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May 18, 2012
Carl's Jr. Scientists Finally Shaped Ice Cream into a Burger. What Took So Long, Guys?
Carl's Jr., which has a location within a terrifying-close range to Observer headquarters, is testing the "Ice Cream Brrrger." Now, now: keep calm. A "brrrger" isn't actually an ice cream-flavored burger. That, sources say, is still a few months away, and will likely debut in Japan, where the reall ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Olive Garden Rolls Out Remodel in Texas
A plan to revamp Olive Garden restaurants nationwide is getting its start in Texas. Three Dallas area stores are among the nine "remodel locations" recently announced by the Italian-American restaurant chain. According to spokesperson Kristen Johnson, more than half of the chain's 700 stores will e ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Sip, Savor and See How You're Making a Difference
Sip wine and feel good about more than the antioxidants this week in Dallas. Read on. The Event: Savor Dallas The Cause: North Texas Food Bank The Scoop It will be a feel-good festival of premier chefs, food and drinks at the seventh Savor Dallas event on March 18 and 19. Said premier chefs ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Who Cares If It's Real Beef When Taco Bell's Tacos Are Free?
Thirty-six percent. Eighty-eight percent. One hundred percent. Seriously, does the composition really matter when the food is free? Taco Bell and its millions of Facebook fans don't think so. To follow-up the full-page ads and videos in response to a class-action lawsuit that claims the beef in ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Subway Tests a Gluten-Free Sandwich in Dallas
Customers at Dallas area Subway restaurants will soon be able to ask their sandwich artists to hold the gluten. According to a release published on Celiac.com, billed as the "first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease," Subway plans to test a gluten-free roll and gluten-fr ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
Wanna Know Why We're Fat? Let the Feds Draw You a Map.
Fast food state -- see the pretty, pretty purple.The only thing worse than coming back from vacation is beating the rest of the world back to work -- especially if you're a reporter waiting for return phone calls. It's been a quiet day in the office. But all that time spent in silence hasn't ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Because We Can't Go Too Long
Without an In-N-Out Reference
In-N-Out's local opening may still be months away, but fast food fans willing to drive to Austin can feast on a sandwich being touted by burger bloggers as an Animal Style alternative. 4x4 Animal Style a contributor to the website GrubGrade who presumably knows his In-N-Out patties, is calli ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
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 >>
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October 28, 2010
Not Exactly a Fleet of Food Trucks, but Many Mobile and Pop-Up Vendors To Sell Fare at Closing Day of Art in October
Serious EatsArts District executive director Veletta Lill remains true to her word. Dallas' biggest booster for food trucks promised there would be mobile food vendors selling their fare during the Arts in October celebration and especially at the Sunday, October 31 Closing Day of Art in October ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Pizza Patron Prez Wants to Light Mavs' Fire
First it's ice, then it's fire. While chatting yesterday morning with Pizza Patron publicist Sandy Bell about frozen pie prices, she asked me whether I'd heard the other big Antonio Swad news: Apparently the culinary impresario -- he's president of Pizza Patron -- can't limit himself to one ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Eat Cheese Fries for a Good Cause
At last, a way to feel virtuous while stuffing your gullet with chili cheese fries and "Triple Dippers" at Chili's restaurants. On Monday, September 27, the 25-year-old burger chain will donate 100 percent of its profits for the day to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, one of the world's lea ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Dragonfly Chef Announces Departure
It must have been a heck of a honeymoon. Grant Morgan, who'd planned to return to his executive chef post at Dragonfly when his honeymoon ended on Sept. 14, has announced his departure from the Hotel ZaZa dining room. His resignation is officially effective next Saturday. According to a pre ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Should A Restaurant Manager Do Something Or Just Get the Hell Out of The Way? You Make the Call.
Many of the responses to my recent review of Horne & Dekker (I thought the food was eh, defenders think it's extraordinary) have centered on the warmth of the staff and owner Shawn Horne, who apparently functions as a front-of-house manager. "I challenge you to find another restaurant in tow ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Revolving Doors: Nodding Through November
Wow, the end of November crept up on us.Things generally seem to slow down as we approach the end of a year. And while the days have ticked by with surprising speed, restaurant business lagged as the economy continued to wallow.Still, the month wasn't all that bad. Sure, there were some moments o ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
In The (Olive) Garden Of Eden
A couple weeks ago, a reader by the name of Beth posted an interesting comment under one of our stories. "May I inquire as to why it is common practice on these blogs to look down upon other so-called 'middle-class casual restaurants?'" she (assuming) wrote, mentioning Olive Garden as a favored ... More >>
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October 1, 2009
Steak and Ale's Dead. Long Live Steak and Ale!
