Nancy Nichols

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

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 sold ... More >>

Repeatedly Redundant

Which dishes have been beaten to death?

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 ... More >>

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 S ... More >>

Maneater

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 S ... More >>

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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 S ... More >>

Exposed

For restaurant critics, it's celebrity or credibility

Starring Roles

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

Fete Feats

What are the most unusual dining experiences in Dallas?

Food Fight

Restaurants and reviewers square off in an often acrimonious battle

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 ti ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 "tropi ... More >>

Five Not-So Secret Things You Need To Order When In-N-Out Comes To Town

From WikipediaA (secret) 3x3​In some sort of reverse Manifest Destiny, In-N-Out is finally making its way to Texas. The City of Garland's website, and Nancy Nichols at D who broke the story, showed seven yea votes for the building of the west coast burger chain.  There's a lot of hype about ... More >>

Organic Burgers, Fried butter and Everything in Between

Photo by Jose Ralat MaldanadoThe Pyramid Restaurant's Andre Natera was this week's media darling.​This week's Dallas foodie coverage is an assortment of organic, frozen and fried foods, dried and proscuitto-wrapped figs at the height of fig season, fancy Finnish foods and a battle at the Pyramid. ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Unexceptional food at the Common Table

Sara KerensThough this may look great, we were not impressed.​This week's Dallas food blog coverage is a sampling of Vietnamese feasts and uncommonly bad food, a stolen can of Whoopass and stale popcorn, an elaborate post-Gospel Last Supper and vegan barbecue, and more highlights. Check ... More >>

Honest food at Potager and a roll of the dice at The Mercury

Sara Kerens​This week's Dallas food bloggers learned to trust empty parking lots, took Mary into their own Bloody hands, and found peace on Earth at Potager Café and the Dallas Islamic Center. More Dallas restaurants have Gone Texan, and don't expect to find wines from any other place e ... More >>

Tomorrow, City Hall to Look at How to Park Food Trucks Downtown (and Elsewhere!)

Perhaps it's but a matter of time before the city finally lets one of America's most-favorite food trucks park downtown.​Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in ... More >>

Jason Kosmas Makes It an Unhappy Hour
For Dallas Drinkers

​As Nancy Nichols reported over at Sidedish yesterday, superstar bartender Jason Kosmas has mixed his last drink at Neighborhood Services Tavern. Kosmas hasn't yet returned my call, but he didn't hint at the reason for his departure when I spoke to him last week. Asked whether he was plannin ... More >>

Bad Burgers, Hookahs, Vegans
and Other Things You Love on the Web

This week: Alice Laussade explains why candy corn sucks.​As the city descends into crisper temperatures and adopts an orangey hue, seasonal ingredients are rolling into grocery stores while local chefs and food fans are reacting accordingly. So what else is new? Dallas Morning News Leslie Bre ... More >>

How About Rabbit With a Side of Pumpkin?

Base pandering? Who, us?​This week in Dallas food blogs are all about the under-appreciated, under-munched animals. We've swapped the quintessential beef patty for things like bunny rabbit, gigantic worms and a hot dog that takes a fork, knife and entire roll of Bounty to eat. And in the middl ... More >>

The Week in Food: Lots of Lists,
Plus Some Cabbage for Roughage

​ Dallas blogs spent the week wrapping up 2010 in a series of lists and predicting food trends for 2011. City of Ate Hanna Raskin feels diminutive in the face of a face-sized bland chicken breast at Kenny's Italian Kitchen. Alice Laussade edits four-letter words out of her vocabulary to de ... More >>

A Week in Restaurant News -- And Not All Is Super Bowl-Related

​It was touch-and-go for a while, but it seems like In-N-Out Burger may finally be sprouting in North Texas. While we continue to wait patiently, Dallas is whipping itself into a Super Bowl frenzy. Read on. City of Ate Even in the middle of winter, Brownstone still turns out stunningly tasty ... More >>

Is BEE A Keeper? Bloggers Share Their Thoughts

​In-N-Out has poked its head out of the ground again, looking for its shadow. Besides that, muffins may be coming back in a big way. In case you missed either post or are hesitant to believe BEE's boastful name, Dallas blogs and writers are here to enlighten you. Dallas Observer Hanna Raskin fin ... More >>

Revolving Doors: Who's Afraid of a Little Ice?

