7-Eleven Inc.

Chef Burning Questions: Tim Byres on Cookbooks and Crazy Requests

Each week (or thereabout) we track down a chef for a few burning questions. This week, Tim Byres of Smoke and Chicken Scratch was willing to participate. He indulged us in a few of his favorite cookbooks and weird surprises in the walk-in. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks (feel free to in ... More >>

A Man Stole, Crashed and Fled a Car in East Dallas Today, with a Passenger Riding Shotgun

A Dallas woman's day got off to a terrible start around 7 this morning, when a man jumped into the driver's side of the parked car she was sitting in and demanded money from her. Things devolved from there. Police say the woman was sitting in the passenger's seat of the running vehicle outside of ... More >>

Meatless Monday Conquered At Seven Mile Cafe

While I wait for the USDA to sort out its feelings about Meatless Monday with breath that is most certainly bated, I continue the valiant search for meatless dishes that don't suck and aren't cheese nachos from 7-Eleven. This week, I couldn't ignore the dull roar of ballyhoo any longer and decided t ... More >>

Study: Texas Teens Sure Love to Sext

A team of Texas researchers recently published the findings of a scientific undertaking studying a condition plaguing 28 percent of Texas teens. Sexting. So now, when that half-cocked smile rolls across a teen's face in line at 7-Eleven or when your kid checks his phone at the dinner table and b ... More >>

Slurpees and Roller Coasters: Six Flags and 7-Eleven Have Conspired for July 11

Have you had your eye on the Titan at Six Flags for a while, but couldn't stomach the price of admission to the park? Well, we found your opening. Next Wednesday is July 11, and, as usual, you'll be able to partake in a 7.11 ounce Slurpee "on the house" at 7-Elevens everywhere, while supplies las ... More >>

A Dallas Cab Driver Had Pretty Much the Worst Late-Night Hook-Up Ever Last Night

Around 3 a.m. today, a cab driver called the Dallas police to report that he'd been carjacked after dropping off a passenger. He couldn't specify just where he'd been when this happened, and he didn't know the license plate number of the cab, only the unit number. Upon arriving at the scene, DPD d ... More >>

Dallas Police Adding Bait Houses and Businesses To Their Thief-Catching Technology

The City Council's getting briefed this week on "community policing," the Dallas Police Department's ongoing effort to get residents involved in preventing crime in their neighborhoods. This last came up in December, when Chief David Brown and McGruff the Crime Dog came to visit council members and ... More >>

In Honor of Pink Slime, Five Other Gross Meats That We Happen to Love

Oh, pink slime, where did it all go wrong? Your name alone is gross, your photo induces a gag reflex and, unfortunately, the image has been seared into our brains (for now, anyway). And now grocery stores -- including Walmart, where just about everything goes there -- are banishing you. Sorry, kiddo ... More >>

The Walking Taco May Have Walked Across the Border

John T. Edge wrote about Tostilocos in Wednesday's New York Times and describes the Mexican street food as Tostitos corn chips topped with shaved jicama, pickled pig skins and stumpy tamarind candies in one instance. Sounds a little like the Frito Pie we wrote about a few weeks ago, right? Could our ... More >>

The 7-Eleven Frito Pie: Feeding Drunks and Stoners Everywhere

I'd just walked into my local 7-Eleven to pick up a six-pack of beer. While walking back from the cooler, I saw a round and wobbling man standing in front of the cheese and chili dispenser. He had One hand on the chili dispensing button. The other was cupped below it. "Well this is going to be good ... More >>

Dallas' Five Best Margaritas, in Honor of National Margarita Day

The margarita may be the greatest drink of all time, if only because it almost always comes alongside a free, bottomless basket of chips and salsa. Born out of desperation, the margarita originally provided a way to choke down bad tequila. At some restaurants this still holds true. At others the dri ... More >>

Dallas PD Asks: Do You Know The Gunman Who's Been Holding Up 7-Elevens This Week?

