Baseball is officially here. I ran over to the Katy Trail Ice House to test an iPhone app and snapped this shot while I was there. Rangers fans are out in full force. If any of you find your way to the stadium this weekend, here’s some food you might…
Early this February, Iron Cactus got served. Literally. The Austin-based Tex-Mex chain, with a location in downtown Dallas, became the subject of class-action lawsuit alleging that it failed to comply with federal employment laws regarding wages and tip-pooling. According to the suit, Iron Cactus illegally implemented a tip-pooling procedure. Pooling…
“Always strive to master your craft.” The closing words of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, which opens today at the Magnolia and Angelika Theaters, would make sound advice for any trade. But thrust upon the shokunin, the master sushi chef, they invoke a certain umami for the soul that’s as inspiring…
It’s Opening Day. You planned on going to go the stadium ring in Spring and tackle the big, bad Boomstick (above), but then your boss tossed a few extra TPS reports in your inbox. You’ll never make it to Arlington on time. Oh well. You didn’t want to spend hundreds…
The Dallas Farmers Market Friends will be at tonight’s Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs meeting, to speak out against a plan to open transitional housing for homeless people near the market. In their pleas to save the place, board members have made many references to the history of…
A well-balanced cocktail is a work of magic. A handful of quality ingredients, combined with a sometimes subtle and sometimes vigorous agitation, transform into something significantly larger than the sum of their parts. While slurping oysters at the Chesterfield, the subject of this week’s review, I asked my tablemates whether…
Last week’s Union Bear review had me thinking about eggs. I was taken by a chicken-fried number: a salty crusty treasure chest filled with liquid gold. Next thing you know Side Dish is gushing about yolks. It was Graham Dodds that seduced them, with eggs from Yellow Prairie Farm in…
On a January weeknight, one of the unseasonably warm ones, The Chesterfield was absolutely packed. Not with patrons, necessarily; the space was far from capacity. But downtown’s newest temple to mixology was overflowing with good vibes. Pandora filled the room with the redundant baseline of 12-bar blues and drinkers shouted…
Last week I published a blog post about an object of my affection: a steaming bowl of seafood laden soup from Veracruz Cafe. In the comments, CitizenKane seemed just as smitten, and asked about other bowls of soups and stews that were worth checking out. Since the mercury is rising,…
If you’re a Baseball Person, walking through the concourse of a stadium and seeing that massive expanse of emerald turf for the first time each year fills your soul with the feeling of potential. For a northerner, baseball invokes the potential for warmer weather ahead; interrelationships of the celestial bodies…
Rex’s Seafood Market was running wide-open, full-throttle on a recent Friday afternoon. Lent and the army of Catholics who adhere to its dietary restrictions might have had something to do with the surge, but I think it was the lobster roll that inspired the droves. Rex’s puts the New England…
When Jim Schutze wrote a story calling for the demise of a farmers market, I was pissed. What kind of out-of-touch a-hole doesn’t like farmers markets? Who doesn’t love spending $28 on a local pumpkin for their autumn pie? Who doesn’t like driving though downtown to shop in a building…
Oysters may be nature’s most perfect food. They’re rich and sensual and best served with little intervention: freshly opened and raw, with a few drops of liquid sunshine from a lemon. But April is here, and while oysters can safely be harvested in northern waters year round, Texas oyster season…
Savor went off smoothly this weekend. The International Grand Tasting, hosted at the Irving Convention Center, did not sell out but felt very near capacity by 8 p.m.. You can check out the food and the people-watching in our slideshow. Folks in the know ate quickly and spilled out onto…
Last week seemed slow: I could hardly find any stories to string together into a Lettuce wrap up. This week, however, I’m having trouble deciding how to fit all of these interesting stories in. Happy hour’s in only getting closer, so I better cut to the chase. This was the…
While talking with David McMillan about CVap burgers this week we took a small detour after he told me the Commissary was ditching the massive communal table that graced the dining room. For whatever reason, communal tables didn’t really work in Dallas like they might in other cities, according to…
The West Village, and perhaps all of Uptown, has a reputation for a rather homogenous following. When I first heard about Union Bear, the subject of this week’s review, a fellow staffer called it “Hipster Island,” referring to the customers the new restaurant was drawing in comparison with a typical…
Don’t be fooled by the gratis basket of chips or the enchiladas or the plastic bowls of salsa (which is quite good, loaded with tomato, fresh cilantro and garlic and enriched with oil). Veracruz Cafe is not a Tex-Mex restaurant. Not even close. As evidence, I submit this hearty bowl…
When Campo Modern Country Bistro first opened, it did so to much fanfare. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde built a charming space from a rundown bungalow in Oak Cliff, and they hired Matt McCallister to consult as a temporary executive chef. In the weeks preceding the opening, McCallister…
Tuesday was just another day for Lockhart Smokehouse’s manager Trish Fong. Then two dudes walked in wearing Meat Mania t-shirts and holding bottles of bacon-flavored soda. Fong twisted the red cap from the bottle to a vaporous burst. She liked it. Minutes later, owner Jeff Bergus took a sip and…
If you’re perched at the outdoor section of the bar at Union Bear on a warm spring day, you may just catch some sunshine on the nape of your neck while you sip on an Anchor Steam draft. Or perhaps a crisp Albarino is more your taste: The Spanish grapes…
Governor Rick Perry publicly endorsed “lean, finely textured beef” today. Governors from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, standing in for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who is in China, jointly issued the statement intending to clarify public perception of “pink slime.” Pink-slime producer Beef Products Inc…
