Red Lobster Seafood Restaurants

Customer Claims a Dallas Red Lobster Served Him Beer Laced with Caustic Poison

Justin Grogg was in town from Panama City on a business trip when he and a colleague went out on the town to sample the local fare. They went to the Red Lobster at Stemmons and Northwest Highway, and Grogg ordered a Budweiser. Grogg says it took only a second for him to realize that the burning sen ... More >>

If Your Mouth Could Drive, It Would Go To These Five Places

Maybe you've noticed, the Dallas-Fort Worth region is huge. Everything outside of the urban core takes an hour if you're lucky. Unless you need to hop on LBJ, in which case BLAAAAGGHHH. But now that gas has dropped a few cents and it's not quite hot as the devil's balls yet, we think a nice little d ... More >>

WhataFail: How Some Dallas Restaurants Treat Their Employees

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has released a new restaurant guide. The 52-page guide makes no mention of food quality, ingredient sourcing, or a customer's dining experience, but instead focuses on how well restaurants treat their employees. Wages, benefits and advancement opportunities ar ... More >>

Eddie V's Chef Brad Albers on the Best Food City in the World (And Dallas, Too)

​Chef Brad Albers is charged with keeping everyone fat and happy at Eddie V's in Dallas, a job at which he seems to excel. Originally from Dallas, he attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco followed by an unplanned German-language immersion program in Switzerland, where he le ... More >>

Bar 828 Popped Up in Oak Cliff Last Night, and Plenty of Drinkers Popped In

The line forms at Bar 828​Last night in Oak Cliff, booze enthusiasts swarmed to Bar 828, the city's first ever pop up bar, to see some of the area's top mixologists at work.  The guerrilla bar, as it's known to Michael Martensen, the man behind the project, will take place in an empty space a ... More >>

Puppy Love: Praise for Shuck 'N Jive's Cornmeal Treats

​Some of you may remember the day when hush puppies were featured at many of the seafood places such as Zuider Zee, H Salt Fish and Chips, Arthur Treachers and Captain D's. Perhaps you shed a tear when they were taken off the menu at Red Lobster (to be replaced by the Cheddar Bay Biscuits). ... More >>

Going for Broke: Blow Your H&R Block Loan on These Valentine Dinners

Just tell your girlfriend you're going to the bank.​It's hard not to be envious of kids on Valentine's Day when all they have to do is pass out store-bought cards and chalky candy hearts to classmates. You, however, are not going to win any points with your Valentine with gifts like stale candy o ... More >>

The Slow Drip of TABC's Beer and Wine Permits

Go Oak Cliff​Last week the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent over that press release listing the two new retailers given permits to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of Dallas. This morning, after seeing this Channel 5 story about how the newly wet are missing out on year-end champ ... More >>

Newest Menu Items at Leading Chains Not Designed for Teetotalers

​Corporate kitchens are continuing to add wine and spirits to their dishes, apparently angling for sophistication and increased perceived value. Olive Garden is now pushing a pasta dish with shellfish "sautéed in white wine" and a stew "simmered in light white wine." Red Lobster's developed ... More >>

Seasons 52: Chain Food Minus Butter and Salt. What's the Point?

Lisa Stone turned to Facebook to reunite with her high school girlfriends; they turned to Facebook to solve the mystery of her disappearance.

Restaurant Ava's Southern Brunch Done Way, Way Right

​Walking into the crisp, white linen-and-dark wood decor of Rockwall's Restaurant Ava on Sunday morning was a welcome change from my weekend of fireside beer-swilling in East Texas. It's not that campfire kebabs and Jiffy Pop don't make for a great meal, but it's nice to go from one extreme to the ... More >>

Competitive eater “Nasty” Nate Biller chases the dream of athletic glory, one distended stomach at a time.

