We spent the better part of Saturday sipping beers from Armadillo Aleworks at Lonestar Taps and Caps and learning all the barbecue secrets we could fit into our brains with the pit masters from Bet the House. After several hours of smoking meats, asking questions about trimming fat, and munching on some of the tastiest brisket we've ever had we figured we'd share our newfound wisdom with you. Read on for 5 things that will make your smoked meats better.
Read More
BBQ PIT MASTER CLASS AT TAPS AND CAPS
Not much is better on a Saturday than an ice cold beer and some smokey barbecue. Lucky for us, an event featuring a combination of the two will soon be happening in Denton. Lone Star Taps and Caps is pairing up with Shawn Eagle and Cody Smithers from Bet the House BBQ for a smoke and craft beer-filled "how to" session. Read on for more BBQ and brew goodness and to find out how you can take part.
Read More
THE DEN10: AUGUST 30th
Rumors of the demise of Denton's music scene are greatly exaggerated. In fact, it appears that the sudden changes in the landscape may have given it a good shot in the arm. This weekend marks the start of the highly anticipated UNT Football season, as well. All eyes will be on the new coach to see if he can pull off a few wins for the Mean Green.
Questions, comments, and footballs can be thrown at glen@wedentondoit.com
Read MoreWHAT WE DID: JANUARY 4TH 2016
Okay, y'all. We only have a few weeks left before the students come back to town. Make the most of it while you can!
Below are 18 photos from the past seven days of life in Denton, TX. We present a group of our favorite recent images every Monday and call it What We Did.
If you'd like to be included in What We Did, tag your images with #WDDI on Instagram, and check back here next Monday. As always, we're limited in the photos we can post, but we encourage you to search the hashtag #WDDI and check out all of the other awesome photos that we were unable to include this week. Click the images below to be led back to the photographer's Instagram page.
Got a question about What We Did? Send it to will@wedentondoit.com.
Read More
Summit Climbing Gym on Oak St. is open for business!
QUICK DENTON BUSINESS UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2015
We're just about down with 2015 already and there's still plenty of stuff happening. We've got places opening, closing, rumors, and a much-ballyhooed burger to read about in this month's Quick Denton Business Update. Click through to get the latest on Denton's business happenings.
Read More
RIP Macaroni Island.
THE DEN10: NOVEMBER 11TH, 2015
It’s Veterans Day and dangit, we are proud of our Vets. If you are one of the proud veterans we hear you can share a couple of cool discounts today, such as free DCTA A-Train & Connect bus rides and 15% off of your meal at Pollo Tropical! Wow! Besides celebrating our service people, there is a ton of stuff to do in Denton this week, including more than just music-themed events!
Questions? Comments? Future events? Contact Sara.
Read MoreWHAT WE DID: JULY 27TH
Its been a lazy summer in Denton and it hasn't been any different at We Denton Do It. Glen had to take a Rip Van Winkle-esque nap from Tuesday to Friday after the craziness that was last Monday so the Den10 took a break. Looks like y'all still found plenty of stuff to do, though!
What We Did is our weekly roundup of photos that WDDI staff and readers have taken over the past seven days. We've got nineteen of our favorite images from the week below.
If you'd like to be included in What We Did, tag your images with #WDDI on Instagram, and check back here next Monday. As always, we're limited in the photos we can post, but we encourage you to search the hashtag #WDDI and check out all of the other awesome photos that were posted that we were unable to post on the blog. Click the images below to be led back to the photographer's Instagram page. Have a great week!
Read More
2014 END OF THE YEAR AWARDS
It's the last day of 2014 and we're still feeling nostalgic (we haven't even touched the booze yet, either). Below, we have ten end of the year awards to some people, businesses, and other things for stuff that happened in 2014.
Read More
QUICK DENTON BUSINESS UPDATE: AUGUST 2014
As always, there's a lot going on in town, business-wise at the moment. Glen is gone on his honeymoon at the moment, so there's no Mr. Farris Goes to City Hall column, but instead we've got a fast-paced post with a bunch of updates on local businesses for ya.
Bet the House, the recently-opened BBQ restaurant on South Elm, is doing great and expanding their seating area. In addition, they've hired a few helping hands and will be rolling out a few new menu items including things such as brisket and pulled pork eggrolls. Needless to say, we're excited.
Crickette's Flowers and Gifts on University by Books and More closed up shop for good recently. We wish them the best.
Captain Nemo's has been open for a bit over at the old Hoochie's location on Bell. While they're currently being faced with a lawsuit for usage of the name "Captain Nemo's" from a former owner, they seem to be doing well. After being threatened with legal action from naming one of our older posts "The Denton Taco Trail" we feel for them. Have you stopped by Captain Nemo's to grab a steak sandwich yet?
The newly-revamped Sweetwater should be open in mid-to-late August.
We recently spoke with Matt Fisher of West Oak Coffee Bar who gave us an opening date of October for their new coffee shop complete with a creative workspace and chocolate milk on tap. We're not holding our breath for that one, though. As much as we want it to be open right now, we're expecting it may be a little later than October. That said, we've been watching their work from afar and those men are going at it pretty hard so they just may prove us wrong (which we hope they do).
A stack of Hypnotic Donuts' donuts from their Dallas location.
Hypnotic Donuts and Cultivar Coffee should be open in about one to two weeks. More on that within the next week, hopefully.
Pizza Snob will open this fall in the retail space at the bottom of Martino Group's H Squared apartments on Hickory Street. The build-your-own pie facility will also feature beer and wine and has a location near TCU in Fort Worth already which we can attest to being pretty dang good.
Speaking of apartments, H Squared apartments on Hickory and Jack Bell's The Adagio apartments on South Locust should both open this month.
Shift Coffee will reopen (after being closed for six months) at the base of The Adagio apartments. We've reached out to them for comments and to check out the space, and hope to hear back soon (tell Angelo to call me back, y'all).
Vietbites' will open their new, speed-oriented location closer to UNT very soon. The spot, next to a place called Seoul Wings and Beer that we're pretty darn excited about just based on their name, and the location that Sushi Cafe is relocating into was recently called "accidental Asian fusion" by the Denton Record Chronicle.
Outside of city lines, but still in Denton County, the Whole Foods in Highland Village will open on September 10th. In a Cross Timbers Gazette article, a spokesperson for the the healthy grocery chain called it, "[our] first store in Denton County," which has us excited.
More meat markets are coming. A new La Azteca and a La Michocana Meat Market will soon be open on University and the Better Block location on Sherman in the next few months. We hear they're a great place to "meat" singles, but we don't know what that means.
Thrift Giant, a used-good chain opened over on 288 last month. We'll probably stick to our list of thrifty places, though.
That's it for now. Do you have an update that we missed? Tell us in the comments. If you have an upcoming business that you'd like to let us know about, email will@wedentondoit.com and tell us all about it.