Monica Greene

Monica's Aca y Alla No Longer Has Monica, but the Deep Ellum Fave Presses On

I was in a car on my way to Austin, tweeting about kolaches and blissfully ignoring my work email, when the DMN story on Monica's Aca y Alla popped up on my phone. I promised myself I wouldn't work while I was gone, but couldn't resist the temptation to at least skim the piece. Long story short: M ... More >>

Mudsmith Coffee Opened, Mextopia Closed and More Restaurant Happenings

Another busy month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened and closed. Read on for the full list of restaurants happenings in January, and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Suns ... More >>

BEE: Best Enchilada Ever in Oak Cliff is Closed

Earlier this month we reported that long-time Dallas restaurateur Monica Greene, who originally opened Monica's Aca y Alla in Deep Ellum, split with the recently opened Monica's Nueva Cocina. A message via the restaurant's Facebook page announced that while the spot still carries her name, she was n ... More >>

Ascension Coffee Opens, Monica Greene Says Goodbye to Monica's Nueva Cocina and More from December

Another busy month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Ascension Coffee (1621 Oak Lawn Ave.): The new coffee ... More >>

Monica's 2.0 Has a Few Bugs, but It Feels Like a Successful Release

Monica's Nueva Cocina Opens, Rohst Closes and More From a Busy August

At last, August has left us, bringing us that much closer to the promise of cooler weather. Someday soon, we hope. In the meantime, the month brought Dallas several new restaurants and wilted a few others. Read on for the full list of openings and closings and be sure to share tips about shifts in t ... More >>

First Look at Monica's Nueva Cocina and ME Lounge

Monica Greene, former owner of Monica's Aca Y Alla, now Maracas Mexican Restaurant, debuted her new restaurant and lounge last night. Monica's Nueva Cocina and ME Lounge, located in the iLume on Cedar Springs Road, has all the trappings of both a restaurant and a nightclub. The space is colorful, a ... More >>

Modern Mexican, Drunken Olympics and Dining In The Bubble: This Week in Dallas Dining

Wrapping up that work day and getting ready to head home watch the Olympics and do some drinking? Easy now. The gymnastics events are in full swing and Alice's instruction to drink every time you see a wedgie promises to intoxicate an entire planet. Before you pick up your shot glass, we have a week ... More >>

Monica Greene's Nueva Cocina Opens This Evening: Will Serve Sushi

We first told you about Monica Greene's departure from Aca y Alla to open up a restaurant in Oak Cliff just before summer. Now the restaurateur has released new details about the space on Cedar Springs Road that will have a soft opening this evening, with a grand opening scheduled August 7. Nueva ... More >>

World AIDS Day to Wrap Up With Speeches Downtown and a Service at Cathedral of Hope

​The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for "the beginning of the end," a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight ... More >>

Best Enchiladas Ever: Tons of Choices- Most of Them Good- at Monica Greene's Latest.

BEE (Best Enchiladas Ever) Lives Up to Its Name

Revolving Doors: Super Bowl Stimulus

​Everyone's trying to cash in on the Super Bowl, from those renting their homes for the week, to restaurants and bars offering cheap drinks and food specials to lure in crowds for watching parties. For restaurants that opened their doors in January, the timing couldn't be better, but for the f ... More >>

The Year/The Decade: Personalities

​The other day Jesse "Hophead" Hughey said something about the role of those special edition $150 beers--something along the lines of "they generate publicity and motivate interest in beer."True enough. Basketball needed Michael Jordan and golf Tiger Woods...well, until recently. Indeed, every mar ... More >>

Veggie Guy: Monica's Aca Y Alla

​The City of Ate's, um, kind and generous editor...yeah...once asked me what I thought this city needed in terms of vegan food. My answer: "I wish the Mexican restaurants would catch on." Because it's true--Mexican restaurants are slim pickings for vegans in Dallas due to the fact that most of t ... More >>

Go Flush

Ex-Go Fish chef feeling sagacious

Decades Pyled

Stephan Pyles: a perfect 10?

Funny Business

Sinner or Saint

Plus: Don't Call Us and Family Reunion

Long Time Gone

Marc Cassel leaves Green Room for Dragonfly

Chili-ing Out

Why can't they make Texas food outside Texas?

Dining Tyranny

Are we choosing ourselves crazy?

Best Lunch Deal

Monica's Aca y Alla

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Out of the Frying Pan

Monica Greene tries her hand at vote-getting

Let It Shine

New eateries coming to the Galleria

Boxing Brown

Chef Doug Brown planning new project downtown

Letters

Monica at 10

A decade ago, Eduardo Greene abandoned his wife, his home and a successful restaurant, expecting a nightmare in pursuit of a dream

Uptown Strikes Back

Medici and Il Mulino founders join forces

How You Doin'?

Plus: Never Been Kissed; Wanted

Seeing Ciudad

The artists aren't starving at Monica's place

Come High Water

Monica's owner hopes to open a pathway to heaven

Best Mexican Restaurant

Ciudad

Playing Chicken

Come boom or bust Dallasites gotta eat--out, that is

Black Man's Burden

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men subtly explores racism and personal responsibility

Best lunch deal (tie)

Nuevo Leon & Monica's Aca y Alla

Best Mexican restaurant

Ciudad D.F.

City to city

Ciudad quietly storms Dallas

Eat these words

The Dallas scene was everywhere -- and nowhere -- in 1999

Wet kiss

Bizu needs to tighten its menu before Dallas will pucker up

X marks the spot

A plan to rename Oakland Avenue for Malcolm X raises cries of racism in Deep Ellum