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. From the outside, El Rincon De Villa doesn’t look like much…
Soon enough the Polar Vortex will be rightfully consumed by summer and the sweat will start pooling again. When it does, douse it with one of these summer cocktails, either using the recipes below or just showing up at the bar. Violet Beauregarde, above (Bolsa): 1 1/2 oz Tito’s vodka…
You’re probably not headed to Oak Cliff’s new wharf-style seafood eatery for the burger, but you could. You could do it. When your friends order crab cakes or the shrimp and bacon mac and cheese, you could shout “actually, I’m getting the burger,” and hand the large menu to the…
During summer in Dallas, going swimming is practically the only way to survive. The lukewarm waters of pools both public and private provide respite from the scorching temperatures, and are even nicer on days like today, when Mother Nature has once again decided to bless us with reasonable temperatures in…
Amid the competing tortilla smells of Mi Cocina and Taco Diner, LYFE officially opened in the West Village yesterday, holding a special event last evening for media and food bloggers. I sneaked in during lunch service earlier that afternoon, half because I was curious about the place Mark Bittman called…
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. It may be hard to construe a glass of beer as…
There’s no escaping it. When you gaze at the silhouette of the building that houses Pera Wine & Tapas from the parking lot, you’re looking the shell of a decades-old fast food business. While a burger business or two and even a fish fry restaurant stand between them, what now…
It’s one of those rare but perfect summer nights when, for at least a few hours, it actually does feel like the livin’ is easy. It’s hot but not oppressive. And I need something to wet my whistle. It isn’t a speakeasy, but from the first time I followed my…
Mackerel and other small fish have been celebrated as high in omega-3s, vitamin D and low on the food chain. That last point means they don’t accumulate heavy metals including mercury, like swordfish, tuna and other predatory, large fish. All this boils down to one simple fact: They’re good for…
Anyone who’s ever owned or worked in a restaurant knows that it’s easy to grow tired of your own food. You can only eat so much of anything, no matter how good it is, before you get burned out and start craving something new. Trevor Ball and Dylan Elchami, the…
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. Unless you’ve been fasting for a day or so, you’re going…
It will be healthy, they said. It will nurture your body, they said. “I’ve got donuts,” a coworker said. Those are the last words you want to hear when you are engaged in the kind of nutritionally dense, smacks-of-moss undertaking that is drinking cold-pressed vegetables. So when this coworker went…
It seems as if someone is opening a new restaurant every couple of days in Dallas, and the city’s rapidly evolving culinary scene is attracting some talented restaurant pros tow town. Sometimes, though, the city’s old-school culinary fixtures are doing the innovating, like Phil Romano’s Trinity Grove. The same is…
While burgers continue to take over the world (with or without Pat Snuffer), pizza continues to exhibit a much more restrained growth. Maybe a handful of pizzerias have opened in the last year, but a few of them are good enough to slide into our Best Pizza list, with NY-style…
Twin Peaks, nestled at Gaylord and Preston in Frisco, is a place I have driven past hundreds of times — it stands between me and my beloved local Starbucks — but whose threshold I have never breached. I decided to go, and to report back, in case a fellow woman…
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. You can find croissants all over town, in grocery stores, coffee…
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. Cubans are blowing up menus all over Dallas. The toasted sandwiches,…
As I stood in line waiting for my order to be assembled, I couldn’t help but wonder what the poor baguettes did to deserve such a treatment. A woman pulled the loaves from a toaster oven, lopped off the end and used a tongs in a twisting motion to liberate…
In “Shigging,” we ask pitmasters 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, we’re asking Justin Fourton, pitmaster at Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum (maybe you’ve heard of it), how he smokes…
These days it seems like you can’t swing an empty growler in Dallas without breaking a freshly-screened pint glass from a new local brewery. Is our market saturated? Is there room for another new brewery? What makes this one different from the last? *insert incessant hand-wringing* Well, I’ll tell you…
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. I know what you’re thinking: This one isn’t even a dish…
The concept of “Christmas In July” promotions has never really made much sense to me. This is Texas, and nothing about triple-digit temperatures makes me think of the holiday season. Still, what likely started as a clever marketing strategy for stores to boost sluggish summer sales has inspired a damn…
