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April 30, 2012
Spend Meatless Monday at the Farmer's Market While You Still Can
In the coming months, I'll spend most of my time hidden away indoors in the air-conditioned igloo also known as my apartment. So what better way to spend a Meatless Monday than at the farmers market? Rumor has it the Dallas Farmers Market may not be long for this world; I only live about a mile a ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
This Week's Best Food Deals, Starring Chocolate, Meat and Hippies
Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week's foodfull best. Google Offers: $10 for $20 at Lindt.com Ever since last week's candy grabber deal, I've been asking myself WWWWD? (What Would Willy Wonka Do?) This week, the answer is ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
At El Padrino, Meatless Monday Means Meatless Tortas, and That, Oddly Enough, is a Good Thing
After last week's vegan pho fiasco, I wasn't too jazzed about another meatless meal, but reading Scott's V-Spot review inspired me, and I was encouraged to seek out tasty vegetarian options once again. El Padrino means "godfather", and that awesome name was enough to get me to stop here rather than ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Is Meatless Monday Working? Maybe.
Back in January, Mark Bittman penned a little number highlighting various reports that indicated reduced meat consumption in America. He said we were all eating less meat, and I thought that was pretty great. I even tweeted about it. "Is Meatless Monday working?" I asked, and added a link to the ar ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Meatless Monday at Bijoux: This Ain't Your Poor Hippie Yoga-Instructor Friend's Veggie Meal
The gnocchi.A suited staffer circled the room, his tray laden with warm slices of olive, rosemary and raisin breads, crusty and fragrant. He bestowed each of our plates with a different variety, and placed between us a ramekin of butter so pristine and smooth it looked like you could ice skat ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Mumtaz's Indian Lunch Buffet Was Built for Meatless Monday
Weary of soy protein and veggie burgers from Meatless Mondays gone by, I had set my sights this go around on exotic flavors and spices. My search for bargain vegetarian nirvana took me to Mumtaz, an Indian restaurant located in a generic Richardson strip mall at Campbell and Central. I'm typically ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Dinner at Spiral Diner: Let's Take This Meat-Free Business Right into the Lion's Den
The FacebookBooze correspondent Whitney Filloon is experiment with going meat-free once a week. Here's her latest animal-fat-less dispatch. "How can you hate on a joint whose tagline is 'We Love You'?" This is what I thought to myself as I walked through the door at Oak Cliff vegan destinat ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Meatless Monday Is Harder Than I Thought
Ed. note: Along with our booze correspondent, food critic Scott Reitz is trying his mouth at going meatless on Mondays. They'll occasionally relay their experiences. So far Scott sucks at it. It sounded soooooooo easy. Drop meat on Mondays -- it'll help save the world and shit. And it's only one da ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Ten Ways to Celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month
October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. It's true. Vegetarians do exist, even in Dallas. And not only that, they should be celebrated, if for nothing else than for eating all the world's tofu so you don't have to see it. Here are a few ways to help make everyone aware of your support for the carniv ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Vegans Rejoice: Texas State Veggie Fair Fried Food Competition
Sylvia ElzafonFried vegan Bob Armstrong queso won Texas State Veggie Fair's Most Creative title in 2010.The State Fair of Texas offers a millionty delicious fried food options, but if you're vegan, food-wise you're pretty much limited to sniffing second-hand funnel cake fumes.Well, fuck all that. ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Cosmic Cafe: Willing to Mix and Match to Please You
When Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers used to frequent the Cosmic Café (then called the Cosmic Cup), they could be found taking in the restaurants eclectic, Zen-inducing ambience, and maybe even conjuring up a plot or two. Former owner of the café Kumar Pallana can be seen in several of ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Tim Love Hates Vegetarians and Their Roasted Pumpkins
Nick RalloTim Love's Dirty Love Burger is all dirty with glorious meatCould Tim Love be the unnamed saboteur who copped to bathing vegetarian entrees in lamb's blood? It's highly unlikely, but the Fort Worth celebrity chef isn't shy about carnivorous sermonizing. He last week shared "Five Reason ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Mmm, Fried Soy Products; Who Needs Funnel Cake?
