If you are in the Dallas TX area and hungry for Tex-Mex, you ought to check out Mattito’s Tex-Mex for some of the best Mexican food Dallas has to offer. If you are a reader of this blog, you know that I love good Mexican food, especially good guacamole(mine is awesome) and margaritas.

Being my wife and I love margaritas so much, I just have to add Mattito’s margaritas to my list of to-dos, as I was checking out their colorful site, and I noticed that they won an award for being one of the top ten tequila bars in the United States. So my reasoning is that a top tequila bar ought to have a tremendous margarita such as their Rumba Rita..hmm..sounds deliciously fun.

Catering in Dallas

Say you live in the Dallas area, and your daughter is getting married, and your darling little niña had her first date with your future son in law at Mattitos. Why not involve Mattitos in the wedding by letting them cater a wedding reception Dallas parents will all love. Mattitos is able to cater events in sizes from 10-1000 people.  Additionally, if you are looking for a banquet restaurant Dallas area for between 20 -200+ attendees, then check out Mattitos site, and give them a call to reserve their banquet facilities.

Mattitos Fun

I was checking out Mattitos on FourSquare, and noticed that they have a lot of tips that suggest trying the Bob Armstrong Dip or the Bob Armstrong Queso, which is not on their menu, but is something for which they are known and consists of cheese, ground beef, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo..hmm..sounds like an interesting mix that would be great with some fresh baked corn chips.

On several of the Mattito’s FourSquare profiles, I noticed that their Sunday brunch got a lot of thumbs ups. I also read on their Facebook Fanpage, that one patron was going their for the brunch the past Sunday for their mom’s Bday. Sounds like Mottito’s is a great place for a family gathering, be it a birthday party or wedding reception in the Dallas area.

When I get to the Dallas area, I plan on visiting Mattito’s for both a Rumba Rita and some Bob Armstrong Queso.

How about You?

Have you ever been to Mattito’s and had a Rumba Rita?

Simmeria Pappardelle Carbonara

My Simmeria Pappardelle Carbonara was so delicious, I was looking forward to having the leftovers for lunch  the next day, but sadly a college student beat me to them.

In addition to the Simmeria Pappardelle Carbonara, I also had Clam Fritters with Lobster dipping sauce, and a bowl of mouth watering lamb stew from St. Patties Day.

Lizzie, departing from her standard crab cakes, had the fish and chips. She said it was not what she had expected, but is was delicious.

We both loved the restaurant, especially due to the use of fabric dividers which gives the patrons a sense of privacy within their dining area.  Without a doubt, Lizzie and I will be dining with the Simmeria staff again in the not too distant future hopefully.

As part of the holiday season, I am planning on donating to our local food pantry, which we are always hearing is always in need of food.

Last week I learned about a program that Susquehanna Bank, (which has a branch in my town, but I don’t have an account with yet) is participating in which involves following Susquehanna on Twitter and retweeting their tweet about their program known as #Tweet2Feed.

For following them on Twitter, they will donate 10 meals to various food banks.  For retweeting the tweet about the program they will donate 5 meals. The goal for the program is 150,000 meals, and the program runs until December 31st.  At the time of this writing, there have been 45,675 meals donated. You can click the Tweet2Feed link above, and look at the sidebar to view the food banks that will benefit from the program.

I was just reading Mashables post How The World Googled in 2010 and was totally unfamiliar with the majority of the search phrases that were listed in Googles top ten search phrase list for 2010. I then Googled “Google Zeitgeist 2010″ and found the Google Zeitgeist 2010 page which indicates the phrases that were the most searched, phrases that were fastest rising in searches, fastest declining and a bunch of other categories including “Fastest Rising in Food & Drink”.

2 and 5 are in non-English language searches and the letters don’t display properly on my blog, so you’ll have to visit the Zeitgeist page to see them.

• Fastest Rising in Food & Drink

1. masterchef
2. ????
3. cupcakes
4. jimmy johns
5. ??? ????? ????
6. dominos pizza menu
7. tudo gostoso receitas
8. guacamole recipe
9. applebees menu
10. rachel ray

If I were a foodie blogger, I would look at this list and make sure I made a few blog posts about a few of these search phrases. I already have a Guacamole recipe post, and I am sure it would not bee to hard for me to write a Dominos Pizza Menu post either. The others, well I am not to sure about them, so I would have to pass.

Back in 2007 I did a similar post on Pixelheadonline were I compared Club Penguin to Webkins(two topped searched phrases in 2007) and I still regularly get 5 -10 visitors a day to that post. Its enough traffic that I monetized the post by adding an affiliate add to the post.

So what ever your niche, stop in and check out the Google Zeitgeist list for 2010 and brainstorm some possible link bait posts you can do to drive traffic to your foodie site.

If you have a post that deals with one of these phrases, please feel free to drop it in your comment…oh comments are dofollow.