Marvelous things can be seen from a bus seat. When I lived in New York, riding the city buses was an exciting thing. The drivers in their cars didn’t know what they were missing. I was a passenger but I wasn’t passive. I would take notes as I rode by…

I shouldn’t have been surprised when I learned that some of the most popular items at a faux English pub in Dallas are tacos. After all, this is Texas, and Sherlock’s Pub & Grill is up the hill from Flash Mart, the subject of last week’s Taco Trail and the…

I am left hungry, and I’m pissed off about it, not because the tacos at Flash Mart are regrettable examples of overcooked, drier than Death Valley meat wrapped in flaccid, oily white corn tortillas. It’s the opposite. The tacos prepared and served inside the gas station at the corner of…

I had wanted to write a review of the limited-edition taco-flavored Doritos when Frito-Lay released them for the Super Bowl. Alas, I wasn’t quick enough and missed out on the special. Or so I thought until my wife came home with a bag of the stuff. Splashed across the top…

My 2-year-old son loves three things: cars; his teddy bear, Rupert; and tacos. So, after a morning spent at a local vintage and custom car show, tacos were in order, this time at Cool & Hot. The Oak Cliff taquería inhabits a converted gas station with an operational car wash…

Breakfast tacos are as Texan as Waco’s unofficial status as Austin and DFW’s bathroom break along Intestate 35. Breakfast tacos are as Texan as football and the state’s other top sport, historical revisionism. I love Texas. I love breakfast tacos. Love led me to Taco Joint in East Dallas. The…

Thirty-six percent. Eighty-eight percent. One hundred percent. Seriously, does the composition really matter when the food is free? Taco Bell and its millions of Facebook fans don’t think so. To follow-up the full-page ads and videos in response to a class-action lawsuit that claims the beef in its tacos is…

Someone with a restaurant pedigree ought to know what he’s doing, right? Well, Joey Milan, owner of the newly opened Digg’s Taco Shop on Hillcrest Avenue knows exactly what he’s doing. That’s a relief considering that Digg’s is a specialty taquería, which by now should make for a yawnfest in…

Arguably the most beloved pizzaiolo in Dallas — certainly a City of Ate favorite — Jay Jerrier has suffered obstacles opening a brick-and-mortar version of his mobile Neapolitan pizza-making operation, Il Cane Rosso. But these will be over on Monday, February 14 — that’s right, Valentine’s Day! — when Jerrier…

Had your fill of pricey concessions at Cowboys Stadium? Want something a bit more authentic to help you remember your time around the big game? No better way for us to send you on your way than with a few suggestions for tacos, which has rapidly become the state food…

Foodies were all aflutter when news broke that Goghee To Go, a Korean-Mexican fusion taquería, was opening in Dallas proper. While I was excited as well, I was disappointed by the lack of perspective. Goghee was heralded as a pioneer in the area, proving once again that only when it…

Kor-BQ, the Dallas area’s first purveyor of Korean-Mexican fusion tacos, has added quesadillas, or in this case, kuesadillas, to its menu. The little strip mall shop in Plano has weathered business troubles superbly and now has a dedicated, almost apostolic, following. Perseverance and proximity to cities with high concentrations of…

The original idea behind this weekly feature was for me to visit taquerías and restaurants vending tacos near DART light rail stops. I moved from New York where a car is little more than a money-muncher, between insurance and alternate-side parking. I’m a fan of public transportation, and, believe it…

Monday, January 17, is when we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in honor of a courageous man who believed in all of us and believed we all deserve an equal share of the American dream. It’s no wonder then that MLK Day is an official Day of Service. We…

It took four years and $1.8 billion 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…

I was hoping for a stellar dining experience on the cold morning when I hopped off the train at Tyler/Vernon Station for a short walk to Boy’s Taquería, fingers numb from the frigid temperatures. The new restaurant, opened for just over a month, is owned by a husband and wife…

Mexican or Latin American grocery stores are nothing new, nor is the fact that many of them operate internal cafeterias. Aside from Fiesta, you’d be hard-pressed to find a chain as big as La Michoacana Meat Market in Texas. The difference between the two major businesses is that not all…

Having looked back at how the taco has fared in Dallas and across the country in 2010, Taco Trail now is looking toward the horizon and to what’s next for our favorite food. What is clear from the beginning is that regionalism, whether Mexican state, foreign state or Lone Star…

Komali, Abraham Salum’s eagerly anticipated restaurant dedicated to regional Mexican cuisine, will hopefully open the last week in January, Salum told City of Ate. Salum, a native of Mexico City, is well-known for his popular eatery Salum, where the menu plays with elements of Mediterranean, American and Continental cooking. It…

Mi Tierra Latin Fusion Restaurant , a Puerto Rican-Latin American restaurant in Arlington is set to shutter December 31 (that would be tomorrow) tweeted Bud Kennedy, columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, last week. The family-owned eatery housed in a bungalow is one of two establishments (that we know of)…