Email Author Mark Stuertz

2008 Stories by Mark Stuertz

• The South Rises Again

  published August 14, 2008

  Screen Door bills itself—in the parlance of some of the finest whiskeys—as a blend, a melding of modern culinary wisdom with... More >>

• Faking It

  published July 31, 2008

  Ponder the paradox. The more we flee the grit of the city, the more we crave its talismans. We crave them so much we recreate them in the... More >>

• Woodshed Trip

  published July 24, 2008

  Years ago, well before cigarette smokers were forced to take their leprosy to the gutter, the American grill was an unpretentious place of... More >>

• Bull Ring

  published July 3, 2008

  Bolla is Italian for bull. Bolla is headed by Bull—chef David Bull, fresh from the Driskill Hotel in Austin, youngest sous chef... More >>

• Bengal Tiger

  published June 19, 2008

  Brass balls. The first time I heard restaurateur Mark Brezinski, a founding partner of Tin Star and Pei Wei Asian Diner chains, was banking on... More >>

• Willie-Nilly

  published June 19, 2008

  On-again, off-again: Willie's Place at Carl's Corner looks like it will actually open. Dallas-based Earth Biofuels—partnering with... More >>

• Spooked Grill

  published June 12, 2008

  Gui rests on history. This cubed structure on McKinney Avenue has slowly morphed, traversing cultures with global hybrids—some... More >>

• Rose Names

  published June 12, 2008

  It's a crossbreeding of a chef and a Tennessee Williams play that morphed into a 1955 film starring Burt Lancaster. It's called The Rose... More >>

• Gregory's Restaurant Brings Seasoned Urban Couture to Plano

  published May 29, 2008

  Gregory's Restaurant is a loft-like establishment in an uppish urban two-story building of brick construction in a historic... More >>

• Review: Moroccan Lounge Medina Oven & Wine Bar

  published May 22, 2008

  Medina Oven & Wine Bar is in Victory Park, so of course it is a restaurant with lounge-like accents. Nevertheless, there are no hookah... More >>

• Urban Market Soon To Have a Mini-Me

  published May 22, 2008

  Urban Market, the groundbreaking but bedeviled full-service grocer and café downtown in the Interurban... More >>

• Charlie Green Bringing an Expanded Olivella's to Victory Park in October

  published May 8, 2008

  The quest to freshen up Victory Park with a little local flavor has just netted Charlie Green, founder of Olivella's near... More >>

• Review: The Food, Not the Setting, Impresses at Scene Restaurant & Lounge

  published May 8, 2008

  Scene, blessedly, is not much of one. Sure, it goes through a few strenuously correct motions, mingling beatnik inflections with... More >>

• Review: Villa-O

  published May 1, 2008

  It's dedicated to the yearned for but often elusive O, subliminally, at least, judging by the comely scene coagulating around the sinuous... More >>

• Review: Ounce Prime Steakhouse in Addison

  published April 24, 2008

  It's Sunday, the only day of the week other than Monday to test-drive this particular Ounce Prime Steakhouse signature. A full dinner:... More >>

• Wine Bars Popping Up Across Dallas, Finally

  published April 24, 2008

  After years of slim pickings, Dallas is suddenly multiplying wine bars. In addition to Paul Pinnell's upcoming Dali Wine Bar &... More >>

• Review: Nonna

  published April 10, 2008

  In music you run headlong into cruelty when composing with an economy of notes, positioning single tones or sparse phrases in stark nakedness,... More >>

• Former Screen Door Chef Takes Reins at Dali Wine Bar & Cellar

  published April 10, 2008

  After exiting Scott Jones' (Café Italia) Screen Door, chef Joel Harloff (Melrose Hotel, Mi Piaci, Bistro... More >>

• Shenanigan's Will Feature Go-Karts, Bowling and Full Service Bar and Restaurant

  published April 3, 2008

  While the Hilton Bella Harbor resort retail/spa/haute nosh complex takes shape on the western side of Rockwall along the shores of Lake Ray... More >>

• Review: Blue Canyon Kitchen, Tavern & Wine Bar

  published April 3, 2008

  Blue Canyon Kitchen is one great wail of kitschy vigor, so loud your ears ring. Aspen logs, fully barked, hang from the ceiling. Tables... More >>

• Review: Charlie Palmer at The Joule

  published March 27, 2008

  Embedded in the ceiling, high above the dining room, is a series of lighted, saucer-like depressions. Huge silvery propellers are fixed within,... More >>

• Group Owning Geisha House to Launch Sports Bar in Victory

  published March 27, 2008

  From Los Angeles, a steroided-up sports bar finds its home in Victory. "It's kind of like a pub meets ESPN Zone meets Bellagio Sports Bar,"... More >>

• Review: Cliff Cafe

  published March 13, 2008

  Aft the Cliff Café's gravel parking lot is a brick house—an ancestral McMansion with subtle ornate strokes that predate... More >>

• Hard Holy Roll

  published March 13, 2008

  After plowing down the Hard Rock Café on McKinney Avenue and scraping the plot clean, Uptown developer Brett Landes is... More >>

• Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

  published March 6, 2008

  On the first Tuesday of every month, Phil Brantley hosts a conference call. He never knows who will be calling in, or from... More >>