Huckabee <3's Joe T.'s; Cane Rosso Hosts Restaurant Ava

FORT WORTH -- Congratulations, Joe T. Garcia's! No doubt the party is already raging over at the legendary Cowtown Tex-Mex restaurant now that Mike Huckabee has announced it's his favorite Mexican restaurant in the whoooooooooole world. [Star-Telegram]

DEEP ELLUM -- Industry Night continues at Cane Rosso on Commerce Street, and tonight it's Restaurant Ava's Randall Copeland and Nathan Tate cooking up pies with, we hear, wood-grilled sweet breads. [Eaterwire]

SADWIRE -- Steve Hartnett, the man behind the Cool River Cafe, Fox and Hound, Mi Dia and many, many more establishments in the Metroplex has died at age 62 of prostate cancer. D Mag reports that at one point, he owned more than 200 restaurants. [SideDish]

[Photo: Joe T. Garcia's/Official]