I met her last week, a French number tinged pink like blushing cheeks. A brilliant DSO performance had just drawn a standing ovation and concert-goers poured up Flora Street like a mist. Some of them stopped off for an outdoor glass of booze at The Commissary, and others continued the…
News about Dallas by way of Houston: the Eating Our Words blog ran a story yesterday about Hofmann Sausage Co. and its pending Texas takeover. The Syracuse-based hot dog maker was purchased by the Dallas-based Zaccanelli Food Group, and the links should be available at every Albertson’s by Memorial Day…
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. Royal China has been banging out beef and broccoli for almost…
It was back in the fall that Citizen Pictures, a Colorado-based production company, contacted me in hopes of finding some restaurants to feature on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The company hit up all the food writers in town, hunting for what it called great food, great characters,…
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. I’m not going to spend a second trying to point out…
I’m trying not to obsess, but it seems like every day feels a little warmer than the last. The climbing mercury is making me want to grab onto the last days of spring and hang on as tightly as I can. And there’s other signs of the season slipping away…
Summer is close. Maybe it’s already here. And as the air thickens and becomes heavy, finding places to have a drink that aren’t dark and super conditioned caves becomes more and more of a challenge. In my perfect life, I’d have a small house, somewhere in Oak Cliff or East…
Tales of the Cocktail will kick of its tenth year this July in New Orleans, and in addition to drawing professionals from around it’s catering specifically to Texas bartenders. Ann Teunnerman, the founder of the growing cocktail gathering, hosted the event. Next she’s headed to subsequent events in San Antonio,…
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. Too often, bar snacks are relegated to frozen staples, dropped in…
Update: We’ve selected two winners based on funny: BeSly, who offed Paula Deen by stuffing her with icing using a CO2 charged ISI Gourmet Whip, and Tyler Kitchens, who takes issue with Giada’s pronunciation of LEE-MUN-CHELL-OH. If we can’t get a hold of them we’ll dial up some new winners…
Tomorrow night Dallas will gather at the Fashion Industry Gallery for the Observer’s second annual Iron Fork competition. While many will focus on the food and booze sampling, the backdrop for the event is a cooking competition between former Joule chef and reigning Iron Fork Champion Scott Romano, and Whiskey…
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 should try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Not every sandwich has to be a full-service gut bomb. Sometimes you…
Cinco de headache is close. You’ve got one more evening till you can spend the entirety of Saturday pummeling your liver with bad margaritas and shotgunned Miller Lites while eating your own weight in tortilla chips. Happy hour’s calling, but first we’ve got a week to wrap up. (And make…
Banditos and Katy Trail Ice House are best friends now. The owners of each restaurant collaborated on a new Plano place that opened last week. It goes by the name of — wait for it — Bandito Tex-Mex Ice House. If you’ve been to both of the restaurants that spawn…
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 should try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Meddlesome Moth’s menu takes some careful navigation. The mussels are a safe…
A press release landed this afternoon attempting to clarify the disagreement between Ed Bailey and Lucky Campbell, co-owners of the Chesterfield. If you’ve been following the drama, Campbell was escorted out of his bar last week by police, and several employees were either fired or walked out under their own…
Pizza and beer go together like everything else and beer, so it’s easy to deduce that pizza and pitchers of beer are even better mates. It’s the American way, right? Fireside Pies sells a lot of both pizza and beer, and I finally ducked my head in the Henderson Avenue…
“It’s not my first choice, but it’s my first choice when my mother’s in town.” My friend issued those words when I asked her about Hattie’s, the subject of this week’s review. Hattie’s will celebrate its 10-year anniversary this fall. When researching the restaurant I asked tons of people what…
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. NHS Tavern’s Cleaver and Block Burger has an unfair advantage over…
It’s 7 on a Friday night, and there’s something odd, eerie even, about the Bishop Arts District. There are these things called “pedestrians” here (pronounced “ped-ESS-tree-ans”), moving past crowded patio tables on long, limb-looking contraptions that are strangely devoid of mufflers. Elsewhere people are idling — standing, it’s apparently called…
Two weeks ago we told you how the Arts District Food Truck scene was moving again, this time to the plaza outside the Winspear Opera House. Today I dropped in to see how the trucks are settling into their new location. Five trucks were parked under a cloudy May sky,…
Dear Athena Hohenberg, I’m sorry to address you in such an adversarial tone, but I see no way around it. Your recent class action lawsuit filed against Ferrero, the company that manufactures the deliciously chocolate-like, hazelnut spread Nutella, is the saddest case of consumer idiocy I’ve seen in a while…
