Preston Hollow

Celebrate Mom

303 Bar and Grill's Psycho Burger

Oak Cliff's newest burger house is still searching for its identity

Mimi's Pizza is Open in Preston Hollow

As of January 2, the strip mall at Northwest Highway and Hillcrest, on the northern edge of Preston Hollow, has another has another fast-casual food option: Mimi's "New York-style" pizza. The small storefront near El Fenix and Mooyah Burger, a spin-off of the Joe's Pizza and Pasta chain, has been un ... 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 >>

Italian Eats, Stackhouse Love, and a Cheap-Ass Sandwich: This Week in Dallas Grubbing

​Ugh. On the heels of a massive bowl of Pho with a Dallas Super Yelper (more on that next week), I'm ready for a quiet night at home. I wonder how many minutes I'll last alone on my couch before I get the bug to get out and look for something to interesting to eat. I give myself till 7:30 tops ... More >>

Princi Italia's Tuscan Trip Up

Princi Italia tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing -- everyone but us, it seems.

Dough Pizzeria Napoletana: VPNot

Preston Hollow's newest Pizzeria makes decent pizza, but it's not as authentic as the menu claims

Quiet Dough Pizzeria Opens Quietly in Preston Hollow

​Speaking of Preston Hollow pizza ... For a place so reluctant to give interviews leading up to its opening yesterday, Dough Pizzeria managed no shortage of coverage on its first day. That may have something to do with the strong reputation of its original location, in San Antonio, which is ... More >>

Going Against the Flow: McCommas Bluff Plan Really About a Different Kind of Green

​I wince. I wish. I need to give up reading. Nature writer Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper's Wife, 2008 Orion Award for nonfiction) has an op-ed piece in The New York Times today telling a wonderful story about cities that have turned wastewater treatment operations into nature preserves. I rea ... More >>

Sushi Star: Just a Happy Little Neighborhood Sushi Bar

​Happy Eating highlights restaurant happy hour food menus, pointing you to the best deals out there. This week, we're doing happy hour neighborhood restaurant-style at Sushi Star. Where: 5956 Royal Lane When: 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday The Scene: This is Preston Hollow's quiet neighbo ... More >>

Outside Dubya's House, the Late-Night Celebration Following Bin Laden's Death

Late last night and into the wee small hours of the morning, as news spread of the death of Osama bin Laden, revelers gathered at the White House, at Ground Zero ... and outside the gate of the 10141 Daria Place near Preston Hollow. That, of course, is the home of Laura and George Bush, who posted h ... More >>

Now That September Trial Date Has Been Set in Wet-Dry Case, What About Existing Permits?

​On the other side is a brief filed on Friday by the attorneys trying to overturn the November referendum that allows the citywide sale of beer and wine. In it, attorneys Leland de la Garza and Andy Siegel argue that the vote to "wet up" Dallas was invalid because it included Preston Hollow, which ... More >>

To Understand Texas Wet/Dry Laws, Maybe You Have to Be Drunk.

​On the other side is a brief filed on Friday by the attorneys trying to overturn the November referendum that allows the citywide sale of beer and wine. In it, attorneys Leland de la Garza and Andy Siegel argue that the vote to "wet up" Dallas was invalid because it included Preston Hollow, which ... More >>

Sushi Star in Preston Hollow Shines With Far More Than Sushi

​My friend, Song Wii, owns Sushi Star Restaurant in Preston Hollow. I worry about him. Having watched my father work 12 hours a day behind a hot wok for years, I understand too well the pressures of running a restaurant. Unless impending bankruptcy or a natural disaster forces a restaurant to ... More >>

NYTimes Takes Long, Loving Look Philip Johnson House Built in Dallas in '64

​The New York Times has just posted a tribute to the Preston Hollow manse Philip Johnson designed in the early 1960s for Henry and Patricia Beck -- which, for those interested in a lengthy history-of, is prominently featured in the book Philip Johnson & Texas by Frank Welch. Patty put the plac ... More >>

Henpecked: Schutze's New Journalism Hero

Eric Nicholson, Jim's hero​Well, as usual, The Dallas Morning News prints stuff, and then it's up to me to come along behind them and do clean-up on the story. What am I? Their journalistic janitor? Mariana Greene, The News's garden editor and author of a column called "Gardening Fool," has a stor ... More >>

Dallas MasterChef Hopefuls Queue Up for A Shot at Reality Stardom

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

Peace, Man

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

Wider Than A Mile

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

Maximum Potential

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

At Citrus Bistro, Good Things Come from Big Packages

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

In Dallas District Court, that Preston Hollow Elementary Lawsuit You Forgot All About

Illustration by Brian StaufferWith little fanfare and hardly any spectators, the trial in the case of Graciela McKay vs. DISD wraps up this week in U.S. District Court, with a verdict expected as early as tomorrow. McKay is the Preston Hollow teacher who filed a federal lawsuit against the district ... More >>

Dallas, Yet Again, Amuses the British

The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>

Mother Jones Welcomes Homes Dubya

Well, actually, that'd be San Francisco-based Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson, a Preston Hollow native (his parents still live here) who today posted an essay about what it's like to grow up in the neighborhood populated by the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks, AT&T CEO Rayford Wilkins Jr. and, ... More >>

New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Too Busy to Talk, Fact Check

Well, actually, that'd be San Francisco-based Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson, a Preston Hollow native (his parents still live here) who today posted an essay about what it's like to grow up in the neighborhood populated by the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks, AT&T CEO Rayford Wilkins Jr. and, ... More >>

Fancy Fiddle

The DSO throws a Gala

Wheels? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Wheels.

The DSO throws a Gala

Newsweek Goes House-Hunting, So Laura Bush Doesn't Have To

The DSO throws a Gala

Park Cities Home Ownership? Feh.

The DSO throws a Gala

Conflict? What Conflict?

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Oh, Please, Bring it On. Pretty Please.

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Get Slippery

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Bring It On

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Wherein Pulle Pulls a Lupe

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Split Decision

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Kickin' it Out of School

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

News Hard on Preston Hollow. Finally.

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Preston Hollow: Do the White Thing

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Wherein the Judge Finds Segregation at Preston Hollow After All

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Re: Hollow News

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Hollow News

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Why Plan?

If citywide planning means more apartments and strip retail, let's not plan

PID on You

Preston Hollow fight showed rich palefaces at their worst

Peep Show

Voyeurism, with appetizers, during Around the Table home tour

The Little-People Tax

Dallas tax appraisers can't keep up with Ross Perot. But if you're Average Joe, they've got your number.

Getting the lead out

A troublesome painting contract raises a new worry at DISD--lead contamination

Rough waters

It hasn't been smooth sailing for the Voyager after-school program

What's in a name?

Hunky's serves up a great burger--hot buns, too

Buzz

Hunky's serves up a great burger--hot buns, too

No place like home

Dieter Paul's Cafe Expresso comforts the Park Cities crowd