The video you see above was taken in the wee small hours of Saturday morning at the 7-Eleven located at 5123 W. Lovers Lane, just off Inwood -- you know, the one next to Neighborhood Services, which, according to Dallas PD records, has been robbed more than 70 times in the past five years. Reason DP ... More >>

Look Out, Lowest Greenville: Code Compliance, Dallas PD Will Be Out Writing Citations Tonight

Courtesy Avi AdelmanCode Compliance officers paid a visit last night to Nandina, which actually has its late-hours SUP.​Now then, back to the continuing saga of Lowest Greenville ...Last night, a certain Barking Dog tagged along as officers from the city's Code Compliance were out warning business ... More >>

7-11's Hot Dog Potato Chips Taste Shockingly Hot Doggy

​7-Eleven has a storied tradition of attempting foods that taste like other foods rather than just making the foods themselves edible. But this time around, your favorite gas station-grocery-movie-rental store hit a grand slam in synthetic flavor simulation. That's right: I tried 7 Select Big ... More >>

Labor Day 2011: Let's Work This Out

​One of the best things about being a sportswriter? Getting paid to go to games. One of the worst things about being a sportswriter? Working on holidays. Not that I'm complaining. I've got lots of media friends who are without full-time jobs, and there's nothing more stressful than trying to ... More >>

Celebrating the Day the Margarita Died (In the City That Killed It)

​Sunday is National Tequila Day, a "holiday" Dallasites can celebrate with extra exuberance as residents of the city that fucked up margaritas forever. Mariano Martinez birthed the margarita machine here, 40 years ago, after a frightening opening night nearly handed him his ass. Turns out his ... More >>

Free Slurpees at 7-Eleven Today. Need We Say More?

​It's in honor of the date, of course. But yes, there's a catch. With free frozen drinks, there's always a catch. 7-Eleven actually sold more Slurpees last July 11 then on any other day last year. Sales jumped an 38 percent, in fact. Apparently the free tiny ones are just enough to tease you. ... More >>

7-Eleven To Introduce Sippy Cups For Slurpees This Summer

A sippy cup for all ages​You don't need Pete Delkus to tell you that it's hot outside, but if we're already seeing highs in the 90s in April, just wait for the griping and sweating we'll all be doing in June. Luckily, 7-Eleven, our chosen retailer for issues of Mugly! and beer pong parapherna ... More >>

Oh Thank Heaven: 7-Eleven Unveils
Vegetarian Choices, but Not Here

​Vegetarian activists are rejoicing over the debut of five new vegan items at 7-Eleven stores in Manhattan, but a spokesperson for the convenience store says the sale of artichoke spinach noodles on 42nd Street doesn't portend the national roll-out of a meatless menu. "I'm not sure where they ... More >>

Vegan Cooking Class, BYOB Dinner,
And the Best Place to Spend $90 Tonight

If you're like us, you don't make weekend plans five days in advance, and usually not before you've recovered from your Saturday morning hangover. Instead of sharing a week's worth of events every Monday, we're now going to have (mostly) daily updates on what events are happening around town. Monda ... More >>

"Purple Friday" Brings Free Iced Beverages To 7-Eleven

​A press release from 7-Eleven today announces "Purple Friday" as an alternative to "Black Friday," the busiest shopping day of the year, when hordes of deal-seekers rise at the asscrack to trample each other for large-screen televisions, game systems and other crap they couldn't possibly survive ... More >>

Caraway Wants to Make It Clear: "The Majority Has Spoken" About Beer, Wine Sales

​Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn't exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center's permit office -- in large part because of the city and county's hoop-heavy permitti ... More >>

So, You Want to Know Who's Paying for The Mayor's European Vacation? Well, Then ...

Remember when I said you'd never see this picture again? Apparently, I was wrong.​Right about now, Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia, Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavikovsky and a few other folks on the Dallas trade mission to Europe are probably ... More >>

Barely Brunch At Mextopia

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourMextopia's migas.​There are only four items on the Mextopia brunch menu. The restaurant itself sits on the presently blighted block of Lower Greenville Avenue, the block where after the apocalypse, it'll just be that 7-Eleven and the Simply Fondue and ... More >>

Oh, Thank Heaven! 7-Eleven Gets
In on the Roasted Chicken Act

Not a 7-Eleven bird, but we can dream...some Observer staffers eat lunch there three times a week.​Move over, Boston Market. There's a new bird in town. 7-Eleven, home of the Slurpee, is adding roasted chicken, for the low, low price of $7.99, to its menu, according to a report in the Chicago ... More >>

