I’m often bitching about Dallas’ bread culture: bad hoagies, worse cheese steaks, zippy bagels and a dearth of crusty baguettes. Some places work at it, though. At Carbone’s, which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Julian Barsotti makes a likeable focaccia. It reminded me of the puffy breads that come…
Strawn’s Eat Shop first opened in Shreveport in 1944 as a diner serving home-style burgers, fried chicken and strawberry ice-box pie. The latter has garnered national recognition and a slew of salivating fans from far and wide. I didn’t know about the pie hoopla of Shreveport until I got an…
Richard and Tiffanee Ellman (the people behind Oak) and John Paul Valverde (one of the people behind Campo) started teasing a few weeks ago that they have made a move on the old Lumi space on McKinney Avenue. This morning they announced the name and some details about the concept…
News this morning from Goghee To Go, maker of Korean barbeque tacos at 2222 Inwood Road, is that the small drive through spot is now closed, but will open in a larger spot soon. The Goghee on Inwood was about as unassuming as a Korean-Mexican fusion taco place could be…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Usually when I’m done with a review I’m done with a…
See also *My Ten Minutes in Heaven with Australian Heartthrob Chef Curtis Stone *Craft And Ghostbar Are Gone, But Are The Next Concepts Dead On Arrival? *Private Social May Multiply, but Will People Come if Tiffany Derry’s Not in the Kitchen? I know what you’re thinking. First chef Curtis Stone…
If a hard freeze in April hadn’t annihilated northern Michigan’s tart-cherry crop, a little boy in Beijing might have been pouring Herkner’s Original Cherry Topping over his mung-bean ice cream right now. But the fickle weather forced Lynda Herkner, 74, and her sisters to delay plans to export their siren-red…
It was early in the morning on Father’s Day and Mark Bolten, the president of the German singing society that owns Millheim Hall, was sitting in a folding chair at one end of a 75-foot-long barbecue pit watching a 20-man crew tend the meat and douse flames. A handsome man…
Pay no attention to the nondescript signage that might just as easily advertise appliance sales or spray tans. Pera Turkish Kitchen, its name spelled out in plain, red letters on a white background, will set you at ease as soon as you walk through the double doors and enter the…
In every eating contest, there comes a moment when I suddenly realize just what I’m doing. It usually follows a particularly difficult bite, after I try to force down just a bit more than I can swallow and it rests against the back of my throat and I come this…
Overaccessorized old ladies count: 12 Prada count: 5 The Zodiac Room in Neiman Marcus downtown is an old white lady’s wet dream. Here, you can brag about your Louis Vuitton luggage and talk shit about that chick who always shows up late to church (“And then, gasp, she has the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. There’s a perception that there’s no ramen to be had in…
Men’s Health posted a poll yesterday on the Manliest Restaurant in America, where you’re all invited to cast your vote for restaurants in nine different categories. As always, with bated breath (and a knowing swagger), we had to see if there were any Texas restaurants. There better be, amIright? Because…
This is a blog written by a complete barbecue amateur. In the UK a barbecue is something you cook a burger on and is largely a celebration of the few and far between days when it’s not raining. In Texas I have quickly come to learn that barbecue is an…
Recently the entire town of Bethel, Alaska, which has only a Subway as the lone-fast food restaurant, was tricked into thinking they were going to get a Taco Bell. Signs were posted around town and word spread quickly in the small town of about 6,000. Then, after the hoax was…
The Marquee Grill became the latest Dallas area restaurant to change its name because of pressure from a similarly branded concept in another state. A spokesperson for the restaurant wouldn’t discuss pending legal action but did confirm a Marquee Grill restaurant was located in Las Vegas and Kansas City. Dallas’…
I’m not much of a Ghostbar type, but I recently visited the club at the W Hotel for a farewell party for one of our writers here at the Observer. It was a Thursday night, and we arrived at 10 p.m. (pretty early by club standards) and the bar was…
We’ve been down this road to Crazyville before. Jim Schutze wanted to nuke it. That made Scott Reitz mad. At first. But then he came around too. Now, this fine morning the Dallas Farmers Market Stakeholders Association posted this to their Facebook page: “Question: How close is too close for…
Searching for photos of amazing ballpark food is like a self-inflicted wound. At the end of it all, I’m overwhelmed with the pain I’ve caused myself. Thanks to everyone’s inclination to take pictures of food they eat, here’s an ode to great ballpark food. (With one caveat: no hotdogs. That’s…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. All Good Cafe’s Chicken-Fried Steak made last year’s 100 Favorites list,…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company announced it has shipped a couple of kegs to Massachusetts. This is the first time the brewery has offered its beer outside of Texas, so I called their sales ninja Tait Lifto to find out why they’d set up their next accounts so far away. “It’s…
Bliss Raw Cafe, the raw, vegan restaurant in University Park, closed late last week. Paula Sepulvado announced the space will soon be occupied by Be Raw Food, a similar concept run with her partner John Vandelicht. Sepulvado had been eating at the restaurant for the past year and used the…
