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. Comfort food means different things to different people. Most of the…
Sometimes when a restaurant is struggling, all it needs is a new face to turn the whole thing around. In the short tenure of Chef Richard Gras, Oak went from earning four stars when Jason Maddy was chef to scoring only three from Dallas Morning News food critic Leslie Brenner…
Last night, as the Philadelphia Eagles stormed back against the Indianapolis Colts, and the ESPN hype machine kicked into high gear in support of the NFL, Jack MacDonald, the owner of Plano’s craft beer haven Jack Mac’s Swill and Grill, took to the restaurant’s facebook to proclaim his distaste for…
After the City of Dallas sold the Dallas Farmers Market off to a private entity, market goers were promised big changes. When the market reopened on September 1, it was a little difficult to tell what exactly had changed. Shed 2, the former home of Pecan Lodge, is completely closed…
The dessert sales at Trinity Groves restaurants could take a major hit this Thursday when Cake Bar opens. The dessert bar and retail shop will sell traditional, southern-style cakes and confections for customers to eat on-site or take with them to go. In an effort to be a well-rounded fatness…
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. Truth be told a good biscuit is best with just a…
TJ’s Seafood isn’t exactly new to Dallas. It started in 1989 at Preston and Forest, serving up seafood out of a fish case. A few years ago, they expanded to the Oak Lawn area and added a dine-in restaurant component to their business. Now, they’ve shuttered the original TJ’s Seafood…
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. Briskizo? Brisketzo? Chorisket? Trying to come up with a word that…
In “Shigging,” we ask barbecue experts to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, I’m asking Wayne Mueller (pit master and supreme badass at Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor, Texas) how he…
Steven Harrell is a Dallas freelancer. He writes about beer for the Observer. On Saturday night, more than 4,000 Dallasites descended on the Farmer’s Market for Dallas Observer Brewfest. The event made for great people watching if you want to get to know all of the different kinds of awkward…
Several weeks ago the neon Majestic Spa sign, mounted to an abandoned Oak Lawn building in the Design District, went missing. While the “spa” itself had been closed since I can remember, the beacon had always stirred a personal interest. It appeared to have been chiseled off the concrete storefront…
For the longest time, we’ve been told breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Without two eggs and a square of toast before 9 a.m., we’d be doomed to walk around like reverse-negative sun zombies, drooling, chewing on pencil erasers and unable to form complete sentences. Recently, though,…
As if we needed another reason to thank Jay Jerrier for moving to Texas from Connecticut and bringing some of the city’s best pizza along with him, now he’s branching out to do some real, non-pizza-related good. In the past several months, Jerrier has been working tirelessly to found Cane…
Tomorrow, the Dallas Observer Brewfest will take over the Dallas Farmers Market, blanketing the area in six inches of beer foam, countless wobbly bodies and, most importantly, tiny pretzels strung together into delicious necklaces. If you have already purchased tickets, great. Feel free to skip ahead. If you haven’t, follow…
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. Steak and eggs are a throwback plate. The kind you’d order…
The exact words exchanged between Deep Ellum Brewing sales rep John Wiewel and Dylan Elchami, who owns Oak Lawn’s Scotch & Sausage, will likely never be agreed upon. Wiewel made a sales call to the restaurant recently, and then accused Elchami — on Facebook — of illegal practices with regards…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. When I invited my runner friend out for dessert at Toulouse, I never should have mentioned that the cafe is a frites-length away from the Katy…
We hear you, DFW. No more screaming, “WHAT’S HAPPENING? AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING HAPPENING, ARE THERE CHILDRENS’ TICKETS?” into the void. Starting this week, and every week forever after, we present you with a down-and-dirty schedule of food and drink-related events. You can always find more events at dallasobserver.com/calendar…
A few feet behind the bar at So and So’s is a deer wearing a bright red t-shirt. Playing cards are stuck to the wall like they were sprayed on, and nearby a S&S logo has a single, sheathed knife below it. Also behind the bar: A tiny giraffe is…
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. The recipe for a classic Mornay sauce calls for a measure…
Aaron Garcia hasn’t always been a commercial beer brewer. Not long ago, he owned part of a company that handled web design, making his company’s tools accessible to their users. The money was good, but Garcia didn’t have much passion for CSS and HTML. In his downtime, he’d tinker with…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Milkmaid HJ count: 0 Beer “fuck yeah” count: 3 Should you find your cheap self traveling to The Great North, aka The Nearly Oklahoma, aka…