Taste of Dallas: Hot and Soggy, but Still the Hungry Came

Rachel ParkerSee more of Taste of Dallas in the slideshow.​Organizers are calling this past weekend "Taste of Dallas" an overwhelming success, despite heavy rain on Friday that depressed attendance and aggravated vendors. While official numbers won't be available for days, spokesperson Suzanne Ge ... More >>

Carlos Quintanilla's Found a New Delicious Target For Protest: Plano-Based Frito-Lay

Now might be a good time to go back and read Megan Feldman's '06 profile of Carlos Quintanilla​Oooh, just got a press release about an "informational protest" scheduled from 4-6 afternoon at a 7-Eleven close to my house -- the one at Marsh and Forest Lanes, to be precise, as it's apparently "the l ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Zero Candy Bars

Denver Westword​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what's wrong with me.It has been dismissed as a white Snickers. The company that makes them has changed hands so many times it's near impossible to keep track. And when I went to the 7-Eleven by our posh, t ... More >>

For Many Reasons, the City Staff Is Not Fond of Proposed Cityville at Cityplace. At All.

Click to expand for a better view of the proposed development on the former Loews Cityplace site.​One month ago we broke the news that Kroger is looking to set up shop on the desolate site formerly occupied by the former Loews Cityplace. Only, well, there's one small problem: Kroger wants to sell ... More >>

Chelsea Hardly

And The Winner Is...

​Such a week--people congratulating us, berating us, questioning the sexual orientation of those who post and comment, and pausing with us to praise shit on a shingle. Wouldn't have it any other way.A good prize this week would have been some bottles of that Texas whisky. Unfortunately we couldn' ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Sorry--it's getting on in the afternoon. I should have started this sooner, but I've been working out some statistics.See, last week one of our dozen or so readers, TLS, failed to make our list of non-winners. She then vowed to sprinkle her comments with the word "cougar" until she reached the s ... More >>

The Porch vs Burguesa: Burger Bash

Alex Flores​We're not just comparing any burgers here, but the monstrous La Monumental at Burguesa and The Porch's equally hefty Stodg.The first is a much-hyped stack consisting of two beef patties, a special sauce, lettuce, cheese--and then more cheese, ham, refried beans, tostada, chunks of avoc ... More >>

Pairing Off: Most Graphic Moments Of The Second Quarter

Once again we pause to reflect upon the previous three months, in which we paired wine with Cheez Its, nachos from 7-Eleven, frozen taquitos and other delicacies.Twice during this span we encountered nearly inedible items. But not once did our intrepid graphic artist, Patrick Michels, flinch. Not ev ... More >>

Pairing Off: Taquitos

Patrick MichelsEach week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Without the existence of frozen supermarket taquitos, most guys wouldn't have survived their 20s. Hell, even after we've overcome all that Darwin throws at us over that particular decade--be ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.20.09

"Dunkin' Donuts has always appealed to the 'Everyday Joe.' We really appeal to a broader psychographic and not so much a demographic--everyone from a company CEO to a construction worker." (Casey Corrigan, spokeswoman for the doughnut chain, on the continued popularity of their coffee. While Starbuc ... More >>

Squirreling Away For The Recession

In these deflating economic times, some of us here at the Observer have been doing our best to, oh, dole out less dough for lunch. Hell with stimulating the economy. One of us announced recently that she'd spent $72 on lunches in one week--and unemployment rates continued to climb.So lunch has devo ... More >>

Why Should Legal Immigrants Care About Illegals?

Fair is fair, and bigotry is bigotry. Don't confuse the two

In the Wee Small Hours, the Lower Greenville 7-Eleven the Site of a Stick-Up

Are the Stores Really the Keyes to Blockbuster's Success?

The DPD Could Use Your Eyeballs

Homegrown

See Hecho en Dallas at the LCC

Dallas Police Department Discovers the World Wide Interwebs

Thank Heaven

Irving's Kasbah Grill replaces lukewarm 7-Eleven hot dogs with great Moroccan fare

Equal Rights Stuff

See the women who fought for your rights at the Women's Museum

Luxury Suite

Zubar's elixirs and Erotica

Cosmopolitan Reach

Local is a slice of culinary dazzle

A Twist of the Wrist

Aren’t wine drinkers sissies?

Night Moves

Bachman Lake residents say a new business is moving into their neighborhood--hookers

Out Here