Street Food

The Best Food and Beer Events of the Week (April 24 - April 28)

Wednesday, April 24 Tonight Craft and Growler will tap a keg of Deep Ellum Brewing Co.'s new barley wine, Numb Comfort and they have the free glasses to prove it. Thursday, April 25 Goodfriend is holding a fundraiser for the family of Ben Harris of Redhook Ale Brewing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ... More >>

The 30 Essential Texas Restaurants: Plus Some That Nearly Made It

If you've read this week's feature -- The 30 Essential Texas Restaurants to Visit Before You Die -- by food critic Katharine Shilcutt at our sister paper the Houston Press, then you've no doubt already asked why X, Y or Z restaurant didn't make the list. Maybe you've asked this question angrily to ... More >>

Frozen Yogurt Is the No. 1 One First-Date Choice In Dallas

How About We has been spreading VD one date at a time with the innovative idea that users propose a specific and simple activity for a first date. The idea is that simple activities make for good icebreakers and possibly prevent painful first date marathons. For instance, proposing "how about we try ... More >>

Oink N' Moo Plans to Make Barbecue Mobile with January Truck Launch

A new food truck, Oink N' Moo BBQ, is launching in Dallas in January, and will be Dallas' first dedicated barbecue food truck. And about damn time! In return for this interview, owner David Hunt has promised to drive up to my work three afternoons out of every five. Tell us a bit about you and barb ... More >>

A Reader's Christmas Wish for the Dallas Dining Scene

Every once in a while someone mistakes Scott for a food expert and risks ruining dinner by trusting him to answer to a burning question. Got a question about food or restaurants? Send it via Twitter @scottreitz, email or in the comments. An email I received last week has me in a Christmas funk. A r ... More >>

With Kimchi Fries This Good, the Rest of Ssahm's Menu Is Just a Bonus

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow out. See ... More >>

Burger Week Cometh and Meat Fight Is Here: This Week in Dallas Dining

CoA is kicking off burger week Monday. We're packing in so many burger posts we may have to clean the plaque from our server lines, so be sure to eat some greens this weekend -- next week will not be good for you. Before you shut down your computers and head out into this blissful, almost summery we ... More >>

Scenes from Denton's Friday Night Bites

The city of Denton enjoyed a wildly successful turnout at Friday Night Bites this weekend as more than 3,000 hungry people huddled around the Denton Downtown Transit Center (604 E. Hickory St.), celebrating the A-train's extended Friday service (past midnight!) to and from Dallas. It was bitterly co ... More >>

Get To Know Klyde Warren. He's A Fun Guy.

Dallasites Can Take The A Train To Denton For Friday Nite Bites

The last stop on the A-Train line will host "Friday Night Bites" this weekend. The event marks the return and expansion of late Friday night service of the DCTA train that runs from the Trinity Mills DART station to Denton six days a week. Food trucks will gather in the Denton Transit Center while ... More >>

A Retro Fire Truck with a 10-Keg Capacity For Your Next Party! For President!

Did you ever think it would be totally awesome to have your very own fire truck and instead holding water, it held beer? And that you could drive your shiny big red truck around town and throw the most amazing parties, cementing the fact that you are the coolest guy or gal ever? Then, at night you'd ... More >>

Cedars Food Truck Park Opens This Weekend at the Dallas Heritage Village

If you've been looking for the right time and opportunity to check out the Dallas Heritage Village, we may have found your opening. The late 19th century village will now be home to a food truck park. The inaugural Cedars Food Park event is this weekend, Saturday, July 28 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. In ... More >>

Nammi's Delicious Banh Mi And Eclectic Snacks Make For Some Of Dallas' Best Curb-Side Dining

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which trucks are worth chasing around town and which may be headed for a blow out. Tina Ngu ... More >>

Bethel, Alaska, Got 10,000 Free Tacos, and Taco Bell Got a Great PR Video

Recently the entire town of Bethel, Alaska, which has only a Subway as the lone-fast food restaurant, was tricked into thinking they were going to get a Taco Bell. Signs were posted around town and word spread quickly in the small town of about 6,000. Then, after the hoax was exposed and made nati ... More >>

The Arts Are Worth $300 Million-Plus Annually to Dallas, According to The Arts

The Dallas City Council loves art. Sure, council members like getting dressed up all fancy and going to look at the pretty pictures as much as the next person, but they aren't so simpleminded as to think art is purely for aesthetic enjoyment. This is Dallas, remember, where our leaders are clear-hea ... More >>

What I Learned at the Downtown Dallas Luncheon: Namely, Luncheons Are Fancy and Main Street Needs Food Trucks

Downtown Dallas Inc. hosted a very large luncheon yesterday for those with a vested interest in the improvement of Dallas' city center. I sat at table number 98, and there were ten place settings at each table. If everyone who signed up showed up, there were nearly 1000 attendees who came to hear Jo ... More >>

Food Trucks And Beer Fests in 3, 2, 1: This Week In Dallas Grubbing

Ready for the weekend? You should be. With a massive food truck festival to the north, and a big ass beer festival to the west, there are lots of reasons to get out of the house this weekend. We should probably wrap up the week before we start drinking, though. This week I reviewed nothing, opting ... More >>

Dallas' Food Trucks Feel Right At Home in Their Spot in the Arts District

Two weeks ago we told you how the Arts District Food Truck scene was moving again, this time to the plaza outside the Winspear Opera House. Today I dropped in to see how the trucks are settling into their new location. Five trucks were parked under a cloudy May sky, catering to office workers in the ... More >>

It's Time Dallas Got an Indian-Food Truck

Dear Potential Food Truck Entrepreneurs of Dallas,Please, for the love of Krishna, start an Indian food truck. Please park outside my favorite bars late at night (Deep Ellum would be a good spot) so I can fill my neglected belly with your spicy flavorful goodness. There's just something about the wa ... More >>

On Saturday, the Ginger Man Proved That Food Trucks and Restaurants Can Get Along

While City Hall continues to make food trucks jump through hoops, and restaurants in Deep Ellum complain about unfair competition, someone finally figured out what to do with the city's mobile meal makers: throw them a party. This weekend Ginger Man invited food trucks to come park in its lot and s ... More >>

The Big Texas Beer Fest's Food Problem

Chad Montgomery got a lesson in event promotion over the weekend. The operations manager by day, beer guzzler by night had never organized a large public event before, and he learned a few lessons with his inaugural Big Texas Beer Fest. One lesson is to take food truck commitments with a grain of s ... More >>

Bongos Bring Good Karma for Food Trucks

Meatless Monday at the Arts District Food Trucks: It Helps If You Like Mushrooms

With food truck mania showing no signs of letting up, I figured I'd hit up the Arts District at lunchtime and see if there were any viable options for veggie-friendly eating. A rotating group of trucks cluster on Flora Street between Leonard and Crockett (right across from the Meyerson) every wee ... More >>

The Walking Taco May Have Walked Across the Border

John T. Edge wrote about Tostilocos in Wednesday's New York Times and describes the Mexican street food as Tostitos corn chips topped with shaved jicama, pickled pig skins and stumpy tamarind candies in one instance. Sounds a little like the Frito Pie we wrote about a few weeks ago, right? Could our ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day on Greenville Avenue, By the Numbers: Just How Hammered Were You?

Back in February, when the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade on was still on alleged life support, one of the rising costs cited by cash-strapped organizers was the police presence. A growing parade meant a growing need for cops on the streets, and that meant a parade budget that was nearin ... More >>

A St. Patty's Day Parade Pop-Up Food Park Prevents Death This Weekend

No need to shove string cheese and corn chips down your pants for the St. Patty's Day parade this Saturday. The kind folks at Madison Partners will bestow upon throngs of sloppy drunks the St. Patty's Day Pop Up Food Park. Trucks from Il Cane Rosso, Nammi, Easy Slider, Trailercakes and Ruthie's Ro ... More >>

Truckstock

Rockstar Bakeshop, Dallas' Newest Food Truck and Purveyor of Whoopie Pies, Gets Rolling

It was months ago that a small white bag of insane whoopie pies were dropped off at my office. Since we don't typically write about things that appear at our office unsolicited (it happens a lot), I tossed them out to the staff and watched them disappear. Now I have a press release announcing that ... More >>

A Look at a New Food Truck: Cajun Tailgaters

There has been an steady stream of new food trucks in the DFW area recently. And it seems the scene is, for the most part, taking shape. Last weekend both Dallas and Fort Worth hosted food truck parks or parties and customers kept the meals on wheels busy. A few of the newbies include Potato Potah ... More >>

Easy Sliders Food Truck Rolls Up

​The Easy Slider food truck hits the streets in Big D today for their first lunch service. Co-owners Miley Holmes and Caroline Perini worked together at the House of Blues and decided to cash it in and put it all down a bright blue food truck and sell small sandwiches. "We realized early on ... More >>

Over the Weekend: The Food Truck Smackdown

foodbitchSo much smacking...​Jonesing for a fried or folded, sweet or savory food-truck fix, I headed to the Food Truck Smackdown on Friday night. I admit I was hoping to find part ROT Rally, part food fight and part monster truck battle when I got there.

Eat A Banh Mi, Support Water For Africa -- If You Can Still Get In The Door

​The Sunset Lounge will host a Food Truck Smackdown this Friday, October 21, to benefit Ten for 10: Water for Africa, a nonprofit whose primary mission is providing safe, clean drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa. The group uses dinners and social events to raise both money and awareness fo ... More >>

Hit the Trail

Gennarino's Should Be Parked On Your Lawn, Not in an Irving Parking Lot

Lauren Drewes Daniels​Today I tracked down the new food truck Gennarino's, which serves Neapolitan-style fried food and is owned by three brothers from Naples, Italy. It's just their second day in business and they were parked between two office buildings in Irving just off of Hwy 161. They'd be p ... More >>

SSahm BBQ: We're Deep Into the Kimchee Now

This is why we love food trucks.

Retro Food Trucks Circa 1988: Looking Back at the Observer's Diner Column

​I was excited for my debut review, and had what I thought was a good idea: Find the very first Observer review, pray like hell the place is still open, and use a series of plates to reflect on how much the dining scene has changed (or hasn't) over the years. But even the best ideas can get bl ... More >>

Shaved Ice, Bubble Tea, and Other Ways to Counteract the Presently Hellish Outdoors

​After 24 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures, there seems no way to escape the vile clutches of a sweat bath the instant you leave the house. Fortunately, City of Ate has found some places to bring your core temperature down from scalding. So before you rush out to the movies to see ... More >>

Dole's Quasi-Food Truck Is Stoppin' in Dallas

St. Louis Foodbank's Flickr​Dole calls it a food truck. I call it a big bus that hands out free fruit cups. Regardless of what "it" is, "it" is for a good, charitable cause! Dole, the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, is melon-balls deep into a 12-city tour in which t ... More >>

Peachy Week in the Food Blogosphere

He did it for America.​This week in food blogs, peach desserts were a big hit, ketchup haters learned to love Ketchup and Taco Cabana introduced different-tasting tacos. Read on. City of Ate Even Jenny Block, who doesn't like ketchup, enjoyed Ketchup the restaurant. In her review, she said th ... More >>

Nammi's Vietnamese Food Truck: A Bit Pricey, but Convenience is Key

Kristy Yang​The Nammi food truck officially got rolling (poor pun intended) last week to much Internet fanfare. Social media was abuzz for the traveling Vietnamese food truck specializing in banh mi and Asian-influenced tacos. I was able to check out the colorful vehicle last Thursday and walk ... More >>

Food Trucks! All About Food Trucks! Because Food Tastes Better With a Side of Exhaust.

Breast-milk ice cream. Seriously, what is wrong with people?​If you're not charmed by the food truck fad, then this week may have been slightly dull. If a food truck sighting is tantamount to spying a unicorn or an In-N-Out, then the blogosphere has some good news for you. It has something fo ... More >>

New Food Truck Ain't Nothin' but a Chowhound

​Food trucks have been popping up all around town, from the Green House Truck, to the Good Luck Food Truck, and the ever-so-kitschy Grillenium Falcon. Now, expect to spot another four-wheeled culinary wagon cruising around Dallas, as Jack's Chowhound is set to hit the road in the next week or two. ... More >>

The Bomb Fried Pies & Guacamole Trailer Hits the Festival Circuit. Next Stop, Oak Cliff.

​The unofficial Food Truck and Trailer Week continues, this time with Brenda and Pat Barnhart's The Bomb Fried Pies & Fried Guacamole. The husband and wife team own and operate a trailer from which they offer fried hand pies in several flavors, among them cherry and apricot, and, of course, de ... More >>

It's Coming Up Cupcakes: The Shape (and Taste!) of Things to Come on Lower Greenville

LakewooderThe scene on Lower Greenville last night​Last night, good Friend of Unfair Park Lakewooder sent the photo you see at right -- a couple of food trucks parked in the lot where once the Arcadia proudly stood till it was claimed by fire in June 2006. He asked of this mobile food court: "Is t ... 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 >>

About That "Chef-Driven" Food Trailer Park in Lower Greenville Rehab Plans

Click for a better look at the food truck lot developers are planning along Lower Greenville Avenue -- if, of course, they get the go-ahead from City Hall.​Over on Unfair Park, we've been covering this morning's announcement that the city's spending $1.3 million to rework two blocks of Lower Gree ... More >>

On a Barren Stretch of Arts District Street, the Sudden Creation of the Public Square

​Jason Roberts has a few thoughts about how well yesterday's Arts District Better Block-ing went; there's a highlight below. But long story short: It wasn't just about the food trucks (ate from three, only one of which I'd visit again -- and then, just for the salted-melon snow cone) and the crêp ... More >>

Liveblogging as the City Plan Commission Hears from the People on Gas Drilling and Food Trucks

This guy didn't make it to City Hall this afternoon, but plenty more folks have something to say about new gas drilling sites in Dallas.​We're down in the big room at City Hall, where the City Plan Commission's taken over the big boy chairs and taped their nametags over the City Council's placards ... More >>

Tomorrow, City Hall to Look at How to Park Food Trucks Downtown (and Elsewhere!)

Perhaps it's but a matter of time before the city finally lets one of America's most-favorite food trucks park downtown.​Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in ... More >>

Tacoheads Roll in Cowtown; Dallas Remains
A Food-Truck Wasteland, Fingers Cry

​Dallas' little sister, Fort Worth is showing up Big D. First the city hosted the contestants of The Great Food Truck Race. Now, adding insult to injury, Tacoheads, a food trailer trading in -- you guessed it -- tacos, is opening tonight in Cowtown. To celebrate the event, Sarah Castillo, Taco ... More >>