Subject: Greater Dallas Restaurant Association

• Wherein We Declare Don Hill the Current Frontrunner and Sam Coats...Wait, This Can't Be Right...Hip?

  March 30, 2007

• Closing The Book: Some 2008's Best (And Most Lamented) Restaurants

  Two days off, one day at work, then a weekend to recover...For our purposes the new year begins on Monday, when we resume the normal City of Ate schedule of columns, dubious wine pairings and other bits of inspired banality. Today, we close out 2008 with a list of the sorry year's top openings and closings.Perhaps we should start with the closings, as that seems to have been the most prominent theme. According to the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association, well over 60 kitchens shut down over the

  January 2, 2009

• Hash Over

  November 19, 1998

• Hash Over

  December 17, 1998

• Tongue-tied

  Gringo Lingo gripes

  January 11, 2001

• Speak Up

  Soon we'll all be speaking English

  January 25, 2001

• Wrapped Up In Chains

  June 14, 2001

• Where There's Smoke

  April 25, 2002

• Puffed Poss

  Restaurant association endorses its first mayoral candidate

  March 6, 2003

• New Immigration Rules Could Empty Local Kitchens

  Tough rules leave restaurants looking for cooks with green cards

  October 11, 2007

• She's Gotta Serve It

  Dallas dining is largely controlled by men. Seven women are trying to change that.

  July 24, 2003

• Colombo's Big O

  June 28, 2007

• Bones to Pick

  Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?

  December 28, 2006

• Deep Easy

  Laissez les bon temps rouler at two new restaurants

  November 24, 2005

• Deep Easy

  N'awlins reborn in Deep Ellum

  September 29, 2005

• John's Movement

  For cafe, it's not "goodbye" but "until we meet again"

  August 4, 2005

• My Home, the Hospice

  Plus: Green Seeks Greene

  April 7, 2005

• Know the Score

  Plus: Wet and Wilder; Greener Pastures

  March 31, 2005

• Cooking With Class

  Soon, Dallas students can learn the restaurant biz in school

  February 3, 2005

• Dining Tyranny

  Are we choosing ourselves crazy?

  December 30, 2004

• Nicotine Fit

  Smoking-ban study shows loss for the city

  December 16, 2004

• Delayed Pain

  Plus: Viva la Alcaldesa!; Donkey Kong

  October 28, 2004

• Puck Off

  The lock on hockey could be a big blow to Dallas restaurants

  September 23, 2004

• Expecting

  Legal Grounds pair to launch restaurant, bar and market

  May 27, 2004

• No Smoking Gun

  The new smoking ban will work--if no one lights up

  February 27, 2003

• Eschewing the Fat

  Interest groups battle over your next meal

  October 17, 2002

• 'Tisn't the Season

  Bars, restaurants take divergent paths through dismal fall

  January 10, 2002

• The Hole in the Doughnut

  Carrollton missed the boom, but still hopes to attract restaurant business

  August 23, 2001

• Tale of Three Cities

  Dallas independent restaurants learn from Addison, eye Frisco

  August 9, 2001