Tracy Miller

Deep Ellum Could Use a Few More Restaurants

Occasionally, I'll get an email from a reader who mistakes me for a food expert and is willing to risk a meal out based on my recommendation. The worst question I'm asked is: "Where should I eat?" As if I could instantly divine what someone is in the mood for, the status of their bank accounts and h ... More >>

The LOT Opens, J. Pepe's Tex Mex Closes and More Restaurant Happenings from February

Another busy month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened and closed. Read on for the full list of restaurants happenings in February, and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: The ... More >>

Rosemont, Tracy Miller's Breakfast and Lunch Joint in Deep Ellum, is Closed

Rosemont, restauranteur Tracy Miller's ode to casual but elegant breakfast and lunch, appears to have closed. A source tells City of Ate that the staff was informed yesterday that the restaurant would cease operations immediately. Miller couldn't be reached for comment this morning, but the restau ... More >>

East Hampton Sandwich Company Has Some Stand Up Doughnuts

Remember the upscale doughnuts at Rosemont? Tracy Miller drops a dense batter in hot oil, resulting in pastries that resemble a sweet, fresh version of the cake doughnuts you buy in bags at the grocery store. The doughnuts at East Hampton Sandwich Company in Snider Plaza are served in a bag, but the ... More >>

Breakfast, Booze And Cookin' At The Grape: This Week In Dallas Dining

Restaurant week is wrapping up this weekend, and the weather promises to be a little more relaxed. Seems like a good time for a little patio drinking and perhapsa little pesticide bathing. Or maybe you're off to the Londoner tomorrow morning to watch the opening weekend of the English Premier League ... More >>

Rosemont: Tracy Miller's Latest Tries To Resurrect Breakfast

Customers find nostalgia in a bowl of Cheerios.

Rosemont Has the Potential To Be a Stellar Breakfast, Lunch and Brunch Spot, But It's Not There Yet

If you need an indication that Rosemont, the subject of this week's review is still finding its footing, just look at the plain, gray facade. There's no sign indicating the small, stand-alone building houses a restaurant. The only reason people know Tracy Miller's latest is open for business is word ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 35: Coffee and Doughnuts At Rosemont

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Remember that paper bag of mini doughnuts you bought from the grocery store? They were ... More >>

Rosemont Opens, Bicycle Cafe Closes and More From a Very Busy June for Dallas Restaurants

June was another incredibly busy month in the Dallas restaurant scene. Dallas welcomed a ton of new restaurants last month, and alas, said farewell to a few. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobser ... More >>

One Hundred Million Tacos With A Side Of Burlesque: This Week In Where The Hell Is My Lipator

Summer is picking up and that means the arrival of tomatoes that taste like nature intended. Not those lifeless cottony numbers picked while green and sprayed with ethylene, but those glorious summer orbs ripened right on the vine and delicious enough to be eaten all on their own. It's a good time t ... More >>

Tracy Miller's Rosemont Opens In Deep Ellum

Tracy Miller's long awaited Rosemont (2912 Elm St., 214-741-6066) opened its doors today, an event marked quietly by a tangle of white balloons tied up out front under cloudy skies. I first learned of the new restaurant while interviewing Miller during my review of Local last November. A tipster ale ... More >>

The Rise of Breakfast-and-Lunch-Only Restaurants in Dallas

While interviewing Tracy Miller for last week's review, the chef at Local told me a little about her new, still unnamed venture, slated for a storefront at 2912 Elm, two doors down from the fine-dining spot she opened in 2003. Miller is still working out the menu details, but the space is now taking ... More >>

Tracy Miller's Local Never Meant to Be #Local

​The locavores in Dallas have always had it tough. While Tom Spicer may be pushing the envelope of urban gardening, and farms outside of Dallas deliver great product, their offering can't be described as a bounty. Local game is plentiful, but produce availability can be a challenge.

At Deep Ellum's Local, the Food Outshines the Trend

A buzzword loses its luster (and everybody wins).

Five Sixty Appoints New Executive Chef

A Texas-born chef has been tapped to take over at Five Sixty when executive chef Sara Johannes leaves this week. ​Pat Roberston, who's served as executive sous chef at the Wolfgang Puck-owned restaurant since its opening in February 2009, has spent more than a decade with the Wolfgang Puck Fi ... More >>

Hash Over: Libertine Fights Brain Cancer, NBC Starts Fish Fight, and Stephan Pyles Holds Celebrity Dinner Sunday

​The Libertine Bar may have the Best Bar Food in Dallas, along with a great selection of beer and wine--and, of course, the monthly Playlister P local-music DJ nights. But beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the bar's brain cancer awareness event gives yet another reason to love the Lower Greenvil ... More >>

Chefs' Choice

Top 10 Sexiest Female Chefs In Dallas

Yeah, yeah--pretty damn juvenile of us...not to mention downright sexist.But, damn it, if Danica Patrick can embrace beauty as well as hard nose racing skill, then we're allowed the occasional foray into 'babe-licious' territory.​Now, it wasn't an easy process. After much hemming and hawing, we ha ... More >>

Top 10 Chefs Who Deserve More Attention

When we sat down and thought about this, so many names popped into mind that if they were diseases, we'd be riddled. There was a time when few people mentioned Joel Harloff (Dali Wine Bar) or Brian Luscher (The Grape), but those days are fading. Michael Zeve of Sevy's or Jeffery Hobbs at Suze are bo ... More >>

Vice Grip

In Dallas restaurants, 2003 was all about smoke. The future may be all about hooch.

Best New Restaurant

Local

Cosmopolitan Reach

Local is a slice of culinary dazzle

She's Gotta Serve It

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