Seems like forever ago that Plano-based Metromedia Restaurant Group shuttered Bennigan's and Steak & Ale -- but, nope, it was just July of last year. A few Bennigan's locations resurfaced shortly thereafter, when Richardson-based Bennigan's Franchising Company, LLC assumed the position and re ... More >>
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June 9, 2009
Norman Brinker, Dead at 78
Kristina BowmanThe News is reporting that Norman Brinker died this morning while on vacation in Colorado Springs; he turned 78 last Wednesday. Brinker, of course, is the Colorado-born chairman emeritus of Brinker International -- and the man who, in 1984, took Larry Lavine's Chili's concept public; ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2009
Food For Thought 4.6.09
"We're in a recession, hard times. We shouldn't be hurting business. I'm not saying, 'Let's take away this issue.' We're just saying, 'Let's give these businesses some time.'" (Tennell Atkins, member of the Dallas City Council, on an effort to delay the city's smoking ordinance, which bans lighting ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2009
Food For Thought 3.20.09
"Dunkin' Donuts has always appealed to the 'Everyday Joe.' We really appeal to a broader psychographic and not so much a demographic--everyone from a company CEO to a construction worker." (Casey Corrigan, spokeswoman for the doughnut chain, on the continued popularity of their coffee. While Starbuc ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Even in a Lousy Economy, Brinker Finds Someone to Buy Macaroni Grill
And then there were three. Eleven days after analysts predicted Brinker International would indeed unload Romano's Macaroni Grill despite the lousy credit market, it's happened -- for about $88 million, which doesn't seem like a lot of pasta for a chain with some 220 eateries worldwide (as in, Egypt ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2008
A Swanky Replacement: Brooke Shields?
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2008
So, Bennigan's Lives? Steak & Ale Too? Good Luck With All That.
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2008
Reiner, Short & Brinker: Not a Law Firm, But a Love Fest
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Dining
June 19, 2008
Willie-Nilly
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2008
Folks Sue Brinker, Claiming Its Guiltless Food Is a Little Too Guilty
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
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April 15, 2008
Sure, the Food at Bennigan's is Mediocre. But at Least It's Cheaper Now.
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2008
Cooling on Chili's
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests -- once again because of a "scheduling conflict." (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner ... More >>
Calendar
January 31, 2008
Laugh Laugh
Bruce Bruce hits Addison
Blogs
January 10, 2008
Dallas' Food Friends Noodling Around With P.F. Chang
Bruce Bruce hits Addison
Blogs
February 15, 2007
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Bruce Bruce hits Addison
Dining
August 31, 2006
Texas de Ka-ching
The churrascaria king expands his dominion
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Ice Cream
Paciugo
News
January 22, 2004
Drink Cop
Brent Lewis makes sure you don't get free drinks (damn it)
Dining
June 26, 2003
Come High Water
Monica's owner hopes to open a pathway to heaven
News
May 22, 2003
Dead Star
Star Canyon goes out with a whimper, not a bang
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Root Beer Float
Prince of Hamburgers
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Use of Tofu in Fast Food
Tofu Delight at Lover's Eggroll
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Tejano Club
Escapade 2001
Dining
August 1, 2002
Tastemakers
Does atmosphere affect our appreciation of a drink?
Dining
January 10, 2002
'Tisn't the Season
Bars, restaurants take divergent paths through dismal fall
Dining
January 3, 2002
Party's Over
Dallas restaurateurs weather a year of many valleys, few peaks
Dining
June 28, 2001
Being Avi Adelman
One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise
Dining
May 10, 2001
Sleeps with the Fishes
Soprano's gets squeezed out
Dining
November 2, 2000
Naughty Takeout
At restaurants, what isn't nailed down likely will be stolen
Dining
October 12, 2000
Cockle Do
Rooster ruckus?
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best all-American diner/lunch spot
Guthrie's Historical American Restaurant
Dining
September 14, 2000
Suze cruze
He finally did it
Dining
April 29, 1999
Hash Over
He finally did it
Dining
July 2, 1998
Hash Over
He finally did it
Dining
May 28, 1998
Hash Over
He finally did it
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