​The weather may have given Dallas the finger right before the Super Bowl, but some high-profile restaurants, including The Cedars Social and Lockhart Smokehouse, were able to open in spite of ice, snow and Steelers fans. In January, we found out that Metro Diner will be closing its Gaston Avenue ... More >>

This Week Online: Superfood are Spawning, Spaghetti is Good and More

​This week in the blogosphere, we learned eaters prefer spaghetti to pineapples and how to satisfy the growing numbers of Hispanic wine drinkers. Besides that, it's time for superfood to spawn and vegan burgers to rise above "decent." Read on. City of Ate Like so many other of its patrons, Ha ... More >>

Hanna Raskin To Leave Observer, Taking Her Opinions and Her Bikes to Seattle

​When Eater last published my picture, Nancy Nichols told the crowd at Sidedish that it looked like I needed to eat more. Her remark was perhaps snide, perhaps sexist, but definitely true. I've lost 10 pounds since moving to Dallas, a result of my nightmarish reaction to short Texas ragweed and a ... More >>

Lettuce Wrap Up: Of Whiskey Cake and Pickled Eggs. Bleh.

Via FoodbeastAnd then Taco Bell tested a shell made of Doritos. ​This week, Dallas is buzzing about Whiskey Cake (we beat the rest of them to it, FYI). And even though Easter is right around the corner, only a few displays of enthusiasm (like eating 41 pickled eggs, or finding a certain flavor ... More >>

A Fuzzy Empire, Rare Puns and More This Week on Food Blogs

​If you like lists or food trucks (and who doesn't?) it was a good week to be a Dallas blog reader. Nancy Nichols ate a bunch of steak, a blog post inspires readers to plug their iPods into onions, and Fuzzy's Tacos shops are popping up like.... Something that pops up quickly and all over. Lik ... More >>

Food Trucks! All About Food Trucks! Because Food Tastes Better With a Side of Exhaust.

Breast-milk ice cream. Seriously, what is wrong with people?​If you're not charmed by the food truck fad, then this week may have been slightly dull. If a food truck sighting is tantamount to spying a unicorn or an In-N-Out, then the blogosphere has some good news for you. It has something fo ... More >>

Lettuce Wrap Up: Of Miami BBQ Sucks, Douche-bars, and Magnums

Utopias. A really expensive beer.​There was plenty going still going on with In-N-Out and food trucks this week, but I think we all need some time off. Instead, Dallas blogs have soda-and-burger paintings, fighting words about sous-vide and sweaters, and Miami spurting some nonsense. Read on. Cit ... More >>

More Burgers. Always More Burgers. And Other Stuff.

Mai Pham /Houston Press Remember when a burger was just a damn burger? Man, you're old.​If you like burgers or the word "unctuous," this week in Dallas blogs was a delightful bounty. If you prefer barbecue and invention conventions, just 'til tomorrow. Read on. City of Ate Andrew Marton stre ... More >>

Here's the foodbitch Post That D Magazine Scrubbed From Its Web Site Last Week

​Last week, readers of D Magazine's food blog, SideDish, were introduced to a new contributor. She went by the name "foodbitch." Moniker aside, she seemed like any other after-work food blogger: sassy, smart, obsessed with food trucks. She brought some readers with her, folks who knew her from ... More >>

In-N-Out v. Whataburger, the Wine Wisdom of Andrew Chalk, and More from the Week in Dallas Food Yammering

​This week in Dallas blogs, more people tried to settle the debate between Whataburger and In-N-Out, a restaurant in Pennsylvania banned volume-challenged five-year-olds, and a place that looks like a tattoo parlor produced some damn good lamb shank. Read on. City of Ate Alice Laussade staged ... More >>

CBS Is Looking For The Best Food Blogger, Kinda

​Early last month, the CBS-11 announced a friendly competition to crown the area's Most Valuable Bloggers. Categories include local affairs, sports, lifestyle, entertainment and dining, among others. Contestants are entered into the event through a nomination process in which anyone can partic ... More >>