Chicken-fried bacon or fried imitation cheese...hmm, which to choose, which to choose?Figuring omnivores shouldn't have all the greasy fun, DallasVegan.com is hosting its own fried food contest at The Phoenix Project, 406 S. Haskell Ave. "I would expect some of the same, off-the-wall type of ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Lettuce Now Consider Our Latest Activist Doings: PETA to Hand Out Meatless Weenies!
If nothing else, this is proving to be a very good week for cheapskate vegetarians (or, really, people who just like free food). Because, like I said Monday, at week's end the folks responsible for yesterday's egg-stremely productive protest at the West Village Albertsons will be back at the DART ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Table Setting
If nothing else, this is proving to be a very good week for cheapskate vegetarians (or, really, people who just like free food). Because, like I said Monday, at week's end the folks responsible for yesterday's egg-stremely productive protest at the West Village Albertsons will be back at the DART ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Table Setting
If nothing else, this is proving to be a very good week for cheapskate vegetarians (or, really, people who just like free food). Because, like I said Monday, at week's end the folks responsible for yesterday's egg-stremely productive protest at the West Village Albertsons will be back at the DART ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Top 10 Most Annoying Diet Fads
In a rare unguarded moment, Jared Fogle appears without a pair of pants in his hand.Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one's youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right...While Americans did ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Wednesday's Unverified Fact About San Diego
The 'Boys host those pushovers from SoCal on Sunday. Another "fact" about the land of vegetarians...Before joining the Chargers, running back Darren Sproles played the role of "Sprout" in Jolly Green Giant commercials.**Source: Some publication--most likely AdWeekly, Advertising Age or Mad Libs.
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July 8, 2009
Top 10 Vegan-Friendly (But Not Vegetarian-Only) Restaurants in Dallas
Alexa SchirtzingerHey Olivella's -- think this is good enough to land you on our list? Yeah, it is.Dallas, as we've discovered over the past half-year, has a surprising wealth of options for vegans and vegetarians. And though its shining stars are usually the veg-only places--Spiral Diner, Kalachand ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Veggie Girl: Olivella's
The question is not how Olivella's does the simple Italian thing so well, but why more restaurants don't. Is it so difficult, really, to buy fresh, healthy ingredients, and then to keep the food simple enough to let their flavors come through? Apparently so, or more places would do it. Olivella ... More >>
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June 23, 2009
Veggie Girl: Lazare
Two days after the Morning News gave Lazare a scathing one-star review, I went to see for myself. I had actually meant to go somewhere else, but Lazare was closer. Having read the review, I wasn't expecting much. And the menu didn't bode well for a vegan meal. Most things had cheese or meat--ther ... More >>
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June 16, 2009
Veggie Girl: York St.
Veggie Girl finds vegan and vegetarian options at Dallas establishments of all kinds. The column appears Tuesdays and Thursdays.I love a good storm. So when I woke up last Thursday to howling winds and sheets of furious rain, I resisted the urge to crawl back into bed and instead opted for staring ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Veggie Girl: Villa-O
Vegetarian penne with vodka sauce.The first thing that drew me to Villa O was the exterior, where a line of nautically themed blue and white couches and rocking chairs wait invitingly for the odd passerby to recline and stay awhile. (This, of course, was before today's storm-of-biblical-proportio ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
Veggie Girl: Pizza By Marco (Part Deux)
After the recent post on my not-so-great experience at Pizza By Marco, I received an e-mail from the restaurant's owner, Frank Nuccio, who wrote that he was disappointed and offered to personally deliver a re-try. Now, I've written some unfavorable blogs in my day (OK...not as many as any self- ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Veggie Girl: Dosa Cafe
View Larger Map If Frank and I had ever dated, our first date would have been the time he invited me to eat real, honest-to-goodness Taiwanese food in Richardson. I've been a Chinese-and-related food hater for most of my life, with the exception of this one vegetarian place in L.A. where I haven't ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
Veggie Girl: Cafe Brazil
