Restaurants and Food Services

Pizza Patron Extending "Peso Gimmick" Indefinitely

Passing the Candle

Texas de Kaching

Dallas' Food Chains

Calling Minor Foodies

Rathbun's Regroup

Bennigan's Reducing Its Pieces of Flair

The Revolution, One Slice at a Time

On the Brinker

Pizza Inn to Make it Bahrain

First the Stock's Downgraded. Then, Some Chili's Abruptly Close.

Burning Question: Are Restaurants Looking Forward to 2009?

Long about, oh, a few hours after midnight on New Year's, the Burning Question crew made a resolution.We felt strongly about it at the time--so much so that we carefully jotted the details in black ink. Apparently, in 2009, we plan to dedicate ourselves to the overthrow of Bhutan, which we will then ... More >>

We're here for the beer

Stick to liquid refreshment at The Copper Tank

Hot Dish

Stick to liquid refreshment at The Copper Tank

Let 'em eat loin

1998 was a year of lusty carnivores, raw fish, and orgiastic indulgence

Wrapped Up In Chains

Fast-food restaurants are quietly taking over the world

Best High-end Kitchen Appliances

Kitchen & Bath Kings

Food For Thought 3.12.09

"The good news for the restaurant industry is that consumers typically get hungry about every four to five hours, generally three times a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year." (Bob Derrington, securities analyst with Morgan Keegan & Co., on the ability of restaurants to weather nasty little ... More >>

Hard Rock

New global tapas bar opening on McKinney Avenue

Eat to Live

New seafood spot to open this spring

Gaydar Blips

When straights enter gay bars, all kinds of alarms go off

Puff Puff Poof

Smoking ban passed in the name of public health--right?

At Any Cost

How do restaurants set their prices?

See Dean Run

It's been a good year for Preferred's McSherry

Former Screen Door Chef Takes Reins at Dali Wine Bar & Cellar

It's been a good year for Preferred's McSherry

Rathbun Leveraged

It's been a good year for Preferred's McSherry

Dude Food: Olive Garden

Olive Garden639 N. Cockrell Hill Road, DuncanvilleDude Factor: 3, or Roseanne (waitress/proprieter of loose meat sandwich specialty diner The Lanford Lunch Box), on a scale of 1 (Zach Braff in Garden State) to 10 (Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshall)Last Saturday my lady and I--with tired bones, ... More >>

She's Gotta Serve It

Dallas dining is largely controlled by men. Seven women are trying to change that.

Bite the Vote

Dallas dining is largely controlled by men. Seven women are trying to change that.

Playing Chicken

Come boom or bust Dallasites gotta eat--out, that is

Burning Question

Where are the spoons?

Fallen star

How greed, incompetence, and allegations of fraud sank Dallas' FoodStar Restaurant Group

Food For Thought 4.30.09

"I'll either look like a genius or a fool." (Ed Bailey, owner of the just opened Bailey's Prime Plus in Cedar Hill--as well as three more proposed branches of the upscale steakhouse--on his prospects over the next year as he sells off profitable McDonald's locations in favor of fine dining venues. A ... More >>

No Way (In-N-) Out...For Now

Does California's storied burger chain have it in for Dallas? Unfair Park has the answer...for the time being.

Chain Gang: Pizza Inn and Wingstop
Adding Lots o' Links

​Pizza Inn and Wingstop are two DFW-based chains making some national food news. While Wingstop continues to grow at rapid speed, Pizza Inn is hoping franchise incentives and a kids-friendly concept will help propel their new prototype restaurants to success. The Colony-based pizza chain i ... More >>

Pizza Patron's New Line Gives
Franchisees the Chills

​Pizza Patron's newest product is distressing some franchisees, who fear the frozen pizza line will cut into their sales. "I'd say a number of them are concerned," concedes brand director Andrew Gamm. "But it's a great opportunity for the brand." Pizza Patron frozen pizzas are now available ... More >>

Restaurateurs Struggle to Match App to Appetite

​The website for Fearing's is a pretty good model of restaurant website design. It doesn't sing, or waste time on Flash graphics that never load properly. It helpfully provides menus and hours and allows patrons to make online reservations. Fearing's iPhone app is somewhat less impressive. Th ... More >>

