Throughout last year, we took time to talk to a good number of chefs in Dallas who willingly imparted advice on cooking, management and burning. Following is a highlight reel from some of the city’s finest. Last spring we asked a few chefs for advice for recent culinary school grads…..
Pakpao Thai Food has been getting a lot of praise lately, from Scott Reitz’s fondness of the unyielding spice of their curries, to ranking among our list of Dallas’ most interesting restaurants, to Leslie Brenner at The Dallas Morning News calling it one of the best new openings of the…
Here are a few food trends that have become ubiquitous and shed the sheen of novelty — now they’re just dull and sometimes annoying, in spite of exciting debuts. The Cronut Craze By his own account, Daniel alum Dominique Ansel opened a bakery because he saw gaps in New York’s…
Most places get their fancy jazz hands out for New Year’s Eve. And maybe that’s your thing, which is so awesome, but for some of us, we just want a drink. We’ve pulled together a list of a five places that are taking it quasi low-key, but also offer solid…
Except the cronut. We love the cronut. (Photo: Tejal Rao)Here are 13 food trends that have become ubiquitous and shed the sheen of novelty — now they’re just dull and sometimes annoying, in spite of an exciting debut. (To keep things interesting, we’ve included a few food trends we hope…
New Year’s Eve can be a pain if you’re stuck with the wrong crowd. No one can figure out where to go, everyone is whiny about staying in, that one guy gets too drunk again this year and starts moaning about never having anyone to kiss at midnight. It’s the…
On Friday, news broke that Spoon chef-owner John Tesar will soon open a new restaurant at Hotel Palomar, in the space that previously housed Central 214. It’ll be named Knife. It’ll be a steakstaurant. I’m sure it’ll be great. And I’m sure that these are the next five restaurants he’ll…
Add a bit of salt to the air and Henderson Avenue’s newest joint might have you convinced it’s just steps away from the beach at the Hamptons. If you’ve been there, that is. For the rest of us, Gemma Restaurant is everything we might imagine about the almost mythical beach…
Oh, One Arts Plaza. You’re so circular, yet so haphazard. See Also: – The Restaurants of One Arts Plaza are Officially a Snooze Today Lombardi Family Concepts announced that they’re closing Café des Artistes at the ever-fickle One Arts Plaza. Specifically, the press release reads: “Although the restaurant saw acceptable…
The new Chipotle coming to the corner of Abrams Road and Richmond Avenue pushed its tentative December opening date to January 24. If you’ve been craving “Responsibly Raised®” meat with black beans, mild salsa, cheese, guacamole and lettuce wrapped in a tortilla large enough to swaddle a kitten, you’ll have…
If we’re going to talk about sandwiches, which, we promise we will, then we’d be negligent to exclude the Cuban. And in a land where there’s a lot of chatter about proper sandwiches, we just don’t hear enough about the sandwiches from the island a-skip-and-a-hop south of Florida. See Also:…
A little background for those who are unfamiliar: Macaulay Culkin, otherwise known as “Kevin!?” from Home Alone, has a pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute band. If you need more of an explanation than that — well, there is none, sadly. Pizza Underground rewrites the Velvets’ hits with a pizza-centric twist. The…
Pecan Lodge is the best place in the city to get fat. Have you ever wished, though, that the legendarily long line (or “queue” as civilised people call it) suddenly ceased to be a problem, leaving you free to waltz up the front counter and secure your meat? You could…
Just about a year ago the White Rock Abbey opened in East Dallas at the intersection of Garland and Peavy roads. Business was hit and miss at the neighborhood spot, with mixed reviews on both the service and food. This summer James Orr bought the bar and brought along a…
Last week the newly opened Korean fried chicken restaurant Bonchon announced that it would temporarily close to give management time to hire and retrain new staff. Bonchon was barely a week old by that point but was already so popular that the kitchen and waitstaff couldn’t keep up with the…
We are living in a city dangling on the precipice of a culinary revolution. I’m sure of it. In the past year I’ve dined all over Dallas and watched chefs take up knives, hoping to carve out a little more of their customers’ discretionary income. On the one side you…
Santa brought Lewisville an early present this year in the form of its first brewery. Co-founder Bill Shaw started brewing years ago, then roped in his son-in-law Neil MacCuish. After years of tinkering with home-brew recipes, the two decided to push it all to the middle of the table and…
Everything looks settled in at Oishii. The Oak Lawn restaurant had been closed for nearly a year after a fire damaged the dining room and neighboring Sal’s pizza. But while a year-long closure is surely tough on a business, the neighborhood favorite pan-Asian spot looks all the better for it,…
Christmas is getting close, which means you should be finalizing your plans for Christmas Day dining. Many of you still cook at home, frittering away over some roast that you’ll likely mess up, but you should ditch the goose, forget the crown roast of pork and let someone else do…
This coming Monday is Festivus, the annual parody of holidays created by Frank Costanza on Seinfeld. The day/event includes, among other things, the airing of grievances and an unadorned aluminum pole. The man of the house is also suppose to take the floor in a wrestling match of some sorts…
The Uptown location of Primo’s Tex-Mex closed permanently Wednesday, according to manager Brandon Kundak. Kundak refused to comment on the reason for the closure, instead thanking his customers for their 20 years of loyalty. Owner Frank Linero was unavailable for comment, but his second Primo’s location, which opened in Garland…
Trinity Groves is blowing up. The announcement that AmberJax will open this Saturday is the third piece of news to come out the the restaurant incubator this week. Chino Chinatown recently announced a December 30 opening and Kitchen LTO released details about the contest for the participants in their next…
