Signs of life from Herrera’s, the much-loved Tex-Mex chain that left Maple Avenue not long ago, was recently spotted by a tipster in West Dallas on Sylvan Avenue, not far south of the river. I called owner Nora Ontiveros but she didn’t answer. Maybe she’s busy, you know, resurrecting an…
Michael Martensen’s Proof + Pantry has barely been open a month, and while I usually avoid restaurants during their infancy, I couldn’t resist a deal recently posted to their Facebook page: Nanna’s Meatballs and Gravy. I’d be going as quickly as it took to read it. Pasta and red sauce…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. We’re really in the home stretch, now. And I thought we could…
When talking food with other people that like food, it would be perfectly fine to say that Dallas has had an excellent year of making new burgers. You should feel free to clink your glass with your fork, or raise an index finger into the air, as if you are…
By all accounts, Anthony Alvarez should have been completely satisfied with his restaurant business. He and partner Hal Dantzler opened up Hattie’s in the Bishop Arts District nearly 12 years ago, and it is credited with helping to change the neighborhood. The surrounding blocks were only on the cusp of…
In case you missed last week’s opportunity to hob-nob with John Tesar, fear not. Tesar will be joining a host of celebrity chefs for everyone’s favorite alliterative meat and booze combo: the 6th Annual Burgers & Burgundy event. The chefs will “be rep-representin'” their slider and wine pairings which were…
When we talk about the burgeoning culinary scene that exists in Dallas today, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the chefs who spent years trying to convince us that great food was worth a little extra cash. Abraham Salum’s eponymous restaurant Salum has been a fixture of the Dallas food…
It’s fall, which means pumpkin now, briefly, rules all. There will, for the foreseeable future, be pumpkin in your latte, pumpkin in your cake icing, pumpkin in your cookies and pumpkin in just about everything else. Of course very little of this “pumpkin” will actually be real pumpkin. Most of…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Any fan of chef Omar Flores’ cooking at Driftwood would expect an…
When people talk about Allen, they mostly talk about that stupid Allen Eagles football stadium. Which is understandable, given that they spent $60 million on it and the concrete wasn’t even poured right. But Allen is more than football, no matter what people say. More importantly, it is where the…
Meat Fight, the barbecue competition, fundraiser and saucy brainchild of our Bearded columnist, Alice Laussade, returns to Trinity Groves on Sunday, November 16. You want to go. You need to go. But will you go? Depends on the accuracy of your clock and the quickness of your clicking fingers. Tickets…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Let’s be honest. The term “slider” doesn’t exactly scream refined. The diminutive…
It started with a simple desire to steer State Fair goers away from lesser grub. I was ready to take things one step further than Alice Laussade, who opined in her State Fair guide that the Big Tex Choice Awards for most creative were fried bullshit. In fact, I wanted…
“Dallas has the most restaurants per capita of any city in the U.S.” Have you heard this one before? The statement is as pervasive here as “Hey, where is the valet stand?” and “I’ll have my steak well done.” Usually, it’s issued as a sort of bragging right. Dallasites who…
I have to make a confession. I’m a vegan. Every minute of the day that I’m not on the clock as a food critic, I’ve been pounding vegetables and soy protein at a feverish pace. It’s all in response to the diet this job has imposed on me — an…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Don’t order the bistro-style mussels at The Grape, ever. The order is…
Best of Dallas has arrived, and in addition to arts, culture and music picks it’s filled with more food than your stomach could ever hope hold for the rest of the year. I should know because I ate all of it. I love each one of those picks, much like…
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. If you’re used to getting your taco fix at a taqueria…
Picking the best of anything can really lead to some stress, if only because there are so many great restaurants and food businesses in and around Dallas. And since we’re in the middle of a desert here, you might think there may not be too many seafood restaurants to choose…
Videographer Kathy Tran is your guide through the beer and bratwursts of Addison’s yearly Oktoberfest. Many, many beers are contained within…
Unlike the last chef at Kitchen LTO who was brand new to Dallas, Blythe Beck is intimately familiar with the food scene. Which is not surprising, considering that she worked in some of the city’s best restaurants before moving away for a few years to pursue consulting opportunities. Now that…
Last year, tickets to Meat Fight (my barbecue competition that benefits the National MS Society) sold out in a flash. So, this year, we decided to have a meat scavenger hunt so that one lucky bastard could have easy access to our meat tickets before any other bastard. This is…
