A cheese expert has never faced these obstacles. The biggest problem now is taste testing — it might be a small thing to us non-mongers, but removing the ability to watch a customer taste a tiny triangle of, say, aged manchego, turns a cheesemonger’s job into a Sherlock Holmes-level puzzle…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters, like any coffee shop, is used to regulars. What they weren’t expecting was a whole new crop of them while the coronavirus pandemic took…
Have you masked up, sanitized all over and gone to the supermarket, but found yourself unsure of wine to buy while you’re sheltering in place? The good news is — especially if you’re looking to stock up — it’s possible to spend about $10 a bottle, or even less, for…
Although coronavirus appears to be at or near its peak in Dallas County, some public figures are already looking ahead to the next big question: How should society reopen? Proposals to reboot the restaurant industry include a popular suggestion mentioned by Dallas City Council member David Blewett in a recent…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. March 16, a day before Plano’s City Council voted to close restaurant dining rooms in response to the spreading coronavirus, one of the city’s leading Taiwanese and Chinese…
I can’t believe I’ve been writing about this for a month, but the deeper we looked into the mess that is the state’s approach to alcohol sales in the pandemic, the more confusing and disturbing it became. We wrote about when the governor said mixed drinks were allowed and TABC…
As we continue to hunker down across North Texas, a lot of breweries have marched on, as well as they can, through these very strange times. The last time we spoke with Wim Bens of Lakewood Brewing Company, he was a bit frazzled figuring out how to transition to a…
While workers continue to feel the impact of COVID-19, Dallas restaurant employees are getting support from many restaurants and organizations providing meals and groceries to those who need it. And then there are people who are also getting creative with how they’re raising money to relieve unemployed or furloughed service…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Melissa and I have been cooking a lot. I got up the other morning and reeled off scratch breakfast tacos down to handmade corn tortillas. Melissa organized a…
Reyna Duong needs a moment for family meal. Today it’s literally a family meal: On a Tuesday at high noon, she’s away from her restaurant, Sandwich Hag, after adapting the schedule to give her staff rest on Monday and Tuesday. Home is for mammoth plates of spaghetti. She’s made a…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Up until this week, it had been a minute since I had been to Palmieri Cafe in the Farmers Market. But it’s one of those places that’s just…
I’m crazy about Dude, Sweet Chocolate. I mean, really: I recently came across a social media post from 2014 when I had returned to work after living in the Philippines, and what had my co-workers surprised me with when I walked in the newsroom? Dude, Sweet. When I moved into…
Early Easter Sunday morning, two men broke into Rex’s Seafood and Mimi’s Pizzeria on Northwest Highway. The target of the two burglaries was cash. At Mimi’s, the thieves took around $200 from the register and coins from video game machines, and at Rex’s they opened all four cash drawers (two…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. I remember the days when we’d crave Louie’s, but alas, it would be Monday, so we’d end up at Lakewood Landing. That Monday rule still applies, but we…
Wendy’s has breakfast now. I suspect many people have probably gone most of their lives unclear on whether Wendy’s has breakfast. But they didn’t before, and now they do. Former World Series champion Aubrey Huff tells me we’ll all be dead inside three weeks, so I wanted to give the…
Thursday afternoon, Caroline Perini is vacuum-sealing raw bacon. Air-tight packs of bacon are not a typical part of Easy Slider’s operations — she’d spend the average Thursday midday in her brick-and-mortar spot cycling down from the lunch rush and worrying about the beer cooler holding its icy temperatures. That was,…
Like everything else, the food system, both local and at-large, is having to adjust to the challenges we’re facing in light of restrictions that have been handed down due to the coronavirus. There are reports of thousands of gallons of milk going to waste at large dairy farms and entire…
I’ve been pretty darn healthy during this pandemic — at least in the way of eating pretty well, seriously monitoring portions and working out an average of twice a day. But last week, my body got tired. And after moving myself to a new apartment and not yet having a…
4/20 is a special day in my culture. I guess there are probably some people who write about fast food semi-professionally who don’t have an edging-toward-troubling relationship with what’s celebrated that day, but there probably aren’t many. Let’s just say I don’t know anyone like that. So here’s a list…
Sisters Laura Sanchez and Alma Rubio have seen a lot in their 39 years of running La Calle Doce in Oak Cliff. But, of all the things that could have thrown them for a loop, they never thought it would be shelter-in-place orders. “At first, we were flabbergasted,” Rubio says…
A great deal has been said about the need to support small, locally owned restaurants during the coronavirus outbreak. Because the inability to serve customers on-site has slashed many kitchens’ sales by more than half, it’s literally true that if we don’t patronize them now, we may never be able…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. To give in to a craving you have nearly every day can really make you happy. Especially when you’re quarantined. That happened yesterday, while I was not only…
