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 will know El Ranchito is special before you even get…
Chefs will always tell you that they don’t have enough time to go out to dinner, but even professionals need a break from cooking. And if anyone has a right to say that he’s too busy to eat out, it’s John Tesar. He’s still working six nights a week at…
FW Weekly recently went deep on celebrity chef Tim Love. The story used accounts of Love’s lackluster performance as a caterer at the Crowne Plaza Invitational and TCU as the hook to tell a story about a man who is hard-working but over-extended and, according to the paper, a tad…
Two burger restaurants along Greenville Avenue have had dramatically different business experiences recently, while a new restaurant from a local burger legend hints at a possible (though probably unlikely) top in the Dallas burger market. A few weeks ago, Becks Prime announced that the Greenville Avenue location of the Houston-based…
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. “Do you think I have a shot?” I asked the bartender…
The new paint smell is one of the dead giveaways that Firecrust Neapolitan Pizzeria just opened. The other is the staff, who are eager in a way that only fresh hires can be. This much becomes apparent as white-jacketed employees rush to man their respective stations and greet customers. With…
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 feel like we should take a breather here guys. After…
From behind the counter looking out onto Greenville Avenue it’s hard to tell where the line for ice pops ends. One or two customers prop open the door, obscuring the view while letting hot, muggy air pour in, and the line extends beyond them, out onto the patio where more…
Chef John Tesar’s journey through the Dallas food scene has been, if anything, extremely tumultuous. As one of the few rabble-rousing figures in a market that has been driven by handshakes and friendly table interactions with the chef since Southwestern cuisine’s peak in the 1980s, Tesar is both a take-no-shit…
Can you feel the hellish heat creeping up on us? The folks at Antojito’s Jalisco will gladly pour you a cup of their ice-cold aguas frescas (“fresh waters”) or mix up one of their several specialty drinks, like a Rusa, to fend off the three-digit temperatures. The chubby kid inside me jumped for joy when I…
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 hot dog will never be the same. Seriously, every machine-pressed,…
Remember when rosé first became a thing? It seems without much notice that many Americans collectively put down the Boone’s Farm, or perhaps a fizzy Bartles and Jaymes and picked up a bottle of pink wine from France to fill in as their summer sipper. Speedos suddenly became OK, along…
The potato salad is always a concern. The success of every summertime event hinges upon its outcome. If too acidic then the family reunion will either be called off or derisive factions will form. Too yellow and the picnic blanket will be abandoned, the bounty laden upon its red and…
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. Remember when the La Banqueta on Carroll Avenue closed? I was…
We all know that Dallas chefs are great at cheffing. So we thought it might be fun to give them a chance to show off their chef creativity and skills with a challenge we’re bringing back, called “The Box.” Once a month or so, we’ll invite a new lucky soul…
If the Dallas Observer’s Brewfest is anything, it’s a dynamic event. The first few years the sudsy celebration was held at the zoo until someone threw a can of Dale’s Pale Ale at a flamingo and our editor out-wrestled a gorilla. Then we moved the event to the Arts District…
Some Dallasites are lucky enough to escape the blistering heat of the city by fleeing to the emerald green beaches of Destin, Florida, or at least the less glamorous oil-kissed shores of Padre Island. Then there are the rest of us. Some of us must begrudgingly embrace the word “staycation”…
I don’t know Lauren’s last name, partly because I was drinking while researching this post and partly because I was drinking while I was researching this post, but I’ll never forget her answer to my question. I’d just ordered a glass of Prairie’s Funky Gold Mosaic and was blown away…
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’s hard to figure out even where to begin with this…
One of the keys to any good eating establishment is being able to find it. S&M Eats, newly opened and making use of The Grapevine Bar’s adjacent kitchen space, appears very approachable. Located just off Maple Avenue, S&M is painted an inviting how-do-you-do turquoise, which is offset by punchy neon…
Let’s be honest here. When the original Herrera’s left its first location on Maple Avenue, the one that eventually became the Grapevine bar, a lot of romance was lost.The second location, tucked into a strip mall that was slowly deteriorating on the other side of the street left a lot…
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. Contrary to popular belief there is an Oak Cliff beyond West…
