Watching Dalat, the subject of this week’s review, evolve over the past few months has been a lot of fun. I dropped in for my first visit just before they opened, mostly because I wanted to see what owner Khahn Nguyen had done with the old RedFork space, and also…
Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…
Alex Perez has been training. For the past two or three months he’s been hitting up all-you-can-eat buffets and eating till he felt sick. For the past 24 hours “The Moose” has been fasting. I thought about asking him if he ever ate those little sponge animals that swell to…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. When I wanted a special occasion meal for my birthday and…
There are many options if you’re hungry for a bowl of pho in Dallas. Out in the suburbs, countless restaurants offer cheap bowls of noodle-laden soup to Vietnamese immigrants and local diners in the know. Closer to downtown, more refined and Americanized bowls of pho cater to timid diners who…
Alice Laussade doesn’t ask to hang out with me much, so when she invited me to tag along for one of her Cheap Bastard reviews I jumped on it. José “Taco Trail” Maldonado picked the place, Taqueria Mezquite, and it was just down the street. It was taco time. While…
Tomorrow marks the fourth annual Brass Knuckles Corndog Beatdown at the Libertine Bar. And just like last year, the first-place winner receives a $100 bar tab, second earns a $50 tab and third gets $25 worth of quarters all in reward for consuming an insane amount of fried corn batter…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. El Tizoncito can call it whatever they want — alambres bistec…
It was moments before kickoff, the sun was beating down and the AC ran full blast, belching cool air out of gaping garage doors flung open to bring the outdoors in. A gentleman to my right ordered four Nodding Donkey Punches and a Miller Lite, reminding me where I was,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Charbel Hamad wants you to focus on his wife Fadia’s sweets…
July is National Hot Dog Month if you didn’t know, and the Fourth of July always promises to be one of the biggest hot dog consumption days of the year. Just because hot dogs are ubiquitous doesn’t mean a casual cookout has to be pedestrian. Start with some high quality…
Any time a big holiday falls in the middle of the week, the question on everyone’s mind is which weekend to celebrate on. Obviously the answer is both, so half of Dallas should be out on their lawns with canned beers, Popsicles and sparklers in just a few moments. If…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Deviled eggs are seemingly on every bar menu, but many of…
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. During any given dinner service, Olga Reyes mans the pass inside the small kitchen tucked in the…
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 tend to the fires from which smoked brisket is rendered, be mindful: The BBQ Snob…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. If I hadn’t passed the old man’s table, littered with little…
If you had grown accustomed to ordering pad Thai and spicy stir-fried shrimp at this stand-alone building on Davis Street in Oak Cliff, you won’t recognize the space now. There’s still shrimp to be had, and Asian ghosts linger in lemongrass, fish sauce and cilantro-laden sauces and other preparations, but…
Remember Tto Tto Wa? The tiny box of a restaurant has been serving up sticky fried chicken and other Korean snack foods for more than two years. It’s a cool little spot with tiny tables tucked into tiny booths and an atmosphere that feels far, far away from Dallas. We…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Malai’s upscale Asian concept is right at home in the West…
Back in March, we told you the North Texas chapter of the Bartenders’ Guild was preparing to send a group of bartenders to Tales of the Cocktail, an annual convention hosted in New Orleans that draws industry professionals with interests in spirits and mixology. The group is sponsoring an event…
A friend emailed me an article this morning, which, at least temporarily caused great elation. The headline said the best study ever proves booze really does make life better, and then goes on to quote a study that tracked 5,000 drinkers and determined that those who imbibed in moderation scored…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Plates with many components often feel noisy to a diner who…
