If you’ve read anything about the Banh Shop, Yum! Brands’ test site for the development of a fast-casual, Vietnamese-inspired restaurant, you’ve probably read about the controversy surrounding their logo. The big red star perched above the garage doors at the front of the restaurant reminded Vietnamese expats of the communist…
If you haven’t paid a visit to Trinity Groves in a while, and you’re into such things, you might want to head back. A number of restaurants have opened recently as the back side of the main building continues to fill with incubating restaurant concepts. The latest is Cake Bar,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It’s the quintessential ending to just about anything: Something sweet that…
September has been a long one for Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. At the month’s start, Staples drew some heat for an op-ed he fat-fingered for the Austin American-Statesman. It denounced efforts to get school children to eat less meat and sparked an Internet backlash that preceded Staples’ resignation from…
This week The Washington Post published an article noting a trend towards smaller menus in large, corporate restaurants. The Olive Gardens and TGI Fridays, among others, have found increasing utility in streamlined menus, compared to their previous offerings, which literally read like a book covered with sticky honey mustard sauce…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. This is not your every day breakfast taco. Before Tamale House…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The best thing about Babe’s, no matter what location you visit,…
A week or two ago I was sitting at the bar at So&So’s and the Rangers game was on the television, high above my head. The Rangers were losing, something they’ve become increasingly known for this season, and I wondered what it would be like to take pitches as a…
If you haven’t been to the West Village in a while, you might not have noticed LYFE Kitchen, which sprung up recently in the spot that used to house Lemon Bar. The fast-casual restaurant is devoted to meeting your every dietary need while supplying you with plenty of shrubbery. Outside…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Comfort food means different things to different people. Most of the…
The dessert sales at Trinity Groves restaurants could take a major hit this Thursday when Cake Bar opens. The dessert bar and retail shop will sell traditional, southern-style cakes and confections for customers to eat on-site or take with them to go. In an effort to be a well-rounded fatness…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Truth be told a good biscuit is best with just a…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Briskizo? Brisketzo? Chorisket? Trying to come up with a word that…
For the longest time, we’ve been told breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Without two eggs and a square of toast before 9 a.m., we’d be doomed to walk around like reverse-negative sun zombies, drooling, chewing on pencil erasers and unable to form complete sentences. Recently, though,…
Tomorrow, the Dallas Observer Brewfest will take over the Dallas Farmers Market, blanketing the area in six inches of beer foam, countless wobbly bodies and, most importantly, tiny pretzels strung together into delicious necklaces. If you have already purchased tickets, great. Feel free to skip ahead. If you haven’t, follow…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Steak and eggs are a throwback plate. The kind you’d order…
The exact words exchanged between Deep Ellum Brewing sales rep John Wiewel and Dylan Elchami, who owns Oak Lawn’s Scotch & Sausage, will likely never be agreed upon. Wiewel made a sales call to the restaurant recently, and then accused Elchami — on Facebook — of illegal practices with regards…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The recipe for a classic Mornay sauce calls for a measure…
Aaron Garcia hasn’t always been a commercial beer brewer. Not long ago, he owned part of a company that handled web design, making his company’s tools accessible to their users. The money was good, but Garcia didn’t have much passion for CSS and HTML. In his downtime, he’d tinker with…
For a long time, naming a restaurant with a single word lent a sort of coolness to a place. Just in Dallas, Local, Suze and Oak grabbed the spotlight with names that could seemingly mean anything. But like all trends, the one-word restaurant name is becoming outdated — replaced, of…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The smoked salmon you see pictured above demonstrates exactly why you…
It might be hard to envision it today, but eventually cooler weather will descend upon the DFW area. When it does, local farmers markets will start to offer cool-season crops. This makes it good timing for the start of the new Vickery Meadow Local Market, which will have its inaugural…