If Only We Could Have Fried Cake Balls at Sam's Club

​ This week in food news, diners and their dogs flocked to patios to enjoy the cooler weather, we got the results of this year's Big Tex Choice awards and actually found a guy who has a problem with cake balls. Read on. City of Ate Scott Reitz came across new friends and a new beer this week ... More >>

The Week in Dallas Food: Tiny Sandwiches, Too-Sweet Desserts, and Lots and Lots of Beer

​This week we brewed at the zoo, ate some disappointing things, and Leslie Brenner told us another thing wrong with Dallas. Read on. City of Ate/Observer Even if Taj Chaat has Amruth beat as far as charm, interest and adventure, the humble vegetarian former stumbles into second place when it ... More >>

Beer, Vietnamese, a Goodbye to Alma and Lots o' Tacos: This Week in the Dallas Food Scene

​What a week. I drink too much beer and ate too many spring rolls during my review of My Lan in Garland, and I ended up with some great beer pairings from Matt Quenette over at the meddlesome Moth. Elsewhere in the City of Ate we hated on candy corn and laid out our favorite burgers. Justin ... More >>

Bourdain, Baseball and Pizza Pizza Pizza: This Week in the Dallas Food Scene

Cane Rosso's Magherita ​What a week in food, with celebrity interviews, a ton of pizza and a popular blogger take down. This week I reviewed Dough Pizzeria Napoletana. I noted that most diners seemed to be enjoying their meals but couldn't find a VPN certificate hanging on the walls. It turne ... More >>

Before You Start Drinking, Relive a Big Week in Dallas Food News

​Have you been outside much today? While the weather was nippy this morning, the sun has warmed things up, resulting in some seriously beautiful fall weather. As soon as I get out of here I'm going to grab a thick jacket and engage in some excessive patio drinking. But before I work on my nex ... More >>

Pig Parts, Happy Endings and More: The Week in the Dallas Food Scene

​I'm thinking the cool and damp weather warrants a pot of hearty braised lamb shanks and lots and lots of red wine. Or maybe I'll get around to making my first pot of chili since moving to Texas -- anything to counter the clouds and mist that looks down-right Xanax-inducing. But first there's ... More >>

Meso Maya is Better Than Authentic. It's Good.

Sara KerensAuthentic chile relleno? Nope. And you should be happy about that.​Does authenticity matter? What the hell is authenticity, anyway? Look it up in a dictionary and words like "real" and "genuine" stab at a definition. Framed this way, authentic seems a prefect descriptor for a Topps ... More >>

Reviews, Reviews, Reviews and Bad Tomatoes: This Week In Dallas Eats

Flickr​Y'all got your shopping done? I'm feeling the pinch. A few more items to check off my list and then I get get my egg roll on, all over Dallas. Things are scheduled to be quiet tomorrow so we're wrapping things in iceberg a day early. Dipping sauces' are on you. This week I reviewed Mar ... More >>

Donuts, Reubens and Dallas' Prettiest Food Blog: This Week In Dallas Dining

FlickrI'm pulling for the Ravens.​When I moved to Texas I was very upset about the weather. Multiple weeks of triple-digit heat and no rain had me begging for relief. I asked everyone if winter was at least mild. No, everyone said. There's ice and it's so cold it burns your skin. Fortunately ... More >>

Valet Parking, Dr Pepper and Enchilada Porn: This Week In Fatness

Lauren Drews Daniels​Is it quitting time yet? We're close. ZestFest is going down at the Irving Convention Center this weekend. Make sure you stock up on your TUMS, and avoid hospital trip inducing capsaicin extracts. It's also shaping up to be a fine weekend for patio drinking, but before yo ... More >>

Prepping For The Super Bowl: This Week In Dallas Eats

​This Sunday, Americans will eat more food than on any other day, with the exception of Thanksgiving. On Super Bowl Sunday we shamefully watch others with the sports skills we wish we had, and use excessive amounts of food to comfort ourselves for our own lack of stamina and hand-eye coordinat ... More >>