Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas’ signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he…
Normally an end of the year Top 10 list should account for at least ten items–more if a tie score happens to muddle things. But the powers behind City of Ate (which would be us) sorta procrastinated until long about November, so…well, we only got around to testing out the…
Scene, 62 Main, The Club, Nove Italiano, Metro Grill, Sushi on McKinney, Martini Park, Brothers..The roll call of restaurant closings throughout this embattled year makes 2008 sound like a culinary Iwo Jima. We can almost picture John Wayne poised on the black volcanic sands, reading off the names: Bice? Didn’t…
A little bit of holiday party advice from those fun-loving folks at Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. Seems in this litigious nation of ours that a few hosts remain unaware of their personal liability if, say, Uncle Eddie downs half a bottle of bourbon at the family gathering,…
Years ago, in response to a seeming onslaught of prepackaged goods and quick-service chain restaurants, a few activist gourmands began spouting the moral superiority of “slow foods.” Not just organic or free-range, mind you, but also locally grown and “sustainable.” Forgetting that in the days when people ate natural foods…
Texas should be ashamed of itself.In the old days this state produced larger than life heroes–men like James Fannin, Clyde Barrow and “Hollywood” Henderson. But now, after two from the Bush clan (three if you count Neil), a Rove and the guys at Enron, all we can cling to is…
A chef who speaks with the highest authority just emailed to voice his chagrin at the choice of Five-Sixty for Wolfgang Puck’s soon to open venue atop Reunion Tower. At least a decade or so ago, Puck’s staff weren’t so trend-conscious (or wooden) when it came to naming rights. The…
Sushi Zushi3858 Oak Lawn AvenueDallas, TX 75219214-522-7253 Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 26 minutes Plucky, aptly-named tele-server: 9 pointsZippy delivery: 10 pointsFood temp: 10 pointsTentacle tenderness: 8 pointsPoints deducted for timid tuna: 2 Total Score: 90 Overall Standings Yumi To Go 98 Sushi Zushi 90 Picasso’s Pizza and…
The safety minded-folks at the Texas Alcoholic Beverages Commission (otherwise known as the notorious TABC) require establishments to post this deterrent somewhere near the entry. Gives those packing unlicensed heat a chance to waive down the valet: “hey, could you throw this Thompson in the trunk?”Unfortunately the designers of Fedora…
Last week a reader commented on the impression, shared by many, that Dallas Observer (that’s us) reviews tend to follow Dallas Morning News (them) pieces by a week or two. For instance, their Bill Addison tore into Pyramid on November 21. We did the same in the December 4 issue…
Sean Avery’s not the only one who has a problem with leftovers.”I hated them as a kid,” admits James Neel, chef at Tramontana. “I didn’t want the same thing two days in a row.”Wait…are we talking about the same thing? Maybe not. Fortunately, cooks in the city treat sloppy seconds…
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Not having seen 300, Hollywood’s beefcake version of the ancient grievances between Persia and the Greek city-states, I must settle for a more dated image of Turkey’s once-great warriors. On stones unearthed over time by scholars—you know, those sullen experts we’ve preferred to ignore ever since popular culture turned to…
So good, its bano–isn’t that the slogan? There’s no shame in the occasional trip to Taco Bueno. Hard to resist the convenience and the colorful signage. Besides, if Dean Fearing can take guests to Primo’s–only a few steps up–the rest of us are welcome to pick up fast food. But…
The first of this morning’s PR shots came from the folks at Abacus–something about AAA’s Five Diamond Award and, more importantly, revisiting the moment when chef Kent Rathbun lifted (as in picked it up off the ground with his bare hands) an elk on Iron Chef America. But you can…
Cousin’s Barbeque Various locations I don’t think a Texas barbecue place does itself any favors by boasting that it’s a favorite of an Ivy League, blue-blood Yankee, but Cousin’s Web site brags about serving George H.W. Bush. Had I known that before trying the food, I’d have been a tad…
Campisi’s 5405 W. Lovers Ln 214-350-2595 Promised delivery time: 45 minutes to an hour Delivered in: 54 minutes The Score Phone friendliness: 7.5 Order efficiency: 9 Delivery Squeezed in just before the buzzer (sort of): 7 Temperature of Eggplant parmesan and spaghetti: 9 Flavor and sauce: 9.5 Spill-safe packaging: 10…
Who knows why everyone takes such delight in gingerbread houses? The fate that befell Hansel and Gretel–or nearly befell; we only know the story through Bugs Bunny–when they encountered such a structure was none too pleasant.But last night, the Rosewood Crescent Hotel put the final bit of icing on their…
Yeah, yeah. Red state, blue state, Sunni versus Shiite, McCain battling against his “maverick” past–big deal.These are but minor little spats compared to the one issue that threatens to rend our social fabric, set brother against brother and perhaps even topple our sacred devotion to progress: in these troubled economic…
Like most worthwhile “hidden gem” ethnic eateries we dream about, Thai Noodle and Rice is nondescript, a dive next to the Shop n’ Go on North Fitzhugh near I-75. And fortunately, the shabby exterior seems to promise something good, worthwhile–very different than overfused and overpriced pan-Asian fare served everywhere these…
Don’t know what to do with odd, even somewhat interesting and likely helpful news of this sort, but pass it along… Not only concerned for public health, but also for the hobby-deprived, credit-burdened gift-givers this holiday season, gourmands at Texas Oncology developed Jingle Jam–a Southern-style preserve they’re willing to give…
How often must MBA recipients prove their “worthiness” before we finally stop listening? And before you many upstanding business folks finish that “hey, wait just one damn minute” thought, keep in mind what MBAs have wrought lately. There’s W, for example—whom the conservative media once lauded as our first such…
