Recipe Demonstrated by Scott Gottlich of Bijoux Next week marks the 12th annual KRLD Restaurant Week, with over 100 area restaurants offering special meals to benefit the North Texas Food Bank and the Lena Pope Home in Fort Worth. Each year, food lovers across the area count down the days…

A week ago today, Leslie Brenner of the Dallas Morning News dropped a bomb on the Eats blog: nine-year-old Lola on Fairmount Street is closing in October. The Uptown charmer has earned top marks from reviewers and locals alike for its thoughtful, well-executed menu and top-notch wine program. The announcement…

We love the idea of Texas de Brazil Express: take a trusted name in meat-coma dining and parlay it into a quick meal concept. Round out said concept with a simple assisted assembly-line format and plop it in a busy shopping center (with ample parking) and you’ve got yourself a…

We’ve all got our minds on comfort food right now. Just check out the TV. Or the newspapers, the food blogs or any restaurant menu for proof. When times are tight, folks turn to tried and true, deep fried, gravy-covered favorites for a pick-me-up at the end of a long…

It would be easy to blame it on Pinkberry. The popular yogurt company’s website touts that “in less than five years, Pinkberry has established a dominant leadership position in the frozen yogurt category.” But that only tells part of the story. What this trendsetting treat shop kicked off in Los…

Recipe Demonstrated by Jimmy Vergos of the Original Market Diner In the words of one thrice-weekly regular, “It’s just like home, but with better food!” Jimmy Vergos’ mom and dad and Pappou and YiaYia developed a loyal following over the years at the Original Market Diner by serving home style…

Zinsky’s was hoppin’. On one of its first days of service, the New York-style deli from Mark Brezinski (Pei Wei, Bengal Coast) and Liz and Jim Baron (Blue Mesa Grill) was packed with businessmen, grandmothers herding broods of kids and folks from the surrounding North Dallas neighborhoods. We even saw…

Nothin’ says summer like a hot dog. Okay, burgers and ice cream do a pretty good job of getting the point across. Cold beer, too. But you gotta admit, hot dogs hold a special place in our hearts. Why? Because no matter how you dress ’em up, they’re always more…

2533 McKinney Avenue is one of those locations. Vaguely familiar yet often overlooked, the unusual Mediterranean-style building with the wrap-around patio has always suffered from something of an identity crisis. Expect a few rounds of “It was that French place, remember? Then the Italian place…didn’t they move?” when arranging a…

Ah, bragging rights. Everyone wants to claim them, over your brother, a co-worker, the guy you battle for a parking space every morning. Now two Dallas restaurants hold them over the entire city.Nana was just inducted into the Nation’s Restaurant News 2009 Fine Dining Hall of Fame. Established in 1980,…

Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Peter Gray of Cretia’s on McKinney Cretia’s on McKinney, the bistro-slash-bakery-slash-live music venue, reopened in March after a nine-month hiatus to, um, refresh and regroup. In addition to moving just up the road to the former Tijuana Bar and Grill location, a brand new Executive Chef…

Gabriela Pataro was just trying to follow the rules. In return she got dirty looks and arguments from a bunch of angry dog-lovers. “It wasn’t a very positive thing for us,” says the owner of Café Lago of her struggle to keep dogs off the property. Open since 2000 just…

The Paulas and the Bobbys and the (ugh) Rachaels better watch their beaters. A new crop of food stars are shaking up the old “if you cook it, they will watch” formula with new concepts, insider tips and sheer, unadulterated gluttony. Oh, and one of these up-and-comers is even giving…

Of all the perceived gaps in Dallas’ huge, yet largely homogenous selection of restaurants, none has received such passionate attention as the absence of a true New York-style deli. Acceptable and even exceptional versions have come and gone, and one passable local deli-style restaurant is packed all weekend long. Yet…

David Pedack is a live wire. Handsome, boyish and unpredictable, he’s the guy who knows everyone, the guy who can really work a room. We’d expect nothing less, given his many years behind-the-scenes (or behind the bar) on the Dallas nightlife circuit. But everyone’s gotta grow up sometime. In 2008,…

Recipe Demonstrated by Executive Chef James Johnson of Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Pappas Bros. Steakhouse is known for meat. Dry aged in house for 40 days and seared to sizzling perfection, you’ll find their Rib Eyes, New York Strips and Filets Mignon on just about any Dallas-area carnivore’s Top 10 list…

We always were a sucker for the ones who play hard to get. By most indications, La Michoacana Meat Market doesn’t really care if you want to shop there. Its low-key Greenville Avenue storefront (one of numerous area locations) sports an ancient-looking sign and the front door, covered in metal…

Top Cellars Connie Lewis has the job you didn’t know you wanted. The pretty 30-year-old blonde spends her days in fine restaurants, hotels and custom homes, helping wine lovers and experts design tony treasure chests for their precious bottles. And despite what you might think, her upscale niche profession has…

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: the cupcake wasn’t good. Billed as “magnificent vanilla cake…topped with vanilla and chocolate buttercreams,” The Cupcakery’s ‘Oh, My Gosh – Ganache!™’ cupcake was instead a bland, boring base topped with icing that tasted a whole lot like the inside of…

“I’m inexperienced. But my eagerness, I think, makes up for that.” It’s been almost two weeks since star Southwestern chef Stephan Pyles turned heads in the Dallas dining world by appointing Matt McCallister Executive Chef of his self-named restaurant downtown. The rumor mill’s been working overtime ever since, with whispers…

Recipe Demonstrated by Miranda Martinez On Monday we introduced you to Miranda Martinez, self-proclaimed “regular person raw foodist”. The Dallas-based actress went all raw back in 2007, after running through just about every diet known to humankind. She dropped 60-plus pounds and now she’s busy spreading the word about her…

Long before these dismal days of gut-busting King Size Snickers and 3 Musketeers Dark Chocolate Mint (an unholy creation, for sure), there were Goo Goo Clusters and Zagnuts and Squirrel Nut Zippers…uh…must…resist…Beavis and Butthead…laugh… Candy used to be cheery and novel, didn’t it?–a few bites of fun. Where did our…