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January 5, 2026 | Pittsburgh
10 reasons to get out of the house and explore in January: Pittsburgh Restaurant Week
Welcome to our first monthly event guide of 2026! Whether you’re looking for ways to squash those postholiday blues, keep your resolution to try new things or escape winter’s gloom without depleting your travel budget, we have the recommendations. Pittsburgh Restaurant Week arrives just in time for all the exhausted home chefs who are so […]
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December 18, 2025 | Dallas
Café Momentum Founder Going to the Super Bowl
We’re all coming together today at the Tam Fam table for our annual holiday potluck! 2025 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year Chad Houser shares more about his restaurant that employs formerly incarcerated youth. Plus he makes us his gingerbread pot de creme and gets a SPECIAL surprise!
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December 17, 2025 | Dallas
Tamron Hall Show: Tamron’s Holiday Potluck
We’re all coming together today at the Tam Fam table for our annual holiday potluck! Plus, more giveaways! Cookbook author and chef PALAK PATEL, who won the Food Network’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, shows how to make her mushroom shepherd’s pie. Then, chef MARK STRAUSMAN, owner of Mark’s Off Madison and a New York Times Top 100 NYC restaurant, makes his mother’s […]
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December 11, 2025 | Atlanta
Chad Houser Named 2025 Atlanta Falcons Inspire Change Changemaker Award Recipient
The Atlanta Falcons have named Chad Houser, founder, CEO and executive chef of Café Momentum, as their 2025 Inspire Change Changemaker – an annual recognition celebrating leaders who are driving significant, measurable change in their communities across the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative’s four pillars: education, economic advancement, police-community relations and criminal justice reform. Houser is […]
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December 10, 2025 | Dallas
The Top 50 Restaurants in Dallas Right Now.
The “best” of anything is so subjective: best dog, best rock album, the best movie released in 1984. This list highlights 50 restaurants that make Dallas an exciting place to live, work and play. Usual suspects? Some, but not exclusively. Individually, these are spots we continually go back to because they offer something, well, tasty, […]
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December 2, 2025 | Pittsburgh
My Cleats My Cause
Steelers players can often be seen wearing custom cleats during pregame warmups, but this week against the Buffalo Bills custom cleats will be the norm during the game. For the 10th straight year the NFL is allowing players to represent a charity that touches them deeply in a unique manner with the league’s player cause […]
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November 25, 2025 | Atlanta
The Humanity Show with Arik Armstead
Arik Armstead of the Jacksonville Jaguars went into the kitchen to learn more about Café Momentum, a non-profit restaurant that employs justice-involved youth and provides them with life skills, education and counseling. Watch Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OawPi2MXWyQ
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November 7, 2025 | Pittsburgh
Former Steelers players tackle future of sports, tech during discussion in Pittsburgh
Three former Steelers players teamed up on Monday to talk sports and technology. Jerome Bettis, Joey Porter and Charlie Batch took part in “Beyond the Goal Line: Life, Legacy and Tech.” The “fireside-style” discussion was meant to explore how technology continues to reshape the landscape of sports, from recruitment to coaching. “That’s what we’re asking […]
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October 24, 2025 | Pittsburgh
Thanksgiving Holiday Catering
Thanksgiving is a time to come together — and this year, Café Momentum is helping make that a little easier. To ensure clarity of our ordering process, follow these three steps
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October 21, 2025 | Atlanta
Killer Mike, Atlanta Hawks and Others Team up to Redefine Success for Students
Which path is the right one to achieve success? For Killer Mike, it was a non-traditional path. For years, the Grammy-winning rapper has been influential in both entertainment and public policy. Just a day before the Atlanta Hawks’ home opener, he helped to transform State Farm Arena into a classroom, giving students a look at alternatives […]
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October 10, 2025 | Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s 27 best restaurants
Written by: Hal B Klein It’s rare to find a restaurant with a mission as sincere as Cafe Momentum’s. Its guiding light is embracing rolling cohorts of 15 to 19-year-old impact about the criminal justice system in providing paid, hands-on training across front and back up house. Add mentorship and wraparound support, such as mental […]
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July 18, 2025 | Pittsburgh
8 Chefs and Resturants Leading the Way in Pittsburgh’s Culinary Excellence
BY TABLE MAGAZINE STAFF JULY 17, 2025 There’s no end to the investment of toil and genius that goes into creating and maintaining a successful restaurant. Because the hardest work is usually done behind the scenes, it is often undervalued. Because there is frequently a team involved, it sometimes even goes unmentioned. In this year’s […]