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Our Favorite Dallas Dishes of 2012

So much food, so little time

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 2: The Turkey Sandwich At Bolsa Mercado

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The turkey sandwich is undoubtedly one of the most boring creations to be housed betwe ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 3: Chicken Shish Kebab At Pepper Smash

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Way back in February I blogged about a mystical chicken sandwich I've had in other cit ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 4: Babaganoush At Baboush

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Typically, babaganoush is about a point or two higher than hummus on the boring scale ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 5: Tortilla Soup At Fearing's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. You have only seconds after the bowl arrives to take in the garnishes lying in the bot ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 7: Jhinga Masala Nizami At Mughlai Fine Indian Cuisine

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The name Mughlai Fine Indian Cuisine might refer to a style of cooking, but muddy, spi ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 9: Grilled Pimento Cheese Sandwich At Highland Park Pharmacy

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When Gretchen and Sonny Williams bought the Highland Park Pharmacy in 2006, they agree ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 10: Cochinita Pibil At Meso Maya

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I may never find another cochinita pibil dish as good as the one I had in Austin, but ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 11: Scallop Ceviche At Stephan Pyles

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Ceviche may be one of Dallas' most abused dishes. Until a recent meal at Stephan Pyles ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 12: Berkshire Pork Belly with Japanese Plum At Sharaku

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Let's not get sucked into semantics of Kurobuta versus Berkshire when discussing this ... More >>

Jack's Southern Comfort Food to Open on Lower Greenville in Early October

Lowest Greenville will have a new spot for home cooking soon. Dallas restaurateur Scott Jones, who was previously behind Café Italia and the Screen Door is set to open Jack's Southern Comfort Food at at 1905 Greenville Ave. (the old Dulce and Ali Baba) in early October. After a long career in the ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 13: La Victoria's Breakfast Burrito (Smothered In Salsa)

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. You can get breakfast burritos all over Dallas but the only way you'll get to have bre ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 14: Potato Pancakes At Kuby's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Latkes? The first random thought that bloomed from my subconscious was that these pota ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 15: Zanata's Grilled Cheese And Tomato Soup

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Should you find yourself in need of a trip to downtown Plano on a three-day weekend yo ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 16: La Duni's BLTA Pop Over

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I know. Never thought I'd see back-to-back popovers on CoA's hundred favorites either, ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 17: Pesto Chicken Salad on a Popover at Dream Cafe

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Chicken salad slides in right behind tuna salad for the most boring sandwich stuffer k ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 18: Paan At Taj Chaat House

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. A recent trip to an Indian grocery in Carrollton had me longing for paan. We'd just ea ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 19: The "Sliced Leg Of Lamb" At Ziziki's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. See that knife sitting on your table? Ditch it. Toss the fork aside, too, lest you be ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 20: The Black Bean Dip At Gloria's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I've never had much control with chips and salsa at Tex-Mex and Salvadorian restaurant ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 21: Brisket Enchiladas At ME Lounge

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When Monica's Nueva Cocina and ME Lounge opened a few weeks ago, I was anxious to see ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 22: Oak's Ham And Cheese Croissant

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. While there are a few places to get a decent sandwich in Dallas (Jimmy's, Carbone's, I ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 23: The Wings At Ten Bells Tavern

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. If you're a Buffalo wing purist, you're not going to like this. At least at first. The ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 24: Nova's Smoked Salmon Potato Skins

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Potato skins are usually a snooze. Most restaurants fill dried out hulls with oily che ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 25: Grilled Whole Bronzini At Tei Tei Robota

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I had no clue what I wanted to order till I watched the old guy tending the grill grab ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 26: The Jerk Chicken At Island Spot

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. If you've ever smelled jerk chicken smoking away on the grill, you know how captivatin ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 27: The Fried Chicken Sandwich At Union Bear

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. My chicken sandwich list is weeks old, but I'm still on a chicken sandwich binge. Stuf ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 28: Hummus and Super Bread at Pepper Smash

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Before dining at Pepper Smash, the comic-book-themed-cocktail-den-restaurant-monster w ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 29: Tom Kha Gai At Bambu

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Every time I've cooked with kaffir lime leaves, I've purchased big, thick, tough folia ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 31: The Crispy Duck At Bangkok City

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I still regret my decision sometimes, when I sat at the table at Bangkok City and orde ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 32: The Pork Chop At Acme F&B

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. For a little while I tried to figure out whose pork chop was better. Jason Maddy's pre ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 33: International Bakery Cuban Dulceria's Cubano

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I took my first bite, and tried to figure out why Rita and Sara Vasquez, the owners of ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 34: DIY Fried Chicken Taco at Pollo Campero

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Don't look for this dish on the menu of Pollo Campero. If you want this taco, you're g ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 35: Coffee and Doughnuts At Rosemont

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Remember that paper bag of mini doughnuts you bought from the grocery store? They were ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 36: Loukoumathes At Greek Fest

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. This one's a bit of a tease, since you can't have it till the end of September, but wi ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 37: The Brussels Sprouts Fritters At Snack

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Who cares if they aren't fritters, they're freaking deep fried aren't they? Jon Steven ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 38: The Chile Relleno At Avila's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It was the brisket gordita that was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, but I thi ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 39: The Large Tabouleh at Ali Baba

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The last time I wrote about Ali Baba's tabouleh, I'd had a small order delivered to th ... More >>

Restore Your Meat-Pummeled Body with Ali Baba's Tabouleh

It's a bit tiresome to hear a critic gripe about all the food they're forced to eat. (There are worse ways to make a living.) After reviewing near back-to-back southern comfort restaurants, though, I felt pretty pummeled with fat and meat. I needed a break. While interviewing an Italian chef back i ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Kibbi at Ali Baba Cafe

Merritt Martin​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can b ... More >>

Pho Que Huong: Not Quite as Comforting
As Food from Home

Noodles, the anti-blues food​I haven't written a Pho From Home in some time, as I've been reserving it for when the cold temperatures return. Last week, however, I found myself in the odd position of craving pho in the middle of the Texas summer. After botching a job interview in Las Colinas ... More >>

Review: Bukhara Grille

We venture into Indian territory

Sin City

On patrol with the $2 Halloween hos on Lowest Greenville

Fright Before Christmas

Oh, drear, Dallas Theater Center's annual Carol serves up a Dickens of a downer

Best Lesson on the Middle East

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Best Hummus

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Best Authentic Lebanese Food

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Easy Target

The DTC's A Christmas Carol is a show loaded with blanks

Hash Over

Letters

Involuntary takeout

But then, who needs ambiance when you've got Ali Baba's terrific Middle Eastern?