Five Mass-Produced Foods Even Food Snobs Love

​Chefs are notorious for yapping on about the pleasures of farm-fresh vegetables - and then opening a bag of something for dinner. The rigors of restaurant work and human nature lead even the most fearsome food snobs to occasionally indulge in mass-produced, highly-artificial, uber-preserved snack ... More >>

Hunt Presents Plan For Lower Greenville, Swears It Won't Be West Village Redux

Photos by Gloria LevarioAngela Hunt at last night's Lower Greenville meeting to discuss the proposed Planned Development District ordinance​Last night, more than 100 folks packed into the dining room at Vickery Towers "senior living community" for a standing-room-only public meeting on the propo ... More >>

Michael Manos Was Living the Same Lie in Dallas That He Peddled Across the Country. Only Here, the Truth Caught Up with Him.

Question Of The Week: Why Do Some People Scorn Chains Yet Rave About Mi Cocina, Houston's, Etc.?

​Sure, Houston's is better than, say, Applebee's or Red Lobster, but it's still a nationwide chain. And if you admit to dining at Mi Cocina or Taco Diner because of the quality of their cooking, you might also like Chili's.So what's going on? If we love one and hate another, doesn't that suggest t ... More >>

Dallas's Most Authentic Dive Bars

Pull up a stool, order some cheap whiskey and don’t forget to duck when the beer bottles fly

Short Orders: Palomino

​Palomino500 Crescent Ct. (Atrium)214-999-1222Age can fray a restaurant. Leather wears, fittings crack and the room begins to lose its allure.Not so in the case of Palomino. The dining space at this veteran Crescent Court locale speaks of timeless dinner club finery, with an inviting bar and patio ... More >>

Review and Gallery: Nori Sushi Bar and Grill

Sara KerensPassing up the Red Lobster cheddar biscuits and Outback blooming onions, Dave makes his way this week to Nori Sushi Bar and Grill and finds reasonable seafood in Northwest Dallas.For more shots from the restaurant -- including a sushi-rolling demo you can even (sort of) follow along with ... More >>

10 Questions: Jon Bryan

Patrick MichelsHell with all this 'mixologist' talk. After 16 years behind a bar, Bryan calls himself an inebriation specialist.The Grapevine's longstanding early shift bartender--he signed on in 1998--knows most people in the joint by name...or he will, if you show up again. His casual, chatty and ... More >>

A Blue State

What to do on those inevitable slow news afternoons where even a call from Red Lobster regarding their “reinvented” brand seems interesting? How ‘bout a nod to Blue Collar Bar—not for their intentionally dismissive name, but for reviving (at least in name), the blue plate special.

We Really, Really Want to Root for Lisa Garza. Just Remember: "Approachable."

The Cooking World is Tré's Oyster

An Ungodly Silence

Chop Suey Syndrome

Our restaurant critic travels to China to unravel the riddle: Why can't Dallas do Chinese?

Man, Myth and Shots

With more than 85 varieties of tequila at Agave Azul, who cares thatthe food is good, too?

Fish Play

McCormick & Schmick's has great shucks, no jive

Stayin' Alive

Avanti Ristorante survives the McKinney Avenue curse

Fishing Trip

The excellent 9 Fish is worth the trek to Frisco

Pot Melt

Ethniko swimming in mediocre waters

Sweet Leaf

The Bay Leaf has plenty of personality

Tale of Three Cities

Dallas independent restaurants learn from Addison, eye Frisco

Code Red

Caribbean Red

Pavlov's Diners

Restaurant designers know what you want--even if you don't

Letters

The spring of our discontent

Raphael Palmeiro is hurt. Johnny Oates is grumpy. Pudge Rodriguez is acting like a spoiled brat. Lee Stevens just wants to play baseball. Welcome to Texas Rangers spring training.

Resurrecting diner grub

Maybe Guthrie's needs a seance

Fish story

Environmentalists and some high-profile Dallas chefs say ocean food supplies are in crisis. But is their disaster cry simply publicity bait?

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX