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Burning Questions with Marc Cassel of 20 Feet Seafood, on Books, Beef-Eating Vegans and Old-School Taco Bell

In this week's issue of Burning Questions, in which we quiz a chef about cookbooks, worst meals, food shames and whatever else comes to mind, we hear from Marc Cassel, the man behind 20 Feet Seafood Joint. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks? The Internet has made the cookbook question sort ... More >>

Start's Real Food Fast Is Just What a NYT Mag Writer Sought. Too Bad He Went to Taco Bell.

In a recent New York Times Magazine, Mark Bittman endorses Taco Bell's bean burrito. Well, not really, but he does point out that from a nutritional standpoint the "mushy beans in that soft tortilla" are a lot better than the alternatives. Bittman uses the anecdote to launch into an appraisal of new ... More >>

The Nine Worst Things About SXSW

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you dispatches from the SXSW madness. Here are the nine worst things we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need the Help -The 50 Commandments of ... More >>

The Ten Funniest 35 Denton Band Descriptions

When you go on the 35 Denton website, it becomes clear that most of the bands sent in their own descriptions. Some are standard musical lexicon-run-of-the-mill "Such and such band emerged from the Bumville scene in 19-dickety-two and have been playing since blah blah blah..." type of stuff. Some are ... More >>

Taco Bell to Launch Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos on March 7th

If you're pregnant and are due in early March, go ahead and schedule things for March 7th. Because then forever and ever and ever (into infinity) you'll be able to say your baby was born the same day as the Cool Ranch Tacos at Taco Bell. People will say, "Ooh, awesome. I totally remember that day! ... More >>

Ten Predictions for 2013 That are Almost as Exciting as a Kardashian-West Baby

1. Taco Bell rolls out the Cool Ranch taco shell, as posted on Facebook just this morning. Don't tease, Taco Bell. Please, don't tease.

Is Hopdoddy Just A One-Off Burger Concept, Or A Sign Of Better Food To Come

It was the Smackdown that lead me to reviewing Hopdoddy. I couldn't believe how much work the small chain put into burgers they charged so little for. Most customers will likely spend a little more on burgers topped elaborately with gourmet cheeses and toppings, but if you want, you can get a plain, ... More >>

Here's What the Dallas Observer is Going to Do When We Win Tonight's Powerball

Quick programming note: Things are going to be light around here in the coming weeks. A bunch of us threw in on the Powerball, which is up to $550 million, and as everyone knows, the more people who get together on buying a ticket the better the odds. So I don't suspect we'll be around to do much bl ... More >>

Get Your Chipotle Fix For $2 On Halloween. With One Catch...

Tomorrow is Halloween, just so you know. It's also Wednesday, which means if you're at least 23, you're probably working all day instead of getting daydrunk and flinging fake blood on one of your old undershirts to make a "costume." But maybe you should swing by Party City on your lunch break and ... More >>

Ten of This Week's Big Show Announcements: Pink, Neil Hamburger and Tim Heidecker, Unsilent Night and More

Pink Friday, February 22, at American Airlines Center, $39.50 I get the appeal of Britney, Christina and Gaga, but Pink has always been the bad girl of the current run of massive pop singers. Nevertheless, she's carved out a niche for herself, and this show will likely sell out.See also:- Ten con ... More >>

Rangers Announce Doritos Topped Nachos And Boomstick Eating Conest

If you've having trouble selling a menu item, your best bet may be to put Doritos on it. The Texas Rangers just announced the latest snack to follow the much lauded boomstick. Totally ROSSome Nachos will boast tortilla chips covered in white queso, pico de gallo and a choice of shredded meat heaped ... More >>

Pizza Patrón Offers Free Pizza to Spanish-Speakers. Sounds Bueno to Us!

Yesterday, Pizza Patrón announced a new pizza promotion: On Tuesday, June 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., Spanish speaking customers get what every Spanish speaking customer desperately craves -- free pepperoni pizza. The press release tried to preempt any possible backlash by doing its best to invoke a jov ... More >>

In Honor of Pink Slime, Five Other Gross Meats That We Happen to Love

Oh, pink slime, where did it all go wrong? Your name alone is gross, your photo induces a gag reflex and, unfortunately, the image has been seared into our brains (for now, anyway). And now grocery stores -- including Walmart, where just about everything goes there -- are banishing you. Sorry, kiddo ... More >>

A Sucker For Your Marketing: A Conversation

When Observer Web Editor Nick Rallo and I shuffled down to SXSW last week, we both noticed the same thing: The somewhat icky marketing that seems to have inundated the Austin music festival, to the point where even the fans themselves were part of the brand. Here's an excerpt of a conversation we ha ... More >>

On Meatless Monday, Defending Chipotle

Nearly every time I knock the food at a chain restaurant, a few commenters jump to and tell me why chains are great. Often those comments brand me as a chain-hating snob who only wants to eat trendy food, served by a waiter with bad facial hair and a fedora. But that's not true. Mostly I just want t ... More >>

Stephan Pyles To Pack High-End Airport Lunch Boxes at DFW

Flickr​Airline dining has been synonymous with substandard eats forever, as multiple decades of prepackaged, lifeless meals have graced our flimsy fold-out tray tables. We've became collectively aware of a basic and undeniable fact: This stuff is absolutely terrible. In response, airlines ha ... More >>

Why is Mexico Such a Dump?

And what's the Mexican music that sounds like polka?

Food Blogging For Dummies: How To Eat Free and Rule the World With Your Very Own Blog!

​Imagine walking into a restaurant as management dotes on your every move out of fear you might blog about the greasy thumbprint on your plate. Imagine cooking and plating a fabulous meal for 10 friends only to not let them eat while you snap 700 photos of your accomplishment. Imagine all the ... More >>

A Star-Sudded Meal

Poop Burgers? Actual Poop Burgers? You're Shitting Me.

You're a serious foodie. You regularly say shit like, "I'll try anything" and "I'm totally adventurous -- let's get the weirdest thing on the menu," and "When in Rome, ellipsis." And so, dear Adventurous Foodie, we bring you the day you hoped would never come. Enter: the doo doo burger. We're not ... More >>

Who is More Mexican?

And why would an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe cause so much controversy?

Curren$y

Saturday, April 23, at Trees

Super Bowl Haters: Here are Five Shows (Plus Appetizer Ideas) for You

Animal PlanetThe winner of the Puppy Bowl gets the Ruff Lombardi Trophy. Ah, We're Sorry.​February 6, you could get together with a bunch of friends to eat wings and yell at the Super Bowl on Fox. Or, you could not. If you're anti-Super Bowl, here's a list of five other shows you could watch, ... 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 >>

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Tiffany Derry Finds a Home at Uptown's Upcoming Private Social

​Tiffany Derry, the former Top Chef contestant who was left unemployed when Go Fish Ocean Club closed last month, has accepted the executive chef position at a new uptown restaurant. Derry is now developing the menu for Private Social, the first restaurant from longtime Dallas wedding industr ... More >>

Imaginary Cheese Cubes Could Help You Lose Weight

Think about eating this cheese, and you won't want to. Call it the Taco Bell Effect.​A new study showing the benefits of imaginary eating could help explain why few food writers are fat. The research, published in this month's Science and reviewed on the front page of today's New York Times' ... More >>

Taco Cabana Commemorates National Taco Day with Street Taco--Wait, Isn't Every Day National Taco Day?

​In the last few years, the taco has become a mad scientist's laboratory. Many well-intentioned Vincent Prices -- whether from south of the border or homegrown -- have sought to elevate the taco, fusing it with disparate parts. Their experiments are to be commended; the masses that have dipped ... More >>

Rookie Receiver Dez Bryant Has The Talent To Take The Cowboys To The Championship. But Does He Also Possess The Temperament To Push Them Into Chaos?

Five Not-So Secret Things You Need To Order When In-N-Out Comes To Town

From WikipediaA (secret) 3x3​In some sort of reverse Manifest Destiny, In-N-Out is finally making its way to Texas. The City of Garland's website, and Nancy Nichols at D who broke the story, showed seven yea votes for the building of the west coast burger chain.  There's a lot of hype about ... More >>

The Blind Side: What Would Black People Do Without Nice White Folks?

Veggie Guy: Kellogg's Broke My Heart...Those Bastards

​Kellogg's just ripped my heart out, slammed it to the dirt, then proceeded to stomp the hell out of it with a seven-inch stiletto! Ok--high drama, but I'm seriously heartbroken about their recent de-veganizing of one of the best faux meat products on the market. For years, I used Kellogg's Mor ... More >>

Hockeytown 2, Cockytown 0

Sooner or Later

Rule No. 1 for putting Dallas rap on the map: Avoid skating rinks

Ask a Mexican! Logo Debate Continues

How You Like Me Now?

End Times: Or, Why Dallas' Only Daily Is Ditching the Religion Section, So Help You God

Ship Happens

Greener Pastures

Wanna move to Canada? Write an essay about it.

Rock Star Olympics

Snoop Dogg vs. Bob Marley? Ike vs. Courtney? Let the games begin.

The Format

April 8

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Food to Go

Dallas chefs learn their trade here, there and everywhere

Reaching new Vistas

Hasta la you know what, baby

Tearin' up their hearts

KISS-FM attempts to create the next boy band sensation. Why does that sound so scary?

Scene, heard

Variety Nightmare pops into Melodic Overkill; The Topaz Awards go by the wayside; Little Jack Melody party with Noise and Smoke

Super zeroes

Heroes without powers, the Mystery Men fight crime with laughter

'Toon Man

Robert Smigel is the hottest animator you've never heard of

Keeping the pita puffed

Hedary's Lebanese Oven & Grill offers reverent interpretations of ancient dishes

Comforts of old Mexico

Casa Navarro reincarnates one of Dallas' original Tex-Mex restaurants