Remember back in the day how Mom did all her shopping at one grocery store? Then sometime in the ’80’s Walmarts started opening everywhere and on occasion that was added to the route. Now, when many of us think about the goods we stock our pantries, fridges and mini-bars with,…

Yesterday Rusty Tacos posted that their new spot in the Main Street Gardens is opening today, and we were like, “Cool. Gotta check that out.” Then we read, per Wilonsky at the DMN that they’re having free ‘ritas today and our interest suddenly became more urgent. Per Wilonsky’s DMN blog:…

Back in April, Beck Ventures, a Dallas-based investment management company, told us of their big fancy plans to transform the Valley View Center into “Midtown Dallas; a mixed-use lifestyle project, creating an urban oasis at one of Dallas’ most venerable and desirable locations.” As we all know, the best thing…

Remember how we keep talking about getting the kids out of town more often? How they need to see open fields, get some fresh air and experience the snail’s pace of small-town life? And how that’s good for about three hours at which point it gets boring and then it’s…

Tootie Pie opened a new café in Allen last week. Which made me think, what’s up with the location at Preston and Royal? It’s still an empty shell. Randy Graybill, business development director at Tootie Pie Inc. down in Boerne, says they’re still trying to work out some issues with…

In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. If you packed up Charlie Papaceno and his many bottles of booze, carefully encased them in bubble…

JoJo is a new restaurant going in at 2626 Howell St., the space that was most recently Bella. This new spot is the “bébé” of French chef Laurent Poupart, who was born in northeastern France and began his career at the then-three Michelin star restaurant Au Crocodile in Strasbourg. He…

Sharon Hage’s restaurant York Street closed more than two years ago, but when I ask other chefs around the city what their favorite restaurant is, many still say, “York Street.” It was “small, local and chef-driven” before those words and ideas became marketing tools. When she closed her East Dallas…

Guess what Kansas boys are doing this summer? Promoting the farm-to-table movement with their own tantalizing farm video. In a parody to LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It” the three Peterson brothers, wearing purple K-State shirts, of course, made a video and rewrote the words to “I’m Farming and…

Today McDonald’s revealed its new 1,500-seat flagship restaurant at the Olympic Park in London, which weighs in at 32,000 square feet. The Sun newspaper in London reports that the flagship location, which is one of four in Olympic Park, is the largest McDonald’s in the world. (But, a franchise in…

Bloomberg reported earlier this week that canned beer sales are up, partially thanks to all you hipsters and your PBR habit. The exact quote, which reads a bit like a schoolmarm talking about farting: “Hipsters, a subculture of urban, young adults whose tastes run toward independent music and films and…

Michael Ehlert moved to Texas from New York City in 2011, where he worked at DBGB, one of Daniel Boulud’s concepts. In Dallas his first kitchen home was at The Chesterfield in downtown. Last month, he moved over to Campo, where he is now the executive chef. We sat down…