Remind us not to write about the food in Taiwan. On Tuesday, a blogger in Taiwan was sentenced to a month of detention and two years probation for writing that a restaurant’s beef noodles were “too salty.” From the Taipei Times: “The Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court on Tuesday…
Yay! You’re going to a Rangers game! Boo. It’s a million dumbgrees outside. Whatever. You’re a true fan. So, suck it up. Clearly, they need you out there right about now. If you’re going to a game at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, you immediately know a few things: 1) River…
This summer, one of your friends will inevitably drag you to the Dallas Farmers Market because, “Ohmahgawdy’all!! Texas peaches are in season!!!!” Yeah, that’s great. You know what’s also in season? SWEATING ASS CRACKS. I don’t know if you heard, but the high was 315° Eff yesterday, with a heat…
Dallas-based Southern Recipe, the world’s largest manufacturer of pork rinds, has donated $10,000 of their pork rinds to The Today Show’s Lend a Hand Tour benefiting tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama. We’re not sure if the first thought on the Alabamans’ minds was, “What I wouldn’t give for some pork…
“Ever had the tacos at Flash Mart?” sounds like a crappy pick-up line some drunk chick would give you at Ghostbar. But, seriously, have you ever had them? No, of course there are no flashers inside the Flash Mart on Abrams Road. Gah. Everyone knows they’re all at DISD high…
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…
Last Saturday, Pecan Lodge brought barbecue back to Shed 2. It. Was. Glorious. (Note: If you go to Pecan Lodge and don’t try their just-added-to-the-menu house-made smoked sausage, we’re not sure we can stay friends with you.) In celebration of their return to the barbecue scene, Pecan Lodge held a…
Love everything about Las Vegas except for the fact that there’s no place you can drunkenly scream the wrong lyrics to “Free Bird” while eating (allegedly) Texas barbecue? You’re in luck: Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer will open this fall in the Excalibur Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, just…
Garden Cafe is part hipster, part hippie. It’s as if all the people in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle had consensual big-city sex and made a restaurant baby. Inside, Garden Cafe’s booths are filled with skinny, black-shirt-and-Jeggings-wearing dudes who come here to work on their short stories and hang out…
Chick-fil-A isn’t OK with working on Sundays, but they do seem to be OK with dads dating daughters. June 18, the day before Father’s Day is Chick-fil-A Daddy Daughter Date Night. So, if you’re currently dating your dad, know that starting at 5 p.m. that day, 70 Chick-fil-A restaurants in…
Yay! Lurlene’s birthing a brisket this Saturday! Pecan Lodge is once again firing up its barbecue pit, named Lurlene, this Saturday. Which means from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. you can get your mouth on some of Pecan Lodge’s delicious burnt ends, plus mesquite-smoked brisket and ribs. And even better,…
Last time I was mixing myself a Jack & Coke, I was so frustrated with the difficulty of the task. I mean, you have find a glass, open a can of Coke aaand a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey all by yourself. Then you have to pour all that in…
Today is the day we may finally have to kick our sister’s ass. Our sister paper, The Miami New Times, that is. We’ve been letting the trash talk about the Mavs go on and on and yeah, we get it, we’re rivals and all, but shit just got real. This…
Driving up to La Hacienda Ranch with my mom, all its theme-y ranchified decor made me think for a second that I might be walking into a strip club. I figured, what the hell—there’s nothing like horking down a cheese enchilada with the woman who birthed you while someone sanitizes…
Spiral Diner is a vegan diner in Oak Cliff. Every vegan cliché is there: massage therapist business cards; dreads; a flier suggesting that we all get together and build a dog park; good-for-you-smelling air mixed with patchouli stank; employees who are all totally, sincerely, Jehovah’s Witness nice all the time…
Remember when we first discovered the Internet and all we used it for was pretending we were dudes and asking dudes who were pretending to be chicks if they wanted to cyber? Well, the Internet has come a long way and now we live in a time when you can…
The first rule of ordering pizza from Serious Pizza: Read the menu. And when you read it, notice that the large pizza is 24 inches. (For reference, a Domino’s large is a mere 14 inches.) The large from Serious Pizza does not, how you say, fuck around. It’s so big,…
For centuries, people have been boozing it up while they hike. (Ask your mom.) But now that it’s becoming popular to do wine-tastings on hikes, the activity has been given a new name: wiking. We’re really excited for this new trend, and can’t wait for these other leisurely sport +…
If you haven’t already been reminded by 90 coworkers today, we’re happy to tell you that today’s Friday the 13th. According to Wikipedia, fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. So now you know that. Nerd. Since today’s already unlucky, in the spirit of getting screwed by your own…
Here’s the scene at you-know-where: Hundreds of people are in line. Guys in In-N-Out uniforms (plus that shitty hat) direct drive-thru traffic. A refrigerated 18-wheeler sits outside, full of back-up meats. If you are one of the hundreds who are in town, dying for a double-double, you can rest assured…
Completely lost in New York during my trip to the James Beard Awards, I stumbled upon Holey Cream. Based on the name, I thought it must be a sex shop. Turns out, it’s better: Holey Cream Outrageous Donuts and Ice Cream is a dessert shop that will make you an…
Dearest Wylie Dufresne, You, sir, are The Shit. And by that, I mean the amazing The Shit, not the actual shit The Shit. The food that I watched you create and serve up last week at wd~50 in Manhattan was otherworldly. If you’re half as good at making love as…
