opening their backyard hen houses to the curious. Maps of the chicken coop tour, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., are available at oakcliffcoopsnoop.blogspot.com or at Repotted, 700 W. Davis.

10.22-10.24 ST. VINCENT $15 St. Vincent, aka Texas native Annie Clark, plays two shows at the Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis, to promote her new album, “Strange Mercy.” thekessler.org, 214.272.8346

10.31 HAUNTED

HOUSE FREE Once you’ve visited the overthe-top Halloween set up at the Granado family’s houses on Beckley near Zang, check out the haunted house at Oil & Cotton, 837 W. 7th, starting at 5 p.m. It is kid-friendly, but beware: The creative gals of O&C and pals likely will make things more terrifying the later it gets.

A guide to dining & drinking in our neighborhood

Fair Fare

THESTATE FAIR OFTEXAS SEASON IS UPON

US, but you don’t have to venture far from our neighborhood for genuine fair food. Case in point: Burguesa Burger. It’s not your average burger joint, and it’s not a Mexican food restaurant, either. “It’s a marriage between the culture of the U.S. and Latin America,” co-owner Dale Kimball says. The Latin-influence burger concept has been a hit with a range of demographics in Oak Cliff. Burguesa is known for its La Monumental, a hefty burger with two beef patties, two slices of cheese, ham, a crunchy tostada, refried beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado and the signature “special creamy sauce.” The menu also includes the Mexican hot dog wrapped in bacon and topped with a pico de gallo relish and the special creamy sauce. Order a milkshake, and it comes with a small doughnut hanging around the straw. Kimball opened Burguesa in June 2010 in a 60-year-old building on Fort Worth Avenue. He hopes to reap the benefits of the neighborhoodfriendly retail expansion in the works nearby — the Sylvan Thirty development. “We like what’s going on in Oak Cliff,” he says.

BURGESA

710

—EMILY TOMAN

Three more spots for fair food in Oak Cliff

1 jonathon’s

The menu for this new Oak Cliff restaurant features “danger dogs,” sausages on sticks dipped in pancake batter and deep fried.

1111 N. Beckley 214.946.2221 joNathoNsoakcliff.com

2 7-El EvEn

OK, it’s not a restaurant, but 7-Eleven is an Oak Cliff original and chock-full of junk food. Sure, there are healthy options, but why resist rotating hot dogs and taquitos, washed down with a Slurpee?

Various locatioNs 7-eleVeN.com

3 flash

This ice cream shop serves ballpark-style nachos, tortas and fried tacos, along with banana splits, fruit cups and scoops of ice cream served in melon halves.

1310 West DaVis 214.946.2075

$3.00 frozen $3.50 rocks 11am-7pm/7 days