Of Dining, the American Dream and Places in the Heart

​Apologies for missing last week's Walk the Wok. Hope everyone has been eating well and has discovered something tasty since the last time we rendezvoused. During my MIA time, I've been revisiting past blog-subject restaurants with the intention of doing updates. I stopped in at Naga Thai to ... More >>

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

​Apologies for missing last week's Walk the Wok. Hope everyone has been eating well and has discovered something tasty since the last time we rendezvoused. During my MIA time, I've been revisiting past blog-subject restaurants with the intention of doing updates. I stopped in at Naga Thai to ... More >>

Shoot, We Didn't Know You Could Put
Lap Dances on a Tab

The real reason men go to strip clubs.​Newspaper readers in places as far away as London are today laughing at the hapless Dallas duo that opted to flee a Northwest Highway strip club when they couldn't pay their $5,000 tab. But folks have thus far failed to praise Micah Boswell and Elizabeth ... More >>

McDonald's Japan Captures Texas on a Bun

​The Texas Burger, released last month at McDonald's restaurants across Japan, proved so popular that the fast food chain's already issued a sequel. Spokeswoman Melissa Daly describes the Texas 2 Burger, available now in Japan, as featuring "flavors of the Lone Star State with spicy chili bea ... More >>

Breakfast Tacos: Taste What You're Missing, America

Get a clue, America.​Restaurant owners are growing increasingly excited about the prospects for breakfast pizza, but breakfast tacos don't show any signs of making significant inroads nationally. Breakfast pizza is typically a tomato sauce-less concoction of eggs, cheese and meat -- sort of l ... More >>

TGI Friday's: No More In NorthPark; Yes More in the Middle East

​T.G.I. Friday's, a place known for its red-and-white stripes and flair for shrugging off the work-week, may be feeling the crunch just like everyone else -- or it may just be changing its game. Within the last week, the location at NorthPark Center shuttered its doors amidst numerous T.G.I. ... More >>

Food Trucks in the Arts District Parked on City Plan Commission's Agenda This Week

The Hot Box parked on Flora Street back on October 31, when it went as A Row of Food Trucks on Halloween​At year's end, Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District, told Unfair Park: "We will have food trucks in the Arts District by the spring," cou ... More >>

Battle Over Mi Cocina Name in Colorado Ends With Truce

​Our sister paper in Denver today reports the M Crowd Restaurant Group has settled its lawsuit with a small Northwest Denver restaurant operating under the name "Mi Cocina". According to the settlement's terms, Saul Sierra may continue to use the name in a limited area of Colorado, a result t ... More >>

Miss Turkey and The Top Five Shameless Carl's Jr. Ads

Carl's Jr - YouTube"To help you remember we put Miss Turkey in a bikini": Carl's Jr. new ad for their turkey burger.​Carl's Jr., which opened a new spot in Dallas late last year, has added a new entry to their weird, not funny food-meets-porn marketing strategy. The commercial popped up on Eater t ... More >>

City Council's Set to Rewrite Ordinances Allowing for Food Trucks, Campaign Signs

From Jack's ChowHound's Facebook page​Tomorrow the city council will discuss why Mary Suhm wants to keep all of Dallas' trash and allowing the public a shot at redrawing the council districts' boundaries. But not before it votes on two hot-button issues: food trucks and campaign signs on public pr ... More >>

Irving T.G.I. Friday's Bites the Dust

​Even restaurants with God in their names aren't immune to the economy. (Or maybe God got shorted on his order of potato skins.) The T.G.I. Friday's chains Irving location at 1001 MacArthur Park has closed. Every piece of T.G.I. Friday's flair and signage has been removed and all that remain ... More >>

Break Out Your Bubble Gum: Maid-Rite Corporation Is Coming to Dallas

​Des Moines, Iowa-based Maid-Rite corporation promises to descend en masse upon the DFW metroplex, blanketing the area in its popular "loose meat" sandwich, tucked inside a mass produced white-bread bun. The 85-year-old corporation has targeted a Arlington's Green Oaks Shopping Center at the ... More >>

New Dallas City Council Rules Should Get Food Trucks Rolling into Dallas

So Cal Tacos​Over on Pegausus News, DFW Food Truck Foodie reported yesterday that the Dallas City Council has released the headlock they'd had on many North Texas food trucks by resolving a few code compliance issues. The biggest change is to allow retrofitted trucks. Previously the code allo ... More >>