Preston Hollow

Dallas City Council Approves Ursuline's Soccer Field, Which Neighbors Say Will Kill People

The debate over Ursuline's soccer field jumped the shark a dozen years ago when an outcry from the school's Preston Hollow neighbors convinced the City Council to reject the school's request to install lights. The defeat sent Ursuline back to the drawing board. Last May, it unveiled a new, more mode ... More >>

Meso Maya Misses the Fiesta

Downtown's new Mexican joint plays it safe and dull.

Like Meso Maya? You Should Love La Ventana.

My excitement for Meso Maya quickly withered after dining at the restaurant two times. The food isn't bad. In fact, some of it is quite good. What's disappointing is what's left on the table when multiple locations of the same restaurant open in one city. It's boring. See also: - Meso Maya Misses T ... More >>

We Now Know the Middle-Income Job Is Basically Extinct, But What Do We Do About It?

There's a big Associated Press story making the rounds now, based on work at MIT and elsewhere, all about the permanent loss of many high and better paid jobs like meter reader and travel agent, gone forever because those posts have been filled by robots and software. Good jobs are gone forever and ... More >>

Mike Rawlings is Drowning in Cash, Bobby Abtahi Laps the Field, and Campaign News

Yesterday was the deadline for state and local candidates to report their fundraising totals for the last six months of 2012, which meant a flurry of last-minute clicks on the City Secretary's website. The reported figures first real glimpse at candidates' fundraising prowess and a suggestion of whi ... More >>

Soleo Steps Up

Owners Maria and Roberto Velasquez started with a taco cart. Now they're in Preston Hollow.

Santa's Supply Chain Secrets, Revealed! and Other Unexpected Lessons From This Weekend in Crime

Christmas is just eight days away, so people are rushing to get last-minute gifts. iPhones are always popular, and one can never go wrong with cash. Of course, everything's so much cheaper when you just take it, as demonstrated by this weekend's police calls. Even Santa got in on the action. Saturd ... More >>

Dallas Is Getting a Serious Taqueria

Last week I put up a post pointing to an article on Culture Map that claimed the second Meso Maya, opening in the old Luna's Tortilla Factory on McKinney Avenue, would be serving a menu nearly identical to that of the first Meso Maya in Preston Hollow. I was disappointed. When I first interviewed N ... More >>

Spoon Announces Opening Date, Reservations Still Wide Open

Last Friday Spoon announced a November 9 opening date. John Tesar's latest fine dining experience is one of three high-profile restaurant openings in Dallas this fall, including FT-33 and Stampede 66. A website is up and even though Open Table is accepting reservations as early as Wednesday, Novemb ... More >>

The Grape Is Now Run By A New Top Chef

Danyele McPherson just recently returned from taping Bravo's Top Chef, and now has been promoted to chef de cuisine at The Grape. McPherson is one of a handful of Dallas chefs to appear on the show and subsequently run a restaurant. Tiffany Derry and Tre Wilcox focus on high-end dining in upper-cr ... More >>

Could Dallas' Three Newest High-Profile Restaurants Soon Be Involved In A Power Struggle?

While everyone prepares to take in another season of Top Chef this month, a different sort of battle will unfold in Dallas' dining season this fall. Three high-profile openings are scheduled in the coming weeks and each will compete for Dallas' discretionary dining dollars. John Tesar's Spoon, Ste ... More >>

So Ann Romney and Anita Perry Once Walked in On Dubya Getting a Massage

Tomorrow, Ann Romney will visit the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush to raise money for a "women's lunch" to raise money for her hubby's campaign, and it won't be the first time she's been invited to a house occupied by the Bushes. In a taping for Thursday's episode of Live! W ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 10: Cochinita Pibil At Meso Maya

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I may never find another cochinita pibil dish as good as the one I had in Austin, but ... More >>

Is Dallas Enforcing its Watering Restrictions? Just Ask the House of Blues and Ursuline

Last December, with Texas in the midst of one of the worst droughts on record and with lake levels dropping to worrying lows, the city of Dallas implemented Stage 1 water restrictions, meaning residents and businesses could only drench their grass twice per week. Even as North Texas was emerging fro ... More >>

Jury Convicts Saudi Man Who Plotted to Blow Up Home of George W. Bush

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 22-year-old Saudi national and former Texas Tech student, was convicted in federal court today of plotting to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and blow up home of former President George W. Bush, among other targets. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney' ... More >>

