Dallas was long-protected from the ramen craze until Tanoshii Ramen Bar set up shop in Deep Ellum. Now a second is already on the way. Carol Shih at Sidedish reported that Teiichi Sakurai, the owner of Tei-An, planned to open a fish market at Sylvan|Thirty, but apparently he’s pivoted. Instead…
Good news for the adventurous eaters out there who think they’ve tried everything Thai food has to offer: CrushCraft Thai Street Eats, the fast-casual restaurant from retired chef Paul Singhapong and restaurateur Jack Nuchkasem, will open in mid-January at 2800 Routh Street in Uptown. The menu will be divided into…
When the phrase “national treasure” gets tossed around, it’s usually questionable or an outright joke. For example, “Ted Cruz is a national treasure” is questionable. “Taylor Swift is a national treasure” is clearly a joke. The statement “Tom Hanks is a national treasure” is neither of those things. Tom Hanks…
Veteran performers are a rarity in striptease. Burlesque too, for that matter, though proponents of burlesque say that it’s less about conventional beauty and sexuality and more about entertainment and provocation. In either case it’s unusual to see someone old enough to be a grandmother take the stage, but that’s…
Black Friday is going to be exhausting whether you embrace it or run from it. You might spend the whole day ransacking stores for deals, you might try to hit up just one and become trapped for hours in the Walking Dead-esque frenzy, or you can try to avoid it…
It’s not unusual to put on extra pounds between the end of October and the start of January. Most people wait until the new year to do something about it, starting gym memberships or loading up on fiber supplements in well-intentioned attempts at resolutions. Why not try a new tactic…
Grub Burger has been showing low rumblings of being alive for the past few months, and now like a Coke-ad polar bear it’s finally rousing to take advantage of the holiday shopping season. The last thing any of us want to do right now is to look past the mountain…
Despite the perplexing news that Dallas drinks less than any other major city, now is a good time to be a beer lover here. The city just keeps getting more and more good beer news lately. Tap-crazy restaurants with beer-based desserts are opening. Growler-filling stations are spreading to different neighborhoods…
Abacus executive chef Kent Rathbun is now taking reservations for his Dirty Dozen cooking class, and if you want to get a slot for yourself or as a Christmas present you better act fast. Over at Sidedish Nancy Nichols predicts that they’ll be sold out by the end of the…
Doughnut shops are one of the few establishments that can get away without actually having a proper name, either on their building or anywhere else. All they need is a sign, preferably one that lights up, that proclaims “DONUTS” to the world. Pawn shops may be one of the only…
Last week Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead hosted a telethon called “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can Choose,” a fund raiser for a variety of Lady Parts Justice, a Texas-based pro-choice organization that promoted the event under the Twitter handle @TXWomenForever. During the telethon chef Mario Batali encouraged people to donate…
There are some foods that aren’t legally available in Texas due to federal import bans. Haggis from Scotland, for example, is banned because of restriction on importing sheep’s lung. The Kinder Surprise, the Italian-produced chocolate egg filled with toys, has been banned because of the choking hazard that comes from…
The Western Mexican state Michoacán has been called the country’s sustainable avocado Mecca, praised by celebrity chef Rick Bayless for its production of incredible Hass avocados. It also may be one of the most lawless places in North America. “Michoacán isn’t a problem. It is a nightmare,” George W. Grayson,…
“No Shave November” used to be a college excuse for you and your bros to see how scraggly you could get in a month, when you discovered your beard grows in mostly as mutton chops and that one guy had no facial hair except for a tuft at the right…
There are seven heavenly virtues. And they’re boring. Honestly, can you name the seven heavenly virtues? They’re things like fortitude, temperance and prudence. There are no justice squads of superheroes named for the virtues. But the seven deadly sins just roll off the tongue — gluttony, pride, greed, sloth, envy,…
As much as Dallas may like to pretend it’s buttoned-down and well-coiffed, that everything is fancy cars on slow overpasses and unscuffed designer cowboy boots, deep down there’s a counterculture, all riled up and progressive. For the past year THRWD Magazine has been wading into that current and scooping up…
It’s been more than a year since schools in California, Illinois and New Mexico banned the sale of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos on campus, but the pungent Plano-made snack food is still the source of trouble for kids. New evidence suggests that eating several bags of the stuff can cause, along…
For a city that’s quick to tear down most any building, Dallas has embraced its history with gusto. Not that it’s possible to pretend that the Kennedy assassination never happened, but across the city people are enthusiastically touting their history and connections to event. Really, it’s a surprise we haven’t…
For a couple weeks, all we knew about Miss Chi is that it was coming. The signs of its arrival were all there, specifically an actual sign with the name of the restaurant and a couple posts about it on the Facebook page for Tanoshi Ramen. Since then we’ve been…
New research out of Harvard is strengthening the argument that coffee helps curb the risk of Type II diabetes. So coffee is alongside nuts, citrus, leafy greens, beans and sweet potatoes on the list of super healthy foods that help prevent diabetes. According to the Harvard research, the main reason…
The North Texas Food Bank is heading into the holiday season with a novel event: the construction and consumption of a 100-yard-long sushi roll at AT&T Stadium. On November 20, Legends Hospitality and Chef Yutaka Yamato, of Yutaka Sushi Bistro and lead sushi chef of concessions at Legends, will oversee…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. When fortune smiles on something as bloody and delicious as meat, it seems proof like no other that,…
