Oh, This Is The Best Pizza In A Cone Ever

A reader sent me the website last week. There’s a new pizza in Dallas and it comes in a cone. An Epic Cone. You can buy one inside Excuses Cafe, which used to be One Bar before a round of special-use permits pushed the owners to reclassify their business as…

The British Beverage Co. Invades Uptown This Fall

Anglophiles rejoice — Uptown will soon be home to another den of fish and chips and football. (And by football, we mean soccer.) Owners Larry Martin and Edgar Carlson, who are also behind the chain Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub, will open the British Beverage Co. in the Quadrangle at 2800…

Bistro B Gets an “A” for Awesome

Camera count: 1 million Someone yelling “egg roll” in the kitchen count: 53 Bistro B (Authentic Asian Cuisine) is all kinds of awesome. It’s delicious awesome. It’s cheap awesome. It’s what-the-fuck awesome. It’s scary awesome. It’s “Aww, dammit, this Thai iced tea has those chewy brown gelatin bubbles in it…

The Mecca is Moving to East Dallas

Cheryl Hurt has only been the manager at The Mecca for three years, but she talks like she’s been with the restaurant for all 74 of them. I called her when a reader emailed to tell me the restaurant was making a move form its spot on Harry Hines to…

Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza at India Chaat Cafe … Say Whaat?

The words “Desi-style pizza” beckoned me with a neon glow from the front window of India Chaat Café, a small, brightly lit restaurant tucked into a strip mall at Preston and Frankford. I walked in expecting Americanized, watered-down food, or maybe the Bollywood version of Pizza Hut, and was surprised…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 56: Patty Melt At NHS

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. I had my first patty melt ever at Katy Trail Ice…

Dalat’s Hunt For Constant Improvement

Watching Dalat, the subject of this week’s review, evolve over the past few months has been a lot of fun. I dropped in for my first visit just before they opened, mostly because I wanted to see what owner Khahn Nguyen had done with the old RedFork space, and also…

Gandolfo’s Food Truck Could Use A Bit More Wizardry

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…

Jack in the Box Waffles Your Buns with Breakfast Waffle Sandwich

Surely after the recent news of Pizza Hut threading a hot dog into their pizza crust, and KFC air-dropping a slice of shitty cheese on top of their “burger,” you were wondering: what’s next? Well, here comes the news this morning (thanks to writer Sara Blankenship, who sends along with…

Ten Bells Tavern Is Open in Oak Cliff

Ten Bells Tavern opened this past week at 232 W. 7th S., just across the street from another new bar, The Oak Cliff Social Club. Ten Bells Tavern is a casual, low-key spot with potentially two personalities. Inside is a hideaway dive inside, while outside, where big picnic tables are…