Marc Veasey Doesn't Like Domingo Garcia "Trumpeting" Black Paper's Endorsement

In case you haven't been paying attention, the race for the 33rd Congressional District is still a pissing match likely to end up in a runoff between between Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey for the Democratic nomination. A quick recap: Garcia called big SUVs un-American, which led Veasey to proclai ... More >>

303 Bar and Grill's Psycho Burger

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

Central Market's Preston Hollow Store Will Open February 15, with Shelves Stocked By Jewish Mothers

Central Market​Central Market announced today that its new store, at Preston and Royal in the old Borders location, will open on Wednesday, February 15 at 8 a.m. This will be the ninth store in the Texas-based chain. CM's serpentine-flow, European-style layout and bountiful selection of produc ... More >>

Jay Jerrier of Il Cane Rosso on Guy Fieri, Naples and Making Peace with Yelp

In one quick year, Il Cane Rosso has become the most esteemed pizza joint in Dallas. Owner Jay Jerrier discovered this style of Neapolitan pizza while on a trip in Naples with his wife in 1995 and has worked diligently to bring the same pizza experience to Dallas. Recently Guy Fieri and the Diners, ... More >>

Meso Maya To Open Second Location In Luna's Tortilla Factory

​A while back Wilonsky told you that El Fenix honcho Mike Karns and the Firebird Restaurant Group LLC were gobbling up the old Luna's Tortilla factory. Conventional wisdom was that another El Fenix outpost would slide into the spot, but it turns out Karns has another concept in mind for the s ... More >>

Office of Economic Development Offers a Look at Where Dallas Lives, Works and Spends

Click to enlarge this look-see from this afternoon's council briefing​A couple of months back the council's Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas's workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the "wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?" ... More >>

Dough Isn't Certified, But The VPN Is Ready As Soon As the Restaurant Is

​Oh, Dough. I wanted to love you, but something wasn't quite right. After splitting two apps and two pizzas between three people, and leaving a bloated, tired shell of my former self, I started thinking about Neapolitan pizza. The Verace Pizza Napoletana (VPN) has been certifying pizzerias fo ... More >>

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

DPD Would Like to Correct Channel 11's Story About Homeless Man and George W.'s House

​No doubt you've at least heard about KTVT-Channel 11's story that aired last night, in which the CBS owned-and-operated reported that a homeless man from Mexico made it past those security gates and all the way to George W. Bush's front door. Said Channel 11, which has since yanked the piece from ... 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 >>

Writ Now Filed, Dallas Attorney Offers Many Reasons Why He's Against Wet-Dry Election

Flickr user: Robert Hruzek​Our weekly rock-and-roll-and send-off will have to wait till tomorrow morning, as, at long last, Andy Siegel has filed that long-promised writ of mandamus in which he contends that the organization formerly known as Progress Dallas didn't get enough valid signatures to c ... More >>

Tramontana: A Restaurant Made for Grandma

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 >>

Maximum Potential

Vanity Fair Recounts the First 100 Days of the George W. Bush Not-Presidency

Courtesy Elliott's HardwareVanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales has a lengthy "Web exclusive" about the post-presidency of George W. Bush -- specifically, how he's looking to "reshape his legacy," both alone and with the assist of former White House colleagues. From Bush's March 17 speech ... More >>

At Citrus Bistro, Good Things Come from Big Packages

Obama's Campaign Confirms It: The News Was Booted Off the Plane

Don't Forget, the DISD Still Has a Preston Hollow Lawsuit to Deal With

Arrested Development

Dead-End For HBO's Set-in-Dallas 12 Miles of Bad Road?

All's Quiet on the Northwestern Front

Get Slippery

Road to Hell

What's a white liberal to do?

MALDEF: It's the Principal of the Thing

No Hollow Verdict

Take This Job and Shove It

A Little Slice of Heaven

Why Plan?

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

Letters

Stuck in Squalor Numbers Racket Sex Crime Myths

Thanks for the Mammary

Plano group wants FCC to get a handle on breasts

Trouble in the House of Tudor

A nasty neighborhood battle is brewing between McMansion-dwellers and self-righteous homeowners in the M Streets

Soaked Rich

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

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