(A Fairytale) Once upon a time, on a Friday night in a town called Dallas, Veggie Girl got confused. She thought she was Girl Drink Drunk. So she waltzed herself to a couple of happy hours and sampled their libations. But as the night wore on, Veggie Girl got hungrier and hungrier. And suddenly sh ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Veggie Girl: Green Papaya
Eddie GarzaThey say Green Papaya isn't authentic Vietnamese. I say: When I first moved to New York, my oldest friend introduced me to her cousin, who also lived there and was also a journalist. We hit it off immediately, and one of our shared passions--aside from writing, reading, watching Proje ... More >>
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April 9, 2009
Veggie Girl: Nana
It only took one vegetarian to convince Nana chef Anthony Bombaci to draw up a meat-free tasting menu. "They made reservations, they told us they were vegetarian and they paid for their food," Bombaci recalls. "And we served them meat." After their visit to Nana, Bombaci got a letter--"snail mai ... More >>
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March 31, 2009
Veggie Girl: Cosmic Cafe
Fill in the blank: The best thing about Cosmic Café is... ...a deck of Tarot cards at every table. ...free yoga. ...unlimited mugs of soy chai. ...delicious plates of all-veggie food, whose prices all add up to multiples of nine. (We don't know why. We asked our waitress, and neither did she...b ... More >>
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March 26, 2009
Veggie Girl: "Fourth Sunday" At Veggie Garden
On the fourth Sunday of every month, an assortment of vegetarians--police officers, an airline pilot, animal activists, nurses and all manner of otherwise normal people--gather for all-you-can-eat vegan Sunday brunch at Veggie Garden in Richardson. The restaurant is small and casual, occupying an ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
Veggie Girl: Cliff Cafe
Through all my phases, from finicky meat-eater to cheese-hating vegetarian to vegan, I've never had a server actually encourage me to complicate my order. But at the Cliff Café last Friday our server, Ryan H., did--even after my "girly lunch" group had finagled a table on the sunny, secluded back ... More >>
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March 17, 2009
Veggie Girl: Kalachandji's
Our new feature searching for vegan and vegetarian dining options in Dallas--both at restaurants committed to the cause and regular, meat eating places.Being vegan is supposed to do lots of lovely spiritual and gastrointestinal things to you. You're supposed to feel lighter and healthier, for one. ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
10 Questions: Rip Esselstyn
He's a former professional triathlete and current Austin firefighter. But Esselstyn is also the author of a vegan cookbook. The Engine 2 DietBut he doesn't call it vegan. He's eating "plant strong"--and has been for more than a decade. Then, when a fellow firefighter found out his cholesterol was d ... More >>
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February 19, 2009
10 Questions: Steven Harvey
For years, Dwight Harvey catered in his spare time...although the ever-increasing popularity of his barbecue didn't leave him much room for rest.Along the way, he taught the trade to son Steven. Eight months ago, after Dwight retired from his day job, the pair opened Off the Bone Barbeque--which has ... More >>
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January 6, 2009
Dude Food: Big Al's Burger Hut
Big Al's Burger Hut3211 S. Hampton Rd. (recently moved from 4950 W. Illinois)214-333-7767The first thing you see walking into Big Al's Burger Hut is a sign with an illustration of a revolver and the slogan "Warning - I don't dial 911." The sign is, of course, intended to caution to would-be holdup ... More >>
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April 28, 2005
Moby
Hotel (V2 Records)
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October 14, 2004
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Cosmic Café
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September 25, 2003
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October 24, 2002
True Dat
A Run-act play starring the Simmons brothers, Russell and the Rev
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Bean Burger
Legal Grounds
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September 26, 2002
Best Pappadam (That's Right, Best Pappadam)
Buddha's Special at Cosmic Café
News
August 23, 2001
Gag Order
An anti-fur protester claims her rights are violated by a too restrictive probation
News
June 28, 2001
Buzz
Don't have a cow
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April 19, 2001
Mean Green
What do you get when you cross the Zapatistas with Dr. Dolittle? The Animal Liberation Front
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
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November 30, 1995
Hot Dish
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
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July 20, 1995
Letters
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