Subject: Nancy Nichols

• Lisa Garza, You Got Screwed. But At Least You're Going to Vegas.

  July 7, 2008

• Harvey Gough Is a Sweetheart

  Realtor Candace Rubin asks that we out Harvey Gough as a kindly soul lurking beneath a crusty burger, which is why, yesterday, she sent along the link to Steak Team Mission, which is a self-proclaimed "group of Dallas-based restaurateurs and supporters capable of providing food and supplies for soldiers' benefit." D's Nancy Nichols accompanied Gough, a former Texas National Guard chief warrant officer, to Uzbekistan seven years ago -- his first such overseas mission to feed the troops.Since then

  January 13, 2009

• Move Over, Ex-President Bush. Kent Rathbun's Moving a "Blue Plate Kitchen" Into Preston Center.

  Earlier today, Unfair Park learned that chef Kent Rathbun would be opening a new restaurant in Preston Center, next door to Shannon Wynne's Flying Fish in the space formerly occupied by Carrabba's, among others. I called Rathbun's publicist Ariana Hajibashi-Martin to confirm, and she was very noncommittal: "Nothing's been completely confirmed," she said, to the point where she said the eatery didn't even have a name.Then, not 10 minutes later, she sent out a media release (bearing the subject he

  January 21, 2009

• Buzz

  February 26, 1998

• Repeatedly Redundant

  September 5, 2002

• Sloppy Seconds: Another Week Bites the Dust

  Damn, we're clever. They're springs--get it?Ah, the first day of spring. How better to celebrate than a look back a those long, dreary days of last week--you know, when some holiday kept you away from the computer. Well, here's some of what you missed. And if these are the highlights, the rest must be total...The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: Dave looks at Citrus Bistro (or as we put it, "Good Things Come From Big Packages", which apparently slipped by our wary editorial checker ty

  March 20, 2009

• Chop House Owner On the Chopping Block

  Robert "Bob" Sambol, 55, owner of Bob's Steak & Chop House, was indicted yesterday for theft of $200,000 by a Dallas grand jury. After former customer Lee Thompson, Jr. invested $300,000 to fund a wine/cigar lounge add-on to Bob's Lemmon Ave. restaurant, Thompson claims Sambol didn't follow through and wants his money back. Robert Wilonsky has been following the story today on Unfair Park (and a lengthy update, including interviews with Sambol's attorney and the prosecutor): Sambol calls it

  March 27, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Double, Double Your Refreshment

  Well, refreshment, maybe not. Double your fun, though, sure. Toil and trouble all you want. It's been a big week of twos here on City of Ate. A double dose of Veggie Girl, for instance. Two posts recapping the year's first quarter. We even had a couple items for the big race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: Dave finds good things at Five-Sixty, Wolfgang Puck's new spot atop Reunion Tower.Dallas Morning News: Leslie Brenner pulls double duty this wee

  April 3, 2009

• Maneater

  October 16, 2008

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  August 4, 2005

• Place-Setting the Scene

  Are Dallas diners fickle?

  May 5, 2005

• Exposed

  For restaurant critics, it's celebrity or credibility

  March 24, 2005

• Starring Roles

  Why don’t we have a nationwide restaurant rating system?

  June 10, 2004

• Fete Feats

  What are the most unusual dining experiences in Dallas?

  May 6, 2004

• Food Fight

  Restaurants and reviewers square off in an often acrimonious battle

  November 29, 2001

• In-N-Out Ain't Coming to Dallas -- Not Yet, Anyway. But the Chain is "Evaluating" Sites.

  It happened yet again. Late last week, a Friend of Unfair Park in the retail real-estate business heard that California-based In-N-Out Burger was "finally coming to Dallas." It was 'round this time last year that D's Nancy Nichols heard the same thing via a commenter on SideDish. Wasn't the first time someone engaged in a little wishful blogging; won't be the last.But, no. Ain't happening. At least, not at this moment. Which isn't to say it the Irvine-based burgeria with locations in California,

  July 6, 2009

• Just For You, Nancy

  So this morning Nancy Nichols finally joined the anti F-word club. Here's our little diatribe on the same subject from sometime in Februaryhttp://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2009/02/one_thing_you_will_never.php

  July 15, 2009

• Skimming The Scum

  Unfair Park's Robert Wilonsky has been tracking Bob's--of steak & chophouse fame--many difficulties, updating the story again today (read it here). Over at SideDish, Nancy Nichols keeps up with the ne'erdowellness of another restaurant group (as you can see here).Nancy's story, as she pursues it, will become even more sensational--trust me. Robert's piece will almost certainly end sadly, which is the way it should when...um, let's not go there.I've said it before in these pages and will prob

  July 16, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Underneath The Tropical Sun

  ​When it feels like the rest of the world is out on vacation, daydreams about island living come easily -- and even if a tropical refuge in Bishop Arts doesn't quite give the same effect, sometimes the right table in the right restaurant is vacation enough for now. Plus, there are plenty of "tropical" places where you still probably don't want to be.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: The folks behind Hula Hotties have come a long way from selling hot sauce in Honolulu to dishing

  August 14, 2009