Nestled in the side-bosom of the Gables Villa Rosa on Cedar Springs Road, next to the Ill Minster Pub, Toluca is an organic Mexican food restaurant that opened in November. Co-owner TJ Franks has been around for a while: He also has Southpaw’s Grill, which started peddling clean organic meals way-WAY…
This Saturday, Hurtado Barbecue is set to open its first restaurant in Arlington’s Urban Union District, a mix of restaurants, breweries and shops set in refurbished industrial buildings. Hurtado is particularly adept at marketing on their Facebook page. The pictures of wagyu tomahawk steaks and brisket tacos are likely to…
You might want to start getting your head around the idea of eating insects as a source of protein. If one were to earnestly break down the differences between eating, say, beef from a cow raised at a giant feedlot and a small grasshopper, any heebie-jeebies toward the latter might…
Billy Flores of Bad Spanish Tacos keeps his work area tight and clean. Not a single errant onion square or cilantro leaf lies anywhere but in their prescribed containers. No fingerprint smudges stain the table, no trails of salsa run down the sides of the sauce bottles. It’s simply clean,…
Lochland’s opened in East Dallas earlier this month, another Irish pub from Peter and Cheryl Kenny, the former who was born and raised in Ireland and the latter in Dallas. This is the fourth spot for the couple, including the longstanding Dubliner on Greenville Avenue and The Gin Mill on…
Fount Board and Table opened in Uptown late last year, in the spot that was formerly another coffee house, Crooked Tree Coffeehouse. In October, we spoke with the owner of the new spot, Olivia Genthe, who is a big fan of that piece of real estate. She explained she wanted…
Five pilots sat around a table over lunch recently, discussing gumbo, cargo flights out of Winnipeg and getting stuck in a holding pattern. They were at Ardmore Municipal Airport in Oklahoma watching planes come and go from the dining room at Jake’s Joint. The chef-driven restaurant adjacent to the runway…
Recently while driving north along Hampton Road on a Friday afternoon, I noticed a line of cars wrapped around an orange-ish building. I immediately hung a U-turn from the middle lane because there was an obvious fuss about something, and I saw the word “Burger.” I joined the drive-thru line…
Deep Ellum’s Revolver Taco Lounge is loved by many for its incredible tacos. The ingredients are at times boundary-pushing for some who might not be used to it, like chingones escamoles de Oaxaca (ant larvae that tastes like butter). The spot consistently ranks among the best, here and elsewhere. If…
Finding love in Big D can be exhausting. It’s like The Hunger Games of dating. If you’re lining up reservations to test their love or prove yours, you’ve got it all wrong. The real merits of a relationship are best validated in a dumpster-fire manner. Or at minimum, a well-tested…
Today while anxiously spying on the progress of Hurtado Barbecue (stay tuned), I whipped around the corner and saw two bright-red pigs in a parking lot and was giddy with excitement. This little area of Arlington is getting tastier by the day. First of all, let’s all run through fields…
Kintaro Ramen is set to open in Arlington the week of Feb. 17 in a retail spot below new apartments at 101 E. Abram St. It’s within walking distance of the Levitt Pavilion, across from Arlington City Hall and not far from the UTA campus. Owner Han Le is hoping…
Last Saturday, by 7:30 p.m., a line snaked to the door, and every table was taken inside the Grand Prairie location of Pollo Salsa. The air outside was a bit too chilly for most to enjoy a meal on the large patio, though some did. Pollo Salsa prides itself on…
With Mardi Gras three weeks away, you might be weighing your options, picking the best in a litter of crawfish boils and parties. Pounds of crawfish spread across tables can, for some, be intimidating. So much work for so little meat, right? And your nails! But, no worries, there are…
Ready? OK. Before we gush over how amazing Jerry is and how badly we all need Monica’s mama-bear love, I pulled this “day trip” guide together with no idea what I’d find, but now I’m trying to figure out when I can drive to Corsicana again. They’ve got some a…
I never meant to hate the Super Bowl. I actually love football. When Jim McMahon shimmied the Bears through New Orleans in 1986, I was obsessed. Walter Payton, Willie Gault, Mike Singletary and The Fridge! They were the best. See? I go way back with the pigskin. But, the tipping…
“I was born in an indigenous town in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a community that has a wonderful culture and very ancient traditions of the ancestral Zapotecos Indians,” says Honorio García, owner of El Oaxaqueño Taquería y Panaderia. “My grandmother was hired to cook food for each community event [in…
Last Thursday evening, a teenage male entered Resident Taqueria on Audelia Road, swiped the tip jar off the counter and took off out the door. According to the story on Lake Highlands Advocate, chef Andrew Savoie was in the back at the time, but an employee who witnessed the theft…
When Mesa closed last fall, there was a collective, “Aw, bummer,” across the Dallas. Co-chef and owner Raul Reyes opened a new place on Davis Street, Ceviche, while the space that once served Beyonce and Jay-Z was being reinvented once more. (Before it was Mesa, it was La Palapa Veracruzana.)…
Corn Dogs With No Name recently opened on Technology Boulevard in the vertex of Interstate 35 and Loop 12. It’s the creation of Jace Fletcher “Fletch” Christensen and her mother Vickie Fletcher, who have a passion for all things corny dog related, as they should. Neil Fletcher, Jace’s great grandfather…
Jon Garay and Joel Mendoza finally have the taco spot they’ve been searching for on Harry Hines Boulevard. It’s been a long time coming. Both, originally from Mexico City, missed the places they frequented there. More specifically, the taco carts. After finishing his finance degree at SMU, Garay followed a…
Recently, a local radio personality and collector, Gordon Keith, tweeted a few lines from an article he opined for The Dallas Morning News (behind the paywall) a few years ago, and it struck a chord: “We are born two drinks shy of happiness. Two drinks gets you to what feels like…
